Perfumes of yesteryear

When if it's a metal cap on a glass bottle, try sticking it under a very hot water tap. The metal and glass expand differentially so should make it slacker.
I have a thing a bit like a nutcracker that's useful for grasping things like that too. Have you tried pliers?

zorran I have another small bottle of Sortilege eau de parfum now, that I tracked down on the internet. It's from the late 60s, was unopened. I took it out of its intact packaging and dabbed some on - exquisite and completely fresh. I screwed the top back on and now I can't get it open again! Every visitor has tried. It's a small top so difficult to grasp. Any hints to get it open again very welcome!

Poison gives me migraine I think it was banned a few years ago (people wearing it were banned) on aeroplanes, this may be an urban myth but I can well believe it. It is a disgustingly sickly and overpowering smell.

I was bought a bottle of Ghost perfume by my DDS and DDiL this Christmas. It is fairly nice and I will use it but not my usual perfume.

Wow what memories. I've just received a bottle of Sortilege for Christmas from my husband. It brings back such memories and, like you, I was young, single and enjoying Motown in the Manchester area in the 70's. I've actually still got the talc in the brown dome from all that time ago! Very fond memories.

They have changed the bottle shape! It was nearer to heart without the dip? And it was dark purple.

No, that's not it, but it was a similar bottle

Why didn't I think of that?...................DON'T answer that Ana !!

You can still buy Poison, Ella - google it to see if it's the one you remember!

janerowena Was Poison in a dark purplish flask shaped bottle? I've been trying to remember the name of a perfume for years and I think that may be it!

Thank you for mentioning KIKU..it was my favourite too!

I have loved Diorissimo since I was 20. It smells of Lilly of the Valley.

It's so evocative, isn't it? My father used to buy me Miss Dior when he went abroad, so I always think of him when it is mentioned, but my favourite in my teens was Fidji - and they still make it! Guy Laroche. I can't believe it's the same perfume, and it costs barely more than it did 40 years ago so it must be purely synthetic now. However my family bought me so much of it that I still have two full bottles. Then I went on to Spellbound, Opium, Poison, Chanel No.5, hated Rive Gauche, and finished up still wearing Spellbound, but with occasional forays into Vanderbilt and Floris, Old English Toilet water in particular.

Just went upstairs to try on a little Fidji, I think I shall start wearing it again while I still have a social life to wear it to. I keep my perfumes in a cool room in a dark drawer, some of them are really ancient but just fine.

I bought a bottle of perfume from a tiny, dark chemist's shop in Bury St Edmunds in the 1960s. It was Russian and the label was in that language, so I don't know exactly what it was called. It had a sultry, orange scent to it, and, of course, when it was finished, I could never find it again. However, Diorissimo does smell very similar and that has become my favourite perfume. I agree, MiceElf about the power of scent. In my teens, I wore a perfume called Manhattan and, at this time, I was going through a very unhappy relationship. Twenty years later, in a fish and chip shop of all places, I suddenly felt very sad for no apparent reason, until I realised that the woman in front of me was wearing Manhattan.

Mice I sat in the theatre and a woman dashed in at the last minute, excusing herself as she squeezed past me to sit down. She had the loveliest smelling perfume. So at the interval I asked her what it was, as I thought I recognised it. It was Organza by Givenchy. I had forgotten it till I read your post. I see it is still for sale online, so might treat myself!

About fifteen years ago I was at the theatre when a woman walked past me and I smelt the perfume my mother used to wear. My mother died very young and it was the first time I had encountered this perfume since then. I found tears running down my cheeks and I asked her (a complete stranger) if she was wearing Quelque Fleurs. She was, and explained it was a precious bottle which she used only occasionally, and although it's marketed now by a different company in the States, it is not the same as the original. The power of a scent.....

anniemac, you can still buy Cachet online. It's one of the few fragrances that suit my skin, and I bought some recently from fragrancex.com

I loved Ysatis- I had forgotten about that!

Haven`t had any for a while, but I used to love Ysatis. I got some Rive Gauche given to me at Christmas, but not used it yet, haven`t had any for quite a few years.

I thought I was the only one left! I love it.

Does anyone still wear ysatis 1980

Ysatis bril

I remember my mother wearing Femme when we were on a car journey, and combined with me sitting in the back of the car, and not being a good traveller, the smell (sorry, perfume) of Femme was the last straw.
Charlie was one I liked, and L'Air du Temps, and I had a bottle of Hermes Caleche, which made me feel very glamorous!

Loved Ritz, by Charles of the Ritz, but has sadly been unavailable for a long time. The original Rive Gauche (the new version is okay, but not as nice) was lovely. Now I'm a big Penhaligon's fan, Cornubia is gorgeous, Hammam Bouquet is a unisex scent, but beautiful, I cheat and buy it for my DH, then pinch it!
Of course, there's a bottle of Chanel No. 5 in the drawer too, along with Hermes 24 Fauborg! Different fragrances for different weather, moods etc!

Shalimar reminds me of being a teenager.I worn it in the 12th grade and I had this little 9th grader following me around like a little puppy and writing me love notes.Must of been the Shalimar!

I love Obsession, Chanel No 5 never tried Shalimar, is it still around, Diorissimo is rather lovely too.