1970s TV Commericial for Enjoli Perfume ("Bring home the bacon")

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X4MwbVf5OA


What is the line after "get dressed"?

[lost-in-nj]

1. give out the kisses

and get to work by 5 to 9

crap I always hated this ad
and the perfume sucked!!!

lost

[Eric J in MN]

2. Why did you hate the ad? NT

NT

[lost-in-nj]

5. It just grated me

the wrong way...
can't explain it, just did not like it.....


lost

[Eric J in MN]

7. Why do you say that the perfume itself sucked? (NT)

NT

[lost-in-nj]

16. Because

it smelled like bug spray to me

I remember it like it was yesterday.....
I probably got a bottle in the back of a closet somewhere....



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[Gormy Cuss]

4. Oh yeah!

Pretending to be the modern feminist while still maintaining the good little woman role. I hated that ad too. "Bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, but never let you forget you're the man" Fuck that.

[quiet.american]

3. Thanks for posting that! What a time capsule! Damn, made me nostalgic.

[Left Is Write]

9. I was at Target the other day and saw Charlie, Jovan Musk, Halston...

and other fragrances that brought back memories.

[Kat45]

6. That's the short version of the ad...

I remember more lines. Can't remember them exactly, but it basically said she could get home on time to read the kid a story and then how she could please her man. I hated that commercial too. It presented a sickening superwoman to make all the real-life women watching it feel like they couldn't measure up.

[Z_I_Peevey]

8. Eeek, what a horrible memory.

My first ex-husband bought me that crap after seeing that very commercial. I need to cross-post in the "smells that make you ill" thread.

[Eric J in MN]

11. What was it about the smell? NT

NT

[blondeatlast]

10. Complete lyrics; I can't remember who did the song originally but it wasn't Bette.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bettemidler/imawoman.html

[Eric J in MN]

12. Peggy Lee did it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Woman

I don't know if she was the first.

[blondeatlast]

13. Wow; that's right. She made it count, too.

But that Enjoli ad was dreadful, I remember it all too well.

[Eric J in MN]

14. How was the ad dreadful? NT

NT

[Bakunin]

15. Charly

That was the one where the woman would walk along with some dude in a suit and casually pat him on the ass, right?

[Eric J in MN]

17. This Charlie perfume ad doesn't have butt patting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5juK-UrgJG0

Maybe there is another ad for Charlie perfume which does.

[ironflange]

18. Thank you

I was just recently thinking about that commercial, and couldn't remember what it was selling.

[Eric J in MN]

19. I saw the ad as a little kid, and I could remember some of the lyrics, but...

...I never knew what product the ad was for until recently.

[ironflange]

20. Ditto

I only remembered the "bring home the bacon. . ." part.

[Elidor]

21. "I can't seem to forget you..."

"Your Windsong stays on my mind..."