Electric Youth by Debbie Gibson

Electric Youth has been Reborn! Some scents etch themselves into your memory. For me, it was Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth. That sweet dreamy bright neon pink pixie fragrance left a permanent imprint on my imagination. For years...decades...I searched for something that came close. Fantasy by Britney comes close but is too sweet and the jasmin way too heavy imo. Nothing ever quite captured it... in 30 years of searching...until now! Thanks to one of you lovely reviewers, I tried cradlethesoul138.com (eBay as cradlethesoul138) that claimed 'Neon Youth' to be inspired by Electric Youth. I ordered it. It arrived yesterday, and wow—it delivered! One spritz on my arm and I was standing in the glow of neon posters and cassette tapes. It lasted all day on my skin, and this morning, though the scent on my arm had faded, it’s still going strong on my shirt. The formulation is seriously impressive. Not some cheap knockoff or watery interpretation—it’s bold, sparkling, and unmistakably reminiscent of the original. Electric Youth is back—and better than ever! If you’ve been missing a discontinued scent that they have brought back, I wouldn't hesitate to try. (not sponsored just seriously impressed.) Awesome packaging also! 😁 10/10

Revlon Electric Youth by Debbie Gibson Cologne Year Introduced: 1989 - Feminine Notes: Top notes of aldehydes, grapefruit, and citrus notes; middle notes of ylang-ylang, watermelon, and red berries; and base notes of musk, woods, and amber. (Information from Surrender to Chance) I am fortunate to still have my original bottle with just a little cologne left in it. This was my signature scent in the early 1990s (when it was still cheap and I was in my very early 20's) and I wore it for work and play where it always garnered a compliment. It is very unique - I've found no other perfume that smells like this so far, plus it has great lasting power with moderate sillage. I couldn't tell you what notes are better than others, maybe the watermelon, red berries, and musky woods come through the most. There will always be a place in my heart for this one.

In remember smelling this in a Teen magazine waaaaaaay back when I was a youngster. My cousin and I LOVED Debbie Gibson(actually she was the bigger Debbie fan...I was pretty loyal to my Tiffany) and we reaaaaalllly wanted this perfume. I remember thinking the bottle and the pink spring was the coolest thing ever, but being in middle school, we had no means to aquire it. Begging and pleading with our moms got us no where. Eventually we grew up and Electric Youth slowly tumbled from our HUGE stack of "wanted things" and eventually fell off completely...until now. I want Electric Youth for my inner child's sake.

I still have a few sprays left in my bottle from the '80s, and I let myself use it about once a decade. Today was that day. Honestly, it smells like nostalgia so much that I feel like I'm having a difficult time pulling out the separate scent notes. It's strongly floral, almost honeysuckle, but not quite. And I swear I can detect a bit of Big Red chewing gum deep down. There is a woodiness to it, but it's more of a green wood, like the smell of breaking off a green limb from a peach tree. The closest thing I've smelled to it is the Sweet Sunrise body spray by Body Fantasies.

Revlon or Debbie Gibson, if you are reading this....Please release this again for us old fans :) I have a vintage bottle, but it has gone way off and only smells slightly like I remember in the far dry down. I ordered a recreation of this from a fragrance oil company, but it smelled nothing like it. I'm hoping if I let it sit for a few months, the notes will come through. That has happened in the past with another perfume oil I ordered, so fingers crossed!

Just scored a bottle of this off eBay. Well worth the $80 price tag (to me, anyway lol). I have been wanting to revisit this one for a while now, and I must say—NOSTAGIA IN SPADES with this little gem. I LOVE IT. And it’s held up surprisingly well. You can definitely tell it’s a “vintage” perfume, but the original smell is still there.

I had this in 1989 I was in 8th grade!!!! I absolutely loved it and I remember it smelling fruity,floral,sweet & fresh! It smelled soooooooo good and I'm sure I over sprayed it (it was strong & long lasting) lol I wish I would have kept my bottle.....this one was one of the 1st perfumes I bought with my allowance!

I had this back in 1989 I was in 8th grade!!!! I remember it being a sweet,musky & powdery and a little went a long way!! This stuff lasted for hours but I'm know back then I was over spraying lol But It did smell so good IMO kinda wish I would've kept my bottle after I used it up.

My first perfume ever! I was a 13 year old teenager and this was the no 1 perfume at the time...well. we didn't have much variety at the time.i still remember the smell and how excited I was to get it.

closest i can get to this these days Is Juicy Couture Viva la Juicy Nior. Miss this scent so much but Juicy Nior will hold me over. Electric Youth was an amazing scent.

This was my signature smell years ago and now I find myself comparing perfumes to this one hoping that one day I would find my long lost scent

Oh man! I can still smell memory whiffs of this then I see the bottle! This was the Britney Spears Fantasy of its time!

I recently ordered a small $35 bottle of this on eBay and was so excited to smell it again, and I'm incredibly disappointed with what I got. I wanted to get that instant transport to the late 1980s when I was dancing to Debbie Gibson and Tiffany in my bedroom, singing into a hairbrush and wearing leg warmers, but instead, the contents of the bottle smelled like they had turned rancid in someone's attic over the past thirty years. I can just barely get a hint of the original fragrance on my arm, but what I do remember is quintessential 80s. It was peppy, pink, and neon fun, just like the bottle with the little hot pink electric zap floating in the center. Sadly, I will continue to wish I could get that experience again, because the perfume in my spray bottle is as dead as Debbie Gibson's pop career. Edited to add that, two hours after applying it, I sniffed my arm and finally got a whiff of nostalgia. On the drydown, all that unpleasant grandma's attic smell disappeared, and I was left with a trace of the original Electric Youth sweetness. What I wouldn't give for a bottle that still contained just that scent! It's my childhood.

i love wearing this every so often because it's still fantastic. it's 1989 in a bottle, neon pink plastic spring and all. i loved it then, and i still like it. picked up another bottle on a whim - no idea how it was stored for the last however many years - the liquid in this one is more orangey-gold than pink. the first spray (from this specific bottle) smells a little off, maybe a little like an old empty Avon bottle or some kind of powdery wrongness. but give it five minutes, and once it settles in, it smells the way it is supposed to - which is pretty amazing, really. so i guess what i'm saying, is don't be afraid of the older bottles. if it is cheap enough, give it a try!

This has got to be the sweetest scent to come out of the 80’s. Oh my gosh, it’s sweet. Electric Youth smells like powdered fruit candy, fizzy fruit soda, and everything else artificially fruity and sweet, all on an ambery base with a hint of wood. Wow. There is a bit of odd plasticky note when you first spray it, but it fades away, and I like the drydown. It remains sweet throughout wear, and the amber is noticeable. I wear this as a guilty pleasure, when I am in the mood for something very sweet and kitschy retro.

Suddenly I thought of this fragrance I used to love in my early teen. (Yes, I was a big fan of Debbie Gibson too). I had a teen magazine with EY ads with a small sample. I remembered the scent so well. It was sweet, not gourmand sweetness like today's perfumes, but flowery, pretty and bold, just like Debbie's character. So yesterday I searched for EY perfume in a fragrance website I buy and, oh! What a surprise! They have it! Unfortunately it was out of stock.

I LOVED this in elementary school! I was given a small bottle for my birthday in grade 6 and I thought it was wonderful (my parents probably didn't agree- which may be why my mom taught me the "spray it once and walk through it" application method!). I remember it smelling sweet (I always thought of strawberries) and lightly musky and woodsy. I'd be really interested in smelling it again today for old times sake but have no idea where I'd find it.

Oh my, I'd forgotten this one! This was the precursor to all the sugar-sweet-fruit-candy Brittney and Mariah type fragrances. This was super cheap and SWEET. Oh and the juice was neon pink! So tacky and yet every time I walked past the tester I couldn't help but grab a quick spritz of fruit candy. End of confession.

I had this because I was a HUGE Debbie Gibson fan. I wish I would have just kept the bottle for memories. When Ici by Coty came out, it reminded me of this perfume and that was my signature scent until it got discontinued. I've been on a search for a dupe ever since, which sparked my obsession with perfumes.

Tried Ralph Lauren's Midnight Romance today and it brought back memories of Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth. I just had to see if there was a review of the scent of the 80's. Sweet, sugary, frosted flakes...you get my drift.