Showing posts with label Electric Youth. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Electric Youth by Debbie Gibson c1989

Thinking of some of the first fragrances I ever owned, my memory was whooshed back into 6th grade, 1990/1991, I instantly thought of Electric Youth and Ex-cla-ma-tion!. A friend of mine had both and I loved them, each had an unusual smell that was perfect for my pre-teen years.

Originally produced in 1989, and discontinued only a few years later, Debbie Gibson loudly entered in the fragrance scene with the flirty perfume “Electric Youth,”.

The perfume was composed of a blend of citrus, grapefruit being the star , other fruit essential oils and the addition of ylang ylang, and hot pink juice, it rendered a fruity scent that my friends and I use to spritz the halls of our elementary school liberally, if not, waaaaaay too much.


  • Top notes: aldehydes, grapefruit, other citrus notes
  • Middle notes: ylang ylang, watermelon, red berries
  • Base notes: musk, woods, amber


 The perfume came encased in a box styled after a neon sign. The bottle was just as cool, it contained a pink coil inside so it had that you know "electric" thing going on..

The core fragrance was composed of a blend of citrus and other fruit essential oils, rendering a fruity scent known to be popular with the teenager demographic of the day.

 Electric Youth was a celebrity scent designed by Deborah Gibson. It was manufactured by Revlon Consumer Products Corporation and distributed by Revlon's subsidiary, Natural Wonder Cosmetics.

 Electric Youth was marketed alongside Gibson's Atlantic Records album,  single (88919) and dance maxi-single of the same name.

Among individual products were:

  • A 1.6 oz eau de cologne (labeled Cologne Spritz)
  • A 0.96 oz eau de cologne (labeled Cologne Spritz)
  • A 0.48 oz eau de parfum (labeled Perfume Spritz)
  • A two-pack consisting of the 0.96 fl.oz. Cologne Spritz and the 0.48 fl. oz. Perfume Spritz (labeled Power Play)

My mother never did buy the perfume from me, but whenever I had a sleepover at my friend Jessica's house, we always sprayed it all nite long while watching MTV and drawing on her little sister's face with lipstick when she fell asleep. Bad girls! I know.