Remembering magazine perfumed scent strips with affordable perfumes
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Fragrances mentioned
Giorgio Beverly Hills
Kenneth Cole Reaction for Her
Outspoken by Fergie
Christian La Croix Rouge
Lovely
Podcast mentioned
Rodeo Drive- the podcast
I used to put the strips in my lingerie and pajama drawer. I used to buy magazines but I no longer do. I have the Christian LaCroix Absynth by Avon...so unique!
Fred Hayman Touch is a must try! ageless, timeless beauty
I just love your videos! I swear, it’s the gen-x... it flows out of you in the best way!
A couple thoughts I have after this one...
1) your take on credit cards and luxury. I’m 45 (the very last segment of Gen-x) and I also remember my mother having envelopes of cash for different purposes. She was a SAHM, and my father was enlisted military - he did 21 years in the service, then worked a few year at a gas station, then did another 20 years as a college custodian/maintenance. They alway ps had a tiny income, but because they lived below (BELOW it, not at it) it, we always seemed to have everything we needed and some of what we wanted. I never learned from them though! I was deep in debt from credit cards and just not repaying my college loans... until the strip turned blue (as they say) at 36 years old. My husband and I immediately went into adult mode and vowed to get out of debt. I left my job to be a SAHM, had my second child a few years later... and we dug ourselves out of debt on my husband’s teacher salary. I mean - it took over six years, but we did it. We haven’t used a credit card since the day I found out I was pregnant in 2015. We live like my parents did back in the 80’s and 90’s now... and it’s odd to see how far a modest income goes. I mention all of this because I seem to recall you mentioning that you and your husband worked to pay off all your debt too. For me, credit cards sunk my finances.
2) I love that you highlight older fragrances that are often easy to find AND inexpensive! I tried White Diamonds because of you... and that dry down is exceptional. I dug out a clearance bottle of White Shoulders (I think that’s what it’s called) and gave it another shot - again, the opening isn’t where the pretty is, the dry down is.
3) I will click on any video that talks about SJP’s Lovely! I was late to the game, and only discovered in the past couple of years, but it has become top 3 for me. I love it to the point where I have all the flankers except the Winter Sparkle one (which is impossible to find). I’m actually wearing Born Lovely on this rainy New England day.
Your channel is my absolute favorite fragrance channel! Keep up the awesome content. And if you ever get the chance to sniff Yves Rocher’s Venice or Clinique’s Simply - please do a video!
Thanks to your Dad for his service and thank you for your thoughtful comment! Congrats on the debt payoff! It’s amazing how much less we can live on when debt isn’t a thing. I wish a debt free life for all who want it.
Yes!!... I remember the scent strips....loved them!!
I wear Giorgio I wear it alot
Magazines still have scent strips. I see magazines in line at my grocery store right near the Trash newspapers lol.
I loved fragrance strips. My first perfume was actually a TOWELETTE in Seventeen magazine when I was about 12: Muguet des Bois. I also remember a scent strip of Jardin de Bagatelle which prompted a purchase in the 80s.
If somebody did a subscription of say, 30 scent strips a month for 5 bucks, I’d be so excited!
A teenager during the decade, I remember well our 80s love affair with all things Beverly Hills (and general LA vibes, valley girls etc). I’m amused even now by my kids fascination with 80s Los Angeles Vaporwave graphics -think retro video game style art in neon or pastels, with a distinctly SoCal feel. It stands as evidence of our profound adoration of the aesthetic via the era’s trends, vernacular, and media. Remember the Beverly Hills Cop series, Down & Out In Beverly Hills, Troop Beverly Hills? It spilled over into the 90s with hits like Beverly Hills 90210, Baywatch, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on tv, Pretty Woman, and Clueless at the movies.
On the fragrance scene Giorgio was THE perfume behemoth of its time. Although I was a bigger fan of Georgio Beverly Hill’s Red which came later in the decade, and Fred Hayman’s 273 Rodeo Drive (which I decided to buy after smelling one of those illustrious test strips in Vogue 😂). Gale had her own namesake titled simply Beverly Hills by Gale Hayman with the most exquisite bottle adorned with a figural leopard stopper -I mean the pure perfume extrait bottle was a beauty to behold. I never got my nose on that one but I think it’s of the super affordable yesteryear variety now. It had several flankers as well. I also recall a solid floral drugstore cheapie called Camp Beverly Hills. I see affordable vintages of that one pop up on EBay or Mercari from time to time and my mind immediately travels back to 80s summer blockbusters, Bananarama, cheery neon clothes and Mtv 😄
Thank you so much for this. Comments like yours make me believe I have the best comment section on CZcams.
@@MyPerfumeMap ❤️❤️❤️ it’s indicative of the thoughtful & inspiring content you provide. Thanks on behalf of all of us!
You and I are pretty close in age, and I was a frag head even as a youth, probably born from Avon lol, but with a true love for all smells Estee Lauder. I actually loathed Giorgio Beverly Hills from the first time it made me feel ill in church 😂. That was a true "beast mode" and instantly recognizable. Later on I enjoyed Red, and Wings from the same line, but I never got over how much the original Giorgio rubbed me the wrong way. Side note, I still love sniffing all the scent inserts that come in my Ulta mailers!
Love the factoids you share about the history of certain perfumes.
Thanks!
I love this! I remember sitting at any office building and pulling apart the fragrance strips lol, my mom would yell me 🤣I always thought the fragrances were advertised for the rich seemed so unattainable at the time! Thank you for sharing 🤗 I agree everyone should have Giorgio in their collection 😉
Thank you!
You make the most interesting perfume videos! They're always such a treat. ❤
Glad you like them!
We had lay-a-way back in the day though. So we didn't need credit cards so much.
Apparently I have ten perfumes with carnation in it. Eight of them are vintage. Yet I still don’t think I could pick out the note. These vintage fragrances have so many notes that it makes picking out any one note harder to do, so that may be partly why.
I love giorgio Beverly Hills, it's very cheerful to wear! Good to hear the history of it😊
I had no idea that scent strips in mags were gone!😢
You know I’m not sure if they are, I just haven’t bought a magazine for a long time and I used to buy several per month!