1889 Moulin Rouge

Mon Dieu! This is such a gem! I'm in love deeply right from the first sniff. This is such a slutty, voluptuous perfume, but with all his attitude he is not vulgar at all. This is my blind buy and as this is HdP I expected something really stunning cause I'm forever fan of this brand but 1889 surprised me so much. It's so much about femininity and fragility but at the same time it's such a seductive boozy slut. I see couloirs of Paris with vicious girls putting lipstick on before going to the stage. 1889 tells you such an intriguing story, it's just like a book brings you fantasies, memories. I smell laced pantaloons, such a sweaty and boozy air in the night restaurant. I really can feel that Moulin Rouge in the past. Fragrance of sin, fragrance of freedom. There many comments below about it's lipsticky nature or old ladies or something like that. To me it's not about objects or notes, it's well balanced whole story in a bottle, pure emotion.

Iris no doubt and nothing else, no sweetness and so soft, but it changes quickly into a iris powder followed by the smell of wine and makeup. It is not the soft gentle powder from Lipstick Rose or L ombre Rose. It is the powder from old makeup, really old. Once I visited the Moulin Rouge and this fragance captures quite well the decadent feeling that you feel when you are there. The small tables, the darkness, the faint red and the smell of old cafe's. I don't like old makeup but here it is so beautiful made that on my skin it smells lovely. From time to time I got waffs of a super gorgeus flower bouquet an what came to my mind was,another "wow fragance". All night I could smell it and on my arms from 1 spritz. It is still on my skin as a musk old makeup. Maybe it was a bit too strong and not quite a bed scent, ohh perhaps and maybe for a special night.

I went on a bit of a compulsive and ill-advised shopping spree and this was one of the perfumes I bought. It's just a total delight. It's got the powdery sweetness and waxiness of vintage make-up (think L'Oreal lipsticks), I can smell the worn velvet of theatre seats and stage curtains, there's a slight human funk to it too. It's pretty much exactly what I hoped. Perhaps not quite as strong as I'd worried which is probably a good thing but right now I wishI was engulfed in it. I almost didn't get this because I don't really like rose but it doesn't really smell like rose, it just gives it that make-uppy floral vibe, perhaps even the slightly sweaty tang. Genuinely don't think I'd be able to pick out any of the notes had I not seen them, but I'd definitely be able to picture a vintage boudoir.

Blind test, I get a powdery sweet and airy musk that feels like a spring morning. There's a feeling of flora and green, and a dark fruit sitting behind, and why I'd say it leans feminine, I think this can wear pretty unisex depending on the scene. An Easter egg hunt, no problem. Now knowing it's Mountain Rouge (1887) I'm not convinced. I get the desire for a feminine, slightly sultry affair, but this is just too green, light dewy morning. I get none of the cinnamon. If you had a sweet tart (without it being tart) I think you'd get something like this. What they forgot to tell you is this is in reference to a brunch picnic, with a dance if so lucky, the night after the Moulin Rouge, while laying in the grass, pondering the recent Salon des Refuses.

Vintage girlies this is for you. Lipstick, musk, rose, iris, patchouli, ugh it’s beautiful! Reminds me of antique stores, old makeup compacts, heavy velvet curtains.