Krasnaya Moskva

Krasnaya Moskva (Russian: Красная Москва, literally Red Moscow, figuratively Beautiful Moscow) was the first Soviet-created perfume.

The fragrance belongs to the class of chypre fragrances (sub-class "floral chypres") and contains more than 60 components, the official description of the perfume says: "A thin, warm, noble aroma with a tinge of orange blossom".

Rudolf Arkadyevich Friedman writes in his book "Perfumery", edition of 1955:

  • "Krasnaya Moskva is associated with elegant warmth, playful and flirtatious languor, melodious, plastic melodiousness",
  • "the perfume "Krasnaya Moskva", mainly representing the violet complex, are quite sentimental by smell, but due to the change of timbre and the introduction of a number of harmonizing substances, they received a special beauty and richness of smell",
  • "the perfume "Krasnaya Moskva", consisting of a mixture of the bases of iris, violet, carnation for perfection (rounding) of all these primary materials and for enhancing their delicate smell, requires a significant proportion of jasmine essence".
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