Remember your first fragrance? We wax poetic about our intros to grown-up(ish) perfumes
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Thanks to everything from back-to-school shopping to 20th anniversaries of essential cinema to being old enough to have something to be nostalgic for, we’ve finally drank the Kool-Aid (such a delicious nineties beverage) and gone down memory lane again.
But this time, our drinks were not consistently so sweet. Opting to revisit our first scents, we uncovered the tragic truths and even delusions that fuelled our turbulent tween years: in one corner, what was meant to smell so grown up, now prompts flashbacks of locker rooms and oversaturated school dances. Or, on the flip side, some of us were reminded that our great tastes have been consistent since childhood, proving that we’ve always smelled wonderful (or might still smell terrible, depending on how your nose works).
So these are our first scents. Our first grown-up perfumes. Our first entry into the very adult world of “pulse points.” Some of us (hello) still might not know what that means, but it doesn’t mean we were any less serious.
Exclamation Perfume
“Exclamation! I wore this predominantly in Grade 10 and the scent sends me right back to walking to school listening to The Smiths on my yellow Walkman, wearing a black Espirt miniskirt with 3 hole Doc Martens and meeting my boyfriend Jay at my locker.” ---Lesa Hannah, beauty director Exclamation! ($23 for 50mL, walmart.ca> )