tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post4670629709492464813..comments2024-03-25T09:59:02.715-07:00Comments on Eat The Blog: Aquarius by Max Factor-ReviewGoodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-30640067835445494842024-03-02T06:18:26.049-08:002024-03-02T06:18:26.049-08:00I was born in 1964, Aquarius by max factor was my ...I was born in 1964, Aquarius by max factor was my first grown up perfume that I got in a kit ( it had the perfume, cream bronze eyeshadow, lipstick and blush)for Christmas. I remember how gobsmacked I was after making up my face with the products. The bronze shades suited my warm creamy complexion beautifully. I have vivid memories of seeing myself ‘made up’ for the first time, someone’grown up ‘. That first awareness of going from a child to a young woman. It took me years trying to remember who made the perfume but I got there with the help of Google. I collect vintage compacts and makeup and I’m still looking for that ‘Christmas set’ of Max factor Aquarius but I’m certain I will find it one day. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-59597169892440861292022-02-22T10:41:47.140-08:002022-02-22T10:41:47.140-08:00@Juliette
First of all, welcome! I too have found ...@Juliette<br />First of all, welcome! I too have found some kindred souls on the blog and it is one of the best things about the technology.<br />When the weather gets better if you want a small sample I can pop some in the mail. You can always toss it out if the patchouli gets you. I can't ship anything in winter though because those tiny glass vials will burst no matter how well wrapped.Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-17255364917471671042022-02-13T05:40:46.574-08:002022-02-13T05:40:46.574-08:00Thank you for this review! I am an Aquarian born i...Thank you for this review! I am an Aquarian born in 1967 and I think you just entirely described my life of receiving Water Bearer gifts and beauty shop days with my grandmother. My mom was too busy riding horses so my days in the salon were not as frequent as yours but what a similar memory of sights and sounds and smells! Now I listen to old commercials on YouTube at night with Beats in my ears and heard this ad for Aquarius by Max Factor last night for spray and lotion and bath beads (?) and I had to go back and watch it this morning because I was like ?what?!?!? How did I never hear of this? How did no one give me this as a gift? And I am sooo sad because citrus and woodsy would be my thing but patchouli is no. BTW - I still know all the words and music to HAIR (the 1979 movie for me) and so does my poor husband and daughter. Living with an Aquarian - they are used to it! Thank you for the review! I’m honestly so freaked out by how the internet always surprises me with other people who live the same life as me!juliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17488138405040629084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-85658965895992414482018-01-25T12:10:21.481-08:002018-01-25T12:10:21.481-08:00That "no loitering" quote is the best ev...That "no loitering" quote is the best ever. I've never watched Hair. Radostinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891397765534930525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-2688723948121770262018-01-19T06:27:51.286-08:002018-01-19T06:27:51.286-08:00@Emily
Ah...ooops! The Wicked bottle wasn't wh...@Emily<br />Ah...ooops! The Wicked bottle wasn't what I meant to post-that'll teach me to use old photos to illustrate a post. I wasn't aware 100% is a different fragrance...it smells identical to me. I can't tell that much difference in Bijan DNA either, so maybe my nose is going or it just gets overwhelmed by ALL the notes? I have the 100% box somewhere-I'll look for it. I'm pretty sure it just says, Bijan. <br /><br />Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-18557837786340558722018-01-18T21:06:21.317-08:002018-01-18T21:06:21.317-08:00Wow, those outfits are all so lovely! I especially...Wow, those outfits are all so lovely! I especially like that beaded coat. It looks like springtime. <br /><br />The original Bijan is one of my favorite fragrances ever, so we have that in common. I find it similar to Oscar de la Renta, but just different enough that it's necessary for me to own both. <br /><br />It's interesting that you have Bijan Wicked (the purple figure-8 bottle) and One Hundred % Bijan (the bottle shaped like the lower-case letter "b"). There's very little information about One Hundred % Bijan online, but in my opinion it's the same scent as the original Bijan fragrance, just a different shape of bottle. Do you think so too? <br /><br />The bottles of One Hundred % Bijan that I have managed to get my hands on in real life had no box for me to study, but I have seen one boxed example on the Internet, and the box itself does not say "One Hundred % Bijan" on it, just plain old "Bijan," which seems to support my theory that it is the exact same scent, just repackaged in a different bottle.<br /><br />Your telephone handbag is amazing! And I'm drooling over the lemon bars. <br />Emily from Etsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-87192477357541049312018-01-17T01:13:48.888-08:002018-01-17T01:13:48.888-08:00Those notes make me think I'd probably like th...Those notes make me think I'd probably like that one. <br /><br />Weirdly, my mum bought me a badge with my star sign (Pisces) on it for Christmas. She was really into it when I was younger, but it was odd to see her lapsing back after all these years. And the badge is the constellation; like Bibi not being given masses of crabby things, I don't think I'd want masses of fishy things.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-86541589639624534142018-01-16T19:33:09.449-08:002018-01-16T19:33:09.449-08:00@Beth
"I didn't inhale" :)
Maybe it ...@Beth<br />"I didn't inhale" :)<br />Maybe it was the dye n those skirts that stunk so bad-I know exactly what you're remembering. Those skirts are worth small fortunes today.Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-43552893113388087812018-01-16T19:26:10.462-08:002018-01-16T19:26:10.462-08:00@Ann
All the punks in Chicago smelled like a combi...@Ann<br />All the punks in Chicago smelled like a combination of Tennax hair gel and Ivory soap flakes used to hold up their Mohawks. <br /><br />@Beate<br />A lot of good perfumes suffered reformulation after they removed the oakmoss and other allergens. I'm sympathetic to that, but it might have been better to just let some perfumes go rsther than try to fix them. I don't hate all synthetic notes, but there are some I could definitely do without (iso E super, etc.)<br /><br />@Bibi<br />Love the patchouli/Vicks comparison. Personally, now that I'm an old lady I find the fragrance of Fisherman's Friend cough lozenges downright sexy on an older fella ;)<br /><br />@Thrifty Parka<br />I hope you're keeping warm too! Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-47947913073800354212018-01-13T21:14:31.720-08:002018-01-13T21:14:31.720-08:00Hee, rubber.
Thank you for sharing you memories. ...Hee, rubber.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing you memories. I can only imagine a young Goody poring through magazines in a hazy cigarette smokey salon.<br /><br />Hope you and the fam are keeping warm!<br /><br />Happy thrifting ;)ThriftyParkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17295345786296221184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-18796880357485560732018-01-13T20:13:35.874-08:002018-01-13T20:13:35.874-08:00Holy hippie trinity of stinks, indeed. Nag Champr...Holy hippie trinity of stinks, indeed. Nag Champra incense reminds me of brown rice and green tea, Ravi Shankar on the stereo and -- just remembered that odd fishy smell that was probably sizing of some sort -- gauzy Indian cotton skirts drying on the shower tower hooks. ((Yes, there was another scent of smoke wafting about; however I did not indulge directly.)Beth Waltzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02720634636307254576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-71142910358986558252018-01-11T19:31:28.327-08:002018-01-11T19:31:28.327-08:00Asparagusssss!
I was launched in'65 under the...Asparagusssss! <br />I was launched in'65 under the unattractive sign of Cancer. Thankfully I was not gifted a lot of crab related items. <br />Americans' nostalgic love for patchouli is rather odd. In the American mind patchouli is exotic, foreign, almost mystical and usually associated with India.<br />Indians actually aren't very fond of the scent of patchouli as it's considered a cough & cold remedy here. Scenting oneself with patchouli in India would be like scenting oneself with Vick's Vapo-rub in the US. Thus Western perfumes with a lot of patchouli don't sell well in India- I have never smelled the hyper-sweet patchouli based modern best seller in the West "La Vie est Belle" on an Indian. Bibi Maizoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07383381158640915162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-76372735668823644692018-01-11T12:56:03.213-08:002018-01-11T12:56:03.213-08:00Do you know Goody, I don't think I remember or...Do you know Goody, I don't think I remember or have even heard of this perfume! I was into fashion, make up and perfume in the 1960s so don't know how this happened. Anyhow, based on your review I don't think I'll be trying to track down a bottle!<br /><br />I do remember buying 'Desert Flower' by Shulton in a gift set and loving it. Does it still exist I wonder...Vronni's Style Meanderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122302881528071270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-835361928162476162018-01-11T11:33:37.185-08:002018-01-11T11:33:37.185-08:00a fragrance review right up my alley!!
love your ...a fragrance review right up my alley!! <br />love your style of writing! <3<br />1968 i was born... behind the iron curtain. the only scents ladies used was 4711 or tosca..... you´r opening a whole new world to me!<br />btw - the european union banned natural scents out of perfumes in 2009 - so only synthetic mixtures now. to protect allergic people. smells bad - to my nose - and stays not very long on the skin..... and i´m kind of allergic to synthetic scents. ha.<br />xxxxbahnwärterinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02032478343344432338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-64170747716541107162018-01-11T10:35:23.936-08:002018-01-11T10:35:23.936-08:00I quite like Patchouli, which takes me right back ...I quite like Patchouli, which takes me right back to youth club in the late 1970s. All the kids were wearing it. I didn't. I was the only punk, and punks didn't really wear Patchouli. I don't remember what scent I wore instead, if any. I love how just one whiff of something - doesn't have to be perfume - can take you right back and I very much enjoyed reading your story about the shampoo ladies at Shear Genius. My favourite kind of post! xxxPolyester Princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05602613792584925087noreply@blogger.com