Perfumes ( and aftershaves ) from our youth.

the first perfume my mother bought me was Aqua Manda ,I bought my GD a bottle at christmas and she loves it .The first perfume I bought myself was Atkinsons "A'toi" I'm told they went out of business a long time ago but I loved it and always kept a spare bottle at the back of my wardrobe where my young sister wouldn't look...and help herself .

I bought 30mls of Clinique Aromatics and am very pleased to have found that dry herbal scent that's sweet but not too sweet, and sort of catches the back of the throat where that kind of scent registers. Hope I get some more for my birthday!
I also got 50mls of Estee |Lauder Knowing which is similar. Guerlain Mitsouko is nice and herbal too.

Oooo I loved the smell of Faberge Kiku on everyone else. Sadly, my chemistry didn't suit it and it smelt awful on me. I was so disappointed after buying one of those lovely yellow bottles at how dreadful if smelt on me. I gave it away to a friend.

Apart from my favourite perfumes mentioned earlier, I seem to smell of Deep Heat rub lately , oh and eau de wintergreen, !!!

I agree French Almond, I absolutely loved it. Completely sends me back to the 60s.
It was made by Robert Windsor.

So many memories. My mother was given a small three bottle parcel from Carven in the early 60's. This included MaGriffe, a beautiful one called Robe du soir. Cannot remember the third one but it was something with vetiver in the name.
I used to use Winterdew, body shop. Also Intimate, was it Revlon? Imprevue I think by Coty. Eau De Lancome. Still use this.

Now I use Mitsouku and Jicky for winter and Ma Griffe for summer.
I am still looking for a vetiver type. Any suggestions?

I've just noticed the mentions of Avon Pretty Peach. My lovely big sister bought a set of this for me when I was 8 or 9 and I thought I was the bee's knees. Bubble bath, cream perfume in a pot, cologne and soap on a rope, all peach shaped or with a peach on top. I think the cream perfume was in a container shaped like a basket of peaches?

Oh, I loved Styx! I totally bought into the hype, and thought it would weave its spell round the man of my dreams (DH has no sense of smell worth mentioning, so I could have saved my money ). I'd a bit of a taste for the exotic - another favourite was Maja, which was again in dramatic black packaging, with a red flamenco dancer on the front. I used to buy both of these exotic scents from Sunwin House in Bradford.

Later favourites were Emeraude, Tweed, Charlie, Je Reviens, Loulou, White Musk, Vetiver and Lola Lempicka.

More recently, Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir, English Pear and Freesia, and Lime, Basil and Mandarin. Now I'm not working I buy the Aldi copies.

DS brought me a little bottle of 4711 back from a school exchange trip to Cologne 20 years ago. The bottle's still on the bathroom shelf and the smell hasn't faded at all!

Being an impoverished teenager, 4711 was all I could afford,
Then a boyfriend bought me Coty L’Aimant which I loved.
When married, I was bought Apple Blossom ( Rubenstein?)
Then Youth Dew, then Poison, then Chanel No5.
Sadly, nowadays no parfum, scent etc stays on me for longer than ten minutes, so I rarely bother with it.

Coty ‘L’Aimant’.
Nina Ricci ‘L’Air du Temp’
Estée Lauder ‘Beautiful’
Body Shop ‘White Musk’
Still love them all.
Now it’s Liz Earle ‘No 15’.
Is everyone else breathing in deeply, smelling the scents and carried away to the past?

I can remember my mum being given a bottle of Wind Song by her sister-in-law. She hated it but I loved the smell and used to splash it on myself.

Kiki, Tabu and Pagan are all coming back to me from my late teenage years

I have spent hours trawling google to find the name of the perfume that I really liked when first married, it was Heaven Sent by Helena Rubenstein.
Perfumes I liked then would probably not suit me now, skin chemistry changes.

Remember when magazines would have a page with an extra bit folded inwards and lightly stuck down? You.had to un-stick the folded bit and tear it off (it was perforated). You then rubbed it on your skin for a free sample of some new fragrance or other.

Most of them that I ever tried were truly horrible and I couldn't wait to wash the pong off!

Hootymcowlface - would that school have been somewhere in Scotland?

Yes Twiglet, I wear Amazing Grace and Grace, although it does not seem to last too long on me, lovely though.

I know most of the perfumes previously mentioned. I remember wearing Tabu and also Panache as a teenager, but cannot recall what the later smelt like - maybe that is a good thing!

Ma Griffe by Carven is still available, or was when myDD's bought me their gift set two years ago. It brought memories of their childhood back to them. I recently finished the perfume. My favourite in the 60's was Coty Emeraude.

Youth Dew still takes me back to being 15, I love it but these days I like the much lighter Amazing Grace, by Philosophy. My favourite Avon cream perfume was Occur!

My first boyfriend gave me a tiny bottle of 4711 eau de cologne, which is very like the Zoflora that I have in the bathroom.

Yes!!! Nanny27. White Linen is still my favourite all these years on. Pricey but worth it.

Yes, Femme was gorgeous and it was made by Rochas.

Coty l'aimant, love it until an ex-boyfriend told me it made him feel sick. I did like the smell of Avon's Topaz cologne too.

Just remembered, Mum had a liking for Anaïs Anaïs and we had a difference of opinion about it's pronunciation.

The sales lady had said 'Annay-annay' but I, who was trying to learn French, disagreed, saying it was more like, 'Anna-ees - anna-ees. '
I still don't know for sure who was the nearer

And wasn't there an Avon fragrance called 'Daisies Won't Tell'? So much more romantic than the one word titles of today.

I loved Aquamanda. I also liked Pagan and Stevie B from the 70s

A couple of you mentioned Styx perfume which I think was made by Coty. I had a bottle of this when I was about 14. It was supposed to be a sort of love potion if I remember. I dabbed a few drops onto my Ziggy Stardust album cover, because a boy I really fancied wanted to borrow it. He returned it a few days later saying - "What do you clean your records with? It doesn't half stink!" Needless to say we never got together!

Shared many of these old favourites, but does anyone else remember the powdery scent of Goya’s Ballet and the wonderful, lasting aroma of Bronnley’s lemon hand cream?