Perfumes of yesteryear

Grandmama I had forgotten all about Fidgi and wouldn't have remembered the spelling. I am going to Google it.I actually can't remember the "smell" just know I liked it.

Amazon have it at a reasonable price for EDT but Perfume is over £80, rather expensive if I don't like it now if my preferences have changed.

Grandmama, I was interested in your mentioning Blue Grass. I don`t think I`d use it now, but I have a scent spray, one of those with a fabric squeezy bulb, and it held Blue Grass back in the 60s, and it still smells very faintly of it now, so it must have been a good quality perfume. I`ve been looking for Faberge Flambeau, but all I can find is from the USA, at a very high postage and packing rate, I loved it in the mid 70s.

I guess a big problem is that the same perfume does smell different on each person, so it would have to be quite a strong perfume to identify it on someone else.

Thank you, Goose, I'll try Karma. DH always says patchouli smells like a Turkish brothel, not that he's ever been to Turkey (or to a brothel as far as I know). The Sunday Telegraph's Stella mag usually mentions a new 'scent', sometimes I try them at Fenwick. Today it is the first scent by Reiss, called Grey Flower - a bit of a 'granny' name!! I have some Youth Dew somewhere.

Grandmama just to clarify a point - Karma can only be bought in 'Lush' shops (or online)

Another vote for Chanel 5 here. Je Reviens was my mother's favourite. I thought it smelled like catspee though. I love Blue Grass but can't find any.

Is it me, or are perfumes less strong than they used to be?

I used to love Manhatten which was in a tall oblong bottle. I saw it in a Museum recently and the smell just came back to me. Can anyone else remember it ?

I used to like Kiku in the '70s until my DD tipped a whole bottle of it over the bed.

I have some Blue Grass. I think I found it on Ebay. You can find quite a lot of scents there that you would find with great difficulty in shops.

Blue grass on Amazon, appears to be a lot cheaper than it used to be.

What a lovely thread so nostalgic.

My mother loved perfume, three days before she died we were discussing her favourites, she liked Houbigant's Quelque Fleurs and Floris Stephanotis

When I was young I used to buy tiny bottles of perfume by Picot. I remember Le train blue and Pagan. I have searched for them but sadly with no result

Alternativegran I used to love Suede by Picot, I'd forgotten Le Train Blue and Pagan. Suede I really loved and was so disappointed when it disappeared from the shelves, long, long before being able to look for things on the internet.
Now I like Mystere by Rochas and it's getting harder and harder to get.

I too loved the Picot perfumes, wish we could still get them.

You can get "PAGAN" on Amazon !

Je Reviens, Ma Griffe, Madame Rochas, and Cinnabar from Estée Lauder for full-on ball dress events. I haven't worn any of those for years - you've taken me right back.

Oh Fidji, yes. I loved that too. Aren't perfumes evocative.

I read somewhere that Aqua Manda perfume is being reintroduced. Remember that one? It was terribly strong, I think...

In brown bottles. Smelling of oranges!

I have a bottle of Blue Grass eau de parfum which I think came from Ebay. It's always worth searching for an old favourite.

If Revlon revived Aquamarine, I'd have some like a shot!

My daughter used to tell me how the smell of Estée brought back memories of being snuggled into my neck when she was little. My mum's favourite perfume was Avon's To a Wild Rose. I had a passion for Fleurs du Monde back in the eighties - only a cheap everyday perfume but I loved it.

Just looked on Ebay and am amazed to find a bottle of Fleurs Du Monde costing £69! Apparently it's very rare now. I'm sure it was cheap as chips back then.

dustyangel I had forgotten suede, I used to buy them all and feel very sophisticated because they were 'real' perfume.

Thank you for your Amazon tip Nonu I will have a look, wonder if it's the same, sometimes companies just buy the name.

Pagan on Amazon says in the blurb "perfume developed in 1997" the original has not been seen since the 60s.