Pond's Cold Cream - a childhood memory

Can we add Youth Dew to this thread. ? I hated the smell of germolene. My gran always had large tubs of a hand cream that had the oddest smell, but I can't remember what it was called.

@*narrowboatnan*, I can remember all too well the smell of home perm lotion. My mum qualified as a hairdresser before her marriage and she used to give her friends and family perms. We would come home from school and I swear I could smell it as soon as we turned the corner. Do you remember the advertisement, 'Which twin has the Toni?' I'm sure the two pictures were of the same woman.

Aaargh! Youth Dew. My ex husband could smell it a mile off and hated it. He once refused to get in a lift when the doors opened and there was a woman standing there drenched in the stuff.

Estee Lauder Youth Dew - it certainly hung around but when I smell it now I love it still, but too overwhelming a perfume for me. Astral creme I used all the time and Anne French cleansing lotion. Estolan hair conditioner, Hartnell In Love and Kiku (going into the Army & Navy Department store in Bromley and smelling that). Anyone remember Lucky Numbers chocolates? My Nan loved those.

I can remember most of the things on this thread from my mother I think the bottle of Evening in Paris was small dark blue glass ,and I can remember buying her Oil of Ulay for her birthday ,I can smell it now...I was always very happy at home with my mum and dad ,who incidently used Old Spice .Thank you for evoking some wonderful memories.

I used to love as a teenager Desert Flower Talcum Powder, I really wish I could buy it today. I think there was some on Ebay but I feel by now the perfume wouldn't be there. I still use the large tubs of Astral, which I love, and I still use Tweed talc, love it, I have 3 tins in at the moment. I do remember Evening in Paris perfume. There only seemed to be two perfumes as I grew up, Evening in Paris and California Poppy! Oh happy days. If anyone knows where I can buy some Desert Flower Talcum powder, so let me know it was by Shulton, apparently it came out in 1947! There was also Fields of Bond Street and they made bath cubes.

My Mum and Nan both used Oil of Ulay. It's now called Oil of Olay though. I can remember the smell...I don't know if it still smells the same now. My Granddad always used Old Spice in the little white bottle and my Dad used to wear Brùt.

My friends and I used to call Oil of Ulay Oil of Ugly when we were teenagers. The arrogance of the youth hey. We both now use it ?

My mum used ponds too. I remember a lot of the perfumes etc already mentioned.
In the 60s the only mascara available was the solid block ‘spit on the tiny brush’ variety.
Quite disgusting if the ‘spit’ missed the little box.
Happy days.