Evocative scents. Disappointed.

Avon did some lovely bottles. I remember my grandma having Topaze. A tall yellow bottle with a 'topaze' on the lid

Charlie by Yardley always makes me think of my late MIL she bought me a pint bottle one Christmas and a pair of French Knickers when she thought babies were not coming along fast enough. DH took one smell and said I smelt and looked a right Charlie/tart and I never touched either again.

jaybee66

BRUT after shave or cologne from the 70s. I still seek it out and buy it for my husband.

You might be disappointed jaybee......it smells nothing like it used to.

Can anyone remember if it was (Lady) Katie Boyle who advertised Camay? Didn’t the soap have a cameo of a lady on each side of the bar - came in white or pink?

PinkCosmos

*SachaMac - I also had Cachet and, later on Fidji.

When I was quite young I had Avon Pretty Peach. The little perfume container like a basket of peaches and the bottles, peach coloured with a peach on the lid. And the soap on a rope shaped like a peach. I loved them

Oh my goodness …. I was just planning to mention Avon’s Pretty Peach. That is the first perfume I ever discovered. I was about 12 and went to stay with a friend and she had a little tub of this. It was a cream perfume aimed at youngsters. I thought it was so glam as I had never had a perfume or scent myself.

I didn't know that Chanel No. 5 had changed its formula. Good job I didn't buy a bottle then. I've been unwell for about 7 months and last week I went to Cambridge on a longed for shopping expedition. Went into John Lewis, planning on treating myself to a small bottle. I thought it would be about £50 but it was £70, so I had to walk away empty handed.

Georgesgran

Can anyone remember if it was (Lady) Katie Boyle who advertised Camay? Didn’t the soap have a cameo of a lady on each side of the bar - came in white or pink?

It was Katie Boyle, I remember the adverts. My nana always had pink Camay, which seemed very exotic to me as a child, at home we always had Palmolive, which wasn’t half as nice.

Pink Camay soap and pink Andrex loo rolls

My Grandad, a miner, used to ‘relocate’ Palmolive from Kimblesworth Colliery (clue).
It said Palmolive on one side and was stamped PHB on the other - Pit Head Baths!!