La Belle de Russie Novaya Zarya for women

Contrary to the views expressed by many "ex-patriots" here, I adore "Russkaya Krasavitza" and I've been wearing this scent for more than 10 years now. Many of my German, French and English friends were eager to find out the name of this perfume, none of them thought is was cheap, of bad quality or a disgrace to the wearer or the company producing it. The scent itself can be described as a cross between Guerlain's Champs d'Elysées and Coco Mademoiselle. "Russian Beauty" is a flowery, semi-oriental fragrance which smells totally lovely. It draws many compliments and is one of the best scents I know when it comes to "value for money".
My friends always ask me to bring back this perfume from my trips to Moscow for them.
In my humble opinion, it's a shame that many Russians discard the products made in their own country in a harsh and uncompromising fashion. "I bet you have to pay any Russian to put it on" - that's what Olga1780 wrote.
Since perfume has become a status-symbol and many snobby Russians (and not only them) rather trust their wallet than their nose, she might even be right. But I bet that "Russian Beauty" would score highly in a blind test - labels and symbols apart!
It's a beautiful fragrance. Trust me on that one...

The whole thing of classifying Novaya Zarya as a niche designer sounds bizarre and ridiculous to me. Most people think of niche not just a company that is not very well known, but also something that is of higher quality, unique, exclusive.
Looking at the new packaging and the bottle, they seem to be targeting the the Western tourists rather than Russians. I bet 99% of the manufaturing cost went into the bottle as it looks quite nice. As far as the fragrance itself, i am sorry to say that but i smelled better air fresheners before. I bet you will have to pay any Russian to put in on, or you have to be extremely patriotic to wear it.

Novaya Zarya has to deal with cheap ingredients, don't waste your money on their perfums. But they know about this fault and make good deodorants for home and car, fresheners for wardrobes.

I bought a bottle of "Русская Красавица" (Russian Beauty) out of sheer curiosity. It was only $16 for a large bottle, not much to lose. All I remember about the perfumes made by this company during the Soviet times was that they were pungent and quite chemical smelling and were hard to call perfumes, not to mention sophisticated perfumes.
So I was wondering if the company was revived and started producing something more wearable, plus a few positive comments from American members convinced me to give it a try.
All I can say is what a poor representation of Russian beauty. The beauty of Russian and Eastern European women is very exquisite, a lot of times you see that natural kind beauty, with almost perfect features, that doesn't require much makeup. All I can get from this perfume is a faint smell of dryer sheets or Downy scented detergent. I am looking at the note pyramid and for the life of me I can't smell a single note listed here, other than some faint musk.
The only thing I can say in defence of this fragrance is it doesn't smell chemical, but i bet if i wear it, people around me will think it's the smell of my shampoo or my freshly washed clothes,that's only if they can smell anything at all. A shame.