I’ve been feeling nostalgic lately for certain perfumes I wore back in my 20s and 30s, and now I’m deeply regretting the perfume purge I did a few years back because I found out recently that several are now discontinued!
When I think about them, I can practically smell them. Is that weird?
Discontinued Scent Number 1, Laura Mercier Eau de Lune
I desperately want a bottle of Laura Mercier Eau de Lune, a beautiful light floral with plumeria, rose, violet, amber and musk notes that I wore to my office job in San Francisco for years.
It was subtle enough not to take over an elevator but was still present enough to enjoy. I wore it when El Hub and I started dating and eventually wentthrough a couple bottles.
I just always assumed it would be there for me when I wanted to wear it again, but alas, no. I tried to find it online and couldn’t track it down.
Cue the glittery tears!
Discontinued Scent Number 2, STELLA by Stella McCartney
Oh, this one was a beauty — English rose mixed with mandarin and peony with an amber base.
El Hub got me a bottle during our first Christmas together, and I wore it all the time. I should’ve kept it just so I could smell it every once in a while. It reminds me of that carefree era when it was just us.
What discontinued scents do you wish would come back?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Have a terrific Tuesday!
Oh Laura Mercier !! Bring back the Pistachio scent fragrance. It was deliciously lavish. I’ve never found anything like it since !
deCaron Nocturnes also, I’ve purchased on line but sadly it’s just not the same as it was in the 70’s.
Jean Patou’s Normandie, a vintage scent that had a come back in the late 1980’s.
I really don’t care for most modern scents, if it was “born” after 1950 (other than some single notes from France) I really can’t wear them. I wear Vol de Nuit by Guerlain , EDT for everyday and Parfume for nighttime and special . Sometimes in the cooler weather Shalimar that was my Mom’s.
Bvlgari Pour Femme !!!!!!
In the 80’s back when you could get a decent bottle of cologne for $30, I loved Galanos. It came in a pretty swirl bottle and it smelled expensive, but it was $30 for a good-sized bottle. I liked the drugstore perfume Enjoli, too, which was discontinued many years ago.
Oh my, so many scents I’d love to have back. The original Chanel No. 19, which had a rare galbanum from Iran in it. The original YSL Opium Parum Extrait. (The first fragrance Dear Husband bought for me). Giorgio Armani Sensi, which is the discontinued fragrance that sent me down the rabbit hole looking for something to replace it. Acqua Di Parma Profumo EdP, L’Artisan Iris Pallida, Diptyque Volutes EdT, Eau Mage (the 2011 version) and Eau Particuliere. Gucci Rush, Gucci by Gucci. Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris. I could go on… Some people collect shadow palettes I collect fragrance.
Emma by Laura Ashley. I wore it back in 1988. Le Sport by Coty…I also wore this one in the mid to late 80’s.
My Queen by Alexander McQueen. My signature scent, I still have about 40% of a large bottle that I’ve had for many years. I think it was only on the market for 1 or 2 years. I actually won the bottle in a local drawing. Alexander McQueen killed himself shortly after it was released, so he wasn’t around to try to keep the corporate guys from discontinuing it. I believe the perfume was a tribute to his mother, who had passed away shortly before it the perfume entered the marketplace.
By the way, perfume enthusiasts say you should never get rid of a perfume you like, so long as it still smells normal. They’re good for a pretty long time if they are stored correctly.
There was an inexpensive niche fragrance I picked up from Anthropologie back in 2010 (or around that time anyway) called Grove Signature. It had notes of orange flower and bay rum, and it smelled like summer in a bottle to me. That was the last time I ever saw it. It’s one of those fragrances that I google whenever it pops into my head hoping to see that it’s come back. But no luck.
Aveda Chakra Purefume tin holder with 7 Vials of Energy Scents from 1998. My favorite was Equipoise (might’ve been V or VII). The set sells for $700 on eBay! It can’t possibly still smell good. 🤣
Strawberry Flowers by Fresh! I wore it constantly during college. I wish I had bought a few backup bottles…it’s the only perfume I’ve ever completely used up.
In high school I wore an inexpensive drug store perfume called Incognito. I haven’t seen it in store for years so I would expect it to be discontinued. I would love to smell it again for old time’s sake. Also, Prescriptives Calyx. I know Clinique took over and I heard they made a few changes to it so that although similar, not quite the same. That scent was everything with that green mango top note!
Back in the mid 80s one of my first “grown up in the work force” perfumes was KL by Parfumes Lagerfeld. Loved that stuff and would give an arm for a bottle of it now!
Estee Lauder Pleasures Delight from the mid-aughts. Gywneth did the campaign, holding a basket of flowers and fruits in an English garden. People would mistake it for Alien (though it smelled nothing like it to me). Must have been the delicious patchouli note. I had no idea it was limited edition. I’ll never find another perfume I love as much as that formula.
Fuzzy Peach perfume oil from the Body Shop. The first scent I was ever truly obsessed with!
I remember that scent from back in the day! I just remembered another discontinued scent — Body Shop Moonflower. I wore it all the time in the late ’90s.
When I was a teen Avon made a scent called Soft Musk. I loved it. It was light enough not to trigger my allergies but scented enough to last all day.
I don’t even know if I would still like it as much now (I feel like I now tend to wear muskier, spicier, more leather-y scents and vanillas), but I would love to smell Miss Dior Cherie again. I wore it in high school and college, and I think it would just take me back. And not the fragrance, but the Laura Mercier Pistachio body cream!
The 2002 original Dior Addict. Wonderful and perfect. The three flankers are so so.
Love Laura Mercier’s Eau de Lune!! I am using mine sparingly. Also, when I was in high school in the early 1970s, I wore and absolutely loved Love’s Soft Musky Jasmine. I use to always receive compliments on how great I smelled.
I would love the return of Laura Mercier’s Tarte au Citron. Subtle scent of lemon, smelled like lemon meringue pie. I constantly was asked what I was wearing. My favorite of all time.