Swedish perfume c. 1980

[resonant]

When I was sixteen, we hosted a Swedish exchange student for a year. She arrived bearing gifts, and one of them was a bottle of a perfume called Dots. She translated the slogan for me: "Very French. Very Swedish."

I don't really remember what it smelled like, except that a while later I bought some UII Sheer Scent because it seemed a bit similar, and then some time later I bought a bottle of Fresh Life because it reminded me a little bit of Sheer Scent. Which probably means Dots would have been citrus and not-too-sweet floral with just a slight dirtiness to it. You know how it is with scent and memory - somehow I remember it vividly and not at all at the same time.

If I could find someone to tell me how perfume buffs described Dots, I could probably go on Fragrantica and find something similar. But so far the English-language internet has yielded nothing at all.

Any middle-aged Swedes out there who remember this stuff?

Comments

[ride_4ever]

Well, luzula isn't middle-aged but she is Swedish, so maybe she would know?

[resonant]

How on earth was I not already subscribing to luzula? I have remedied that.

[ride_4ever]

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[torch]

Sorry -- right nationality and rightish age, but I'm from a very non-perfume-wearing household and I was about five years too young to pay attention to such things in 1980. (Five years is nothing later on, but means a lot when you're ten.) I tried running a couple of searches in Swedish, but so far I've got nothing...

[resonant]

Definitely true - when I was ten I wouldn't have been able to tell perfume from window cleaner. Thanks for trying, though.

[lunabee34]

Good luck!

[resonant]

Thanks. I kind of enjoy a quest that's this difficult and also this trivial.

[mific]

I assume the perfume called Dot by Marc Jacobs is something else? https://www.perfumemaster.com/marc-jacobs/dot-womens-perfume/prices

[resonant]

Fragrantica says that was launched in 2012, so not the same. Based on the description, it sounds like something I'd like, though.

I always wonder - when someone is creating a perfume, are they going, "I have the jasmine and now I'm going to add some dragonfruit"? Or are they going, "Well, I combined vials 128 and 17. Now what does it smell like?"

[luzula]

Hi. : ) I'm sorry, I'm not at all the right person for the perfume question, as I never wear any! But I hope you find some info.

Also, I fondly remember your due South fics that I read...probably fifteen years ago? But I guess we never followed each other back in my due South days.

[resonant]

Thanks for the thoughts. I half expected a dozen people to jump in and say, "Of course we remember the ubiquitous Dots; it was the Love's Baby Soft of Sweden. You couldn't walk past a middle school without getting a noseful of it." But apparently not.

Great to see you, though. Boy, I miss due South.