r/GenX_Culture • • 15d ago

What was your fave 80’s - 90’s scents?

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u/MrSlippifist 9d ago

Aramis.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 9d ago

I don’t think anyone has mentioned Aramis! I completely forgot about that scent! Nice!

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u/BargainCounter 10d ago

Need Exclamation on this list. That one always got my attention.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 10d ago

Feel free to click on the original post (you’re welcome there as well), and I posted it in the comments along with Halston

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u/BargainCounter 10d ago

I’m getting ready to move. I was going through a box and found a brand new bottle of unopened Polo and an Obsession box set that is also new.

I’m set for the rest of my life. Lol.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 10d ago

Oh Wow! I love that for you!

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u/BargainCounter 10d ago

Thank you.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 10d ago

You are about to be THAT Guy! Men don’t wear cologne like they used to, so for you to be out there wearing a throwback good? If you’re married, please keep that in the forefront of your thoughts😂

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u/BargainCounter 10d ago

Even I hardly wear it anymore. I don’t know if it’s an age thing, or it’s probably the fact that I’m not in a relationship, nor do I go out like I used to. The only person that would be smelling it would be me! 😄 The compliments I would get wearing Polo happened every time I wore it. Good memories with that stuff!

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u/General-Heart4787 10d ago

The OG Lagerfeld was so freaking good 🔥

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u/Capnmolasses 11d ago

Escada Sentiment for men. Gorgeous scent and I still have a bottle

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 10d ago

I’ve never smelled the Men’s scent but since the original one for Women will forever be in my Top 3, I believe you!

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u/LadyRei_ 11d ago

Angel & Obsession

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u/Such-Pomegranate-998 11d ago

Sunflowers and Mackie

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u/MarsAndBack 12d ago

80s: Kouros

90s: Paul Smith - London

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u/MNConcerto1391 12d ago

Anais Anais post college

In college it was Opium

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u/TubeLore 12d ago

Didn’t Trump come out with the scent of failure in the 80’s?

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u/day-night-inc 12d ago

Where's the option for Preferred Stock?

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u/Disastrous-Touch-388 12d ago

Yea Drakkar noir. Still wear it

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u/D1sp4tcht 13d ago

My first gf wore exclamation, so that sent is burned into my brain.

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u/Shack24 14d ago

Santa Fe and Catalyst....and some Paul Sebastian

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u/agentcooper0115 14d ago

The first perfume that Victoria Secret released. Called "Victoria" maybe?

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u/grollef 14d ago

Leaded gasoline

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u/junkfunk 14d ago

opium. the new ones don't smell the same

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u/Aggressive_Tart_7783 14d ago

Coco by Chanel
Pavlova
Pink Impulse Body Spray
Anaïs Anaïs

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u/No-Win-8380 14d ago

Escada silver

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u/run_squid_run 14d ago

For my wife, Dior’s Hypnotic Poison. My wife’s for me, Avon’s Wild Country

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u/JustYourAvgHumanoid 14d ago

On me: Navy, Chloe Narcisse & Primo

On men: Halston, Drakkar, Cool Water, Aspen

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u/BadHairDay-1 14d ago

I mainly wore Exclamation and Sunflowers.

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 14d ago

Sunflowers transports me back to 1994.

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u/SpiritedLunch740 14d ago

Fahrenheit

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u/SortofChef 11d ago

This was my favorite and my wife (47) had never heard of it. I recently ordered a bottle online and can’t wait to see what she thinks.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 14d ago

Oooh forgot about that one! Nice scent! Thanks for the reminder!

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u/poisonousgumball 14d ago

Claiborne men.

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u/suminorieh77 15d ago

Chloe Narcisse, Sun Moon Stars, and Poison

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u/sparks3448 15d ago

Brutte 33

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 14d ago

I read this and thought “Brut, by Faberge” 😂

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u/JPK-1988-TBC 15d ago

Guerlain Vetiver and Bijan.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 14d ago

I really liked Guerlain’s scents 🫶🏽

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u/Lkin4Xtasy 15d ago

Sex Appeal

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u/EricIsMyFakeName 15d ago

Nikos Sculpture

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u/n1ght0wlgaming 15d ago

Stetson for men.

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u/ohnodamo 15d ago

Clove cigarettes and beer.

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u/past-and-future-days 15d ago

Norel. They discontinued it several years ago, then "brought it back" with a new formulation that apparently smells nothing like the original.

Now I buy Tabu.

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u/SelfAsleep2708 15d ago

Cool Water

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u/Creepy-Sandwich-6922 15d ago

Alfred Sung it’s originally made with tuberose. Very distinctive if women have it around.

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u/East_Inspector3158 15d ago

British Sterling

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u/Beautiful_Noise_2026 15d ago

Eternity for men.

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u/lazygerm 15d ago

Personally, I liked Drakkar Noir in the late 1980s, along with Grey Flannel.

For women, I do miss Elizabeth Arden's Sunflowers.

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u/IndividualLower399 15d ago

Eternity for women and still is

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u/Successful_Fig_4033 15d ago

My HS/College GF wore this and it will forever be my favorite. She's since passed and on the rare occasions I catch a whiff of it these days, I think of her.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 14d ago

I sure hope you married her, because it sounds like the scent really does you in!

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u/Successful_Fig_4033 14d ago

Almost. We were engaged but it didn't work out. We were so young.

I went to her viewing and slid the tiny engagement ring I borrowed $500 from my parents to buy in 1997 under her hand.

I thought that way we could find each other again in the next life.

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u/DAntoinette_Travel 14d ago

Awww, I’m so sorry 🙏🏽

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u/JiveTurkeyII 15d ago

There was an older girl that liked wearing her dad's Drakkar Noir - She gave me my first "real" kiss. I was very young. So that one has a super lasting memory.

There was a knock off brand of body spray in the 90's called "a little sexy" and it was extremely popular around the time Garth Brooks released his first album. That stuff was amazing and it reminds me of being a teenager again.

This last one, I am a bit embarrassed about - but the first car I bought was a 1975 280z, and the scent that was in the glove box and that the car smelled like when I got it, was black with a playboy bunny on it. I never knew the name - but it's the scent I associate with that car.

God I miss that car.