Perfume
is personal.
Perfume of the Month
A personal view by Olga Mineycheva
Red Moscow
A fragrance that belonged to the world I grew up in. Today I see it not only as a perfume, but as an object carrying memory, history and identity.
Read Olga’s storyOlga’s perfume archive
My collection has grown over many years — through discoveries, gifts, travels, vintage finds and simple curiosity. In this archive I share perfumes I actually own and photograph myself, together with notes on their history, composition and context, gathered from specialist literature and reliable sources.
Once a month, I choose one perfume to look at more personally: where I found it, why I kept it, what fascinates me about it — or sometimes why I find it difficult.
Perfume with a Past
Icons with Character
The Collector’s Cabinet
The Art of Opulence
What would you
like to feel?
Choose a mood, a presence and the notes that draw you in. Find three starting points from my collection.
How should people notice it?
What attracts you?
When is it for?
Your three starting points.
Suggestions follow the character described in the archive. They are starting points for discovery: vintage versions and the way a perfume wears can differ.
A nose of
her own.
Before I disappeared properly into the world of perfume, I worked as a model and spent years around fashion, beauty, travel and luxury. Then came family, children — and a perfume collection that became increasingly difficult to explain as a hobby.
I am interested in character, not hype. I like perfumes that stay in the mind. Sometimes they are beautiful. Sometimes strange. Ideally both.
Mineycheva is independent. Inclusion is editorial, not purchased.
Unfortunately, I don’t want to smell like it.”