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Not a perfume for shy women

Posted by Robin on 10 July 2014 9 Comments

A 1980s ad for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: video, yves saint laurent

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  1. Ericgmd says:
    10 July 2014 at 10:46 am

    Three generous spritzes of the pre-reformulation Rive Gauche?!
    What was she planning?
    Fumigate the court room and kill everyone I guess…

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    • Robin says:
      10 July 2014 at 10:50 am

      LOL…no kidding. That hat still smells like RG 😉

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  2. Carolyn says:
    10 July 2014 at 11:39 am

    Oh this brought back memories of flat sharing when I was 21 – one of the girls wore Rive Gauche (I remember the bottle/cylinder being much admired as it sat on her dressing table), the other wore Madame Rochas, which now seems as it would have been too mature a fragrance for her, nevertheless it suited her (we were all 21) & I wore Opium – given this was in the late 1970s, I’m guessing these were the original formulations. I think even though I knew far less then than I do now about fragrance in general, I did recognise (both then & especially now) that we all had excellent taste!

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    • Robin says:
      10 July 2014 at 2:05 pm

      Ha, you did all have excellent taste! And if you all sprayed as much as the woman in the ad, your apartment was FRAGRANT.

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  3. Karin says:
    10 July 2014 at 1:57 pm

    Hysterical!

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    • Robin says:
      10 July 2014 at 2:05 pm

      Yes! Wish more old YSL ads were on YouTube.

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  4. morgana says:
    10 July 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Those were the days!

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  5. lilyboy says:
    10 July 2014 at 3:52 pm

    now thats a perfume AD! love

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  6. Merlin says:
    10 July 2014 at 6:12 pm

    I don’t care what perfume she uses – but if someone would tell us about her hair products…

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