4711 Ice Cologne - 'it's cold as ice' (Australian ad, 1979)

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  • Various Television commercials from Australia:
    This advertisement for 4711 Ice Cologne was first broadcast on Australian television in the year 1979.
    Main line: It's cold as ice.
    Cool change you can keep in your pocket.
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    Australian Television Advertisement Ad Commercial Late Seventies 1970's 1970s
    70's 70s AustralianAds

ความคิดเห็น • 188

  • @peecee1384
    @peecee1384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This recording might date from 1979 but I reckon the ad was on telly as early as 1976. I remember mum buying me some to carry in my school bag, for the hot summer days. I probably didn’t appreciate her kindness at the time. Thanks mum for caring about me 😔

  • @s3tTz
    @s3tTz 14 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Headlights are well and truly on! :D

  • @jamesfrench7299
    @jamesfrench7299 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This makes me want to go back to 1979 like nothing else! I was in kindergarten at the time.

    • @childrensorg856
      @childrensorg856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm about the same age and can still sing along to these ads.

    • @glamnesianouveaux2039
      @glamnesianouveaux2039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me toooooo! I was 4 and I used to take off this ad even then. It has stayed with me till now.

  • @steveskrobot9496
    @steveskrobot9496 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I cant believe I remember this. I was only 5 but it sticks in your brain

  • @AndrewW
    @AndrewW 9 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    OMG This is the best commercial - and I have a bottle still at home. It's not cold as ice any more lol

    • @shanethemuzz5060
      @shanethemuzz5060 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, put it in the damn bloody fridge or freezer, smartarse‼️

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura ปีที่แล้ว

      was it ever

  • @crossbj
    @crossbj 12 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The 70's were the best

  • @ravenmaenad
    @ravenmaenad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I remember this ad vividly... pretty sure there’s a follow up where she’s riding a bike in short shorts and they zoom right in there lol. So 70s.

    • @longhairedlayabout
      @longhairedlayabout ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You may be thinking of a Paul Hogan Show skit with Karen Pini riding a bike to the tune of The Push Bike Song.

    • @cansee0
      @cansee0 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That was Paul hogan

  • @rogergreen9861
    @rogergreen9861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Karen West, 1980 Australian Playboy Playmate of the Year, for those wondering.

    • @videowilliams
      @videowilliams 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Ahh thank you, fellow Man of Culture.

  • @richard1963c
    @richard1963c 15 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This ad ran for at least 3 years. I had a thing for the little blondie on it, and I used to "study" her very hard! Hey, I was a teenager!

    • @peecee1384
      @peecee1384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes I reckon this was on TV in 1976 - I remember mum wanting to get me some and I was still in primary school.

    • @Rikk_Klaww777
      @Rikk_Klaww777 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I studied her very "hard" too..🥰😂👍

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No bra lol

    • @sonofagreatsouthernland
      @sonofagreatsouthernland ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lundsweden Poor thing hahahaaaaa

  • @basedbattledroid3507
    @basedbattledroid3507 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The blonde sheila is the most 70s thing about it, reminds me of Delvine Delaney from Paul Hogan.

    • @longhairedlayabout
      @longhairedlayabout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      She's Karen West. She was also in Paul Hogan Show. She was in Arthur Dungas exercise skit.

    • @mickcarson8504
      @mickcarson8504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@longhairedlayabout
      Yep, do we still have those type of women nowadays? Nah! Muslims stepped in and stopped all that, no more bikinis on the beaches, no more topless. Ha!

    • @mickcarson8504
      @mickcarson8504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @fred bloggs
      No Fred. Skin cancer stopped it. Femi nist stopped the rest and that was bad enough until Mus lims arrived and saw women with G-strings and they got offended enough to put an end to it, or else bom bs will fly. You forgot that, Fred?

    • @mickcarson8504
      @mickcarson8504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @fred bloggs
      Down cold Melbourne, Sir. I haven't seen a bikini sheila for nearly 30 years. All clothed down here. Times have changed, unlike Paul Hogan days 😕

    • @mickcarson8504
      @mickcarson8504 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @fred bloggs
      Arent you so lucky, Fred? I lived in the Esplanade in St. Kilda 30 years ago. Lots of flappettes in those days. Now all I see are lots of Madonnas (Mus lims). I moved in the bush and all I see is lots of birds (feathered variety?

  • @PlaAwa
    @PlaAwa 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i remember this same ad making a surprise comeback in the late 80's

  • @germanicelt
    @germanicelt 15 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Give me back the Australia of that time, any day.

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hkmonaro8153 that's what the Aboriginals say about you ya drongo

    • @lisaa6099
      @lisaa6099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      1 million percent agree

    • @germanicelt
      @germanicelt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fingerprint5511 But now they love all the supermarkets and cars and free stuff from the government.

  • @diggler2002
    @diggler2002 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting.

  • @anoldman9743
    @anoldman9743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Anyone else here after seeing this on hard quiz?

  • @jessesands4099
    @jessesands4099 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Remember this ad very well especially the blonde on the bike!😀🌬️❄️🚴

    • @shanethemuzz5060
      @shanethemuzz5060 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      m.th-cam.com/video/3LZ9TGOGt04/w-d-xo.html

    • @SoupA150
      @SoupA150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Who could forget!

  • @harrybutler98
    @harrybutler98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Golden oldie !

  • @sue412141
    @sue412141 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @AustralianAds
    The girl is Karen West. She was a model and made a number of guest appearances on the Paul Hogan show. She was also Playboy Playmate of the Year around 1981.

  • @grairsupra
    @grairsupra 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4711 ice is my favorite Eau de Cologne!
    nice cold effect!

  • @MrXcmaniac
    @MrXcmaniac 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Superb! She's a great looking sheila in yellow and thats when there was no stupid political correctness which allowed this fine ad to be on TV and become a favourite amongst many Aussies.

  • @shux422
    @shux422 15 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    So cologne is meant to be smothered all over your forehead??? I've been getting it wrong all these years.

    • @childrensorg856
      @childrensorg856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was it supposed to be kept in the fridge? Lol.

    • @peecee1384
      @peecee1384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Of course - they want you to use it up so you have to buy more 🤣

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว

      The had no aircon back then, brutal. Apparently underwear (especially bras) were hard to find too!

    • @peatpage4131
      @peatpage4131 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@A.Sweden no air-conditioning ? . We had air-conditioning at our home in Australia in the 70s .

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@peatpage4131 How about underwear then?!

  • @australianenglishwithjason9518
    @australianenglishwithjason9518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Is 0:20 the most seductive noise ever or what!?

  • @pauliejay4161
    @pauliejay4161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a young boy, the blonde girl - ditzy as all hell. And then I needed five minutes to myself afterwards...
    I remember Ice Cologne. My family used it, and yes, it was cold as ice, for a few minutes.

  • @Maxxply
    @Maxxply 15 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    She is - or closely resembles - Karen West. She appeared on the Paul Hogan Show when 1) Arthur Dunger does his push-ups and 2) Hoges parodies George Negus - she's the buxom babe in each of those scenes. Cheers.

    • @Richo3121
      @Richo3121 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And she was perfection 🥰

  • @gribbler1695
    @gribbler1695 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I still have that small bottle from when I left home in 1986, with 1/5th left, and it wasn't mine.

  • @Snaerffer
    @Snaerffer ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was the best stuff for getting ticks out too ….. just place the opened bottle over them and they backed right out!

  • @806slidingdoors
    @806slidingdoors 12 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I love it! I remember this ad. Everyone likes the blonde best. Giggle

  • @thisistheendpt2
    @thisistheendpt2 15 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You would put it on your temples and wrists and it would cool you down in Summer. It was amazing.

  • @retrothingz
    @retrothingz ปีที่แล้ว

    The "young lass" (as our parents would have called her) at the end.. certainly gave teenage boys quite a......ahhh......lift

  • @70s80sVidz
    @70s80sVidz 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome...if only someone could find the 4711 ad that Sherbet did...OMG that would be amazing !

    • @karenlou4794
      @karenlou4794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Type in Sherbet 4711 commercial

  • @odenknight2907
    @odenknight2907 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh fook !! I rember that 🤣🤣🤣.. especially that girl on the bike

  • @manchuriancandybar864
    @manchuriancandybar864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As cold as menthol cigarettes.

  • @tjfaust
    @tjfaust 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Linked to my site's review of "baby it's you" by Promises, as girls like in this ad were the ones we were "watching"! Cheers and keep them coming! It is as cold as Ice and I still giggle when I see a bottle around today!

  • @roachtoasties
    @roachtoasties 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I was looking up "Cold as Ice" by Foreigner, and this came up. Maybe TH-cam is telling me I'm late for my annual bath. The chick at 0:05 certainly isn't shy about herself. ;)

    • @MNCPMSteve
      @MNCPMSteve 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      More like 0:20

  • @Scottie_S
    @Scottie_S 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @venuecam Funnily enough, I have a small sample bottle here that I have used and it hasn't dissolved any of my extremities that I have applied it to. I still have some left, and it actually still smells as good as it did when I got it.

  • @richie1957aus
    @richie1957aus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Brings back a lot of mammaries

  • @bradthurkle7217
    @bradthurkle7217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great memories 👍

  • @NicholasDee
    @NicholasDee 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow....that takes me back . . .

  • @christinehendrix2080
    @christinehendrix2080 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brings be back to a time when things were a lot easier

  • @Scottie_S
    @Scottie_S 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @grairsupra Thanks so much for that! I haven't seen it in shops in Australia for years and years. I'll see if I can get it imported.

  • @petersmith9785
    @petersmith9785 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's cold as ice ooooh!!

  • @robertshaw2510
    @robertshaw2510 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i found a bottle of this recently still smells just as i rembember it

  • @Scottie_S
    @Scottie_S 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember a 4711 ad that featured Daryl Braithwaite singing the jingle. Not sure if it was Sherbet doing the whole thing though, as it's been a while...

  • @Discovios
    @Discovios 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @germanicelt That Australia never died. I saw it yesterday at Renmark/Barmera Field Day in South Australia. Lovely people.

  • @BigDadO4
    @BigDadO4 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think that's a young John Wood driving the truck!

  • @wombatcarey8628
    @wombatcarey8628 ปีที่แล้ว

    There was a version back around 1971 when a guy throws ice onto the back of a girl wearing a halter neck dress. I think Daryl Braithwaite sang the song.

  • @MegaTrickyOne
    @MegaTrickyOne 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fuck me! Old Aussie ads really were shit ay. Next ill be watching that old Swan larger ad with Bondy in it lol

  • @ACDZ123
    @ACDZ123 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember 4711 products collecting dust at the back of our bathroom cabinet basically the entire 70s..mum didn't use it obviously 😂

  • @TheAxelay
    @TheAxelay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The way that blonde chick laughs and acts LMAO!! Again never again nowadays sigh...

  • @mickcarson8504
    @mickcarson8504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They don't apply Ice anymore, they take it.

  • @Audace1400
    @Audace1400 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember a bottle of this stuff hanging around in our closet up until the late 90s.

  • @fredo1070
    @fredo1070 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm sold

  • @lundsweden
    @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว

    The lady on the bike is the highlight IMO!

  • @Loscha
    @Loscha 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can get plain 4711 in Au, I got some today for my Mum, thinking it was the "ICE" kind. It's available in the UK on eBay.
    Also; the woman with dark hair is Judy Nunn, Ailsa form Home and Away.

    • @rogergreen9861
      @rogergreen9861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know I'm 8 years late to this debate but there is no way that's Judy Nunn.

    • @lionheart-mn7gh
      @lionheart-mn7gh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rogergreen9861 agree with you there .. I too have come here 8 years later and felt compelled to say the same thing but you beat me to it by two weeks 😉

  • @gregiles908
    @gregiles908 ปีที่แล้ว

    Almost as fashionable as 'Soap on a Rope' in 1979.

  • @kenn82draw
    @kenn82draw 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:20 Enough said.

  • @robertshaw2510
    @robertshaw2510 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yes you did she is awesome wish we got the full wardrobe malfunction lol

  • @james_tiberius_kirk73
    @james_tiberius_kirk73 ปีที่แล้ว

    My 12 year old self paid attention to this ad.

  • @thewilfer
    @thewilfer 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow...the last time I saw this commercial for 25-30 years ago...."It`s cold as ice, aaahhhhh"

  • @1966human
    @1966human 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep i remember the ad

  • @grairsupra
    @grairsupra 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @gupsnot 4711 ice is available in Germany at the factory MAURER & WIRTZ.
    I bought 4711 ice in Germany.

  • @Richo3121
    @Richo3121 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wish that bike seat was my face 😊

  • @OOHMIB
    @OOHMIB 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The blonde is Karen West 1980 Pet of the year!! She also appeared on The Paul Hogan Show on a few occasions!!

    • @doktormorris
      @doktormorris 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      OOHMIB thank you my man, that information will come in handy

  • @belairscents
    @belairscents 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Funny commercial😉

  • @salemthemerciless
    @salemthemerciless 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    @the 19 second mark , put the video on the slowest speed.

    • @Chris-wq3pe
      @Chris-wq3pe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      top tip thank you for that

    • @NxDoyle
      @NxDoyle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There are literally millions of hours of pornography at your fingertips and you get all pervy at a 40 yr old deodorant commercial.

    • @australianenglishwithjason9518
      @australianenglishwithjason9518 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😳😳🤩🤩😜😜

  • @jasonbolster3259
    @jasonbolster3259 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I can't take no more
    And I want a nice cool breeze
    When I'm hot right to the core
    And I really want to freeze
    I just grab my Ice Cologne. Take my advice
    It's cold as ice. Ah.
    It's cold as ice. Ah.
    It's cold as ice. [the most seductive noise ever]
    It's cold as ice.
    4711 Ice Cologne. The cool change you can keep in your pocket.
    [the most seductive noise ever]

  • @gpwnedable
    @gpwnedable 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You mean Cheryl Rixon? I don't think so. Her image was forever burned into the back of my retinas when I was 13.

  • @derhampaul2182
    @derhampaul2182 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was born in 1972

  • @mayort6548
    @mayort6548 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Make you look crash hot. Even if you're not. Funny stuff.

  • @machiavelli99
    @machiavelli99 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @weirpicki
    No its not Karen West.

  • @adammic16
    @adammic16 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    That voice over guy sound very much like the voice over guy on the Torana hatchback 8 minute commercial.

  • @kingandrewcecil348
    @kingandrewcecil348 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the blonde girl in this ad has such a cute voice

  • @fassenm6041
    @fassenm6041 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    4711 IS A NICE SMELL.

  • @bonniebianco5918
    @bonniebianco5918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I need to cool down right now.

  • @bluebellrock
    @bluebellrock 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tried hard to remember this but I just couldn't until it got to the "oo-oo-oooh!" Then I remembered it. Great typeface on the "ICE" bottle.

  • @richard1963c
    @richard1963c 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Probably would have crashed his truck if he was watching Blondie do her icing thing!

  • @Klistern2
    @Klistern2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9

  • @theaussiebackflipboy
    @theaussiebackflipboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    AND truth in advertising dies an unnatural death. If it isn't ice, it isn't cold.

  • @mickcarson8504
    @mickcarson8504 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOL. Each time this ad appeared I used to say, go and have a bath you stinky-pops, stop masking your BO with perfumes.

  • @reubenjones3818
    @reubenjones3818 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looked like the bloke who was in "The Zoo Family". Another bloke remindd me of John Wood.

  • @derhampaul2182
    @derhampaul2182 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't remember that

  • @Flinklehurst
    @Flinklehurst 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching this ad makes me so angry about the political correctness today I bet they wouldn't show this ad today because they would be so worried about it being so politically incorrect I mean just look at this ad!

  • @Sonoftoenails93
    @Sonoftoenails93 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @AustralianAds I did =D

  • @zaniac100
    @zaniac100 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're think of Cheryl Rixon who was in 'The Box'. No it is not Cheryl.

  • @chipsotool
    @chipsotool 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    yep i want the truckie

  • @Scottie_S
    @Scottie_S 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @grairsupra If you know where to get it now, don't keep it a secret!

  • @noelgibson5956
    @noelgibson5956 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hot right to the core........you can say that again!💃👀♥️

  • @SGH28N
    @SGH28N 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everyone wants the girl.... I want the truckie !!

  • @samarmytage6199
    @samarmytage6199 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yeah cheryl , topless in some car movie , i remember karen was in a red bikini leaning fwd , paul was like norm - life be in it.

  • @mrssmallwood404
    @mrssmallwood404 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't remember this ad but my grandma had a bottle & it stunk! I also can't imagine why you would be putting perfume on your face??

  • @richard1963c
    @richard1963c 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    While I'm here, does anybody out there know who did the voiceover? Whoever it was did lots of them. And my little girlfriend looks familiar, anybody know who SHE is? She'd have to be at least 50 by now.

  • @bloggaloggs
    @bloggaloggs 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @superspit Well spotted!

  • @SGH28N
    @SGH28N 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    oooooooohhhhhhhhh !!!

  • @sue412141
    @sue412141 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @thedys70 I do know for sure it's Karen and can tell you she turned 60 last November!

  • @superspit
    @superspit 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    'W-Class' Tram @ 0.23?....Melbourne made ad?....hehehe.

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was a little kid when this came out, pre-deodorant/cologne/after shave days, but I still thought it was weird that the woman in the sweat shop was using roll-on on her face.

  • @zaniac100
    @zaniac100 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @warhawkification Yes in more ways than one.

  • @leglessinoz
    @leglessinoz 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    definitely not Judy Nunn

  • @fitnesswithdavidau
    @fitnesswithdavidau 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can see a gap in Yellow girls front teeth at 0:10. It's not obvious in the other 2 or 3 shots. So this maybe the Karen West you're talking about.

  • @samarmytage6199
    @samarmytage6199 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    is the bubbly blonde - rachel rixon ?

  • @speedservicio
    @speedservicio 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:20 jajajajajaj