BONUS | Finger Blast from the Past: Impulse

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So hello, everybody, and welcome to another little snackette of Fingerbust, Fingerbust. Oh! Fingerbust found the past. Still work in progress, guys. Still work in progress. I don't know if this is growing on me. Okay, right, Luz, are you ready for this week's finger blast from the past? And I'm going to be using my finger quite heavily and I will be blasting you. Go on. Are you ready to be blasted by my finger? Oh God. Ready? Make it fast. Oh, there we go. Oh, my.

goodness. Now, Luz, what have I just, right, just smell it. What have I just blasted you with, with my finger? What is that? What's it giving you? What's it giving you notes of? um it's given me p p changing rooms p changing rooms also pj and duncan oh what else what else was it evoking deep within your soul it's given me and i'm gonna say 1996

I reckon we're probably in 96 here. Well, that is possibly correct because I have just blasted you with a lovely vintage impulse O2 body spray. I'm just, I'm going to, oh my God. Oh, I've just done netball and I can't be bothered having a shower. Oh, that's what I'm doing right now. I've got it as well. Have you got it? Oh. Oh.

Oh my God, we're so flammable right now. You know, it's like sometimes like music, you get like a nostalgic little smells. Whoa, whoa, whoa. The nostalgia. The nostalgia. The nostalgia that this stuff, I thought I was classy AF with my bottle of impulse. Oh my God. You can forget. You know, you miss Dior perfume. You can forget all of that. J'adore. None of that. None of that. You had your impulse. It's really got on the back of my throat.

I never knew this and I've never paid attention to this. What do you think the actual scent is? Floral. Just generic shit floral smell. There is a stronger note in this that I never realised. Go on then. Lemon. No. like a bit of like a bit of like a bit of sif lemon jif like if we're going back to the originals let's go jif lemon lemon i could never really get on board with sif

What the fuck is like when they change Starburst? Yeah, from opal fruits to Starburst. And marathons to Snickers. Yeah, I mean, oh my God. All right, grandad. Yeah, I don't remember a marathon. I'm like, yeah, yeah, remember when they did that? I know we're talking about the olden days. Yeah, come on, Bert.

but no yeah um but yeah this is lemon and a freezer is a flower i think is it oh well but even i love the fact so impulse have brought these back this is this is not sponsored by impulse by the way we just love this in the past were to be sponsored by impulse we wouldn't say no um but even the packaging it is it looks the same exactly the same apart from it says impulse throwback um so yeah this one was called o2 not like the arenas

And then I've got another one. Go on, what have you got? So I actually, I discovered this in... Morrisons yesterday, right? There are more reasons to shop at Morrisons. I really, really remember Impulse 02 because I feel like that one launched around our prime teenage years, right? Yeah, it was, yeah. So everyone had 02. The prime smelly years. Yeah, and I think like this.

deodorant in it though was there there was no it was just covering up covered up yeah so actually i kind of missed the secondary note which is stinky teenage girl yeah as well better be a bit of be a from your school jumper yeah yeah Anyway, so this one, I don't remember this one, but I remember the smell. Oh, okay. Right, I feel like we need to waft away. Waft the O2 away. Right. Okay. Now.

Let's go back. I want you to close your eyes, Sophie. Okay. Close your eyes. Tell me. Okay, right. Don't spray it too close to my face. I've got my eyes closed. I don't trust you. I'm going to go from over here. Okay, right now. Oh, God, it burns my retinas.

I wonder what's in this. What is in this? Highly flammable. Highly flammable. Highly flammable. Oh my God. Can you smell it? Nobody light a match with it anywhere near us for the next three days. I feel like it lingers. I can smell it. Right, now I think this was... what was knocking about before O2. I see that one for me doesn't bring as much nostalgia as the O2. Does it not? Well, you would have been younger. That one has got definite notes of toilet air freshener.

Oh, right, is what I'd say. Like, you've had a tricky poo at school and then you didn't want anyone to know, so you had to spray afterwards. Impulse air. Yeah, it just doubled as an air freshener, didn't it? Does it remind you of any particular boys?

Well, I went to an all-girls church for England High School, so no, not really. No, no. Any celebrity crushes? This has given me Leonardo DiCaprio. What, because you got that close to him, you could smell it, you used a bit of impulse? No, but when I smelt this, I was obsessed with... The likes of Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh my God, I'm so upset. Do you know what I used to do? Oh God. With Leonardo. Finger blast.

I wish that he'd finger blast. My God, absolutely. But do you know what I find with Leonardo DiCaprio, it was always so upsetting that I was always either too young for him because I was 12 or now I'm too old for him. Do you know, like there was never a peak time. Because he only dates 19-year-olds at the time. It was never meant to be. It was never meant to be. But also, have you seen him now? An amazing actor. Let's not take away from him. Very amazing actor. What's he in Gilbert Graves?

very good film we've seen that do you know what i've never seen it but um i got oh my god that that is so in the back of my throat i'm like um i saw a facebook um you know the way like you just get shit stuff on facebook but it was it was a clip some random person had posted a clip of what's eating gilbert great and the bit where he finds his mom dead oh god it's honestly the acting in that yeah

was a lot younger then as well brilliant yeah still would have banged him so do you know what i used to do with leo well i used to buy heat magazine and i used to cut out all the pictures of leo yeah like just going in la just going for a coffee like he'd been papped and really unflattering pictures but i'd cut them out and i'd just stick them on my wall like not posters i just have like a weird story you know like the weirdo in the bodyguard yeah

who like gets a piece of material falls off her costume as a wank to it and sticks it on the wall a shrine to leonardo dicaprio guess what i had on my bedroom wall what cutouts of prince william from from hello magazine from hello there was a special there was a prince william special in hello magazine for his to mark his 16th birthday when he was at eton and oh my good god he was drop dead gorgeous he had like

sloppy hair then um and then my friend laura my friend laura her mum rose used to whenever there was a picture of prince william she would always cut it out for me so i basically just had her newspaper stickings yeah like actual stalkers do you know who else was my crush back in the days of impulse go go weird go left field right okay let's think