Anyone Else Remember This Product?

[ptcruiser51]

Kleen & Shine

Disappeared from the shelves around here in the 1980s, but my sister managed to score us a case about 10 years ago from the manufacturer. Sadly, it is no longer available and we are each on our last can of this effective spray that smells like Seven-Up. I am also down to my last couple ounces of Jubilee bought from Vermont County Store in a glass bottle some time ago. Friends stop by when I'm cleaning (which is almost always) and say, "Where did you GET THAT?" Isn't it lousy when good products go away?

 

[danemodsandy]

Hey, Rob:

C'mon, what was wrong with Soir de Paris/Evening in Paris? Maybe the affordability and the fact that you could get it at Rexall killed its cachet, but it was a great scent. My late great-aunt (who looked like the Duchess of Windsor, and dressed like her, too, bless her heart) used it as her signature fragrance, and I'm telling you, the old girl was considered as classy as they came. Some very good fragrances have an undeserved reputation for "cheapness" based solely on perceptions based on price, I think. Old Spice is a men's fragrance that has an unfair bad rap because it's in the drugstore. If you put that in another bottle and charged $75 for it, people would think it was the most wonderful smell they ever smelled on a man.

 

[whirlcool]

We tried a bottle of Window Wax from the Vermont Country store and while it worked fine, it didn't have the right smell to it.
I thank the Glass Wax odor has a lot of cache to it.

 

[launderess]

I Just Love The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning

Like many other similar products of the time, Glass Wax contained Petroleum distillates, not something one ought to inhale often and or for long periods.

L.

 

[whirlcool]

Laundress:

You didn't have to sniff the old Glass Wax can, the smell permeated the room!

 

[filter-flo_rob]

Evening in Paris/Old Spice ... stuff considered "cheap&

heh heh heh ... are we related? I had the same great aunt. Her name was Edna. She, too, wore Evening in Paris. While most perfumes/colognes, etc. smell different on everyone, Evening in Paris REALLY smelled different on different people. It smelled great on my Aunt Edna, but horrid on mummy. Jean Nate is another one of those scents.

I use Old Spice, Master Bay Rum and Aqua Velva, almost exclusively now. I detest most men's cologne as they smell like bug spray!

True about prices. I use this example:
I have two apples in my hand picked from the same tree: "Here is an apple. I just picked it." Conversely, the other apple has a worm hole in it and I say to you: Here is a RARE apple that came from a centuries old tree ... I can sell it for 50.00, but I'll sell it to you for 10.00. Sad but true, which apple would most people choose!!

Rob.

 

[danemodsandy]

Hi Rob:

Actually, I did have a great-aunt named Edna, but that was the other side of the family. The Evening in Paris great-aunt was my Aunt Aena.

Glad to see there's another Old Spice fan out there. So many good scents have died away or been changed; it's hard to stay faithful to something nowadays. My all-time favourite, Chanel for Men, was a very clean, almost soap-and-water smell, but it's not the same any more. I have a small supply still, but the occasion has to be very special indeed to use it. I have Devin by Aramis, which is good for everyday, and Beene's Grey Flannel, which is also okay, but which tires the nose after a while. It also does not "key" well with natural odours that develop on hot days; it makes you smell funkier, not cleaner. It's more a winter fragrance - for occasional use - as far as I'm concerned.

I wasn't aware of the difference in Evening in Paris on different wearers. Aunt Aena was the only woman I knew in the family who used it. Back then, women tried to respect each others' signature fragrance; if Aunt Aena used Evening in Paris, then other women in her circle tried to find something else as their own signature fragrance. There was one exception to this unwritten rule; a girl of "coming out" age could adopt the fragrance of an older woman to whom she was close by relation or friendship, sort of a passing of the baton.

 

[danemodsandy]

Oh, and Rob:

I forgot my all-time favourite, which hasn't been made in years and years. It was Aqua Velva's "Redwood" after-shave. Just a great smell, not foofy, not obtrusive. You just smelled good.

 

[filter-flo_rob]

adopt the fragrance of an older woman

You said, "There was one exception to this unwritten rule; a girl of "coming out" age could adopt the fragrance of an older woman to whom she was close by relation or friendship, sort of a passing of the baton."

LOL ... and that would most definitely be Shalimar!

I don't remember Aqua Velva's Redwood. I will admit to wearing Aramis in the late 70s. Polo was another one I really enjoyed, but it caught on and everyone was wearing it ...

Rob.

 

[danemodsandy]

Rob:

"LOL ... and that would most definitely be Shalimar!"

That, or Lanvin's My Sin, which was HUGE back then (late '50s/early '60s). My Sin was heavily promoted on TV game shows, which got a lot of women to try it. It was controversial, though, because of the name. There was many a good Southern Baptist lady who would not so much as consider its use, just because the name had "Sin" in it - and who was not afraid to tell more worldly women that they were doomed to perdition if they used it.

 

[whirlcool]

I have several colognes I use.

Farenheit
Gucci for Men
Versace for Men

In the past I have worn
Halston for Men (late 70's)
Polo
Pierre Cardin (very hot for the guys during my college years)
Old Spice / Old Spice Redwood (1960's)
And lastly I forgot who made it, but there was this cologne that was an entire collection, a different fragrance for each country. If I remember, Ireland smelled like limes, England smelled like leather, etc. There must have been 15 or 20 in the set.

 

[beadsobleach]

Muffin tins

We would put Glass Wax in a muffin tin and use food coloring, wish we had taken pictures back then, very colorful.

 

[westyslantfront]

I remember Johnson's glass wax in pink metal container.
At Christmas, they attached stencils to the container which you would scotch tape on a window and apply glass wax to decorate the window. After Christmas, you could just wipe off the glass wax and have a nice, clean window.

Ross

 

[danemodsandy]

Allen:

Your mention of Pierre Cardin sure brings back memories! As you say, it was the smell of the '70s, at least the earlier part of the decade. Haven't bought or worn any in years. I think it's gone downmarket; I see it at Big Lots during the holiday season, when they have all those "canned present" boxed sets of toiletries.

 

[danemodsandy]

Ga-roovy!

Dig that funky bottle, man....

(To all of you who know the '70s only from That '70s Show, Cardin would have been Kelso's favourite, at Jackie's urging. Eric would have had Old Spice that Kitty gave him every Christmas, and Hyde would have had the dregs of a bottle of Hai Karate that he would have put on only when a wedding or something came up. Fez would have worn Brut. Lots of Brut.)

 

[whirlcool]

The stencils for Glass Wax are still regularly available on Ebay.

I was in college from 1970 to 1974. So you hit the time frame for Pierre Cardin absolutely perfectly.

After Christmas, you could just wipe off the glass wax and have a nice, clean window.
Provided it was above freezing outside. Otherwise if it was below zero you'd have to scrape the stuff off the window.


We would put Glass Wax in a muffin tin and use food coloring, wish we had taken pictures back then, very colorful.

I don't understand this. What was the end result. It would seem to me a muffin tin lined with food coloring and a toxic material, please elaborate.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1950s-G...ryZ13838QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[danemodsandy]

Allen:

What you did with the muffin tin was to use it as a mixing palette; you put Glass Wax in each cup, and tinted each cup's contents by mixing food colouring into it. The Glass Wax could then be sponged onto your windows, using the stencil kit. Green for Christmas trees, red for Santas, etc. The tinting did not affect the cleaning ability of the Glass Wax, so after the holidays, you rubbed off the Glass Wax, vacuumed the mullions and sills of your windows free of Glass Wax dust, and voila! - clean windows.

BTW, for anyone who doesn't understand why Glass Wax was popular back then, it did a better job under certain circumstances than Windex. If you were in a heavily polluted city like Pittsburgh was during the '50s, or if you had heavy smokers in the house, Windex didn't quite cut the grime. Glass Wax, with its solvent and its abrasive, did.

 

[whirlcool]

Oh I see now. You colored the stencils on the window. How nice! We just used the stuff as it came out of the can. It came out pink, but dried white.
I imagine in different colors it would look great!

 

[launderess]

Fifty Dollars

For a can of Glass Wax, and the old girl has a case stashed away. Not to shabby. *LOL*

 

[filter-flo_rob]

Laundress:

heh heh heh ... how 'bout forty dollars and I give you candy ... or would you prefer apples and plums ...

OMIGAWD, that Pierre Cardin bottle is sooooo phallic! hmmmm, how very interesting. My, it's getting hot in heah ...

Ah yes, the glass was in the muffin tins with food colouring -- I remember that well.

Speaking of 60s and 70s fragrances, Someone mentioned Hai Karate and Brut ... remember Jade East? I think there were two varieties: one that was green in colour and one that was amber. I remember using Brut. A few weeks ago, I was in Wal-Mart purchasing Old Spice and there was a bottle of Brut there. Of course, I had to open and smell it ... YOWZA ... back to the late 60s I went. I seem to recall that stuff having an unusual amount of "oil" in it. Am I not remembering correctly???

Rob.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Home Trends has its own version of Glass Wax. I think they borrowed their pricing structure from The Vermont Country Store, though...

veg

http://www.shophometrends.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_411006

 

[rayjay]

Stencils

WHen I was young, we used to use Glass Wax for putting stencils on windows during the holidays. lol

It was a lot of fun

Anyone remember doing this?

 

[jbuscemi]

I remember Glass Wax very well. Growing up in the north Bronx and going to Catholic School, windows at home and in school were plastered with GlassWax designs. I also taught in a one room school in Northern Vermont for 11 years in the late 60's and 70's. In those days before all this stupid political correctness crap we had our CHristmas Programs and many times we would join with the 3 other rural schools in town and hold the affairs in the local Methodist Church ..as it was the largest building in town. Every year our 8th grade graduations were held there for the same reason. Ten years ago when the local population was outnumbered buy the young trendis moving in, after a long protracted battle, it was voted to consolidate the 4 schools AND that was the end of Christmas programs, Halloween parties ,St .Patrick's Day celebrations etc. It was even questionable if we could go into any detail about the Pilgrins at Thanksgiving time because some thought those early Puritans were evil Imperialists. So that is the way of the world here in the states and in "The Peoples Republic of Vermont" That said, I am NOT voting for John Mc Cain.

 

[xyz]

Sounds like we have a few huffers on board here. LOL.

 

[whirlcool]

Jade East.. I always saw that at JC Penny stores. Probably in the 1965-67 era.
I had a friend who had bought a brand new 1970 Monte Carlo. Beautiful car, navy blue outside with a navy interior. He always wore Brut. After awhile the interior of his car absolutely reeked of it.

 

[neptunebob]

Actually, it wasn't that bad,

By the 1970's when I grew up Pittsburgh had more of a LA smog, in fact I never saw actual black smoke but lots of smog and bad odors. As for Glass wax, I had seen it at people's houses but never used it, we were a Windex family.