Retro perfumes

I bought a Jo Malone perfume a year ago - Green Fig & Cassis. It is so lovely! Now keep dropping hints....

I was brought up by my grandparents until I was 7, my mother would come to visit. To this day I remember her smelling of Helena Rubenstien "Apple Blossom" and face powder.

I love Mitsouko by Guerlain, apparently it's been going since the year dot, but unfortunately DH hates it!

I do however have Summer perfumes, Winter perfumes, and even daytime and evening perfumes!

Kept tightly stoppered dark and cool, 6months. Then starts to deteriorate.

...but once it's opened?

Will keep indefinitely if not opened. But what's the point of that?

Does anyone know how long perfume lasts? Does it have a use-by date?

I used to wear Pagan in the 60s and Suede, the box had a suede feel to it if I remember correctly. I used to get a lot of compliments from the male patients so it must have been quite nice.

JessM My daughter found some on eBay last Christmas. So evocative!

Good griffe! I haven't heard that for years. The perfume ads on TV this week are full-on aren't they.

Ma Griffe!

Jolie Madame was rochais as was femme. I used to use blue grass and femme. Now I use joy, essential Rose and Versace Versace

"Pagan"........mmmmmmm.....supposed to drive men wild...
33 yrs later! still waiting...........

I'm reeking of Blue Grass today. I thought I had lost it somewhere but it turned up in my basket of toiletries, though I am sure I had looked there!

Blue Hyacinth by Cussons( of Imperial Leather fame) . The soap was gorgeous.

Jolie Madame was a gorgeous perfume, can't remember who by, it was a favourite of mine for ages, when I could afford it. Have not seen it for years.

Not been on gransnet for a couple of days - working too hard! but gma ... the plan of replacing the perfume with something you like sounds like a win-win. Keep us posted!

And in 'Savers'!

artygran, Blue Grass can be purchased from Amazon, as well as a few other places.

Annobel Has your T J Hughes completely gone out of business, or has it been reincarnated under another name like ours? I can't tell the difference between the old store and the new one to be honest - and I'll look to see if they have Blue grass! I feel quite nostalgic about it now...

Who knows, Notso! I used to like to pick up Christmas presents at Culpepers. i was so sad when I discovered it no longer existed. I often went there when I attended Weightwatchers' Leaders meetings in Norwich.

I also used Blue Grass for years, then went onto Je Reviens, Lancome "Magie(?)", then it was Estee Lauder Youth Dew, and now it is always Chanel No.19 which is timeless (and I have to wait until Christmas for my annual supply!!!!).

I only have to smell one of the above on anyone and all the memories come flooding back. Does anyone remember those"perfume machines in the ladies toilets at the ballrooms, so you could put a coin in, have a spray of something! and then go and jive the night away to the Swinging Blue Jeans, Hollies or whomever. You always danced with your best girlfriend and the boys only came on the dancefloor for the last slow dance after watching you from the upstairs bar!!!!!!!! Perhaps they waited until all the perfume smells had "died" down - we all smelt pretty strongly after those sprays!

I used to go to Culpeppers in Norwich when I lived there Annobel! We may have queued together.

Was that not Helena Rubenstein, Learnegrandma?

Did Elizabeth Arden used to do one called Apple Blossom?

Greenmossgiel, Blue Grass brings back memories. I used to love it, but went off it, but I had one of those little scent sprays with a fabric bulb that you squeezed, and filled it with Blue Grass, this was in the mid 1960s, and even though it`s been empty for years, just an ornament now, the scent of the Blue Grass is still there!
A perfume that I`d like to see make a come back is Flambeau, by Faberge, haven`t seen it since the late 70s.