70's & 80's childhood thread: Can't smell a photo... yes you can!

[Dan Murphy]

It is!

Yes, there are several of them! You’re thinking of Blueberry Muffin and Lime Chiffon.

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Ahhh, good memory for an old guy.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I drove a 1976 280Z for a couple of years - LOVED that car! I saw one a car museum and just seeing it brought back the smell of the interior. View attachment 816388

Haha I thought you were going to say the gasoline smell from the carburetor.

 

[RedAngie]

 

[barkley]

I'm not tech-y enough to post a picture, but Love's Baby Soft. There's a whole generation of us who went to high school in the early 70s that wore that scent religiously. I can still smell it.

my memories are of the fragrances-charley and aviance night musk. very popular back in the day (i still have partial bottles of each).

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just last week on the show 'the toys that built america' they featured play-doh. since the stuff was originally used to clean wallpaper there was some effort put into creating it's iconic scent so it would not longer smell like a cleaning product (i hate the smell myself).

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I'm not tech-y enough to post a picture, but Love's Baby Soft. There's a whole generation of us who went to high school in the early 70s that wore that scent religiously. I can still smell it.

I have a bottle of Love's Baby Soft and still spritz some on occasionally when I go out. I've had people ask me what scent I'm wearing. It's a nice, gentle fragrance.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

One fregrance I would love to find again from those days is Jovan Grass Oil. I loved that. I believe you can still find the Musk Oil from the same maker (last I checked), but I haven’t been able to find the Grass Oil.

To this day I still like to buy some of these “oils” that come in rolling pens. I think it’s because they remind me of this.

ETA Well I found one on EBay, but it was a little pricey! (Shoot, I thought Whole Foods was bad!)

 

[fla4fun]

That made me think of this one. I have a bottle of it in my bathroom that I bought for my mother.

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I can’t see that without remembering the Everybody Loves Raymond episode where Frank used Marie’s Jean Nate . . .

 

[fla4fun]

There is a website called wishbookweb that has decades of the Sears Christmas Wishbook catalogs uploaded page by page, as well as a few JC Penney, Wards, Spiegels, and others. I remember many of the individual catalogs and it’s fun going back and looking through the toys to see what toys I received what year.

 

[Praying Colonel]

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[LuvOrlando]

I'm not tech-y enough to post a picture, but Love's Baby Soft. There's a whole generation of us who went to high school in the early 70s that wore that scent religiously. I can still smell it.

This was my fragrance before I graduated to adding COTY Musk and Avon's Sweet Honesty.

When DD was young I would scour Walmart's shelves for some Love's Baby Soft, they had it every year at Christmas, I very much wanted her to have the same experience. It is tough to find other times of year.

 

[LuvOrlando]

That made me think of this one. I have a bottle of it in my bathroom that I bought for my mother.

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This was my Grandma's favorite! I can still remember the lush poof with the tempting soft powder in the tub, the powder seemed so ladylike and glamorous to me back then

 

[princesscinderella]

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I loved chuckles

 

[LuvOrlando]

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Do you also remember the cheaper knockoff one with a very unique smell?

 

[LuvOrlando]

Air freshener?

 

[LuvOrlando]

 

[LuvOrlando]

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= nightclubs

 

[jo-jo]

Fruit stripe gum. It seems it was discontinued in the last year or so. 3 or 4 months ago, I was thinking I should get some for the grandkids stockings, but alas great idea a year too late. I could probably get it for $10 a pack on Ebay, but I'm too cheap.

 

[LuvOrlando]

 

[fly girl]

 

[fla4fun]

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That is a scent you don’t soon forget. I remember putting that on after I had been out in the sun.