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May 4, 2014 · The New Dawn factory has been operating in Russia for more than 100 years. It was there that the most famous Soviet fragrances were blended and produced. As well as the famous Red Moscow,...
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Dec 6, 2023 · According to one story, Bouquet de Catherine—and, by extension, Krasnaya Moskva—was created by Ernest Beaux, a Russian-born perfumer of French heritage also called the “Napoleon of perfume.”
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In 1920, Coco Chanel had a love affair with a Russian prince from the Romanov family, Dmitry Pavlovich, who survived the Bolshevik Revolution and left the country. He was an aesthete and hedonist (and at the same time participated in Rasputin’s murder). He introduced Coco to a Russian-born French perfumer Ernest Beaux. Having achieved much success ...
In Russia, Beaux worked for Alphonse Rallet & Co, which used to be the Russian court’s official perfume company. At the same time another talented perfumer, Auguste Michel, worked there. But in 1913 he left to work for Brocard, which was Rallet’s competitor and another official court perfume supplier. Michel created a perfume for Empress Maria Fedo...
The history of Red Moscow is not 100 percent clear, but some historians believe that the perfume is based on Michel's Bouquet de l'impératrice. Chanel No. 5, however, could have also sprung from Beaux’s Bouquet de Catherine. Fans in Russia have tried to connect both Frenchmen since they worked together in Rallet. They might have learned perfumery t...
“Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow belong to different worlds, but they both represent a departure from the belle epoque and a revolution in the world of fragrance - even though they both owed their creation to the anniversary of a dynasty destined to fall,” Schlögel writes. “The Chanel No. 5 bottle has a place of honor in the Museum of Modern Art in New...
May 1, 2021 · Both fragrances were developed by French perfumers who had worked in Tsarist Russia: Chanel No 5 by Ernest Beaux, who fled to France in 1919 and Red Moscow by Auguste Michel, who remained in...
- The scent of GUM — “Ciel de Gum” by Francis Kurkdjian. French perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, while visiting Moscow, was impressed by the architecture of the legendary Moscow department store on Red Square.
- The scent of birch sap from Ladanika. Spring, the first green leaves, and birch sap — this is how the creative perfume project, Ladanika, describes the new fragrance from perfumer Elena Markova that was released in March 2021.
- The scent of Soviet cartoons from Soyuzmultfilm. The aroma of honey and caramelized milk (think of Winnie the Pooh) and buns with raspberry jam (think of Karlsson-on-the-Roof, the fairy tale by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren).
- The scent of Siberian winter — “Russian Leather” from Memo Paris. A -50°C winter, a snowy pine forest, a herd of reindeer, and the sun’s winter rays and snowflakes melting on the skin — these are the associations evoked by the “Russian Leather” collection of French perfumery Memo Paris.
In 1855 "A.Rallet & Co" became the official supplier for the Imperial Court of Russia, being the most important perfume and cosmetics brand in Russia and very respected in Europe (amazing scents, contained in amazing crystal bottles were distributed not only in Europe, but even in the Middle East).
Dec 1, 2018 · People tend to begin telling the history of the perfume Krasnaya Moskva ('Red Moscow') with mentioning 'Empress' Favorite Bouquet, a fragrance created by the house of Brocard in 1913, so I've decided to stick to the established canon.
