"Chypre" cologne. Zaboristy fragrance of history

• cologne "chypre". Zaboristy fragrance of history

What should smell like a man? Leather, tobacco and good brandy matured - no! Soviet man smelled "chypre". Cologne "chypre" was in the USSR, one of the essential marks of elegance. This fragrance dizzy young beauties. Cologne "chypre" - a legend of the Soviet perfumes, the most expensive at that time men's fragrance ...

But the classics of the perfume is actually considered "Red Moscow", have much choice because it was not. This scent remembers the older generation, and it is not strange, still they have the favorite of many.

Well, from the men's colognes, as has been said were popular "chypre" and "Triple", the second perhaps more. True used them not only for its intended purpose, but often inside.

cologne "chypre" was destined to be a sign of the Soviet era. Although it is produced in France in 1917 by the famous perfumer François Coty. Bouquet "Shipra" recreates the sultry scents of the island in the Mediterranean Sea, as chypre - Cyprus is in French. Aroma, "the rich and aristocratic," as they say all the experts on the history of perfume, became the basis for a new direction in the manufacture of perfumes.

Apparently, the scent was in Soviet Russia in the late 1930s and became very popular. Alas, just as in the "Champagne" in production "Shipra" Bolsheviks made some changes, and he lost the bulk of its French charm. However, in the 1950s - early 1960s, this cologne factory production of "New Dawn" came into vogue. The popularity of "Shipra" reached the point that sellers of perfume shops began to offer his girlfriend.

Incidentally cologne "chypre" had a strong odor because it contains bergamot, patchouli, oak moss and labdanum. Subsequently, on the basis of the famous Eau de Cologne perfume was created "Chanel number 5".

Since the end of the 30s "chypre" smelled Soviet hairdressers - they refreshed most of the clients of male halls. Many men, especially the military, even washed "chypre" aftershave.

In 1950, in Moscow and in several other major cities ponastavili refreshing machines - just 10 cents you could squint and get in the face smelly stream.

Cologne "chypre" Sverdlovsk perfume production plant. USSR, 1987. Signs of "perestroika" era is already there, but the price is still the same - 1 rub. 35 kopecks.

"Chypre" remained evidence of masculinity, maturity for a long time, as long as the market did not come out men's perfumes in all its present diversity.

While in the 60s of the XX century has not started a real boom of fragrances for men's cologne "chypre" was practically the only "flavor" for the stronger sex.