80%
would repurchase
3.8/5
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4.0
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6 years ago

There's something about this one. I am attracted to scents that have a certain fringe-y backstory. It was created in 1992 by a (male) Russian fashion designer named Slava Zaitsev. The bottle is its...

About reviewer (542 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinCombination, Olive, Not Sure

HairBlack, Wavy, Medium

EyesBrown



5.0
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6 years ago

WHERE HAS THIS PERFUME BEEN MY WHOLE LIFE? IT IS MAGICAL AND WONDEROUS! THIS IS A DIVINE PERFUME THAT I WOULD NEVER NEGLECT! ♥♥♥ I blind bought this even though a few comments here said not to....

About reviewer (23 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinOily, Medium, Cool

HairOther, Straight, Fine

EyesHazel


4.0
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6 years ago

I've gone thogh two bottles of this, and I do this it smells nice. Is it my favourite? Not really, but I would buy it again. It is a slightly more mature scent, I find, so do not buy this expecting...

About reviewer (24 reviews)

AgeUnder 18

SkinCombination, Fair, Neutral

HairRed, Straight, Fine

EyesHazel


4.0
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8 years ago

I came across this scent when I was in my early teens. My elegant and beautiful grandmother wore this. When I stayed over at her house she let me wear it. When I went on holiday with her to Spain...

About reviewer (172 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinCombination, Fair, Cool

HairBlond, Straight, Fine

EyesGreen


1.0
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8 years ago

Based on others' reviews, I blind bought a small bottle of this. I'd have to say this is probably my worst blind buy ever. I do like Oriental, amber-y fragrances, but something about this just...

About reviewer (145 reviews)

Age44-55

SkinCombination, Fair, Not Sure

HairBlond, Other, Other

EyesBrown


3.0
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8 years ago

I was given a bottle of Maroussia when it first came out. I remember it as being a cool powdery amber that made me feel a touch melancholy when I wore it. I remembered it as being quite strong back...

About reviewer (816 reviews)

Age44-55

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium

HairBrunette

EyesBrown


5.0
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9 years ago

Warm oriental spicy perfume with amazing sillage and impressive lasting power. A winter perfume which tells a story. The kind which would scare you first for no reason but if you give it a chance,...

About reviewer (34 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinSensitive, Medium, Neutral

HairBrown, Wavy, Fine

EyesBrown


5.0
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9 years ago

Alphonsine Duplessis sits in her box at the Paris Opera. The camelias she holds are red to warn her lovers that she is unavailable. Her furs are thrown on the chair beside her and the slight scent...

About reviewer (325 reviews)

Age44-55

SkinCombination, Fair, Cool

HairBrown, Wavy, Medium

EyesBrown


4.0
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10 years ago

A warm, spicy and sweet scent. It has a bit of a 'Russian' feel to it, almost melancholic. It is rather unique smelling too, I don't think I've ever came across a perfume that somewhat resembled...

About reviewer (54 reviews)

Age19-24

SkinDry, Fair, Not Sure

HairBrunette, Curly, Coarse

EyesGreen


5.0
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11 years ago

Wonderful light resinous myrrh that reminded me very much of Comme des Garcons' Sticky Cake. I don't get much in the way of top notes, but the resinous myrrh feeling is fabulous, and must be a...

About reviewer (1727 reviews)

Age44-55

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure

HairBrunette, Other, Fine

EyesBrown


4.0
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11 years ago

What a fool I've been to ignore Maroussia (which is an omnipresent cheap drugstore fragrance in much of Europe) simply because the packaging didn't grab me and despite the fact that my mom has...

About reviewer (135 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinDry, Fair, Cool

HairBrown, Straight, Medium

EyesBrown


4.0
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12 years ago

I tried Maroussia again today after about 20 years!! Strangely, on me I get a fresh clean almost spicy aquatic scent, and not the darkness that others have experienced. At present I’m smelling my...

About reviewer (96 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinSensitive, Fair, Warm

HairBlond, Kinky, Fine

EyesGreen


5.0
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14 years ago

It was the summer of 1993 and I was 15. I found Maroussia in the bathroom of our summer house. It had been given to my mother by a friend and was kind of forgotten, perhaps too easily dismissed ....

About reviewer (766 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium

HairRed

EyesHazel


3.0
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15 years ago

Everything aquasea wrote below is right, this a lovely deep smoky spicy scent and the fruits and florals listed are very much a backseat part of the scent, in fact if I hadn't read the notes list I...

About reviewer (314 reviews)

Age25-29

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure

HairBrunette, Other, Other

EyesHazel


5.0
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15 years ago

Wonderful and usual. An absolute favourite - but how to describe it? Deep and very sexy, but has a sultry, transparent accord in it as well - leathery maybe? No idea what the notes are but I would...

About reviewer (71 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinDry, Fair, Not Sure

HairBrunette, Other, Other

EyesBlue