Second choice: English Leather

They were citrusy, fresh colognes.

and Royal Secret

Was there anything else???!!! LOL

Was going to say that the girl looked like Sandy Duncan.

Just like my grandma!

Probably the Old Spice first, but I can't recall which came next.

Very powerful stuff! My high school sweetheart wore Hai Karate. After our breakup, circa 1970, I couldn't sit near anyone in class wearing that cologne because it would make me feel so blue. IMHO, Hai Karate had quite a kick!

It came in a flat, oval shaped blue bottle from Woolworths.

the fragrance lingers in my brain even though I don't think I'm smelled it in decades!!

Boys and men in my town did not wear cologne. Barnyard smell was de riguer.

Body splash, powder, bar soap, etc. I had it all—I loved that stuff!

from my cash register. And yes, I had all the stuff you mentioned but in Jean Nate.

Chanel no. 5 for my high school sweetheart.

She's gone now, hadn't seen her for fifty years, but some great memories.

My grandmothers Chanel No. 5

I got a discount.

Hai Karate & Old Spice 50/50. My choir teacher Ola Murchison liked it so much, he did it also....

Delicate scent of Lily of the Valley

Lily of the valley reminds me of her.

I don't remember how or why, my mother liked Chanel 9 and I guess I needed to be a little different!

Correction -- not as a teen. When I was working in NYC as a teen I was quite scruffy. I remember my friends were all into "musk"

and Aqua-Velva, Skin Bracer, Pinaud Clubman.

Also, Jean Nate. The boys wore something called Canoe,, I think. For a while it was popular for the girls to wear the boys cologne.

one was funny. So you still use Grey Flannel?

besides with being too liberal with "splashing" it on.



I'm late in congratulation you on a 70k posting milestone, marble falls.

Whatever happened to lime after shave and shampoos? It's like they
disappeared around 1990.

either.

as a young teen (I'm sensitive to many perfumes & colognes -- they trigger migraines.) Later, I switched to strawberry oil from a head shop that opened up in Petoskey, lol.

Old Spice always reminds me of my dad. He'd put it on everything -- sunburns, cuts, whatever. Sort of like the father and Windex in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

And it's all I've worn since. I always get compliments on it. It's very Me.

In college I switched to Arpege when a guy I was dating gave me a bottle.

Also, loved two Frenchies, Plaisir by Raphael and Diorissimo. I remember my mom wearing Jolie Madam and Joy. Such memories.

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Since Proctor & Gamble, in their infinite wisdom, changed the formula for OS in the US as their customer research indicated that the rising generation were tired of smelling like Grandpaw, I have to get mine imported from overseas, where they still adhere to the original scent. Fortunately, I don't use it much.

Old Spice's slogan used to be "If your grandfather hadn't worn it, you wouldn't be here." Which is quite funny, really, since Old Spice was first put on the market in 1937, and my father was born in 1929.

-- Mal

Loved it!

I liked the smell. And the heavy wooden cap on the bottle. And the hot ladies in the magazine advertisements. And the advertising slogan: “All my men wear English Leather, or they wear nothing at all.”

It's inexpensive, it doesn't give me a headache, it doesn't make me sneeze like crazy and it's a subtle fragrance.


I still wear it today I like it that much.


One year, I accidently asked for Jovan Wild Musk for Women, not realizing it wasn't the Coty brand. I can't wear the stuff without suffering from a headache and a chronic sneezing fit.


I still have the bottle of the Jovan so if anyone wants it, it's yours.

headaches.

And walking into vaping juice out in public is headache inducing too.

Windsong, Woodhue, and Ambush.

Jean Nate's also. Love's Baby Soft, Sunflowers, Chloe and occasionally Jovan Musk.

- Elizabeth Taylor Passion when I could get my hands on it. As a YA a friend gave me a bottle of Lancome Magie Noire, which I love. on the rare occasions that I wear perfume these days I still wear one of those two.

I bought perfume with vanilla undertones.

was my favorite. One year while I was in college my dad gave me a bottle of Chanel number 5 for Christmas. He was a product of the Depression, frugal and practical to a fault, so I was really touched by his gift. I used it sparingly so it would last as long as possible.