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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

Loves Baby Soft

Skin by Bonne Bell

Heaven Sent

Camp Beverly Hills

Clinique Happy

Dolce and Gabana Light Blue

Still using Clinique and Dolce

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

Wind Song by Prince Matchabelli

Emeraude by Coty (I was young -- had to shop the drug store brands)

Chanel No 22 and assorted others I can't remember. Then:

Rive Gauche

Aliage by Estee Lauder

Halston (beginning to get into the warmer, heavier scents)

Clinique Aromatics

Prescriptives Calyx (obviously wandering from counter to counter at Nordstrom)

Fendi Theorema (everybody hated it -- I loved it.

Angel

Bvlgari Omnia Crystalline

Currently looking for a new Me fragrance. I'm heading toward lighter.

You know what I wish? I wish Bare Escentuals would come out with their fragrance again -- I'd never smelled anything like it. VERY yummy.

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

At 8,9,and 10 we felt like grown up women with the world at our feet in our stolen Evening in Paris, Chanel No. 5, or Vanilla extract, or whatever else we could sneek out of the house wearing. Then in Junior High came our first own bottles of scent .... Baby Soft! Everyone smelled the same and we loved it that way. At about $1.49 a half gallon, we could afford to keep ourselves in stock, and there were the great birthday and Christmas sets we hoped for. Somewhere around the end of teens, beginning of 20s, I got into some of the designer fragrances like Tweed ... I can't remember, but there were several. Then one day I got on an elevator with a woman wearing EL Youth Dew and that was the scent I've worn 90% of my time for the past 40 years. In winter I wear it a big heavier than summer, but it's always there. I have other fragrances. I wear them here and there, but ELYD will never leave me.

{#emotions_dlg.crying}

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

I do, but it's too long to post here. I will just post the start and finish. Got a gift set (for kids)of Daisy Dust when I was 6 yrs old. Had perfumed talc, not sure what else, but that was my first fragrance. Recent purchases, Philosophy Summer and Sunshine Grace. In between, tons of others, lol, and I still have most but the scent isn't great anymore.

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

I'm 62 and it would take forever. But my first perfume was "Evening in Paris".

In high school, Ambush and Tabu....so strong.

In my late 20's, White Linen.

30's kind of a blur, 2 small children.

40's I loved "Joop".

50's "Angel" was top of the list.

60's I have been wearing "Jimmy Choo".

"Baby Grace" is my every night before bed perfume.

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

On 5/13/2014 brewhaha said:

I can't remember what I had for dinner last night.

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

80s: Anais Anais, Jessica McClintock

90s: Eternity, Amarige de Givenchy, various Victoria's Secret fragrances

2000-present: Pure Grace, Amazing Grace, Cashmere Mist, Michael Kors Sexy Amber

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

I think in Jr High and high school I wore Avon. In high school I also wore

Heaven Scent

Ambush

Jean Nate (yuck)

Jungle Gardenia

Then as a young adult I wore

Blue Grass

Yves Saint Laurent, Rive Gauche

Charlie

Tigress?

Making Love Body Lotion (hahah, remember that?)

Then for years I wore

Yves Saint Laurent, Rive Gauche

Jovan, Grass Oil

Musk Oil By Jovan and another brand

Sandlewood oil

Jovan Frankenscense and Myrrh

Gloria Vanderbuilt

anais anais

I wore YSL Rive Gauche from about 1970 to 1994 when it was changed.

Then I loved Liz Claiborne (in the triangle bottle) I still love it

Ann Kline (the original scent)

Now I wear, Beach, Bath, Marc Jacobs Grass, Honey and Dot

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan
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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

There really haven't been that many fragrances in my history. My first one was Heaven Scent. I think every teen/20-something in America must have worn that scent back in the 60s. Then I went through an Yardley Old English Lavender phase. I thought I was escalating into true adult sophistication when my mother gave me Miss Dior. Next on my vanity were Youth Dew and Chanel No. 5. There were a few dabbles, but nothing consistent other than the Dior, Youth Dew and Chanel. The next to added to my regulars was Quel Ques Fleurs when it returned to the market in the '80s. I stayed with those for years. The next new addition to my regulars was Amazing Grace after Philosophy introduced it on QVC.

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Re: Can You Remember Your Fragrance History?

Teen years: Love's fragrances: Love's Fresh Lemon and Baby Soft. Also citrus essential oils.

College: L'Air du Temps, Oscar de la Renta and Aliage. I was given Chanel No5 and Opium as gifts, they were used sparingly. Poison I liked but not enough to buy it.

90's: Boucheron, Must de Cartier, Bijan, So Pretty de Cartier, Tiffany

2000s: Pink Sugar, Hanae Mori, Calypso Fig, Dolce & Gabbana Red (original)

Current: Sofia, Vince Camuto are my newest, but I reach for Pink Sugar many days.