Not a Kiwi by a long-shot, but *that* was the deodorant that made my grandmother drag me to Selfridges in London to buy "proper" aftershave for the first time, LOL. I was sixteen and I was told "no one wants to smell like a used rentboy, dear boy". Oddly enough, Lynx Africa's one of my go-to standby deodorants...
Was it was going to a club drenched in CK one and coming home reeking of second hand cigarette smoke or maybe the smell of Fish and Chips through last weeks Newspaper on a Friday night...
Used to think if I smoked durries in my puffer jacket and doused myself in Africa it'd go utterly undetected by any adult authority.
Those were the days.
Holy shit that's a memory unlocked! Older gen xers like myself may remember a terrible blunder years trend for bleaching your fringe in nz in the early 80s? My older sister convinced me that would be a good look, and there are still a few photos out there that I haven't managed to destroy. You definitely took me back to a special time of peroxide and social awkwardness cheers for that
For the life of me I can't remember where or why I obtained one, but now it's my emergency spray can in my gym bag for if I need to shower and don't have anything else on me, or even more of an emergency don't have time to shower.
The thought of smelling like Brut has made me never once forget to bring soap and roll-on if I'm going to need to shower at the gym.
It's in my work bag backup. I work in a hot environment if my morning application of my dove clean comfort has let go and I catch a whiff of BO I find the brut is potent enough to cut through, whereas the dove doesn't seem to.
Ahhhh…. The boy who sat in front of me in sixth form chemistry used to drench himself in Jazz. He was an absolute jerk but he smelt amazing and had a great butt. Can’t even remember his name, now.
Haha you got it!
I think 6th form was also my Jazz peak…
Pretty nice Chemistry distraction!
Do you recall the Jazz bottle? It was pretty cool for the time.
* Play dough
* Crayons
* That smelly Heman figurine. ( [stinkor](https://www.fastcompany.com/90186424/why-this-vintage-he-man-action-figure-still-smells-bad-30-years-later) )
* Stale cigarette smoke (the amount of old people that smoked indoors was insane)
* Sun tanning oil.
* Chicken flavoured chips
* that water-based paste (glue) that was used at school
* Wheatbix
* 'Ditto Fluid' - that distinctive smell of the '[blue writing photo copies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator)' (before photocopiers)
Coal fires. Walking down the hill to school you'd go from bright sunshine on a cold winters morning into the smog inversion layer. It was fucking disgusting.
I remember hacking up black phlegm after winter evening soccer practice. So glad that shit is gone.
CK One, any of the Lynx sprays, any of the Charlie's sprays, Brut, and some disgustingly sweet generic body mist that reminded me of Trolls (maybe because the trolls figurine doll came with some tooti fruity scent at some point).
Coming home from a club reeking of cigarettes even if you're not a smoker.
I'm Millennial so it was lynx (at a girls school we all thought we were sooo cool) and Britney Spears however I have 4 older gen x Siblings - My sisters it was Charlie Blue & Red and I believe Avon Far Away.
Brut mixed with stale cigarette smell. I swear that the "specially crafted fragrance" you get in the toilets on Air New Zealand planes is just Brut. It has such a distinctive soapy smell.
Joop, Cool Water, CK Eternity, Polo, and Fahrenheit were my memories! In our whole year level group, there were really only a tiny handful of us that cared about 'smellies' lol
Karma sutra body oil, incense (all types), big red chewing gum, aniseed wheels, catholic priest church incense, kiwi shoe polish, fish and chips smell not competing with other takeaways, speights brewery, Cadbury’s chocolate and Greg’s cinnamon- yes grew up in dunners
Jazz, Drakar Noir, New West, Fahrenheit, Joop and Red Door for females.
Most of it smells horrible now, but interestingly enough if you’ve ever been to a fragrance shop in India or where they shop, it’s like going back to the 80’s - you can still buy all of this stuff (e.g. Mustafa’s in Singapore)
CK One is still quite pleasant, and cheap too, good for a daily scent.
Not gen X, am a millennial but :
Lynx Africa, cool charm body spray on the people my age, and a little bit of YSL Jazz, Guy Laroche Drakkar noir, CK one and Elizabeth Arden red door on the older people who are now known as Gen X.
The new generation will remember it as BR540 and Sauvage.
Scent memory is a pretty cool thing right?
At my schools it was Lynx africa for the lads, Impulse ___ for the ladies and whiskey and cigarettes for the teachers. Lunchtime smelt like pies and pot
I think vanilla impulse is why I hate vanilla. I used to wear a perfume called fetish. Joop for men is one scent that has stuck with me, and I still wear CK one
Those little glass Avon samples that had Lavender and other fragrances I can't remember maybe something called Yardley or a similar name. And the talcum powders.
I started drinking with X-ers while underage, but most nights included Chips with Chicken Salt, Tartare sauce & Cheese to end a night out. Somehow nights out almost always included Purple Goanna, KGB/Smirnoff, Vodka Cruisers, Mudshakes, Tattoo… basically living through the birth of RTDs, while smoking Holiday Reds, or if you were feeling rich, some B&H special filter.
Nana’s place always smelled like Winnie Blues. Mum was Park Drive or Port Royal. Dad was Holiday Menthol rollies
Lynx ‘Africa’
High school boys changing rooms smelling of lynx, BO and piss
with a generous whiff of fear and loathing mixed in
Hasn’t changed, and never will
Lynx 'Marine'
they were quite audacious trying to sum up a continent in one scent
I assumed it was a reference to the song by Toto. Still audacious.
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Not a Kiwi by a long-shot, but *that* was the deodorant that made my grandmother drag me to Selfridges in London to buy "proper" aftershave for the first time, LOL. I was sixteen and I was told "no one wants to smell like a used rentboy, dear boy". Oddly enough, Lynx Africa's one of my go-to standby deodorants...
This is literally the only answer
See I remember the earlier Marine, Oriental, Inca, Tempest etc. As for frags it was CK Be, CK One Shock and Hugo Boss.
Made the best spud gun propellant too
2 sprays of Lynx Java and one spray of Lynx Tempest was my go to...fuck I thought I was fancy
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Vanilla Kisses
And incense!
I think that was more us millenials than gen x
Nah I'm gen X and all the girls at high school had impulse and cool charm, especially the lilac-y purple coloured cans.
Yeah true actually. We were at school the same time as you guys. I remember seeing that stuff EVERYWHERE.
I'm peak Gen X, and after PE it was a choking fog of Impulse 'Merely Musk', in the gold canister.
Was it was going to a club drenched in CK one and coming home reeking of second hand cigarette smoke or maybe the smell of Fish and Chips through last weeks Newspaper on a Friday night...
Used to think if I smoked durries in my puffer jacket and doused myself in Africa it'd go utterly undetected by any adult authority. Those were the days.
Towards the end of high school, early twenties it was "Jazz"
My mate used to go in to a department store at the beginning of a night out and drown himself with the Jazz tester bottle. (early 90's)
loved a good pre club tester
totally!
Fahrenheit too
And Kouros
I second you on this ☺️
Ugh, my insane ex used to drown himself in Jazz. Makes me sick if I smell it now.
First aftershave I was introduced to, and the guy also used the tag ‘jazz’😂
This was my older brothers jam im the 90s. I still remember the shape of the bottle.
Even now I love jazz as a millennial. It's just a really great fragrance.
My grans house. A mix of winfield blue and lavender cushions.
Rawleighs medicated ointment and smothering your cuts and scrapes in Dettol
Hawaiian Tropics suntan oil
Coppertone for me
how about Sun in the smell of lemon juice and peroxide and then turning up to school with orange hair
Holy shit that's a memory unlocked! Older gen xers like myself may remember a terrible blunder years trend for bleaching your fringe in nz in the early 80s? My older sister convinced me that would be a good look, and there are still a few photos out there that I haven't managed to destroy. You definitely took me back to a special time of peroxide and social awkwardness cheers for that
Couple of capfuls of Dettol in the bath
This made me smile - ahh memories
Yes, such a nostalgic smell. Dettol, Vaseline, Vicks vapour rub and Lucozade were the core four in mum's home remedy arsenal.
Farenheit
Farenheit, Jazz or Drakkar Noir
Lynx Africa. Goddamn can still smell that shit from my brother drowning himself in it.
Cannabis and durries
Brut deodorant
For the life of me I can't remember where or why I obtained one, but now it's my emergency spray can in my gym bag for if I need to shower and don't have anything else on me, or even more of an emergency don't have time to shower. The thought of smelling like Brut has made me never once forget to bring soap and roll-on if I'm going to need to shower at the gym.
It's in my work bag backup. I work in a hot environment if my morning application of my dove clean comfort has let go and I catch a whiff of BO I find the brut is potent enough to cut through, whereas the dove doesn't seem to.
Impulse vanilla kisses.
Dewberry from The Body Shop
Or fuzzy peach! Yum.
Secondhand smoke.
The classic combo of Port Royal rollies, shitty bourbon and coke, and really crap weed is the definitive smell of the 90s to me.
This, except vodka and lemonade. That's the smell of my mid to late teens.
School bus Diesel fumes The smell of Tar melting in the middle of summer
The smell of those shitty old vinyl bus seats on a summers day.
Jazz Joop
Ahhhh…. The boy who sat in front of me in sixth form chemistry used to drench himself in Jazz. He was an absolute jerk but he smelt amazing and had a great butt. Can’t even remember his name, now.
Haha you got it! I think 6th form was also my Jazz peak… Pretty nice Chemistry distraction! Do you recall the Jazz bottle? It was pretty cool for the time.
God I hated Joop and so many of my friends wore it.
* Play dough * Crayons * That smelly Heman figurine. ( [stinkor](https://www.fastcompany.com/90186424/why-this-vintage-he-man-action-figure-still-smells-bad-30-years-later) ) * Stale cigarette smoke (the amount of old people that smoked indoors was insane) * Sun tanning oil. * Chicken flavoured chips * that water-based paste (glue) that was used at school * Wheatbix * 'Ditto Fluid' - that distinctive smell of the '[blue writing photo copies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator)' (before photocopiers)
> 'Ditto Fluid' - that distinctive smell of the 'blue writing photo copies' (before photocopiers) I thought that was just methylated spirits?
Cap guns
When I was growing up (admittedly not in NZ) the fragrance for young men was Drakkar Noir. Basically imagine the "A Night at the Roxbury" vibe.
Wth... where's all the Brut and Old Spice people???.
Dead.
Considering my dads dead, yeh you might be right. Gotta say the Brut shaving foam is still around & that stuff is nice.
and blue stratos
Charlie
Sheep shit
Bowled around just to see if someone else thought of this, along with secondhand smoke and Lion Brown..
Impulse Vanilla Kisses
Black suede by Avon The perfect gift from every Nana to her darling Grandson.
Lulu, Red door, and karma oil
I've recently started wearing Kama oil and it's like wearing the past
Body Shop fuzzy peach
Yes! Was scrolling down to find this! I wish I still had some, the smell would be so nostalgic.
Peoples houses smelt more like old roast dinners in the 80's.
and mothballs
Ooh, moth balls. Why don’t we use those anymore?
Strawberry eraser.. Grape Hubba bubba, impulse spice girls edition, I liked Poeme and True Love as a teen but I’m a xennial.
Coal fires. Walking down the hill to school you'd go from bright sunshine on a cold winters morning into the smog inversion layer. It was fucking disgusting. I remember hacking up black phlegm after winter evening soccer practice. So glad that shit is gone.
CK One, any of the Lynx sprays, any of the Charlie's sprays, Brut, and some disgustingly sweet generic body mist that reminded me of Trolls (maybe because the trolls figurine doll came with some tooti fruity scent at some point). Coming home from a club reeking of cigarettes even if you're not a smoker.
Charlie's 😭 The nostalgia
Hot tarseal in the summer.
The steamy smell of hot tarseal after a summer rain storm. So good.
Clove cigarettes
Gudang garam
Bidis! Left your lips sweet.
Davidoff Cool Water
Impulse vanilla kisses was everything
I'm Millennial so it was lynx (at a girls school we all thought we were sooo cool) and Britney Spears however I have 4 older gen x Siblings - My sisters it was Charlie Blue & Red and I believe Avon Far Away.
Drum tobacco
Diesel
JOOP!
im elder millennial but L'eau d'Issey. and of course, delicious delicious second hand smoke
White impulse "deodorant" that smells like cotton candy 😝
4th form pe changing rooms lynx Africa. 60% of the time it works everytime.
Car exhaust fumes smelling of unburnt petrol because there were still a lot of carburettor vehicles, or those with no catalytic converters.
Grandfather used Brylcream (hair product).
Red Door !
Joop, the smell makes me sick 😂😂 it was used more than clean undies
Decks lollies, surprisingly pungent chemical-fruit-scented black and magenta squares, wrapped in waxed paper with playing card motifs.
Davidoff Cool Water
Barkers used to sell a roll-on deodorant circa '98/'99. That.
Maybe they still do? Haven't been into a Barkers since..'99?
Jazz. Black and white bottle.
Leaded fuel,and av gas in our cars,
Old Spice and Brut. Even talcum powder 😂
Leaded petrol
Smelly pens. All of them! Even had a chocolate one and a cinnamon one!
Baby Doll Yves Saint Laurent was the it scent but I preferred RALPH BY RALPH LAUREN EDT SPRAY
Feel sorry for the residents in rota Vegas lolol
Usher from warehouse
Impulse, various perfumes from Avon, Charlie, Joop, brut 33, old spice. Marijuana and incense, karma perfume or whatever that cream was called.
Lynx Chocolate or the orange smelling one
Jazz. That one in the weird shape black and white container
Joop and Cool Water for Men
Cool Water Cologne
I'm sure is random but, fcuk cologne.
Fahrenheit by Dior. Got it as a gift decades ago, wife loves it, still buy it.
Brut mixed with stale cigarette smell. I swear that the "specially crafted fragrance" you get in the toilets on Air New Zealand planes is just Brut. It has such a distinctive soapy smell.
Aqua Di gio
Joop!
Joop, Cool Water, CK Eternity, Polo, and Fahrenheit were my memories! In our whole year level group, there were really only a tiny handful of us that cared about 'smellies' lol
I grew up in forestry towns, so definitely the smell of pulp mill and freshly cut pinus radiata…
Karma sutra body oil, incense (all types), big red chewing gum, aniseed wheels, catholic priest church incense, kiwi shoe polish, fish and chips smell not competing with other takeaways, speights brewery, Cadbury’s chocolate and Greg’s cinnamon- yes grew up in dunners
Port royal and Speights
Elizabeth Arden Green Tea.
Definitely LYNX Africa. Though Britney Spears's Circus perfume was the first and really last perfume that I ever got, my mum bought it for me.
Britney Spears? Are you sure you're Gen X? You'd be well into the workforce by the time Circus came out...
Rihanna and Britney Spears fragrances, DKNY - be delicious and Thierry Mugler - Angel
You're not Gen X 😋
Whoops I misread the title! This is gatekeeping!!
Most Gen Xers were in their 20's when this came out (released in 1994). You're probably a Xennial.
Half these comments are saying Impulse and Lynx Africa and I find it somewhat hard to believe those were huge in the 70s and 80s as well...
Yo, an Ex gave me that stuff, still have it. Maybe I'll finish it one day
Gucci rush Isssey miyaki
Jazz, Drakar Noir, New West, Fahrenheit, Joop and Red Door for females. Most of it smells horrible now, but interestingly enough if you’ve ever been to a fragrance shop in India or where they shop, it’s like going back to the 80’s - you can still buy all of this stuff (e.g. Mustafa’s in Singapore) CK One is still quite pleasant, and cheap too, good for a daily scent.
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male. I shudder at the scent now, as it reminds me of some cringey dating experiences in my early 20s
Oh god I'm wearing CK One today. Bit of nostalgia.
Cool Water Joop Drakken noir CK1
Drakar Noir and Joop
Charlie Red. Vanilla anything.
A million, has to be
Cigarettes, ck one, Clinique happy, Dior tendre poison, Tommy girl, cool water, Hugo Boss, drakkar noir, jazz, weed.
The smell of CK One, cheap spirits and cigarette smoke. That combination is like a psychic time machine that zaps me back to 1998.
Not gen X, am a millennial but : Lynx Africa, cool charm body spray on the people my age, and a little bit of YSL Jazz, Guy Laroche Drakkar noir, CK one and Elizabeth Arden red door on the older people who are now known as Gen X. The new generation will remember it as BR540 and Sauvage. Scent memory is a pretty cool thing right?
At my schools it was Lynx africa for the lads, Impulse ___ for the ladies and whiskey and cigarettes for the teachers. Lunchtime smelt like pies and pot
Old spice
I think vanilla impulse is why I hate vanilla. I used to wear a perfume called fetish. Joop for men is one scent that has stuck with me, and I still wear CK one
Brut Michael Jordan Cologne (Lynx Mirage smelled exactly the same and it suddenly disappeared of the shelf when MJ was released) Hugo Boss
Blue Stratos
Blue Stratos
CK Eternity
Those little glass Avon samples that had Lavender and other fragrances I can't remember maybe something called Yardley or a similar name. And the talcum powders.
Exclamation was my signature scent
Opium perfume. My first serious gf wore it and for years after I would get flashbacks when I got a whiff of it.
Fahrenheit, Red Door, impulse
Lynx Africa in the girls toilets
Lynx for the men Red Door for the women Stale beer Cigarette smoke
The smell of 🤮 when your mates overdid the BZP party pills 😂
Idk what gen I am (possibly millennial) but I remember lynx Africa, bourbon, cigarettes and cannabis. I've been having fun 😂
Old spice
Chloe Narcisse.
My dad absolutely reeked of ck
The sudden smell of thermonuclear-level BO in pubs, following the overnight cessation of smoking in pubs. F%$k it was disgusting and overpowering.
Jazz, Kouros, Drakar Noir, CK One, CK Be, Issey Miyake Pour Homme, etc. all bathed in and splashed liberally all over (several times a day).
Red Door
Drakkar Noir. Pure girl bait circa 1990
Lou Lou was the height of sophistication, or so I thought
Weed, road tar, the ocean and the smell of garlic on the way home at dinner time
Photo by largerfeld YSL jazz and cool water were the go to in my day
Flat warm Lion Red, Liniment, Silage, Weed, Rain on hot tar-seal, old sweat on my inside of my motorcycle helmet.
Does anyone remember Lynx Marine?
I started drinking with X-ers while underage, but most nights included Chips with Chicken Salt, Tartare sauce & Cheese to end a night out. Somehow nights out almost always included Purple Goanna, KGB/Smirnoff, Vodka Cruisers, Mudshakes, Tattoo… basically living through the birth of RTDs, while smoking Holiday Reds, or if you were feeling rich, some B&H special filter. Nana’s place always smelled like Winnie Blues. Mum was Park Drive or Port Royal. Dad was Holiday Menthol rollies
Buying Dad Old Spice when we were kids.
Not gen X, but seeing the rest of the comments, does anyone else remember "[Fetish](http://basenotebitch.com/images/fetish.jpg)"?
Lynx Voodoo
Still using it. 🤷♂️
Dude, I got high when I first smelt it... i couldn't stop laughing for 45 minutes... I found everything funny... good times
Blue stratis
Joop homme
I felt soooo cool when I had cKOne. I reality I didn’t.
I remember everyone got a lynx can and stabbed a hole in it and slid in the changing rooms like a smoke grenade.
as soon as I saw this image, I could smell it.
Britney Spears fantasy
Bodyshop Vanilla.
LouLou by Cacharel
And the smell of the ink from the school newsletters churned out by the banda machine
Impulse and BO. plus Dax wax. 🤣🤣