Ex`cla-ma`tion Coty for women

I still love the smell of this perfume.
I used to wear it a lot in the early 90's when I was a young teen...I bought it to recapture memories.
I wore it every day when I was 14ish because I didnt have a perfume collection but I still think it smells great and is worth wearing often...Just not as often as then :)

This came out the year I graduated college. I saw it at Walgreens last Fall and was shocked back to the late 1980s. Amazingly, I still like it. The body spray is a great deal for the money. The scent is not overwhelming and lasts all day.

I loved the ads. I remember this being so very powdery. I think I use to like it just because it was in all the magazines.

My older sister wore this in high school and she used to smell great. I haven't smelled it in years, but I remember it being loud without causing headaches.

Ah, the memories!!! It was my favorite scent in high-school (along with all the other girls' favorite LOL). I don't remember exactly what it smells like, but I remember I loved it. I had it in green, too. I remember getting two identical green bottles for my 16th birthday, I was so ecstatic.

It also gave me a rash on my neck... Oh, well :D

Ahhhh....the memories. Me & about 10 million other high school girls ALL smelling of Exclamation! I loved this! And loving the trip down memory lane reading all the reviews. Do you think I can get away with wearing it now if I refer to it as 'vintage'? ;)

Do you see that ad, there? Do you see those colors -- white, black and pink? "Exclamation" perfectly captures that late 80's, early 90's transition in fashion from massive excess into extreme minimalism; "Dynasty" and "Dallas" gave way to the retro-chic, the French 1920's inspired early 90's of "Benny and Joon" and "Singles". Louise Brooks made a cultural comeback as a style icon (check "Loulou" by Cacharel) and Isabella Rosselini and Linda Evangelista caught-on; big hair morphed into pin-straight chin bobs and gelled, pin curls. Sailor stripes and black/white contrast made their entrance.

But what does it smell like? Well, a little bit "lipstick rose" of the 80's, a little sheer citrus and anise of the 90's. There's retro facepowder and cream and a lovely sense of patent leather artifice; it's an olfactory impression of plastic, white earrings, black polka dots on sweater dresses. It's floral but plasticky at the same time; it's rich and "big" but smooth and bright (even optimistic) at the same time. It's a big personality of a fragrance and very, very little goes a long way or you'll be that man or woman "With Too Much Fragrance On". You'll be that one.

But if "Exclamation" is you and you have a light hand for application, it's a really fascinating snap-shot of a very particular style and elusive moment in time. I like it on the right person and would enjoy wearing it to add an occasional quirk to my fragrance pattern. So chic, so sleek, such spunk!

Hello! This fragrance was my favourite perfum. :) I have it in 75 ml bottle. My 2nd Ex`cla-ma`tion by Coty was GREEN. It was especially too. Know it anybody? And the Sheer, Blush, Dance, Flirty, Star, Noir fragrances? :)

I remember when when this came out. I sprayed the tester in the air, and all I could smell was bug spray. This is without a doubt the strongest, nastiest, most gag-inducing perfume I've ever smelled. One girl I knew would wear this all the time and I tried to stay as far away from her as I could so I wouldn't get a headache. It's my number one most hated perfume.

I don´t know it but I think that it is wonderful cause it is a Sophia Grojsman´s creation.

I had this as a teenager. I used to love it. I don't remember the smell exactly. But I do remember loving it.

i remember i always used to use my sisters exclamation powder when i was very young, smelled so good. i almost always have a little bottle of this. its super cheap but i love it! Ava Luxes doll face smells of this so much.

I don't like at first it is very artificial
I love smelling like soap but for the first ten minutes or so it is bubble soap.
It dries down to a simple floral and soft powdery-ness and then it is ok. I agree that it is sweet but in a way that isn't working for me. It's like sweet skin, which I'm not a fan of.

Like many of the people on here, it was one of,if not, the first perfumes I ever wore... I actually still have the bottle I was given way back by my grandparents.
It's a blast from the past that I can't bear to smell in case I hate it now! :P

strong floral I used to wear; received many compliments:) however there were times when I felt my respiratory system was compromised due to potency of inhalation from this perfume. few spritzes and this perfume lasts all day.

Oh my gosh! This sure brings back memories! Lol As other reviewers noted this as being their first perfume, as was the same with me. I was eight years old when this came out and my mom used to buy it for me because she thought it was age-appropriate. Let's see if I can remember-it was a sweet scent and very upbeat too; I remember it put me in a good mood when I wore it. This was the only perfume my mom would let me wear when I was young; I wanted to wear hers, but she always said "Whitney, you're way too young to wear mine". I never knew what she meant until I got a little older. Lol Oh Lord, I liked this but I don't think that I would ever revisit. I think now, to me, it would smell too cheap and drugstore-y. For now, I'll just stick with my childhood memories of this frag. :)

I totally forgot about this perfume, until I saw it here, but this was the very first perfume I ever owned, back in 5th or 6th grade. I loved it! I'm sure if I smelled it now it would smell too "young" and "drugstore" for me but I'm almost tempted to try and find a bottle just to sniff it and bring back the memories :)

a classic from my childhoood, but a little too sweet smelling for me now

This is nostalgia, one of my first perfumes I had, exciting scent then, I really loved this, but now a year since I bought it again, just because I liked it, that be not the same anymore, of course, the same scent, but not really. keep it in memory instead!

along with charlie red this is one of the first perfumes I owned. I preferred it to charlie red. It lasted long and it was one of those smells that got everyones attention.

i dont think i will buy it again because I am early 30's and this as i remember is deffo a teeny smell. So not for us oldies lol!

Someone bought this for me in the 90s when I was about 13, and I never did like it. I remember being pleased when I finished the bottle. To me it smelt cheap, strong and alcoholic. I sprayed it in class once and a boy said it smelt like Malibu and Coke, which I thought was a good description.

I haven't used this for ten years but I might smell it in the shops next time I go, just to see what I think of it now.

First perfume I ever owned. Wore it all through highschool. I don't think it's all that bad, to this day but I feel that it's a perfume suited for a very young crowd. Oddly enough my best gal friend told me my new Chanel Eau Premiere smells like Exclamation to her, which I really don't understand. Lol.

it s a very comforting scent nothing too complicated, but still very round and grosjmany, not bad at all!

I thought this fragrance was terrible back when it first came out, and I actually still do. For some reason I could never understand, everyone loved this stuff when it came out and there was no escaping it in every mall, school hallway, bus, or public place. To me, it has a sickly sweet aroma like rotting fruit and flowers. I guess it was original and different for its time, not to mention affordable. It's not the absolute worst scent I've ever smelled but I definitely do not miss this.

a happy-go-lucky spirit surrounds me when i wear this.i wore it as a teenager and i've only recently rediscovered it.the frag. is going to be worn at work in the nursing home,as it isn't as 'confrontational' as many of my others in my warddrobe

Like many others have said , this is nostalgic frags for me !! One of my first perfumes.

Its not in the database , but my favorite was the "Green" version. Fresher and not as sweet as the original Exclamation. Seems like its yet another that's hard to find now though!


I don't think my taste could stomach exclamation now , maybe in the cooler weather i shall try again. NO way i could wear it in the hot weather were having now though. Its a very sweet and sometimes cloying frag.

Try the green if you get the chance!!

One of my first drug store fragrances. Loved the woodsy nature of the scent. It was fun to use in my youth as a cheerleader!

This is a real coming of age scent for me- I wore it as a student because it was the best I could afford and I loved it. Can't actually recall what it smells like but I thought I was the bees knees in it.

A subtile scent , an elegant fragrance it's very RETRO and I think with a small plus detail it can be a good perfume.Good Luck!

Who didn't own this Coty classic in the 90's?!

just added this to my collection today. Soft and fuzzy. I really like and it cost hardly anything.

An old-time favorite, this takes me back to the early 1990's when I loved wearing this at age 20-ish.

Creamy, soft, cozy, warm, feminine. A delicious scent. And long-wearing too.

I love a lot of Sophia Grojsman's fragrance creations.

More than 1 spritz is just TOO MUCH, so about 1/2 a spritz on my wrist then pressed together is the perfect amount to smell delicious all day without suffocating me (lol). It has a strong nuance of sweet cotton candy & marshmallow to me, & hours later it mellows into something so creamy & delicious, kind of amber-ish. For me a small bottle (1/2 oz?) lasts forever.

I'm thrilled this fragrance is still around in every drugstore & am going to get the aerosol body spray too! Love it. I haven't worn this for about 18 yrs & am now rediscovering the joy of it.

Exclamation takes me way back, and the memories are fond. This was one of the first five perfumes I was given as a gift from my mom. It is a little powdery, and quite a fresh but soft floral. I just found out that Sophia Grojsman made it, and that is a nice surprise. I have always had a very specific taste in perfumes. All of the negative reviews seem to be the same. They hated it because it was worn by girls they disliked. I imagine that's how girls these days feel about Pink Sugar or Juicy Couture. In 10-20 years some women will hate those, simply because a catty girl wore it.

i was never a big fan of this perfume. it went on strong with a huge alcohol/floral scent. it just didn't mix well with my chemistry. when it dried down i always felt like i smelled like an old woman or that i had on perfume that had went bad. not my fragrance at all from back in the day.

Brings me back to the days when Exclamation made me smell and feel different.

The days when all my middle school colleagues where into Avon but I had Exclamation .

It was fresh, had some sense of rebellion in it and it was different form all the other perfumes I had at that time.

I could distinguish very good the lily of the valley note and it was a medium lasting perfume.

Good old Exclamation. :)

Maybe i'm wacky or smth but i do like `!`. It smells delicious, not 80`s heavy or candyish i`d say rather it's a pure smell of pop-art.
`!` has a lot of ingredients but i discovered that i love complicated scents so this one is not dissapoiting. It's sweet and flowery but orris root and musk base make itself. Without knowing the author (Grojsman) i'd say that it stands good nose behind that frag. The best of - boring and predictable - Coty range.

this really takes me back to middle school, such a long time ago... I used to love this fragrace but then I smelled it a few days ago and couldn't stand it. I guess I've grown up :-)

Another "Coty, standard issue". A melange of unidentifiable notes. Too sweet and somewhat milky.

I forgot all about this perfume...wow! Bringing back my Childhood all over again...lol...Never really liked this but, my mom bought it for me.It was very popular and the hallways pretty much reeked of this. I remember quite a few yrs back I came across a bottle of this that I had left at my parents and it smelled really cheap to me. Can't believe I wore this!

I didn't like this one much but this fragrance has good lasting power on my skin.

The regular Exclamation was too strong and overwhelming but they had a Noir version of it that was muted down and was much better. I don't see the Noir around anymore but it was exotic and smelled good. If they took the Exclamation away and sold the Noir it might do better. Regular Exclamation just hit you in the head with fragrance and came on too strong. Noir was more subtle and almost sexy and best of all not expensive.

I actually only just smelt the body spray version to this a few days back, and i'm not sure about this one. It smelt very old-fashioned to me almost old-lady smelling, but after a few more sprays I've actually come to like it. It has a sort of has a creamy or milky element to it; sort of reminds me of a fragrance by 'Diesel' which is a white bottle with a red square or something on it, cant remember what it's called..

One of the worst fragrances out there, next to Giorgio Beverly Hills. I wish that there was just one thing good to say about this scent,but it is so revolting to me. Both my mom and me agree with the horrible,heaviness of this. If someone is wearing this in a crowd,I guarantee that someone is either going to get a headache or a stomach ache.I cannot recommend this scent even if it is free.

This makes me think back to "years ago when I was a stupid teenager..."

(Roars with laughter)

A horrid fragrance which was the height of 'cool' back in the day

I don't know about you guys but the first whiff of it kinda reminds me of Dr. pepper. "smells like 1993" lol. Nostalgic? yes. Nice fragrance? not really. Not for me at least. I Wonder if anyone still buys this.

smells like its price tag, cheap :(

OMW! I got a bottle of this when I was about 13. I think I got seduced by the advertising because even then I really hated the smell, but wore it anyway because it was cool? If I had to smell this today I would still run a mile. There's just something about this fragrance that even just thinking about it makes me want to hurl :-). Oh to be a stupid teenager again.

I dont like the perfum but it brings back great memories as a child,my sister wore this perfume a lot...i miss those times!

Flashback!!! When models wore Black halter tops with polka dot full skirts and wide brim hats in a total black and white scheme!! Did I just describe the ad for this fragrance....

this was and still is an amazing scent! reminds me of the 80's hardcore......fuzzy scent.

Not bad, but I wouldn't buy it again. I used to wear this, when I was about 14. Full of innocence, good for little teens I think. This was my second fragrance :D I can't recall the smell of it completely, but if I remember well, it smelled very similar to milky-powderly-vanilla, or something like that. It didn't stay long on me. Perhaps I should refresh the sweet memories by sniffing it again :DDD

OMG talk about flashbacks. This reminds me of my childhood and my older sister. She always wore this and it always makes me think of her. She always smelt so good to me and I remember when she bought me my very own bottle I was so excited. I don't think I would be able to pull this off now as my taste have matured some but this was an awesome perfume back in the day.

This one reminds me of my childhood,one of my sisters favourites..Ahh i miss thoose times,the 90`s..It smells nice and young,careless and a free spirit.It was very popular here in Norway,and yesterday i smelled it at the store and the memories started floating.

this was the first perfume i ever got i was 13 and i got it for christmas in a gift set and wore it till i was 16 and couldnt find anywhere that sold it anymore:-(

This seemed to escape me when I was a teen. I found this at a really good price and thought why not? Surprisingly it is nice.Not sure yet what notes I am picking up on. Just smells slightly sweet with a hint of maybe amber and the cinnamon. Makes me feel like a young teenage girl again. Those were some of the best times of my life. Carefree, fresh and refreshing. I like it. Certainly won't wear it everyday, but on days when I am feeling down, I will reach for this.

Ah nostalgia.. I have this for that reason, wore it when I was a young teen in the early 1990s... Personally I like it, memories :-D I never went overboard with it though. I remember Exclamation Blush too - my friend gave me that also and I liked it as well. Super cheap but not bad smell wise, the bottle was ridiculous and not at all fitting IMO. I am not a fragrance snob and will admit this ;-)

Brought this yesterday because Tresor by Lancome isn't the same anymore.

This was the first perfume my sister and I ever owned, when we were just kids. It's... awful, to put it nicely. Especially if you wear too much off it. So potent and... I don't even know how to describe it really. But it does take me back to playing dress up as young children and being yelled at for piling on the Ex`cla-ma`tion. Not something I'd wear anymore, but at the time, we thought it smelled beautiful. =)

I actually saw this in a drug store recently and wondered if it was still being made or just old stock they were trying to get rid of. Will forever remind me of being 12 and glossy pink, white and black ads in Teen magazine. Pretty much everyone had it then! Reminds me as well of Love's Baby Soft, Jordache's Look, Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth and Friday!

Fruity soapy slightly artificial scent, that goes so well with vinyl records, washed out denim and mini skirts.

This is interesting how some fragrances stick to the particular times, trends and simply stay there, obeying the rules, without having a life of their own.

They reflect the current reality, capture the essence of it, but somehow they lack personality.

Coty Exclamation will always stay in the disco times, being so Modern Takling and Bad Boys Blue like.

An old throwback perfume! Wow! I forgot all about exclamation.But I used to like it and every girl in my school had it! I am going to have to track one of these down and buy it so I can show my daughters the most popular perfume when I was coming up.

It was absolutely "disco" scent in my life when i was 19 or so. My friend brought me it from Spain. My bottle was with the red stripe, I don't know if they are the same. I totally agree that it is a nice scent for long legged, giggling, vivacious girls at the disco.

This is so "disco"!

My aunt had brought me this many years ago. I liked it and it drew many copliments back then.

I still have the bottle with some juice in it.Unfortunately I can't wear it because it has changed with time.

Yuck! This was given to me when I was in junior high or high school. It was very popular, so I wore it, but I was hyper-sensitive to scents in those days, and this cheap, strong juice did a number on me. Why do people insist on giving young girls horrid, cheap perfume?

Funny, hyper, fruity.A delicious, slightly unnatural burst of raspberries and peaches.For long legged, giggling,vivacious girls.The spicy dry down is good - because you still can feel the sweet and sour berries after hours!
I think that it is a nice teenage perfume for a good price too.

Yup this WAS the Bomb back in the day.
LOL.
I saw Debbie Gibsons "Electric Youth" perfume on Ebay the other day & I couldn't believe it "LOL".w Remember it had that hot pink coil in the center of the bottle.
Funny Stuff!!

Oh, exclamation... This perfume was/is still very popular here in my country. Coty has affordable prices and nice aromas,although nothing spectacular. Almost every gril in my high school wore that or Chanson d' Eau, also by Coty, sooo it might be a nice scent, but I grew from loving it to hating it.

Gentle and soft without being babyish, though I can see it going powdery on certain chemistry. I can also see easy overdose on this one as it has the tiniest tendency towards cloying, so be cautious in application. Otherwise, it's almost an edible scent. Not gourmand, but vanilla-peachy with sandal undertones. And the price is pretty unbeatable.

I had this perfume years ago! Accidentaly found it on this site. Don't even remember how does it smell, but these are memories! )

I had this one approximately 25 years ago as a fresh floral alternative to Lou Lou, which was my signature fragrance at that time. I also had coty l'Aimant for a while, which I cant find here on Fragrantica. I remember I liked Coty's fragrances and also that the price was good for a young girls wallet.

i remember this one..i think i was in high school when i had this one ..COTY was sooo new to us then but remember the youg spirit that this perfume was bringing..very nice

LOL
I can't believe this perfume is up for review! It takes me waaaaaay back to my high school years when this perfume was so popular. My best friend would practically bathe herself in this scent and then we would go out on double dates together. I recall my boyfriend literally gagging when she got in the car. :D Ha ha!

It was a strong smelling perfume...or maybe not, could of been just my friend dousing in it. But I remember liking it back then. I would never wear it now!

I used to like this perfume as a teenager. Very sweet and floral, nothing too overpowering or sexy about it. It was cheap and I used to get it for Christmas. I can still recall the smell. I'd not wear it now.

This was one of my first perfumes. Oh my god!!!!! lol.I honestly can't remember how it smells?
I would like to try it though for old times sake.

OH Wow! I forgot about this one! I'm laughing as I write this. I was a really young girl when I was given this. I don't really remember who gave it to me but remember loving it.

Bought a very small bottle of this, and recieved a great many compliments, also it stays with you for quite a while.

This is yet another 80's fragrance of which I must ask the inevitable question "are they still making and selling it?" :) Because it was very popular (among young girls mostly) so many years ago that it's quite unbelievable the scent is still around. Wouldn't buy it anymore, though...

I dont recall a girl in 8th grade who DIDN't reek of this, much like Coco76.*shudders* If this is on this site, is Love's Baby Soft as well??

lol, don't worry eccentric....i can't believe its on here either!! now if they could add Alyssa Ashley Musk...

i don't think words can even express how much i hate this 'perfume'...i don't think it should be qualified as such, it should just be considered some kind of weapon...so offensive and awful! granted, i might feel that way because all the 'mean girls' wore this in grade eight, and not just a little....a whole bottles worth EACH, everyday. try being stuck on a bus for twelve hours with them on a trip to quebec...shudder
exclamation is in my top three of most hated, along with givenchy hot couture, and le baiser du dragon. all three are guaranteed to give me a headache in about three seconds flat.