Heya Posse! One of my friends, Sonya, gave me this awesome vintage Azzaro Pour le Bain and I have been meaning to do this post for ages. I can only find one reference online and that’s on Etsy, there are a couple left too. It says that this is a pre-2000 bottle. Very bloody cool. It’s a heavily perfumed bubble bath. Only a few drops will give you a vintage Azzaro pour homme scent that fills your home. Astounding how well it held up after all these years. The bubbles are pretty low key and they don’t last for very long, maybe I should have used more but it was just too precious.
Azzaro Pour le Bain
Azzaro has these featured accords:
Top: Lavender Lemon Caraway Basil Bergamot Clary Sage Iris Star Anise
Heart: Vetiver Sandalwood Patchouli Cedar Juniper Berries Cardamom
Base: Oakmoss Leather Amber Musk
My bottle of Azzaro Pour le Bain has Parfums Loris on the front. They owned Azzaro from 1975-95 when Clarins bought the brand. They’re now under the L’Oreal brand since 2020.
The difference in smell between an Azzaro modern bottle and this bubble bath is huge. The vintage smells rich and creamy right from the start, it’s fuller and more tapestried. My nose is burnt out by the screeching opening of modern Azzaro Pour Homme. Though the modern does settle nicely after about 20 minutes it just doesn’t smell as good.
I’ve used this bottle incredibly sparingly over the years I’ve had it and am very sad to have finally finished it.
Have you ever had a beautiful vintage bath product? Tell us, please?
Portia xx
The industry has moved away from line extensions that include bath products. Mainly because people’s hygiene practices changed and now with daily or twice daily showers, there’s no need for these kind of products. What I find surprising about perfume bloggers, is that they live in the past and reminisce sometimes lamenting why their mothers and grandmothers products are no longer manufactured. Everyone should understand that the complexity of the supply chain, the outsourcing of materials and the tight negotiations of batch sizes for production dictate why products are discontinued. Example: A manufacturer cannot order a batch of 50 thousand bottles from a contract manufacturer only to sell 100 worldwide and end up destroying the rest. It’s simply not good business sense. Manufacturing plants do not agree to a contract for 100 bottles…
So forget bath powders and body creams etc. They are on their way out just like dinosaurs.
The Dune bath range. If I see them untouched on preloved sites my pinkies move at the speed of light to get them home to mamma
OOOOH! I never saw Dune bath products Alityke. I bet they’re spectacular.
Portia xx
Utterly astounding! So realistic to the vintage scent. Specially the soap. It came in a box. If it’s in its shrink wrap & box it’ll be fresh as, well maybe not as daisy. Getting pricier as it gets rarer
NOT ENGAGING NOT ENGAGING NOT ENGAGING ….
Maybe one quick squiz
HA!
I used to love bubbly, scented soaks! Sadly, after two major back surgeries, an ankle fusion, two shoulder surgeries (with another upcoming), I can no longer navigate tubs. But I have a delightful walk- in rain shower!
WOW! Are you going for medical bingo MaggieCat? That’s a LOT of major surgeries. Hope you are getting it all together with this last shoulder job and get a rest from them.
Walk in RAIN SHOWER! So cool.
Portia xx
Vintage Bal a Versailles bath oil that I use as perfume. Glorious!
YUM! I never saw Bal Bath Oil Maya and now I have acute FOMO.
Portia xx
Youth Dew bath oil :D. I don’t know about now, but for awhile there you could get it for a song on eBay. I’d also wear it as a perfume oil. Yes, I smelled fabulous. In my opinion anyway.
I just looked it up March, they still sell 60ml Youth Dew Bath Oil! OMG!
Yeah, you smelled killer.
Portia xx
That list of notes is incredible, Portia. And I love the deep red of the bottle cap and how the bottle is shaped like a bubble! So sad when we reach the end of a vintage beauty like that one. I can’t recall a really vintage bubble bath product. But I have enjoyed older versions of Chanel No 19 bath gel, back when they used to make the ancillary products for No 19. Also Prada Infusion d’Iris had a great one, and so did the og Bottega Veneta. I always love a bath gel formulation of a scent (much more than a lotion!)
Loved that OG BV! I finally used mine up (for all I know it’s still available).
Sadly Bottega Veneta original perfume and bath products are DCd March.
Hey DinaC,
Jin still has a little of the Bottega Veneta shower gel left in his shower. I have a couple of No 19s that I panic bought when the DC info came out. I gave one to a friend who went ape shit for it and have two in the drawers.
Proud hoarder moment.
Portia xx
You are SO smart and such a lucky ducky!!
HA! Those were the days when money was no object.
I’d have to have a very real conversation with myself before doing it now.
I don’t have a bathtub — just a very large shower. Sometimes I miss baths but not hugely often. I did appreciate the large bath in the Paris hotel I enjoyed recently. I have to say the notes list for this sounds heavenly.
In think people either adore, meh or loathe baths Cinnamon. Clearly I’m in the adore camp but I do love being in hotels and enjoying a seriously full on rain shower. Very bloody satisfying.
Yeah, the early iterations were glorious. The open on current is far too shrill for me now.
Portia xx
I wish I had a bath that allowed me to have more bath products. My tub is too shallow and too short to be useful. It wouldn’t submerge Ariana Grande.
Which is too bad because of I love a long hot bath and luxuriating in tub of suds, salts, or oils. I do have some bath salts that Roxana Vila gifted me before her move to New Mexico and sometimes I just uncork it and sniff it.
One day when you come to Oz Tom you can spend some happy hours in our tub. It’s not large enough to do laps but it’s perfect man size. I can submerge everything except head and tips of knees.
Portia xx