A la recherche de shampoo perdu

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Last night the past burned bright when I took a sniff of my new Schwartzkoff shampoo. I don't know what perfume agent it was but it was so evocative I am tempted to buy loads and loads of shampoos in a quest for lost childhood. I bet that smelling that eggy-coloured one in the opaque cylindrical bottle with the monochromatic drawing of the long flowing hair would do terrible things to me.

Have you had any good throwback moments with toiletries lately?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 6 December 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

It was this one

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 6 December 2002 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.discontinuedavon.com/pic008.jpg

I find this picture strangely poignant.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 6 December 2002 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Using Pantene shampoo (flatmate's girlfriends - sorry Ciow) for the first time in years made me think of visiting my friend Leann in Wales age 14. A perfect mental image of the view of the mountains.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 6 December 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought this thread was going to be about jacqui and carrie...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 6 December 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

...although having said that, the girl in front of me on the bus yesterday morning had clearly used body shop banana shampoo/conditioner which i used to use and reminded me of college...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 6 December 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Every time I smell Narcisse perfume I am transported to a straw hut in Greece. Literalists, don't bother.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 6 December 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey Jerry is that Disney merchandise?

― alext (alext), Friday, 6 December 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

WHenever I do the washing up I get whicked back to my tiny childhood when my mum used to wash my hair with it. It was grebt.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 6 December 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

A la recherche *DU* shampoo perdu. Tsk.

― Lara, Friday, 6 December 2002 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick, in the U.S. they've brought back Breck Goldenhair shampoo, of Brady Bunch fame, and they're advertising it exactly this way: "When I first used it that clean fresh scent just sent me back!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 6 December 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, Ns.'s is nothing but supersoft. Now we now he gets it that way.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 6 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Every now and then my old music teacher walks past, but I think it's hardcore perfume rather than shampoo. It fucking reeks whatever it is.

There's some kind of shampoo or shower gel or both that gives me some kind of déjà vu thing, but I don't know why. Comes in a black bottle. Perhaps it's because it epitomises a peculiarly seventies idea of glamour and sophistication (The Two Ronnies followed by pub, probably).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 7 December 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

When I read this thread I tried to remember what kind of shampoo i use...all i can come up with is green...I know it's green, that's it...strange....I can see the bottle in my head, I know what it looks like, I know what it smells like, I've been using it for years......but all I can remember is green.

― B, Saturday, 7 December 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

My current shampoo makes me nostalgic for my old Strawberry Shortcake dolls.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 8 December 2002 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31FAolbKRYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Maja from Spain, inexpensive and easily obtained at CV$ in the US. It reminds me of something my mother would keep in a drawer for evenings out. I use the shower gel every day, and their soft, exotic body powder ought to be illegal. I'm really picky about toiletries and try to get mine at a discount from places like Marshalls. That way you can get $20 or $30 weird salon stuff for eight bucks or less.

― Remember the Dayne! (u s steel), Monday, 25 October 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)

http://i54.tinypic.com/wgxhs5.jpg

― markers, Monday, 25 October 2010 20:47 (fifteen years ago)

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