What ever happened to Insignia Deodorant?

me_right_one

Does anyone remember that "Insignia" deodorant from the 80's? Mighty stuff! What ever happened to it? They had a few ads for it too but this is the only one I can find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=netiuSXifq4

Surreptitious

It was the pits.


































*Sorry

Ulysses Gaze

Still for sale.

Updated branding.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insignia-Deodorant-Body-Spray-150ml/dp/B0014E685C

me_right_one

I thought it was grand. The same company made my favourite, old spice. You can still get that????

Ulysses Gaze

me_right_one wrote: »

I thought it was grand. The same company made my favourite, old spice. You can still get that????

Yes...and you can still get Brut too.

God the 80's.

We were spoilt for choice!

Fleawuss

It turned into a car.

Atari Jaguar

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Still for sale.

Updated branding.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insignia-Deodorant-Body-Spray-150ml/dp/B0014E685C

I had that a while ago... was rubbish

foggy_lad

me_right_one wrote: »

I thought it was grand. The same company made my favourite, old spice. You can still get that????

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Yes...and you can still get Brut too.

God the 80's.

We were spoilt for choice!

Don't forget this one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_p_76_0?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A117332031%2Cn%3A118457031%2Cn%3A2790127031%2Ck%3A4711&keywords=4711&ie=UTF8&qid=1482096744

Dr Crayfish

I remember the ad jingle. "Try Insigniaaa! Create a buzz not a hum". I remember asking my dad what that meant, and fair play to him he tried to give me some kind of explanation as to the difference between a buzz and a hum.

Goya

The 80s was some decade for cheap and nasty stinking perfumes/deodorants/aftershaves - with "classy", exotic names (Insignia, Limara, Blue Stratos) and brands (Lentheric - pronounced "launtheric", I watched a documentary about it - it was made up in Britain, means nothing ) and hilariously melodramatic ads featuring Big Cats happening to walk through a European city at 5am - and human hairstyles to rival that of a lion mane.

Cortina_MK_IV

I think I had most of THESE

I thought TABAC smelled like the jax in Crumlin shopping centre.

Ulysses Gaze

Flimpson wrote: »

The 80s was some decade for cheap and nasty stinking perfumes/deodorants/aftershaves - with "classy", exotic names (Insignia, Limara, Blue Stratos) and brands (Lentheric - pronounced "launtheric", I watched a documentary about it - it was made up in Britain, means nothing ) and hilariously melodramatic ads featuring Big Cats happening to walk through a European city at 5am - and human hairstyles to rival that of a lion mane.

****ing hell...Blue Stratos

Forgot about that one!

me_right_one

Ah everything was better in the 80's. That blue Stratos ad is pure class, they dont make em like that anymore.

What about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbZr7YoqK0

Your Face

This is why old people smell like urine

me_right_one

Your Face wrote: »

This is why old people smell like urine

Why, cos you cant get Insignia anymore? Or they're not using enough Brut?

Pinch Flat

More of a hai karate man myself

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai_Karate

whiskeyman

Hands up if you use Right Guard!


Hands down if you don't!

the evasion_kid

I can remember this stuff floating around....

http://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0613/16/tv-dallas-jr-ewing-talc-after-shave_1_4c0dbd1bbe4173e2a87166304bd2637d.jpg

bazz26

Could be worse, could be Lynx.

fryup

Sure,

best deorodiant around

Cortina_MK_IV

Your Face wrote: »

This is why old people smell like urine

My old neighbour Una Ryan smelled like urine.

Junkyard Tom

The great thing about deodorant is that it attracts beautiful women to the wearer of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbZr7YoqK0

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

what was the ad with your one on the yacht in a bikini??? ...it was a 1970s commercial..it was my first sexual awakening, pitched a tent in my trousers everytime i saw it

Junkyard Tom

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

what was the ad with your one on the yacht in a bikini??? ...it was a 1970s commercial..it was my first sexual awakening, pitched a tent in my trousers everytime i saw it

I remember it so I'd say it's from the early 80's onwards (unless it was recycled from the 70's).

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^

love to see it again, and have a **** for old time sake

McChubbin

God, this thread is giving me some mad flashbacks to growing up in the early 90s. (I was born in 88 so technically can't really remember the 80s) My dad used to marinate himself in Old Spice and every time he hugged me, I'd be gassed as my face was shoved into his armpit. Rank stuff. My older brother also used to smoke out the bathroom by overdoing the Brut as a pimply teenager. God, they both smelt so rank. And Lynx. Jaysus, Lynx. I'd walk into the jax after my stepdad got ready in the morning and I'd be suffocating in the Africa fumes.
He uses Ted Baker nowadays so at least it smells nice but still, WHY do most of the menfolk I know have to use half a can/bottle of the stuff and fumigate the place with aftershave? Less is more, lads!