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tvradioman – :
Neznakomka (translation: “Mysterious stranger”, when talking about a woman.)
Wow!! I am the only one on this site who has it in my “I have it” list. Indeed, a rare vintage! I got a full bottle of it from my aunt who bought it in early 80s, or maybe even late 70s. It was really big back then and not too many other choices in the stores. This chypre perfume is one of my first experiences with perfumes, I think, I was 12-13 or something like that. Quite a mature scent for a 13 year old)) However, my aunt thought it was “too girly” and gave it to me after it was sitting in her closet for almost 10 years already. Then my mom found it on my shelf and thought it was strong enough to sprinkle all over winter coats in the closet to scare away moth in the summer months. Luckily she used just half a bottle, so now I keep the other half, well, more like a third by now, as a memento of my youth or even childhood.
The perfume is surprisingly good, very wearable, even though people do a double-take when they smell it on me, it is quite an interesting scent – heady, warm, somewhat retro and reminiscent of the 80s.
I know they are quite different in notes, but Neznakomka reminds me of Halston Classic Perfume a little bit. I mean they are both Floral chypre, both retro, and they do have oakmoss, musk and jasmine in common. Halston Classic is more woody and sharp, I think, and Neznakomka is more floral.
EseFbreak – :
A vintage find. An almost full bottle. This is a beautiful intensely floral scent with a clean, soapy, real oakmoss background. Opens with intense, authentic hyacinth accompanied by an array of other floral notes. It’s bright, full and heavy with the fragrance of flowers, like a glorious bouquet of garden flowers picked in early June, all whites and blues. Later it becomes warmer, creamier, more powdery. Maybe the subtle spicier notes that we’re hiding behind the flowers before. A lovely floral, feminine, romantic thing.
Probably too feminine for me to get away with, so floral and later with a powdery, slightly “makeupy” element that I associate too specifically with women. Nonetheless I’ve really enjoyed the experience of testing it.
The original, now very worn, bottle and box is amazing – all cyrilic script and retro design from a bygone decade in the former USSR. I can just see a lovely Russian girl in St Petersburg, nearly 50 years ago, “borrowing” it from her mother’s cabinet and applying it ever so sparingly, before making her way down the Nevsky Prospekt, late at night but still light as day during the byelie nochi (white nights) of the Summer.
October 2016