Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific Explained

Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific was a popular fragrance shampoo[1] manufactured by the Andrew Jergens Company from 1976 through the late 1980s. The shampoo is noted for its unusually pungent floral scent that softened after rinsing and remained fragrant in the user's hair for an extended period of time.[2] The shampoo's unique aroma has been described as similar to a combination of chamomile, bubblegum and sage.[1]

While out of production in the United States since the late 1980s, the formula was licensed to Vibelle Manufacturing Corporation of Malabon, Philippines and is currently sold in the Philippines, where it is still popular.[3]

2011 publication Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? refers to the product as the "crowning glory of the shampoo aisle", praising its "pop-art packaging" and claiming it "smelled of the '70s".[4]

In pop culture

The product's unusually long name was satirized on The Simpsons. In one episode, Patty Bouvier waxes her upper lip using a product called "Gee, Your Lip Looks Hairless," and in another episode, a sports venue on the show had been named "The Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific Arena."[5]

It was also mentioned in the season 4 Boy Meets World episode "Fishing for Virna"; when Shawn and his father Chet babysit Frankie's little brother Herman, the latter steals the Hunters' bottle of shampoo, for which he is later made to return it and apologize. After Herman does so, an astounded Chet exclaims "All the valuable things we have in this trailer, and you steal our shampoo?! What kind of weird little thief are you?".

In the 2004 episode of the comedy TV show Will & Grace, Will & Grace & Vince & Nadine (season 7, episode 7), Karen Walker mentions that she has bought Grace a bottle of Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.[6]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Conklin . Joan . Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific! . Scent Sate . 6 May 2019 . 8 December 2011.
  2. Book: Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns. 2000. Gale Group. 978-0-7876-3042-3. 829–832. Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific Campaign.
  3. Web site: McBride . Jocelyn . Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific Shampoo . Walk Memory Lane . 6 May 2019 . 30 November 2014.
  4. Book: Cooper, Gael Fashingbauer . Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s and 80s . Bellmont . Brian . 2011-06-07 . Penguin . 978-1-101-51599-0 . en . Body on Tap incorporated beer! Lemon Up had a lemon-shaped top! Faberge Organic wanted its users to tell two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on. But the crowning glory of the shampoo aisle was Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific. Few products made an entire sentence their name, and such a goofy one to boot....The pop-art packaging, with its deep-pink bottle and chubby multicolored letters, further encouraged the purchase. And the scent sealed the deal. It smelled kind of like a combination of your sister's perfume, an opium den, and the hanging air freshener in your older brother's Chevy van. Put together, it smelled of the '70s..
  5. Book: Alberti, John. Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. 2004. Wayne State University Press. 978-0-8143-2849-1. registration.
  6. Web site: "Will & Grace & Vince & Nadine".

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