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I'd forgotten most of the things mentioned on here and that my mum used to have little jars of cream perfume. And her squeezy bottle of hair laquer (used to leave big blobs of laquer in some places I seem to recall!)

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those little jars of cream perfume were probably from Avon....i had loads of them...but they stopped making the old ones....sad

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i had forgotten about Bel air hair spray Molli ....we used to put bath cubes in the water to get the stuff out of our hair....it certainly didn't wash out....and what about bath cubes???do you remember them

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And do you remember English Leather? That was a big one for guys back in the 60's here.

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Yes.. I remember this one.


OMG.... I just thought of the biggest one from here..

MUSK by Jovan. It was rumored back when I was a teen that if you wore this boys wouldn't be able to control their passions.. LOL!!! I wasn't sure I wanted to wear it... but I did. It didn't deliver..

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That doesn't ring a bell, sorry. The only other one I remember was Old Spice .

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Lol. I had a bottle of that - men's version, but that wasn't so long ago come to think of it . Well if you count 15-20 odd years not long ago that is.

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As child I always liked the smell of Pears soap and Imperial Leather both still available .

My memories of old perfumes are not pleasant. Because many people received often cheap perfume as a gift at christmas or birthdays it was often little used and kept in the light on the dressing table where it deteriorated , smelt nasty and was still used .

My stepmother wore a heavy perfume and the thought of it still makes me feel sick.

I find today's lighter perfumes are much better and as we now tend to use our perfumes regularly they don't have the chance to go off

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Imperial Leather was created from a scent originating in Russia back in the 1700s.
It is made by Cussons & is still available.


Brut is made by Unilever at Port Sunlight in the Wirral, & is also still available.
Old Spice was more popular & it's adverts featured rolling waves to the background strains of O Fortuna from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

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Must have been only worn over here.. English and anything related to it was extremely popular here in the 60's... Ie.. the British Invasion of the Beatles, The Stones and all the others..



My hubby wears Old Spice. I like it.. But sadly the youngsters refer to it as the old man's cologne.