My favorite perfume ever was JeRiviens by Worth which was discontinued!!! I also liked Nina Ricci's Capricci, also gone.

Was there: OK now you've got me thinking about what my mother and Aunt's wore back then. There was of course the ubiquitous cobalt bottle of 'Evening in Paris' which has been reprised in the Vermont Country Store catalog. But some are truly gone forever. I believe the scent of "Shalimar" was always lingering on my mom's coat. Later on in the sixties there was the hideous green but wonderfully packaged "Oh! de London!" by Yardley. It's been redone but is NOT the same, trust me. There was also the Legendary "Chanel No. 5" which never seems to go out of style and tons of lesser fragrances from Coty such as "Windsong" and the bug-spray scented "Ambush". Of course the men's colognes were equally weird. Recall 'Jade East'? My dad wore it (we gave it to him one Christmas) and swore that the wasps attacked him on the golf course like a walking lollipop! And 'Hi Karate`, also a vile ointment. Boy - what mom's and dad's had to put up with in those creepy drug store cologne sets from us kids, right? However, there were, as mentioned above, some lovely high end perfumes to be sure. There were many, many more I cannot recall.

You can still find Shalimar. If not in stores, try online.

I particularly remember Emeraude by Coty I also remember White Shoulders (my sister's favorite) Windsong and Ambush. Ambush smelled like the male version Canoe. There was also Heaven Scent! Heaven scent was so sweet and cloying! And I think I remember one called Golden Autumn.

Someone's created a blog about the possible scents worn by the Mad (Wo)Men. Not sure if they're contemporary to now or to the 1960s, but it's fascinating. Here are the links:

Betty

Joan

Peggy

Rachel

Midge

Besides Shalimar, I loved L'Air du Temps, and Ambush!...and for men, English Leather, Canoe and the abovementioned Jade East...also, for men, there was Hai Karate...does anyone remember that one?...they had some hysterical ads (radio, I think) that had to be written by some ad folks smoking grass!

Hai Karate came out in the mid- to late-sixties as I recall. But the ads were funny. Comparable today are the ones from Old Spice Red deodorant and Axe.

I forgot "LOVE" which featured Donovan's song, "Wear Your Love Like Heaven", but again, this was more like 1967-8. It too was a sickeningly cloying smell, like Heaven Scent (I recall that jingle too - a young girl singing about some boy discovering his true love strictly on the basis of her wearing this cologne. Do any of you recall the horrid shampoos? How about PRELL -with the pearl slowling travelling to the bottom of the bottle? It took the paint off cars and was almost entirely made from phosphate containing detergents..........SUDS galore but they never dissolved!

Throughout the 1960s ordinary people began to buy perfume in quantity. People who had never been abroad before began to spend time browsing in perfume stores and buy perfume in duty free shops. They came home with bottles of Madame Rochas, Worth's Je Reviens, Carven's Ma Griffe, Arpège by Lanvin, Houbigant's Chantilly, Guerlain's Mitsouko and L'Heure Bleu, Calèche by Hermes, Sortilege, Ecusson and Estee Lauder's Youth Dew.

Yves St. Laurent launched Y in 1964, Rive Gauche in 1968. Guy Laroche presented Fidji in 1966. Those old favourites Chanel No.5 and Miss Dior were still best sellers with considerable competition from products like Avon's perfume's such as Topaze, Coty's Imprevu and in total contrast, Faberge's earthy daytime Woodhue.

A woman I knew wore White Shoulders for years, I don't know when it came out, though. It was her signature. Teenage boys in the 60s wore English Leather. I don't know about their dad's, except for Old Spice, of course. But, as a teen, my friends and I didn't go for the high priced stuff Betty would have worn. Fabrege made a line we used (along with our circle pins and peter pan collars. Woodhue and Straw Hat are two I remember. Probably many others. That same time frame we were buying little oval plastic lipstick cases, that had a mirror on the inside of the lid. It was a compact for lipstick, which kind of perched inside. There was the afforable Avon products, To a Wild Rose, for one. Pretty bottles, but I didn't use the cologne. Atomizers were a pretty gift to give, and most of us had at least one on a dressing table.

wasthere, I have found JeReviens by Worth online. I'll try to recall the site...but I imagine Fragrance.net might have it. Also, try Roamans.com or WomanWithin.com...they have fragrance depts. I THINK, anyway...good luck.

You're right, Laurie B., Shalimar is still out there pretty easy to find.

My faves from way back when were: Shalimar (remember Suzanne Pleshette saying to Bob Newhart on his show once that she mentioned she liked it once to him and on every "occasion" since he's tried to "Shalimar her to death" !) and:
Wind Song
Intimate
L'Air du Temps
Chanel No. 5
Je Reviens
My Sin and Arpege
Emeraude
Fidgi
bunch of others I can't remember right now....

Thanks Grin and Bear It for the site.

I tried getting J'Riviens through that catalog that sells everything from the past (forget the name) but their version smelled like wood alcohol. Either it was the original and turned bad after so many years or someone took it over and didn't make it right.

I also liked Faberge's Aphrodisia, Stradivari by Schiaparelli, MaGriffe, Zizanie by Weill and Sortilege. My favorite men's cologne was Dunhill.

Scents I hated: Jungle Gardenia (Liz Taylor's favorite), Tabu, My Sin and Tweed. I also hated when men wore Brut.

Oh! I forgot "Tigress" ---- It was "the" way to smell when I was in high school...the hallways reeked of it! lol

I remember these:

Charlie
Love's Baby Soft
My Sin
White Shoulders
Black Satin
Jean Nate
Arpege
Tweed
And there was that gross strawberry perfume they used to sell. BLECH.

For the guys:
Hai Karate
Canoe
Old Spice

I came from a lower middle-class family, and I remember loving Tabu...eek! That was some strong stuff. My mom loved Emeraude and My Sin.

Thought of a couple of other nice ones:
Replique and Intimate

Tigress, yes. I had forgotten that one. The bottle lids matched the name.

You are hard to forget when Wing Song whispers your name.

oohhh,
I used to sneeze at the Joy by Jean Patou. An old lady scent. Of course Channel no.5. My mom was L'air du Temps.
Shalimar, by Guerlain? Mme Gres, Cabochard (also a fav).
Men? I love Aqua Velva. (sorry it's cheap) Canoe. English Leather, and the best, Guerlain's Imperial (Napolean's scent). I love to wear men's cologne and Guerlain's Imperial is it.

Which perfumes do you miss in particular? So many of them are still around

Try Vermont County Store

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/Apothecary/Fragrances/D/30001/P/1:100:1000:10060?endecaid=apothcatFT

My first "grown up" perfume was Jolie Madame by Balmain. I couldn't find it for a long time then goggled it and found it was still being sold on one of those perfume sites. I got two bottles without a spray and use an atomizer to make it last. Another favorite is Norell - but I think that came out in the late sixties - my boss gave me a small gold colored "pot" of it. It was like soft wax and would last a long time.

Does anyone else remember the: "promise her anything, but give her Arpege" ad campaign?

When one of my uncles came home from WWII he brought me a small bottle of Joy...when I tried to open it the neck of the bottle broke off in my hands. It had a lovely aroma - but soon dried up without a top. :(

Skinny Dip....makes a girl feel pretty.

Anybody remember that one?

....you guys, this is an awesome thread, which I hope makes it into the "Perfumes of the 60s" category that AMC is going to map out soon. :)

Has anyone ever heard of Casaque? (Pronounced "CasSOCK.")

My favorite perfume was "Most Precious" made by the "White Shoulders" folks. Can't get it anymore, sadly. I remember when the British Invasion hit the the late 60s, everything was Yardley. English Lavender was big. I remember my mother having the beautiful blue bottle of Evening in Paris on her dresser back in the 50s. If I close my eyes, I can just barely recall the fragrance. As for Jungle Gardenia, my sisters and I loved it, until one sister broke the bottle in the bedroom we all shared, and the room reeked of Jungle Gardenia for weeks.

grinandbearit, thanks for the links to the girls and their perfumes. Loved the pictures and the discussions regarding their possible perfumes.

Dee Nairo: See my comment above about ordering JeRiviens and it smelling like wood alcohol. I ordered it from The Vermont Country Store catalog.

Another cologne that is on my "not" list was Orange Blossom that you could purchase in Woolworth's 5 & 10 cents store. However, when I was very young I gave it to my mom for her birthday 'cause that's all I could afford.

Remember the commercial "your Wind Song stays on my mind......"
I wanted to throw in these shampoos too:
Herbal Essence
Earthborn
Lemon Up
Agree!
Faberge' Organics
Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific
Body on Tap
Jhirmack
Silkience
Breck
Wella Balsam
Protein 21

Anyway I was born in '65 so I can't remember if these are 60's or 70's

I remember my mother buying me Sweet Honesty from Avon in a little teddy bear

Does anyone remember Aquamarine Lotion? (Another 5&10 cent store product)

My mother sold perfume behind the counter in the 1930's. She always said that Guerlain's fragrances were the best -- and she was right! To this day, I only wear Guerlain (L'Heure Bleue is my favorite). Shalimar is by Guerlain and is very much available. I work at Saks 5th Ave. and we have the full line of all Guerlain fragrances.

She also loved Bellodgia by Caron, Narcisse Noir by Caron, and Cabochard by Gres.

I remember Intimate by Revlon, Ambush, Heaven Sent (was that Helena Rubinstein?), Tweed, Love, Windsong, Emeraude (the poor man's Shalimar), White Shoulders, Arpege, My Sin, and does anyone else remember Crepe de Chine?

I love fragrances! As I recall, Joan was wearing Shalimar when Carol confessed her love.

Bal a Verseilles, Norell, Ultima II, Replique were some favorites too.

Oh, and how could I forget Ma Griffe? I wore it for years as a teenager.

I just remembered another one - I don't remember how to spell it but it was pronounced "cush cush" and you could only buy it in the islands.

Estee Lauder, was that in the right time frame?

There was also Long and Silky and Short N Sassy shampoos.

And Breck! Anybody remember that one? and the Beautiful Breck Girl portraits?

There was also Pantene, No More Tears, and Pssssst, the Dry Shampoo!

I just remembered Germaine Monteil. I used to wear that lipstick "Florida Red" and got the perfume too but can't remember the name of it. Gail Katz, do you know if your store still carries it or is it gone by the way of some of the others?

Chantilly was another one -- the tag line was "I feel very Chantilly today."

And I think there was a perfume called Aquarius.

There was also a variety of Yardley perfumes and soaps and such that went with the perfume.

Oh Lord, yes, Sizzie! Seems as if every teacher I ever had and many "older women" I knew (age 30 on up--"old" to a kid/teen!) (this was in the1960's) wore "Youth Dew" by Estee Lauder. I loved it on others but it never smelled right on me...don't you hate that?, when you love how someome smells and ask them what it is--- and then buy some and find it smells soooo different on you? Ick...

wasthere, could it be "Royal Secret"' by Germaine Monteil you were trying to think of up there? It was strong but smelled sooooo good at the same time.

Gail Klein, I just went to Guerlain.com and it is a neat site! Has all the history of how the fragrances came about and a lot of other neat stuff. You've probably already been to it, but, since your mom sold fragrances and all and said Guerlain's were the best, thought I'd mention it in case anyone wanted to give it a look. It has cool music too...a very elegant site, as one would expect. I took the quiz on it to see which fragrance would be my best choice and guess which one it said?? Your fave: L'Heure Bleue! I already have Shalimar (it was also on the list!)

Although not marketed till 1973 there was my Ultimate favorite which no longer exists - CIVET OIL by Alyssa Ashley for Houbigant. It was like nothing else before or since. Lush, heavily laden scent which was not at all innocent. It was sometimes marketed with Alyssa Ashley Musk and Ambergris Oils in black round bottles with long plastic applicators. Because they were essential oils the fragrance lingered for days and I think that the animal rights folks claimed (perhaps rightly - don't really know) that the Civet cat's private parts were used in the making of that scent. PS - be very careful about ordering any vintage scents from Vermont Country Store - the bottles are the same but the formulations ARE NOT. Caveat Emptor!!

I had a teacher that wore that toilet water evening in paris and it just gagged me. blech

Great post!!
My first perfume was "Chantilly", I received a bottle in my Easter basket.
My mother was a Jean Nate freak! My father wore Old Spice.

Anyone pinning for these old scents can find them in The Vermont Country Store catalogue, and on their website. Jeez...I should get a comission from that Store for promoting them so many times!
It is fun to see all the old stuff they feature though!!

Hi Hapynzap! I remember my mother and her friends referring to Evening In Paris as Afternoon In Woolworths!
My grandmother wore Chanel No. 5, to this day I remember her whenever I smell it. Of course, she used it only for "special" because it was so expensive. Daily she wore Yardley's English Lavender.

Does anyone remember the ad: "Promise her anything...but, give her Arpege"?

Hyperboltz: Yes, see my comments above about getting JeRiviens from Vermont Country Store.

SCfan: Yes, Royal Secret it was. A woman I worked with in an Engineering Dept. was selling it (her hubby was a truck driver and he got a lot of knock-offs - ha) and it was so strong that when I sprayed it on one of the engineers said I smelled like a French whorehouse. So I got even and seriously sprayed him with it. I wonder what his wife said when he went home that day. Fun memories!

Wasthere: I haven't seen Germaine Monteil in years; they must be out of business.

How could I have forgotten Chantilly! Another one of my teenage favorites!

Remember Hazel Bishop cosmetics? There was Revlon, Max Factor, Cover Girl, Maybelline, Almay, Helena Rubinstein, Tangee and Corn Silk at the local drugstores.

There was briefly a hair product called "Saturday Night" that made your hair shiny. So your hair could look like Saturday night, every night!

Gail Klein: When you mentioned Tangee, I recall sneaking that lipstick on before I was allowed to wear makeup. Then before I got home I wiped it off ON MY SLEEVE (jerk that I was) and, of course, my mother was furious.

Oh I think another I couldn't stand was Estee - it smelled of old lady to me.

While I am on a rant I have to say that modern guys that wear so much cologne that its like they have bathed in it must be a turn off. I thought the idea of any purfume/cologne was to give a little wiff so the other person wants to get closer to you not drive you away. When somebody has spoofum on too heavy it just make the whole room nasty. I am thinkng of stuff like Aramis or Polo way too heavy, yuk

I remember seeing these on my grandma's dressing table: White Shoulders,Chanel#5. I think my mom was fond of Ma Griffe.
I can visualize that little indigo blue bottle of Evening in Paris.
Tabu(that was really nasty smelling)Emeraude by Coty.
I think my first scent that I was allowed to wear was Love's Lemon Spray.It smelled just like a freshly sliced lemon. I was thrilled to wear that along with my white Go-Go boots.
Later on in the 70's I got a bottle of Estee Lauder's Aliage.It was real "green" smelling.

It was a hand cream instead of a perfume, but the fragrance of Jergen's still takes me back to the 60s.

Anybody recall the cosmetics line Clairol came out with that was supposed to go with your hair color and skin tone (coordinated some way)--- introduced in the mid '60's I think-- It was all set up with combos like: auburn hair/fair skin, dark brunette/olive skin, light brown/medium skin, all like that, but with a lot more combos...I remember getting the auburn hair/fair skin one (liquid makeup, powder,blusher, all coordinated) and it looked better than any makeup I'd tried before (used Corn Silk, Gail Klein!) and then they discontinued it! It was great makeup and a wonderful concept, oh...remember "Flicker Sticks" lip gloss? Loved that stuff.

I seem to remember a perfume called Persian Woods in a lipstick red bottle. My Mom had the empty bottles all over the place in her clothes drawers so that any remaining scent would reach the clothes that were in the drawer.

i remember ma griffe and cabochard on my mom's dressing table.

she liked a scented bath oil called "sardo".

how about that 60's makeup??? my mother didn't wear that sky blue eye shadow and black eyeliner and frosted light pink lipstick like the other moms. i got mad at her for not being as cool as they were, but she didn't give in. now i see, she had some taste!

she wore black mascara from a matchbox-size cake you had to wet and apply with a little brush, some brown eye pencil, max factor foundation, coty powder, rouge from a round flat metal box applied with a cotton ball, and a medium pink lipstick. she was brunette and every saturday had her hair set, teased and backcombed into some sort of bouffant, and sprayed with that lacquer hairspray until it was immoveable. her hairdresser was mr. darrell. later she changed beauty shops and it was mr. john.

I remember Sardo.

My mother had the cake mascara, too. Same goes for the Max Factor makeup (She swore by the pancake makeup -- they still sell it and the pancake makeup that you dilute with water is great, especially in the summertime when you don't want an oil based foundation), coty powder and eyebrows she had to pretty much draw on because she was blonde. (and my mother was kind of a Joan Hollway type, too, looks-wise and figure wise)

YOu can still buy cake mascara, I think -- I think Sephora sells it.

My mother used to get one of those permanent waves that were "electric" -- you had to sit under some sort of contraption until it "took."

MadMen Suze: I'm probably your mom's age and I wore Max Factor's pancake makeup (Tan #1) for years while my skin still had some oil in it; then I had to change eventually because it dried out my dry skin. I actually used to put it on my back and shoulders when I wore backless dresses, which were in vogue then (the cocktail type).

wasthere: A guy who directed a show our theatre group presented also recommended Max Factor makeup -- he was also a professional makeup artist.

My mother wore Chanel No. 5. I used to wear a perfume called Enjoli, but I have no idea who made it, and I can't find it anymore.

It's a miracle that perfumes have survived considering the "rules" against wearing them in offices these days because of allergies.

I loved Je Reviens by Worth. You can still find it, but the formula has changed. There is only the slightest essence of the original fragrance. I dont wear it now, but I spray it when i want to remember what my 20's smelled like.

I could be wrong, but I think Intimate came out around 1964 or 65. I remember a cute boy who rode a honda 50 motorcycle gave my sister a bottle for XMas her freshman year of HighSchool. I was in the sixth grade and sooo jealous.

I do remember Arpege, White Shoulders ( I can see Joan wearing that), Joy, Chantilly, Wind Song, Tweed, Tabu, Emeraude, Jungle Gardenia, Blue Grass, and, of course, Chanel No. 5. Does anyone remember Tigress? It and Emeraude and Tabu and some others were a little on the cheap side and could be purchased, and tried on, at Woolworths.
My friends and I used to douse ourselves and walk around the mall smelling, I'm sure, like street walkers when we were in junior high.

greyflannelgirl: Yes, Tigress, you could also buy it in a 4-pack which included Woodhue, Aphrodisia and another one I can't remember the name of. It was made by Faberge.

ChocolateCherry: Can we get a big group of us here that miss the original JeRiviens and contact Worth and ask them to PUHLEESE get it back from whoever took it over and ruined it and sell it again with the original formula?

Jamm54 - I am so upset with the people today that originate rules such as "no perfume in work due to allergies." This type of nonsense never happened back in the day. The people with allergies should not impose their problem on the rest of the world. I responded angrily to a man who wrote into the Philly Enquirer who said hair sprays should be banned in beauty salons, that he had a problem whenever he "hung out in salons" and that perfumes should be sold in dept. stores should be sold outside the store in the air. I wrote back and asked this jerk what he was doing hanging out in salons. Was he a pervert? Someone else also wrote in with the same comment.

After companies instituted those "no perfume" rules across the board because of allergy sufferers, I think alot of people who didn't even have allergies made a big, BIG deal about it, mainly for attention. Like walking ALL over the company just to pick up a hint or a whiff of perfume in a department they didn't even work in, and then run back and say they were having trouble breathing. Of course, you never heard them complain or be affected by men's aftershave or cologne only other women's perfumes.

Yeah, right.

I've actually met very few true allergy sufferers who were so incapacitated by perfumes that they needed oxygen or something. It seemed like that rule was used by a lot of fakers to get attention and control the work environment.

I love the scents worn by my mother and aunts in the 1960s. I've been able to find Je Reviens, Shalimar and Royal Secret at places like TJ Maxx and Marshall's. Not as good as they were back then, but comparable. Try eBay for your favorite old fragrances. Hint: In your searches, look for the original perfume oils. Even if they are old, the oil base does a great job of retaining the original fragrance notes. There's a website, irmashorell.net, which makes versions of "long-lost fragrances." The versions are pretty good, but not usually up to par with the originals. I've purchased versions of Golden Autumn, Woodhue, Sortilege, Replique, Most Precious and Oh! De London. I loved the latter as a kid, and the new formula just didn't have the same kick. Thanks for the memories, everyone!

I think those wave machines were still used up into the Sixties. A salon down the block from us was still using the wave machine.

I don't think anybody gets a permanent at a salon anymore -- and I remember the very early Toni perms -- my mother and my aunt gave me one. Don't ask what it looked like.

I wound up having all my hair cut off and I wound up going to some beauty salon to get one of those ghastly pixie haircuts to patch up the mess. hehe

My guess is that these home perms were probably not suitable for a child's hair.

I still have a picture of myself and that horrible pixie that I wound up getting.

wasthere, I remember the ad in "Seventeen" for "Je Reviens" saying it took "a thousand flowers" to make one ounce... or something to that effect...probably why the formula has changed...too expensive to make like they did originally, cheaper to try to duplicate it with chemicals. Sad...I loved the stuff, too.

madmensuze: Au contrere, I just had a perm at my "beauty parlor" today. I'm one of those old fogies that NEVER DID MY OWN HAIR AND GET IT DONE WEEKLY AT A SALON!!! And speaking of the Pixie hairstyle, I got my hair cut in a Pixie many years ago and ended up looking like Jerry Lewis or Julius Caesar, and this was before wigs became fashionable and obtainable in the latter 60's. Eventually it grew in and looked adorable. I don't remember the wave machine...strange.

I just came up with an idea for a new thread - Hairstyles of the '60's.

SCfan: Did you know that JeRiviens means "I shall return" in French? I wish it would return...sob.

MadMenSuze, I remember seeing one of those permanent wave contractions. Were they first used in the 1930s? not sure about that. When I was five, my mother made my first salon hair appointment for me. Although it was called 'the beauty shop' and not a salon. It was downstairs of the building where she worked. I went alone and when I waited my turn, I saw that wave machine against a back wall of the shop. It had arms everywhere that were obviously intended to attach to someone or somewhere. I was frightened, just sure that my simple hair trim would involve that huge scary thing reaching out to touch me. Funny thing is, I don't remember seeing my stylist or anything else about that visit. But, I could draw a picture of that wave machine. : )

I wonder if, to complete the early '60s atmosphere on the show, the characters wear fragrances. Here's what I'd imagine.

Joan: One of those big, heady, in-your-face, I'm-a woman-dam*it scents like Arpege, Replique, Jungle Gardenia or Shalimar.
Peggy: If anything at all - Heaven Sent or Muguet des Bois. Something a '50s girl might have worn to a prom.
Betty: A status-y fragrance like Chanel #5 or Joy. The higher the cost per ounce, the better.
Sally: Tinkerbell, Miss Lollipop or Pretty Peach (anyone remember those sweet little girl scents? I loved them as gifts!)
Mona: Estee Lauder's Youth Dew or Miss Dior.
Rachel: Le de Givenchy (consummately elegant scent, almost impossible to find now)
Bobbie: Let's not go there.

Cattychick: I think Bobbie would wear Musk Oil, but that was a 70s scent.

I am enjoying the 60's aroma therapy so much!!

Hi Cattychick! I love your picture, is that your cat?
What a great face!!
I would say Bobbie probably wears the men's cologne "Brut". Sorry, couldn't resist!

'60s child, yes, that is my cat - a cute little Himalayan who, even when she's happy, looks like she's ready to maul someone. Brut cologne for Bobbie - yes!

Peg4Prez, I too had one of those black velvet cat perfume bottle holders. I think it contained a Max Factor fragrance like Hypnotique. In my posts I must sound like I'm a shill for eBay, but I hadn't thought of that cat in years until you brought it up. Sure enough, there are a few for sale there!

Hi Gals (and Guys??)

Great thread!

Wasthere: Not only do I remember Aquamarine lotion, I LOVED the shampoo/conditioner. Good stuff, and liked the scent and the logo.

Does anyone remember the smallish black "velvet" cat that housed a perfume bottle? It would sit on a young lady's vanity. An older sister who had Yardley's "Paint Box" had one of these cats...they were from the dime store, I believe. I think they might've had rhinestone eyes too, or a rhinestone collar.

Cattychick!--Oh how my mom loved Le De and Le Interdit (sp?) (the day and the night) by Givenchy! She had a bottle of both and one of them broke (the Le De as I recall) and she was devastated. They were very expensive but smelled so wonderful. I think I remember at the time they were created by Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn (her favorite designer)----anyway they were very elegant and refined scents.
BTW Anyone recall a scent called Ondine?

Just a thought, Cattychick--I think in addition to your suggestions for Joan, a perfect scent for her would be "My Sin" !!!!

SCfan, Father Gill would probably give a bottle of My Sin to Peggy, too:-) Yes, I do remember Ondine. Loved the name!

.....I remember Giorgio in the 80s as being kind of one of the first expensive "perfumes" to use a petroleum derivative, instead of the imported flower oils, etc. It was cheaper to manufacture, but by spinning the "status" element, and charging more, they got wild sales.

When the 80s come around, Bobbi will wear Giorgio!

You guys are really bringing back so much buried information.... with my mom being gone for a while now, there is no one to remind me of all the things I've forgotten...

Thanks for that.

Dry Manhattan, I know what you mean. My mom has been gone for a long time too. Being a child of the 60s, Mad Men brings back a lot of memories, as does this fun discussion on perfumes. So does your comment on Giorgio - in the mid 1980s, every woman in advertising in Chicago wore that fragrance. The buses along Michigan Avenue positively reeked of it!

And how everybody and everything reeked of Giorgio.

Those ads for Giorgio were just...so...yellow. The ad alone turned me off.

Cie was a big seller too, I think.

Aviance was another one.

Cattychick: Bobbie - Wore Shocking! by Schiparelli (infamous
for it's dirty knickers note ;-) ) and then as others have said in the 80's she'd be wearing Giorgio, Poison, or Obsession. Poor
Bobbie -- her perfume would precede her and stay loooong after she left the room.

And after the Chgo buses stopped reeking of Giorgio they
started reeking of Poison......

Giorgio and petrol derivatives ---- fondly reminds me of Joan
Collins/Dallas ;-)

No one here mentioned Fleurs de Rocaille, an upscale 60's scent (actually introduced in the 30's) but w/heavy mktg in the
60s/70s.

I smell some perfumistas here ;-)

Love this topic...really brings back the memories!
My Mom was a Youth Dew woman. It came in a blue hard plastic bottle. Later as the 60's ended she became a Charlie woman!
My grandmother wore Jean Nate in the morning while doing chores in her housedress and later in the afternoon (with her vodka tonic) she wore Shalimar.
I remember loving Avon's Honeysuckle and then Wind Song. As the other poster mentioned "Your Wind Song stays on my mind" ad was really effective.

Madchen, remember that movie "Scent of a Woman" with Al Pacino? I seem to recall he mentioned "Fleurs de Rocaille" as the scent he guessed the female professor wore who ran after him in admiration at the end (after his big speech ...."I'm just gettin' started!..." defending Chris O'Donnell (cutie pie...still!) BTW, she ended up being on Six Feet Under (HBO a few years ago) playing the mom..Francis something is her name...some posters have mentioned that being such an addictive show...me included! I miss it, but Mad Men has more than filled that void!

Hi Maddicts! Remember all those great Avon cologne bottles? I have seen so many in Antique stores, some with the colonge still in them, which I am sure smells like kerosene now!!

I am loving all the memories this is bringing back! I had forgotten about all these purfumes and had how much I was fascinated with them. I don't even wear purfume now! I had most of these that were mentinod, even the one with the rhinestone cat! Does anyone emember "Interlude" by Frances Denney? I thought that one was the absolute best. I bought a recreation from the internet a few years ago, but it was just not the same.

Thanks for all the memories! I remember Interlude,Pink. I think I got it at Lord & Taylor. When I was in high school (60-63), I remember wearing Golden Autumn by Prince Machibelli, I think. Does anyone else remember that? It was only available in the fall/winter. The boys wore Canoe or English Leather, but EL just irritated my nostrils. So I went for the Canoe guys! I loved Youth Dew, but had to be careful not to use too much of it at one time...It was heady! But I bought the perfume, body lotion, bath salts anyway. Then Jean Nate. And now, after all these years, I'm using cucumber melon after bath-spray.

Tabu had a lipstick that really stayed put. But those days (mid-60s), we were using erase on our lips! And white eye shadow, fake eyelashes.

Pink62 and Pattypoo: Yes, I remember both Frances Denney and Prince Machiabelli (sp?) - glad I didn't type Machiavelli. Both great. It's so sad that all those wonderful scents are gone. I only wear Clinique's Aromatics Elixir and Shalimar now, but would love to see some of the greats return.

Talking about current scents, anyone ever tried Crabtree and Evelyn's "India Hicks' Island Living" ? It reminds a bit of "White Linen" but is more floral-y.
Also, C & E's "Evelyn Rose" is great, too----a really true rose scent. I alternate the two scents every few days to try to keep from getting the "numb nose syndrome" (can no longer smell one's own perfume and therefore over-scents oneself!)

a day late and several dollars short...BUT i didn't see anyone mention my mother's favourite "Prince Matchabelli." I recall coveting the ornate bottle. "JOY" was another favourite that I seem to recall being very expensive for that time. $100 an ounce is the price I think my mother quoted, but that seems outrageous.

Check out the ad for Prince Matchabelli -- the guy in the print advert looks a lot like Don Draper!
http://www.adclassix.com/ads2/59windsong.htm

women who couldn't afford these expensive perfumes bought perfumes made by Coty.
There was a perfume called Electrique that was discontinued in the mid 60s which might be typical of the time Women also spent a lot more of their time wth thier hair in rollers than you see in this show. And men wore Brylcream to keep their hair shiny and in place. I don't see that on the show.

My stepmother wore "Wicked Wahini" which I found terribly exotic as my mom wore all that you have mentioned before which was old and boring to me!
I still have a gallon of Je Revien on my dresser from my mother in law.
I used Fracas since I was 16 (late 60's) that I found in Paris on a school trip. Still do!

I write and blog about vintage and modern perfumes as "Olfactarama."

Many of the old perfumes have been discontinued becase they were simply too expensive to make any more. Also, there are new regulations from the EU which restrict some of the ingredients that were essential to them. Many others of the classics have been re-worked and reformulated to be cheaper or use acceptable ingredients, which is why they sort of smell like the originals, but not really -- they're synthetic re-creations most of the time.

We bought scent from the drugstore in the 60's. I wore Emeraude, Intimate, Heaven Sent and also Ma Griffe perfume, which a cosmopolitan uncle got for me from a duty free cart on a plane -- it caused great controversy when I wore it to 8th grade one day! Ambush was huge; so was Jungle Gardenia, which the hallways of the schools reeked of for a year; Tabu (originally made for prostitutes); Tigress (yuck) Aphrodisia and real crap like C'est Wild, which I actually wore for awhile.

My mom had picked up some of the classic French stuff when we lived overseas. She wore the lavender-based Moment Supreme (Jean Patou, also made Joy) and Arpege (in those days, a seriously "dirty" floral; reformulated now) and Woodhue, a dry aromatic, during the day.

After the "youthquake" of 64 - 66, everything in fragrance changed. It all became more democratic, more accessible -- Yardley of London (makeup too), Dana, Coty all made inexpensive scents for the drugstores. I remember Mugnet de Bois, one of the few that perfume freaks remember fondly; Love's Fresh Lemon, "clean" florals and citrus-based scents aimed squarely at the nascent baby boom; British Sterling (which wasn't bad) for men.

I have speculated in the blog about what Joan might have worn, besides the Shalimar (which was really a Twenties fragrance). I guessed "My Sin" in 1960, but in 1962, Bal 'a Versailles came out -- a supremely floral/incense/dirty French classic, heavy with civet, which Jaqueline Kennedy, who certainly didn't buy her perfumes at drugstores, sometimes wore. If Joan didn't wear it, Bobbi certainly would! (It's still available, by the way, but has been reformulated; vintage bottles are easily available on flearbay, though.)

Peggy: she's got taste and edge under all that dowdiness; L'Origan maybe, or Chanel No. 5.

Betty: Fleurissimo (which Creed made for Grace Kelly's wedding in 1956) -- other classic florals like Joy or maybe even Arpege.

Mona -- maybe Mitsouko? A very daring fragrance, not overtly sexy at all, has to grow on you; something serious, probably a Forties Dior like Miss Dior, or a Fifties Chanel.

Bobbi -- Ma Griffe (means "my claw" in French); Chanel No. 22 (incense-y and incrediblly strong) Bal a' Versailles, My Sin.

I remember my mother only wore Channel #5 and Blue Grass.

Just bought Ondine from The Vermont Country Store....I just returned it too!!!! It is NOT the same scent from Suzanne Theirry from the 60's......Ugh! it smells awful, sigh I was so hoping to find this marvelous scent from my youth!!!

My favorite was Casaque by Jean D'Albret. If you found a vintage perfume from the 60's would it still be wearable?

hi there- i am searching for a room fragrance spray by germaine monteil...have not seen this in 20 years...i am desperate to find if it is still being made. it is the most beautiful fragrance ever !! oh, i pray that someone knows about this room spray. thanks so very much !!!

hi there- i am searching for a room fragrance spray by germaine monteil...have not seen this in 20 years...i am desperate to find if it is still being made. it is the most beautiful fragrance ever !! oh, i pray that someone knows about this room spray. thanks so very much !!!

Young 'N Free Honeysuckle Cologne by Yardley....It smelled heavenly. Light, sweet, delicate floral fragrance discontinued by Yardley back in the late 60's, early 70's. My grandmother gave me a bottle on my birthdays and Christmas. Everywhere I went, I was complimented on my scent and asked what I was wearing. I miss it SO MUCH!!!

I was lucky enough to find a bottle of Young 'N Free Honeysuckle Cologne by Yardley on ebay last month!!! Long story short -- An angel sent it to me!! :-)

I was lucky enough to find a bottle of Young 'N Free Honeysuckle Cologne by Yardley on ebay last month!!! Long story short -- An angel sent it to me!! :-)

Hi guys
I'm desperately looking for MUSK LAVENDER made in the 60s by a Swiss Company, don't have the company name but it was a classic and came in a little glass bottle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Hi guys
I'm desperately looking for MUSK LAVENDER made in the 60s by a Swiss Company, don't have the company name but it was a classic and came in a little glass bottle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Hi guys
I'm desperately looking for MUSK LAVENDER made in the 60s by a Swiss Company, don't have the company name but it was a classic and came in a little glass bottle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Hi guys
I'm desperately looking for MUSK LAVENDER made in the 60s by a Swiss Company, don't have the company name but it was a classic and came in a little glass bottle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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I'm DESPERATELY looking for MUSK LAVENDER made in the 60s by a Swiss Company. It came in a small glass bottle, thats all the info I have.
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I'm DESPERATELY looking for MUSK LAVENDER made in the 60s by a Swiss Company. It came in a small glass bottle, thats all the info I have.
Please help out old timers!
Thanks

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Please help out old timers!
Thanks

I'm DESPERATELY looking for MUSK LAVENDER made in the 60s by a Swiss Company. It came in a small glass bottle, thats all the info I have.
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Bal a Versailles created by Jean Desprez in 1962 is still available. This fragrance was is a favorite of her Majesty The Queen of England and was the favorite of the King of Pop - Michael Jackson. Jean Desprez is launching a new fragrance (after more than 50 years) in the first quarter of 2011. You can get more info at the jeandesprez.com website. You can also get a sampler of Bal a Versailles.

Bal a Versailles, the fragrance created by Jean Desprez in 1962 is still available. Jean Desprez is launching a new fragrance (after more than 50 Years) the first quarter of 2011. You can get more info at the Jean Desprez website