What fragrances did you wear as an adolescent?

I'm pretty new here so I apologise in advance if this has already been discussed but I'm too lazy to troll through the thousands of threads already on here. But essentially this is a very basic question: What were your preferred fragrances as a young man?

These are the perfumes I wore in my teens (In exact order):

Eau d'Hadrien by Annick Goutal
Belami by Hermès
Xeryus by Givenchy
Cacharel Pour L'Homme by Cacharel
Angel Men by Thierry Mugler
Le Mâle by Jean Paul Gaultier
Xeryus Rouge by Givenchy
Paco by Paco Rabanne
Jako by Karl Lagerfeld
Kumquat Alhambra by Comptoir Sud Pacifique
Rocabar by Hermès
Coriolan By Guerlain
Petits et Mamans by Bvlgari
Jil Sander For Man by Jil Sander
D&G Masculine by Dolce & Gabbana
Jungle pour Homme by Kenzo
Rykiel Homme by Sonia Rykiel
Body Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent
Mat; Male by Masakï Matsushïma
Trussardi Uomo by Trussardi

Personally, my first real foray into fine fragrances was through my parent's who from birth showered me in Annick Goutal's Hadrien and it wasn't until Mugler's Angel Men which I expressly requested and received as a birthday present when I turned ten in 1995 that I joined the ranks of the congnisant devotees of haute parfums. Through Angel I think, I developed what would become the rudimentary palette though which I still classify all fragrances and perhaps why to this day I continually delegate this pefume into the explicit realm of childhood and whimsy as I've yet to meet a man who can wear it without affectation. To me it belongs exclusively to the "Petit Princes" and I will hopefully one day pass it on to children of my very own. That's not to say that I haven't developed my olfactive patina beyond A*MEN, it's just that that is what marked my Anno Domini into the world or fragrance, it was my Magna Carta.

After Angel and as the mid-nineties dictated, I was turned on to Gaultier's Le Mâle which I never quite wholly took to because of it's unfuriatingly diaphanous quality and by puberty I'm afraid, I was already used to being noticed and for a while became an exclusive patron to Hermès to placate those demands. My first real signature didn't come until 1998's Coriolan by Guerlain, this at a time when my friends where all still wearing CK One. Years past, new fragrances came and went and I remained faithful to that highly inflective citric chypre, which I still do to this day. It's been long discontinued now of course but I'm always on the move trying to source even more flaçons from whatever avenues available to me so I won't anticipate ever being without it. Where Angel was my Magna Carta, albeit a very childish one at that, then Coriolan became my Declaration of Independence into adolescence.

Now, I recently turned twenty-one so I'm at a point in my life where I'm looking for that next great fragrance to serve as the masthead for my early twenties. As I no longer have the similar redolent affinity for many of the fragrances I used to wear as a teen, I'm now inflated with a waxy nostalgia for the 'scentual' history of my youth (Gosh I sound like I'm a dinosaur don't I?!). In my quest to find this future hallmark I've acquired and built a rather extensive dossier of perfumes that have yet to yield a desirous heir. I thought for a while that Laura Tonatto's Albi would be it but there's a growing disassociation between the fragrance and where I'm at in my life right now, similarly with Gucci Pour Homme which for me has become too much of a good thing. Where I stand now it's between Shu Uemura's 029 and Numero Uno from Carthusia but the latter makes me feel greatly unworthy of it's luscious notability. For me, a fragrance is more than just a series of accords or an entry into a designer's prestigious stock, it's far greater than that; It's an invisible appendage that connects me to the time and place which I'd like to boomark certain parts of my life forever to. Such was the purpose in my writing this, to quite simply relate my story and discover other's adolescent history in the world of perfume.

So what were your preferred fragrances as a young man?

Always,
KethÃ*n

I don't understand why One Man Show is so reviled here, while I agree that it connotes the soap-on-a-rope yuppie eighties, I find that it translates very well to today. I mean there are newer fragrances from more distinguished houses which pale in comparison. Now, I've never actually worn it but I have fond memories of men in my life who did. It's still quite popular in Israel and the Middle East. To me it will forever signify the smell of opening Hanukkah presents as a little boy. Along with Azzaro, Ferre, and Jacomo, it's what I think of when I remember the 1980's (The little that I can remember).

There was a Bonne Bell Skin Musk for Men????

I'm pretty miffed I missed out on that!

('A`)>

My best friend in first grade used to have an aftershave that we would play barbershop with that was housed in a garish tire-shaped flaçon made of cheap brown glass that was called "Big Wheel" that I absolutely loved. The stuff itself was pretty amazing and for the longest time growing up I wanted very badly to find it for myself but alas, it too was a product of the late seventies. It was until 2000 when I discovered Abercrombie & Fitch Woods that I was able to effectively replicate it in my nose's mind, but that too has now been pulled out of production.

Puft.

Sorry, this was in response to Wicozani's comment.

Funny.