Downtown Girl

I have asthma, have had it since I was a kid. Becuase of this there are very few frangrences I can wear. Most will send me into coughing fits at the very least, and there have been times when I was sent to the hospital by someone wearing a ton of perfume in the store. That said for whatever reason this is one of the few colognes that does NOT choke me. I don't what Revlon put in this or did but I can WEAR it, all day every day if I wanted. But I am not that much of a perfume buff. I looked this up and saw the list of fragrence notes and thought well no WONDER I like this stuff, not only is it wearable but it has some of my favorite incense oils as a base, Patchouli, Bergamot and Jasmine. Sandalwood and Cedar while not on my oils list are still good scents...to me at least. When Revlon stopped making this I almost cried...I stillhave the last bottle I bought back in the 90's, WITH SOME STILL IN IT! I have used it very sparingly since I did not know if I could ever get more. I am so happy I found this source for one of my few wearables...my favorite one at that. It suits my half Roma style, kindof sweet kindof watch out...

Oh wow... I wasn't expecting to like this so much! The opening is pretty harsh but it very quickly settles in to something terrific. It's powdery, but not overly so. I also detect a faint leathery lipsticky quality. Overall it's quite smooth and palatable (or "smellatable"). It brings to mind maturity; but the kind of maturity a younger woman could pull off if she were so inclined, if that makes sense. "Downtown Girl". What a perfect name for the scent. There is a pronounced urban chic vibe to it. Wild how this stuff is so cheap. If you were to close your eyes and forget it's put out by Revlon and costs almost nothing, you could pass this off as a niche fragrance, for sure. Like, seriously: you could stamp "Juliette Has a Gun" on the label and trick folks. It's that good. I'm amazed it isn't more popular! Awesome. I will be repurchasing. Note: I can see a lot of women who are used to the pretty bright girly-girl scents being put off by "Downtown Girl". It's definitely unisex. Leaning slightly towards the feminine, but unisex just the same.

I recently revisited this perfume - I still have a little splash bottle from the 90's. I had forgotten how much I LIKE it!!! It is an odd scent - very unlike anything else that I have ever used (and that is saying a lot!). The ingredients all look familiar, but somehow their combination has made for a genuinely original and very unique perfume! I really wish that it were offered in a stronger version than cologne. Unlike Sheridanellis, it is not strong on my skin, so I wish that I could get a longer lasting edp or something like that. Alas, this was a Revlon drugstore perfume and didn't warrant anything stronger. Maybe I can find a lotion or something to strengthen the longevity. I have already purchased a bigger spray bottle of it.

This was a surprise find for me in the early 90s and it stole my heart. I still have a small bottle of it that I use sparingly. Just lifting the bottle to my nose though takes me back to being 16 and discovering Downtown via a friend who had been given a giant bottle for her birthday. She didn't like it at all and, in the way that teenage girlfriends often do, she let me borrow it in exchange for one of my large eyeshadow palettes. I was legitimately sad the day we traded all our stuff back to each other and had written off ever owning a bottle of my own until the wonder of Ebay came along. I resist buying as much of this as I can get my hands on because I don't want to ruin the magic of how much I loved it.

This is still my absolute favorite. Yes, it's a cheap drugstore cologne. But to me, it smells absolutely heavenly. This was my holy grail hack in the 90's; it worked so well with my body chemistry. I'm still mourning the discontinuation. I am still searching for a scent to capture my heart the way this one did.