What scent did you wear in high school?

High school was a good 10 1/2 years ago. Started in the fall of 1995 and graduated in the spring of 1999. I did wear cologne back then during my senior year when I received my very first bottle, it was Acqua Di Gio. I randomly thought back a moment ago, given the knowledge I know now with my own nose, what else would I have worn back then? To even further narrow it down, what would I have worn back then with the budget I had in high school? Back when I was a kid, I was mainly restricted to what's at Macy's. Therefore, it's not as if I could go out and hunt down bottles of Creed, Serge Lutens, Killian, Bond No. 9, and what not.

So, I'm asking, given the budget you had whether it be a part-time job at the local pizza parlor, mowing lawns, or allowance or just simply starving yourself or packing your own lunch when your folks give you lunch money, what would you have worn knowing what you know now? The knowledge, at the very least, knowing what notes you like best. There was a thread a while back asking what could you have worn if you were back in high school again, but that was a wider range, and no budget restriction. My venues would be shopping malls (which have fragrance stores, kiosks, and department stores), Marshall's/Ross/TJMaxx, Target/Walmart/etc. My budget would be the $7.25 an hour I made working at K-Mart for 2-3 days a week in my junior and senior years. Prior to that, I would work for my dad once a month for $10 and I'd get birthday as well as Chinese New Year money.

Despite the fact that my tastes currently aren't very pricey (although it could potentially be if my nose was subjected to niche), the list was pretty easy for me to come up with. I'd probably own 1-3 of these bottles or either I'd get 1-2 per year and still have a steady rotation that'll last me into college (of course, the jobs I had in college paid considerably more than Kmart did). I wasn't a heavy sprayer back then and I sure as hell am not nowadays. Although during my newbie days 2 years ago, I was fairly heavy on the trigger.

Versace The Dreamer (1996)
Acqua Di Gio (1996)
Azzaro Chrome (1996)
Cartier Declaration (1998)
Hanae Mori (1997)
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male (1995)
Joop! Nightflight (1992)
Kenzo Pour Homme (1991)
Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme (1994)
Guerlain Vetiver (eons ago)

These are the ones that barely missed the list because I wasn't sure when in 1999 they were released, but I'm pretty sure I would have owned all a couple of these.

Rochas Man
212 for Men
L'eau Par Kenzo

Basically these are the restrictions for the list:
• They must be released or be available during the time you were in high school. So, no time skips here and post "Black Aloud" by Montale when you graduated in 1997 or something.
• Whatever money you had back then, that's your budget. This is the hard part where you might have to dig deep for value picks or you're that good with penny pinching as a kid.

Ah, but part of the requirement was what you know now, but with the money you had back then, and those had to be the only things available at the time you were in high school. That's the challenging part. I'm going to assume you weren't old enough that even Green Irish Tweed hasn't been released yet when you were in high school. LOL.

This thread was actually inspired by folks in high school or even middle school getting into fragrances. They're the ones I've seen scouring around for YouTube reviews, online reviews, and Basenotes to post questions and learn. I was thinking, "Man, if only I had these kinds of resources on my trusty 56.6k modem and AOL account back then." Especially nowadays since the fragrance industry has boomed and a lot of people own at least one bottle of something. When I was in high school, there was a lot of fragrances available, but not the clusterfark of choices we have now (celebrity scents, flankers, mall clothing store fragrances).

I forgot to add one to the list. Guerlain Vetiver. The Swiss Army knife of reasonably attainable fragrances.

Same here, but I was the weird kid who watched anime shows and geek out on stuff like that. So I might as well. Hell, no one really knew I listened to hip-hop music except for a handful of people. I just didn't really look like the type. So I might as well wear something out of the ordinary like Guerlain Vetiver. To me, it smells smokey, but clean on me.

Good point. That's like your present self recommending a fragrance for your younger self in high school. I can imagine how hilarious it would be for me to do the whole time machine thing and tell myself, "Hey, don't get Acqua Di Gio. Everyone's going to wear it. Trust me." "What? You're crazy, everyone wears Tommy and Polo Sport at my school." "Yea, for now, but give it a year or two, everyone will wear this stuff. Here, grab this bottle of Cartier Declaration, it's new, you'll like it. Also, grab the Hanae Mori since I know you love all things Japanese and you like chocolate. You'll wear this when it gets cold. Trust me, for years, no one else you'll be around will be wearing this stuff." "Anything else future Rawk Lee?" "Nope, don't worry, the computers won't explode when the year changes to 2000, you'll buy things called "DVD's", and you'll get cable internet in your neighborhood just like your cousins in Toronto very soon. Also, get your music downloads on a thing called Napster, but don't rely on it too much a year or two from now, good luck!"