At fifteen, I thought I was the height of sophistication going to the local disco drowned in my mother’s Dune by Christian Dior. I remember my friends reeking of Anais Anais, Musk from the Body Shop, or Poison. I can’t imagine any of us would be caught dead in these fragrances today. Still, your first fragrance stays with you, in the same way your first kiss or first love does. What did you adore as a teenager? Do you still like it now?
04.30.2008
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I'd sneak and wear my mother's Georgio from Bloomingdales. I'd leave the house with a cloud trailing behind me--I don't think I could stand the smell today. Do they even still make it?
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I think my first scent really was Musk something from Body Shop! Tommy Girl was my first glass-bottled scent. All the boys back in middle school used to wear Cool Water. That scent still turns me on ... just a little bit.
04.30.2008
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I actually love Old Spice and I can totally see how it would stand the test of time. When I was a teenager all the boys, including both of my brothers, wore (way too much) Lynx--a deodorant body spray that was known as "Axe" outside the UK. Not sure my lungs will ever recover from the fumes at the Saturday night disco!
04.30.2008
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This may be just a chit chat for women, but this old man has a first fragrance, a fragrance which I still use after forty plus years, that which is the original "Old Spice" after shave.
04.30.2008
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I loved Paris and Opium, and I don't think I'd touch Opium with a hundred-foot pole now. I think I also wore Chanel #5, but that was probably because my grandmother and my aunt wore them too. Clearly i needed guidance from people under the age of 70!
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