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My OH and I were discussing scents we associate with our childhood (it was sowing the sweet peas that brought the subject up) And along with baking bread, fish on Fridays, Brasso metal polish and aniseed balls we also vividly recall 4711 eau de cologne, everyone over the age of 50 seemed to scent their hankies with it so it reminds us of our Grannies and, in my case, a gaggle of lively maiden aunts. Can you still get it?
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Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.
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Indeed you can. Check out the name of the website: Search Results for 'Muelhens' | Perfumes fragrances aftershaves and cologne at discount prices from CheapSmells.comAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb. -
I have a bottle on my dressing table! To be fair, I didn't buy it for myself - bit of a sad story actually, I bought it for my mum when she was in hospital (she loved it - always had a little bottle in her handbag, which we used to whisk out and splosh around if we drove into a bad smell!), and I thought she'd enjoy something nice in there. She died 2 days later, but I couldn't bear to get rid of it as she was so pleased to have it. Besides, I do like the smell myself, although very rarely put it on. Sorry, didn't mean to inject a sad element into this thread!
It's amazing how smells can whisk you back into time, isn't it? I was going to put some of my favourites, but realised there are so many I wouldn't know where to start, but sweetpeas are one of the tops for me too. And freshly baked bread (can smell it now in fact, just taken a loaf out of the oven....), and hay, and coffee, Earl grey tea....... oops, said I wouldn't start a list
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Try Boots, they get it in at Christmas.My phone has more Processing power than the Computers NASA used to fake the Moon LandingsComment
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OOOH, 4711 takes me straight back to my Nana's bedroom where she kept a large bottle on her dressing table.
Other side of the coin though, Nana loved tripe and Mom used to buy some and cook it for her. It is THE most awful smell in the world."A home without a cat is only a house"Comment
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Fruit cakes baking for Christmas always reminds me of Nana B., she made everybody's in her family and I usually helped in the October school hols. I took over that tradition, and usually have at least 4 to make!
Lavender reminds me of Mom, she had so many perfumes that I couldn't associate her with just one, but she always had lavender bags in her wardrobe & in the airing cupboard.
The smell of yeasty hops reminds me of Sunderland town (as it was, not a city then) centre in the summer, when the smell from the Vaux brewery was strong enough to be disgusting
The smell I love (and miss) the most is the smell of the salt in the air from the North Sea, which you're almost oblivious to when it's constant, but miss ridiculously when you move away from it
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My sister had a bottle of 4711 in 1960 when she was 15, (She would kill me if she knew I was saying that). She dropped it on the tiled bathroom floor (sounds posh but it didn't feel like it). It smashed and the house was stinking of 4711 for weeks.
Before that my Mother had perfume called Evening in Paris, in a little dark blue bottle.
We called it A Night in the Midden (rubbish tip)
Anybody remember that ?
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Parma violets anyone?
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wierd, but i had some of those this afternoon.Originally posted by smallblueplanet View PostParma violets anyone?
turning it a bit blokey now but anyone remember Blue Stratos?Kernow rag nevra
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Blue Stratos and Henry Cooper splashing his BRUT all over .........Originally posted by kernowyon View Post
And BRUT soap on a rope (ROFL with the memories)Comment
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