The best aromas of perfumery made in the USSR

Do you remember the aromas of perfumery from the Soviet era? Maybe someone even kept bottles of perfume made in the USSR?

Today, everything that is Soviet is often scolded, and there are a lot of reasons for that, because really life in the USSR was not easy, associated with many trials. Making elementary purchases was not as easy as it is now. Even chocolates, coffee or bananas were not as easy to get as they are today. What then can we say about clothes, handbags and perfumes!

Buying French perfume was literally a holiday for a Soviet woman. It sounds strange to us today, since you can go to a perfume shop and buy whatever your heart desires. And it is not necessary to say that perfumery is expensive today. This is not at all the case, today it is very accessible. A bottle of Guerlain's fragrance can be bought for 2-3 thousand rubles, which is an insignificant part of the average salary. And in the USSR, the cost of French perfumes could be one third of the average salary, and they were not sold in public stores, so when buying perfumes, Soviet women also had little choice.

Imagine only a modern store, where there are only 4-5 types of perfumes! Such a harsh life was in the USSR. True, today we will not scold the Soviet Union, and so much has been said about this, everything that was Soviet has already been mixed with mud and this is also not good. Whether they lived badly in the USSR, this is a part of our history, in which there was bad, but there was also good, there was a place for heroism, selfless labor and heroism.

Today we will remember the Soviet perfumery, which was made in the USSR. Not French perfumes, but the fragrances of our factories. In the USSR, these fragrances were more accessible than French perfumery, and today the original Soviet perfumery costs more than the average French perfume.

Why is it like this? There are several reasons, firstly, it is not so easy to acquire an original perfume from the times of the USSR, it is somewhat of a rarity, and secondly, Soviet perfumery was made from higher quality components than today's fragrances. For the manufacture of Soviet perfumes and colognes, natural ingredients were often used, and production was regulated by the requirements of GOST, therefore, the perfumery turned out to be of high quality.

Many bottles of Soviet perfumery, released 30-40 years ago, to this day keep the aromas of the past. Such perfumes can be purchased at various online auctions and in specialized stores. And for connoisseurs of perfumery, these fragrances become a collectible. In some collections, the amount of vintage perfumery - Soviet, French ... is measured in hundreds of bottles!

But what about the current fragrances, modern perfumery?
Now, in pursuit of profit, perfumery companies are trying in every way to reduce the cost of production, save on everything they can - on the bottle, on the box and on the scent itself.