Women’s Fragrance of The 70s and 80s

A Lot of people with great noses might agree that the classic perfumes are truly the best and most new women’s fragrances are echoes of ones past gone. here we’ll explore a few of them

Worth in the blue box was one of those classic fragrances. It had a light fresh scent that I loved as a women’s fragrance.

When I was with my boyfriend on a date in 1978 I was wearing Miss  Worth. I loved it. Near the end of the evening he said all night he could smell furniture polish and could I smell it? When I went to kiss him goodnight he said “I can smell it again”. I love Miss Worth, it’s one of my favorite scents.

Giorgio of Beverly Hill  was said to bring into your mind the swaying palms and sandy beaches of Beverly Hills Rodeo Drive, this was the perfume for any great fan of the hit teen drama Beverly Hills 90210!.

Giorgio Beverly Hills was introduced in 1981, and was characterized by delicate notes of gardenia, rose, sandalwood and orange blossom. One thing’s for certain,  that garish yellow-striped packaging wouldn’t pass muster these days!

Georgio red was also a great fragrance of the 80s in the tall red box.

On the subject of scents this is not a really a woman’s fragrance so to speak but it was a popular scent back in the day. Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific was a shampoo that was very popular in the late 70’s, early 80’s and came in either blue or maroon plastic bottles with some kind of rainbow illustration .

the shampoo was so memorable I had a dream about it . I remember a woman with long lustrous hair was coming onto me and I was following her down a passage and she stopped all of a sudden and I didn’t stop immediately so my face ended up almost in her hair and so knowing that she shook her hair in my face and said “Do you want a piece of that?” and I replied ” Hmm. Your hair smells like ‘gee your hair smells terrific’ ” and I started laughing uncontrollably because her bubble just deflated at the unexpectedness of that reply.

As far as men’s fragrances go Brut was an aftershave that was advertised by Henry Cooper and Kevin Keegan. They were major sports stars of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

The slogan for the after shave was “Splash it all over”. The aftershave was quite strong smelling  for the time but smelt nothing like anything that had been around before. It came in a green plastic or glass bottle and it is a very distinctive masculine fragrance. I remember using the deodorant when I was like twelve  in the late seventies and I though it smelled great. Brut is produced by Faberge and still sold to this day.

Of course men’s fragrances always had these alpha male names to them like Brut meaning “Brute” and Eua Savage by Christian Dior in the eighties meaning “You Savage”

Another Women’s Fragrance that I find many other fragrances seem to take their cue from is Byzance. Byzance perfume was launched by Rochas in 1987. The name stems from Byzantium - the fabled city built by the Greeks - which consequently means the frangrance is a true Middle Eastern blend of aromas to make you feel you’ve been trasnsported through time and space. A great fragrance, not too strong but mildly exotic. Another Exotic spicy perfume that comes to mind is Sinan, By the Designer Jean Marc Sinan. It was the first women’s perfume that went in a totally different direction.