Красная Москва (Red Moscow)

I have some favorite perfume. Krasnaya Moskva is also my favorite one for colder season. However, this perfume has two difficult points...1) In Japan, Japan is very humid country. So I can wear only a few months. I have to wait colder season every year. From my feeling, the middle of February, it's so wonderful season for this aroma. Even very colder and darker night, I'm so happy feeling. 2) I can't buy it in Japan (cry cry and crying...) When I want to buy it, have to go to Russia or request to my friends. I hope I can buy it in Japan also. My favorite "how to wear" is dropping on the top of hair. The point is "a few", it's never one push. it's only one drop on top of a finger. After that, knead softly on a hand. That's all. When I went outside, and It was heavy windy, the warm aroma will be covered you as softly bouquet and vanilla. After I done it, many of cases, little girls who are neighborhood asked me "Wow, what's?? what's so nice aroma!!" I'm always surprised about the price when I wore this perfume. I checked the price on the official site. The price!! it's so good! (not expensive) However, the aroma gave to feel elegance. And, I love this design. I just think if you like No.5 (Chanel) or L'Heure Bleue (Guerlain), I recommend to try it! Those are not the same, but I just image of them when I wore Krasnaya Moskva first time. I'd like to say the price again and again, it's very good cost! The other hand, my friend doesn't like this perfume. She told me "I like more modern aroma, it's like a grandma". So, I think if you like more modern type, maybe it's not type of you. У меня есть много любимых духи. Красная Москва тоже мой любимий его. Но... 1) Японии очень жаркая страна в летом... а, я смогу надеть это духи только несколоко месеца. В среднии февраля я убликается надеть его. Этот сезон слишком коротки. Только это очень жалко. 2) Я не смогу купить это духи в японии (я хочу плакоть). Есль я хочу купить его ещё рас, мне надо ехать в Россию или попросить купить моих друзья которые живут в России. Желаю купить это духи в японии тоже. Я любю надеть это немного духи на волосе кончик. Это мягкий аромат. Когда у вас есть сильний ветер, вы можете чувствовать цвети и ваниль пахнет. Я думаю, что есль вы любите No.5 (Chanel) или L'Heure Bleue (Guerlain), вам понравиься Красная Москва. Эти не одинаковие, но я помню эти духи когда я надела в первой. И вы знаете цену этого дух? Когда я смотрела эту цену, удивлёла. Это очень дешёви!!! но аромат не дешёви!!!!

Fit for an Empress, for sure, Moscow Red is absolutely amazing! I have no idea what Russia smells like, but if this is any indication; it's severe and beautiful! Red is definitely the color of this scent with tinges of golden shimmer... This begins with a bitter bergamot and dry corriander alongside a powdery neroli. Some say medicinal, I say sharp and strong. The heart is just splendid with the oily carnation and its spicy floralcy beside lush ylang and its soft sexy scent; as the heart opens the top quiets and blends into the middle not unlike the spoonful of sugar to make the "medicine" go down. The rose and jasmine twine together to make something romantic, but still serious and down to earth. The finish on this is warm as well. I always thought Moscow would be cold; but, I guess that is Siberia! Ultimately, it is smoother than the opening and less flowery than the heart. Iris adds a powderiness and the vanilla is smooth but not sweet or overly gourmand, and the tonka is slightly oriental; though this is very much a chypre. Elegant, strong and proud this is no fainting frilly thing, but a beautiful classic vintage and may be worn by babushkas, but don't let those old ladies fool you! They live longer than their men and it's for a reason-they are hard, but loving, and they perservere just like Krasnaya Moskva has...for over 75 years! Sillage: great Longevity: awesome Overall: 4.25/5 When I was a little boy and the cousins and other grandkids were playing, I was always on my Gunda's knee. I have always felt more at ease, even as a child, around the older adults. This may be a granny scent, but you can learn a lot from a grandmother. They should be treasured, and not pushed aside or forgotten because they are old! You can never really be sure how long you will have them in your life. Remember that age=wisdom, Moscow Red is beautiful just as it is...and I wouldn't change a single thing! *Eva: thank you so much for this very wonderful piece of history. I will (and do) treasure it!!!*

My Russian friend Sergey has gifted me with a full flacon of 1980's vintage RED MOSCOW extrait, mailed to me from Siberia. I didn't expect it to smell so natural, strong and nuanced. Bright aldehydes with a curiously angular coriander accent descend slowly into a citrusy, lemon-juicy orange blossom... bright, tangy and winsome. Gradually the tanginess subsides a bit, slowly revealing the spicy/floral heart of carnation, ylang-ylang, jasmine and subtle rose, inflected not only with the vintage eugenol/clove character, but with a warm cinnamon as well. In the base, a sweet tonka/vanillic accord is made powdery/chalky with iris, and undoubtedly a heliotrope quality, with its slight Play-Doh nuance, while recalling the innocent, frilly orange blossom of the head. There is also a most subtle methyl salicylate (sweet birch/wintergreen-like) enhancement, which confers an almost "vintage horehound candy" like quality to the floralcy. All-in-all, I'd say its nearest neighbor is not Guerlain L'HEURE BLEUE at all, or even APRÈS L'ONDÉE, but rather Coty L'ORIGAN. In fact, RED MOSCOW reminds me of what might happen if all the notes of L'ORIGAN were doubled in power and purity. The mood of RED MOSCOW is definitely the pre-WWI era of the "Gilded Age/TITANIC era", and thus it has much in common with other such constructions of the Art Nouveau era such as the Grossmith scents, SHEM-EL-NESSIM and HASU-NO-HANA. This is a lovely, winsome scent, and I can understand why it has been so memorable and moody for generations of Russians!

You are not Russian and you don't know how the smell of Red Moscow? I will tell you. This perfume was invented by Henri Brocard. Brocard were making soap and perfumes. One night he woke the whole house shouting "Found it!". His wife was frightened and did not understand what was happening. Henri said that he had invented a scent that is sure to appeal to the Empress Maria Feodorovna. A week later, he gave the Empress a beautiful bouquet of flowers. The flowers were made of colored wax and look like real. Each flower in the bouquet exudes its natural flavor. A mixture of smells blended into a gorgeous scent. The Empress was asked to make a perfume and call it "Favorite bouquet of Empress". After this Brocard received the title of "Main supplier of the Imperial court". After the revolution, in 1925, resumed production of these spirits, but was renamed "Red Moscow". In the USSR it was the most popular perfume, they smelt of almost all Soviet women. But then it became unfashionable and was forgotten. Now "Red Moscow" is again popular. Many people think that that's the scent of an old woman, but it's not. Close your eyes and imagine Empress, in a beautiful dress, an updo that goes through the posh corridors of the castle. Around expensive crystal and gold. How do you think it smells this great woman? It smells wonderful, flowers, face powder and luxury. It smells like "Red Moscow". PS: Sorry for my English

I don't think Krasnaya Moskva exactly qualifies as a chypre, I'd say it's a spicy floral but never mind that. When I was a teenager in the 80s, I think that I, and other Americans my age and older where led to believe that the Soviet Union was devoid of anything beautiful and everything was all sorts of dreary greys and bleakness. At least that's what we were told on TV. This scent is one that any of the old venerable perfume houses of Paris would be proud to to put a label on. It's very luxurious in the way of Narcisse Noir or L'Heure Bleue, of which Krasnaya Moskva reminds me. I bought this at a resale/antique shop and the label is slightly different from the one shown and the color of the perfume is darker so I imagine I have a "vintage" bottle (for $6). It has that thick syrupy feel of ylang and rose with spicy carnation to break up the heaviness. Very lovely, very old-fashioned (meaning very well-constructed with high-quality ingredients), with just the right touch of melancholia, although the drydown is much lighter and happier. This is by no means a flirty carefree fragrance if that is what you are looking for, but a glamorous, admire-me-from-afar scent. However, after a few hours it's willing to make friends IF you're worthy ;)