Did any of you have a perfume or aftershave that you loved wearing during your teen years/young adult days? For me it was Exclamation! like it was for a lot of teenage girls. I don't think there were many girls in my class who didn't wear that. It wasn't very expensive an easy to get hold of so that might explain why it was the choice of many young girls back then. I remember hearing that it had notes of some kind of fruit. Blackberry I think, but I didn't really detect any fruit at all! But that said it was dead nice and does remind me of growing up in the 1990s.
Which scent did you swear by?
I grew up with a mum who was a bit of a glamourpuss so during the eighties, she had every kind of perfume you could imagine on her dressing table (yes, it was a big dressing table!) But for me, the first perfume I ever wore was So... which I think was by Yardley. I started wearing it when I was sixteen and it was always my scent of choice.
It was a very inexpensive perfume that you could get from Boots or Superdrug, but it did not smell cheap at all (or I would not have worn it!) Quite the opposite in fact. If I had to describe the scent, and I'll probably do a rubbish job of describing it, I'd say it was a very sophisticated floral with maybe some citrus and a bit of a spicy kick. I will say however, that it wasn't a subtle scent so very little was needed. Unfortunately no one ever told me that, and I now realise that the fragrance probably entered a room two hours before I did!
It was usually the perfume and the body spray that I used to wear but I often got the Christmas gift set which included a shower gel and body lotion. So I'd get all So...ed up! There were many variations of So... that were brought out over the years, and while I liked them all, the classic So.. in the red and black packaging was always my fave.
I haven't worn So... since moving to America and I'd love to try it again when I get back. I just hope that like many in things in life, it hasn't changed. It always brings back memories of the nineties and my teen and early adult years.
Goodness, who knew I could twitter on so much about a perfume!!!