Description
Guerlain introduced a new fragrance from the Les Parisiennes collection named Baiser de Russie (Russian Kiss) at the beginning of 2018. It brings back Moscow from the collection “Une ville, Un parfum”.
“Baiser de Russie pays tribute to the Muscovite and her “boho chic” look, reinventing with audacity the richness of Russian traditional bohemian style. Pine needles, Jasmine and Cranberry notes blend in a fruity musky floral and ultra-feminine perfume which echoes the heartbeat that pounds through the Russian capital.”
Top notes : bergamot, plum, pine needle, lemon, absinthe
Heart cranberry, jasmine petals
Base: caramel, sandalwood, tonka bean, white musks, vanilla
Guerlain’s iconic Bee bottle is colored in aquatic green and decorated with an emerald grosgrain ribbon our around its neck. The fragrance is available as a 125 ml Eau de Parfum.
The nose behind this fragrance is Thierry Wasser.
hz001 – :
This is soo not me! I love, love, love, love this one! A bit sweet, but not sugarsweet, its fresh but not flowerfresh, its tender but strong, its not light or shy nor heavy. Projection is a perfect circle around you. Just perfect. Magic. Fantaboulus!! I will buy a bottle when the samples is empty.
SEREGASV77 – :
My my my Thierry Wasser you really outdone yourself. I literally want to be covered in Russian kisses. Full Bottle worthy(giant) bee bottle if possible.
FanatofSteve5 – :
Oh my! This sounds soooo good! I wish I could try this, but I’m pretty sure this won’t be available in my country! (It doesn’t sound like it has the “right” notes to make it salable here.) Sigh.
Dj unt – :
I mean damn! The bar measuring rod. With Baiser, I leveled up, I feel important. Leave it to Guerlain (aka the curator of compliments) to have us all trending in the right direction. The medley of vanilla, plum and pine is a bizarre combo indeed but the oddity of aromas gives this ownership power(something worth having). The entire fragrance is gently shaved to give you a sense of buoyancy. Qualitatively, this is something women will be drawn to and not at all contrarian as the notes suggest. The last time I ignored gender marketing was when I bought Gourmand Coquin(another Guerlain product). Impossible to dislike and it does smell like Moscow.
-BLIND BUY WORTHY-
Punx – :
I was very upset that Moscow was no longer available and my Guerlain rep called me to say she has this one and it is almost the same, I brought my purse spray with a tiny bit of Moscow left to compare the 2 and they were pretty identical. I actually preferred this version now I just have to see if I receive the same compliments with this one. At 45 it was always nice to have the young interns loving it and begging to know what it is that I am wearing.
sanjOk – :
Have you ever heard of Chuk and Gek? This short story /written by Arkady Gaidar/ describes the story of two brothers and their mother who have to survive ten days in the guard´s hut in a wilderness of Siberian taiga.
This fragrance reminds me of this story for a few reasons. In the story, there is an impressive description of the taiga biome, its lichen woodland with spruces, firs, pines & wild cranberries and bilberries. And these notes are prominent in this scent – fresh green needles, moss, lichen, honey-sweet resins & juicy berries /and the whole impression refers to the typical absinthe aroma/. And there is something like a light aura around this wild, green & herbal heart, consisting of vanilla, white musk & mild sandalwood. And yes, you can notice swirls of caramel in this composition, it´s like if you were eating brittle while walking through the coniferous forest.
Baiser de Russie is green, sweet & rich. It´s a journey from Moscow into the wild. Have a safe trip!
HubBymbom – :
This scent is gorgeous.
It’s if someone took good quality creamy caramel and stirred it into a glass of absinthe, and dropped in an organic vanilla bean. And then garnished the drink with cranberries and pine. That aroma is this scent. It’s wonderful.
Long lasting, but skin scent projection (I had a dabber, maybe a spray would project more).
Excellent new release by Guerlain that I feel is versatile and not just something for winter or Christmas. It’s a unique boozy scent that may work year round.
zvuk270 – :
Don’t make my mistake. I had a whole ‘War and Peace’ scenario playing in my head as I sniffed this, at the urgent behest of the lady selling me my replacement bottle of Pamplelune (going somewhere hot for Easter and it’s one of my two favourite hot weather colognes ever, but that’s a whole different story.) So I hear the name, I see the delicate green liquid, the emerald ribbon, the black box and take a deep sniff and I convince myself I smelled pine woods and passion and deep snow and furs. I mean, I could almost hear the jingling of the harness as the sleigh passed through that nighttime forest.
I would pay £££ for the fragrance I’d concocted in my head. The trouble is, I got home and was forced to face certain uncomfortable facts.
1. I really need to test fragrance blindfolded.
2. I really need not to get carried away and buy second fragrances on a whim because what the hell, it’s a great perfume house and I’m in a good mood.
3. This is a nice fragrance but it’s most certainly not what I thought I bought.
To me, plum is, by a country mile, the dominant note in this, to the extent that I was reminded of one of those heady, sweet, Christmassy liqueurs. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that at all, but I’m all about the chypres, the greens and the woods. I’m emphatically not a gourmandy, fruity kinda girl. This is rich and sugary and fruity and I’m sure it’s lovely if you’re into that kind of thing, but my bottle is now in the possession of one of my BFs, whose favourite perfume is La Petite Robe Noire and who happened to be with me when I sprayed this (inadvisably) all over myself for the first time. ‘Oh, that’s gorgeous,’ she trilled, while I thought ‘what the hell? Where’s my dark, mysterious Russian forest?’ So now it’s her gorgeous perfume and as God is my witness, I will approach all future purchases with my eyes shut.
severina76 – :
Very very close to Moscow EdP (2009-2014) – only 1 or 2 minor (and neither mentioned for previous Moscow) ingredients had to be dropped due to IFRA regulations, a Guerlain SA told me.
The opening is so nice with a woody-sweet citrus – the pine needle scent is gorgeous – and a plum which remains present way beyond the opening.
Then vanilla and tonka play with a great jasmine underlined by non invasive berries, before settling down to a sweet woody-musky skin scent.
A must have for those who are nostalgic of Moscow and the Voyages Olfactifs series.
Some of my friends perceive it as slightly watered down vs. Moscow, but on my skin it was clearly denser during an arm to arm confrontation, with a longevity of 10h (vs. 8h for my older Moscow), but this is not to be taken for granted for everyone.
Note for editors: the bee bottle is classical “white” (transparent), only the juice is green (pine needles and absinthe)