Comments on: Trashy Friday Jaunts Down Memory Lane

By: Solander

Solander — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:03:06 +0000

You know, I googled some and it’s actually listed on Basenotes and quite sought after in forums… A not quite full bottle apparently went on Ebay for $48, with 8 bids… Well, it’s not a bad scent for $5, but $48?

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:38:42 +0000

Love’s Baby Soft
something called Desert Flower
Bal a Versailles (from sister’s dresser… didn’t smell good)
Love’s Lemon Fresh
something called Tibetan Musk — whew!
Miss Dior (gift from my father at age 11. Pretty bottle but never liked it that much)
Bluegrass by Eliz Arden — until boyfriend said it smelled like incense
Rive Gauche — cool plastic smell
Opium — in my 20s
#19 — in my 20′s
#22 — in my late 20s
Lauren — until boyfriend said it smelled like bug spray
and so on and so on.

By: Judith

Judith — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:23:37 +0000

PBI and FYI and any other acronyms you want; “Choc” means “shock”–nothing to do with chocolate!

By: Cheezwiz

Cheezwiz — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:51:31 +0000

Very late to the party as usual. What fun to read about people’s youthful fragrances!

My very first “grown-up” fragrance in high-school was Anais Anais. I adored everything about it: the dreamy magazine ads, the pretty packaging, the smell etc. I recently re-tried it a couple of times, and it doesn’t grab me the way it did when I was younger. It’s still pleasant, but more powdery than I remember.

I also wore a drugstore fragrance from Coty called April Fields. I think you can still get this on-line, but unlike the ubiquitous Vanilla Fields, it’s not sold in drugstores anywhere. I’d love to try this one again – I can’t remember what it smelled like at all, just that I loved it.

Shhhh…don’t tell anyone, but I love Lily of the Valley. As it turns out, most of my favorite florals have LotV in them somewhere. This is in spite of the fact that I was also given some of that hideous Tinkerbell perfume when I was a kid!

By: DivineMissK

DivineMissK — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:47:29 +0000

I was just telling Sister Shirl, not 2 weeks ago, that I loved, Loved, LOVED Calandre but thought they had discontinued it. Found a bottle at a flea market one time and held on to it until it got dregs in it…

I don’t remember what it smells like anymore, just that it was my happy place.