Perfumes you've worn down the years

L’Aimant, Tweed, Rive gauche, l’air du temps, Blue grass, Samsara, a host of others I can’t remember but now Jo Loves Green Orange and Coriander. The worst I ever had was Davidoff Cool Water Woman. DH wore Cool Water which I loved, so he bought me their female version and it was dire!

I’ve just remembered another - Coty Emeraude. And Avon did one called Roses, Roses, which I really liked. Sunflowers always reminds me of a Lake Garda holiday.

Madam Rochas, White Linen, Aqua Allegoria -Mandarin and Basilica, Clinique Aromatics in Black, I love perfume, but it’s a luxury.

Oh my, a real trip down memory lane! Kiku, Aqua Manda, L’Air du Temps, Cabochard (I love it), Paris by YSL.... I have at least 15 bottles on the go, from Gucci to YSL, Jo Malone to Clinique.
I find it hard to name an absolute favourite because it all depends on how I feel on any one day ?

Ohh yes Charlie in the 70s, Anais Anais in the 80s, and also Ô De Lancôme and Eau Fraiche by Elizabeth Arden

As I've got older I cannot tolerate strong perfume anymore and need to use the light floral or citrus ones
- current "posh perfume" is Chanel Cristalle eau Vert
- everyday is body shop Green Tea, Woods of Windsor Rose and also gone back to the Eau Fraiche

25Avalon

A Toi by Atkinson was my favourite at 18 and for several years until it was sadly no longer available. Tried several since but none I liked as much.

I'm glad someone else remembers it 25Avalon, it was beautiful. Where mum got it from I don't know, dad always bought her Evening in Paris,a little blue bottle with a silver stopper.

Isn't it sad when your favourite perfume is discontinued? I loved Fleurs Fraiches by Worth but impossible to get hold of now, spent ages looking.

So now it's Organza by Givenchy (found it on one of those scratch cards they used to put in the Sunday supplements).

Soroptimum

Diorella for me! But over the years- Ysatis, Chance, Youth Dew, Eternity.

I wore Diorella for years too, in fact I still have a bottle. I find it a bit old-fashioned and cloying now. I've been looking for a new scent for years, have flirted with Jo Malone Orange Blossom and others, but have never found "The One"!

I still have a tiny teddy bear from a bottle of my mums perfume, Tweed, from the 60s. My own first perfume love was shalimar, then one that smelled of apples in an apple shape bottle that I can’t think of any other name for but apple. Poison and opium define a period in my life and for a while Jean Paul gautier perfume in the risqué bottle. More recently Daisy by Marc jacobs and for Christmas I’ve just been given Scandal by JP Gautier. Such evocative smells.

I used to love Helena Rubensteins' Apple Blossom . Then Avon's Soft Musk, Happy , then Euphoria now I'm back to White Musk from the Body Shop . I sometimes used to pinch a dab of my father's Tabac or Old Spice !

When I was mid teens, I adored Harnell’s ‘In Love’.

After I was properly grown up, I loved Je Reviens, and still do, but it’s not so easy to find now.

Others I still like are Amarige and Cabotine.

I still loathe the overpowering 70s/80s ones - Youth Dew and Poison in particular.

I remember having my first scent when I was about 10. It was Californian Poppy from Woolworths. I have moved on though and have worn Chanel No5 for years now.

My mum used to wear Californian Poppy. A French student we had staying with us gave me a sample of Tenerife by Pacco Rabanne and, after that I just wore after shave!

Really Maybee70 pleased to hear it no one I know has ever heard of it. I remember being very upset when my brother emptied it out the window after an argument but my nana bought me another bottle which I hid away!

FannyCornforth Aw yes they are very quirky, they produced some very unusual looking perfume bottles that’s for sure ☺️

Rive Gauche, l’air du temps, eternity, ck1, amarigue, Ghost.
One I really do not at all like is Poison far too overpowering. Luckily not too many people seem to wear it nowadays.

Any one remember Revlon “Intimate”?

I once had a tiny bottle of Amarige in those little sets of perfume Boots used to do for Christmas (perhaps still do). Thought it was lovely, but never had a full size bottle. All my perfume is bought by son or (occasionally as he has a preference for Rive Gauche and it takes me a long time to get through it wearing for occasions only), husband. Wear perfume every day but it still lasts for ever!

Cachet at college until I 'grew up'. Then Estee Lauder's Private Collection for years. Everyone always remarked on it and then they changed the recipe. It doesn't smell the same. So disappointing! I now use Clinique's Happy and Colours of Benetton which always reminds me of holidays. Jo Malone Roses is gorgeous but a little out of my price range sadly.

Yes I remember Intimate by Revlon lovely perfume

This isnt a post about what perfume i used to wear ( or still do ) but its a post about what my wonderful gran used to wear, she was a farmers wife and i suppose perfume was an absolute luxury.

It was 4711

It came in a little round bottle and smelt disgustingly strong.

When I was a student, I had a bottle of 4711. I thought I was so sophisticated!

4711 was lovely. My Gran wore it very occasionally and it certainly wasn’t ‘disgustingly strong’. I’m tempted to buy it myself, have had it in the past.

It was disgustingly strong to my sense of smell hahaha. I dont know if they make it still?

Poison by dior, not everyones taste but it has lots of memories for me. At school patchouli oil then later white musk, both body shop. Now if i have to be grown up i wear chance by channel lol