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name a designer fragrance classic you missed when it was all the rage..

post #1 of 27
10/22/11 at 12:59am
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i don't mean that you didn't own it BTW i mean it more in a you didn't know of it kind of way..

i can think of 2..

thierry mugler a*men

hugo by hugo boss
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post #2 of 27
10/22/11 at 2:24am
A* Men
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post #3 of 27
10/22/11 at 3:53am
By Man by Dolce & Gabbana.

Fortunately I have two bottles of it now so I don't feel so hard done by.
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post #4 of 27
10/22/11 at 4:18am
Fahrenheit totally passed me by and I was a teenager during the Eighties. I have just discovered it this year and it was like " Where Have You Been All My Life" and it's now one of my favorites. Love the stuff.
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post #5 of 27
10/22/11 at 4:49am
Tommy by Tommy Hilfiger
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post #6 of 27
10/22/11 at 5:55am
4711
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post #7 of 27
10/22/11 at 6:01am
The original version of Crepe de Chine by Millot. Oh, I could just kick myself not to have bought a bottle. Today, Long Lost Perfume has made a copy, but that is not the same. It smells good too. But, the poignant feel and spicy elegance of the original is not there.

Same with Le De by Givenchy. I remember it as a clean-cut cologne with some impertinence, and today's sample from The Perfumed Court is simply not the same. Is it my nose ? Is it that things from the good old times - in retrospect - are made out more than they deserve to be ?

Don't know, don't care. What is done, is done.
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post #8 of 27
10/22/11 at 6:02am
Jicky

And I'm glad I missed it...
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post #9 of 27
10/22/11 at 7:01am
Aramis & Grey Flannel - Thank God I did.
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post #10 of 27
10/22/11 at 7:11am
Armani Acqua Di Gio- Never even heard of it when I first smelled it back in 2007. Didn't know it was so popular either, just knew it was the best smelling cologne I've smelled at the time. I guess it's technically still all the rage in the mainstream...
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post #11 of 27
10/22/11 at 7:30am
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Originally Posted by Jack Hunter View Post

Fahrenheit totally passed me by and I was a teenager during the Eighties. I have just discovered it this year and it was like " Where Have You Been All My Life" and it's now one of my favorites. Love the stuff.

Fahrenheit for me as well. I am correcting that mistake pronto. It is indeed great stuff.
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post #12 of 27
10/22/11 at 8:35am
Le Male

I don't know where I was during the Le Male craze. I don't think I was wearing anything at that point.
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post #13 of 27
10/22/11 at 8:48am
The entire A*Men Pure series. Where was I??
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post #14 of 27
10/22/11 at 10:03am
I kind of wish I had known about Zino when it came out in the late 80's. It would have been my signature scent for sure.
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post #15 of 27
10/22/11 at 10:32am
I wish I'd paid more attention to Chaos by Donna Karan, Ungaro II, Gucci Nobile and a few others.
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post #16 of 27
10/22/11 at 10:46am
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Jicky And I'm glad I missed it...

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Originally Posted by morrison74 View Post

4711

You guys are cracking me up!
I missed all the designer trends from 1982 onwards, Antaeus was the last "new" designer fragrance I wore when it was first released. That was one amazing fragrance before its reformulation. The bee's wax note was so heavenly.
Not being much of a fan of the post-1984 popular designer fragrances - my favorites seem to all have been huge commercial bombs/underdogs: Derby, Commes des Garçons 2 Man, and Ocean Rain are some examples.
By the end of the 80s, the Cool Water craze really scared me out of the designer juice pool for well over a decade.
Anyways, I much prefer niche, and I can't say that I have any regrets. I certainly missed the Ck One craze, big time. I'm not even sure if I even know what it smells like.
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post #17 of 27
10/22/11 at 10:54am
Most definitely Gucci Nobile and Bel Ami.
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post #18 of 27
10/22/11 at 11:06am
Dior Fahrenheit
JPG Le Male (now its just a joke for teenagers)
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post #19 of 27
10/22/11 at 11:30am
Joop!
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post #20 of 27
10/22/11 at 11:47am
Gucci by Gucci pour homme. Didn't realize how nice this was till recently!
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post #21 of 27
10/22/11 at 12:19pm
AGD
Hugo
Le Male
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post #22 of 27
10/22/11 at 12:28pm
For the most part Pure Malt.
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post #23 of 27
10/22/11 at 12:36pm
I too missed Fahrenheit, and believe it or not I missed Kouros which I smelled for the first time this last week.
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post #24 of 27
10/22/11 at 1:01pm
I missed out on many...Kouros and Antaeus come to mind
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post #25 of 27
10/22/11 at 2:00pm
I would have reached the age when I might first have taken an interest in scents in 1988.

The stuff that was all the rage in the UK for the next few years was:

Fahrenheit
Cool Water
CK One
Tommy
Hugo
Le Male
L'eau D'Issey PH
Acqua di Gio
Boss Bottled
Allure Homme
Boss In Motion
Allure Homme Sport
Armani Code

Even though I was not really into fragrance over this time, did I know all these existed? Yes. Why?

Marketing. I'm saturated by it (and its the only reason some in that list ever became popular).
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post #26 of 27
10/22/11 at 2:03pm
CK One
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post #27 of 27
10/22/11 at 2:04pm
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I missed out on many...Kouros and Antaeus come to mind

Same here. I remember my oldest brother having a bottle of Kouros when I was a little kid. Antaeus was only vaguely familiar. I never got around to trying either until I joined up here. As a guy who cut his teeth on Aramis, I'm glad I did.
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