1889 - Moulin Rouge Histoires de Parfums 2010

1889 - Moulin Rouge by Histoires de Parfums

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7.7 / 10 339 Ratings

A popular perfume by Histoires de Parfums for women, released in 2010. The scent is powdery-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Fruity

Leathery

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Plum

Cinnamon

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Absinth

Damask rose

Base Notes

Iris

Musk

Patchouli

Fur

Perfumers & Creative Guidance

Sylvie Jourdet
Gérald Ghislain Creative Director

Ratings

Scent

7.7339 Ratings

Longevity

7.8264 Ratings

Sillage

7.1247 Ratings

Bottle

7.2207 Ratings

Value for money

7.470 Ratings

Submitted by Toby, last update on 08/09/2025.

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/24/2012

9
Scent

Coutureguru
223 Reviews

Coutureguru

Top Review 21

La Grande Vie

I've been threatening to write this review for the longest time so here goes!! I LOVE 1889 - MOULIN ROUGE!! Here's why:

I have been on the stage for the last 25 years ... give or take ... I'd prefer 'take' :). I don't hide the fact that I am a performing drag artist ... who cares?? It's 2012!! I have performed on big stages and I have performed on tiny stages, on TV and in movies ... this fragrance immediately transports me to the most hallowed of places for people like me ... the dressing room! As an artist, this is the place where all of the vital stuff happens ... the prep. What is seen onstage is simply the culmination of what happens back there ... its a little world all of it's own.
1889 - Moulin Rouge is about as 'over the top' as any fragrance can get. The opening is dusty, as the dressing rooms of the most revered theaters tend to be, a touch fruity (orange peels in a wastepaper basket) and a pinch spicy (the cinnamon here is short lived on my skin). The fragrance unfolds typically ... a well worn leather makeup case is opened next to a bouquet of opening night roses, the heat from the lights around the makeup mirror intensifying the fragrance of slightly warm lipsticks (iris) emanating from within. The musky intensity of greasepaint and slightly soiled makeup brushes overwhelms slightly, while at the end there is the scent of damp costumes piled into a laundry basket, faint traces of sweat mingling with the sweetness of the cheap body spray it was somewhat disguised in.
I would hesitate in recommending this frag to just anyone. The wearing of it demands an intimate knowledge of this clandestine world. Make no mistake, this is a Diva ... slightly frayed around the edges, morally questionable ... but in the realm of that which she calls home ... MAGNIFI-SCENT.

Gents, don't even go here unless you enjoy getting up in a party frock :) ... this one takes absolutely no prisoners!!

12/02/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 8

not the performance i expected

Histoires de Parfums’s conceit of historical and literary themes is schtick. But what’s wrong with a bit of schtick? Trying to convey more than ‘lifestyle’ is a pleasant change in perfume PR. The need to mention both the year and the event the to tells you that the themes are not intended to be obvious. I’m instinctively leery of marketing, but HdP do take a stand against the the flanker mentality. After all how would they manage it? “1889, Fevrier” followed by “1889, Novembre”? I applaud the effort. It’s not merely a name trick, either. The HdP line is varied yet identifiable, and so far doesn’t seem to fill genre-slots with perfume placeholders. And it certainly keeps us away from (identifiable name), (identifiable name) liqueur de parfums, (identifiable name) les cuirs de parfums, (identifiable name) sunessence eau legere du bois blond avec les fruit du cosmos, etc.

1889 refers to the Moulin Rouge and would assumedly be boisterous, huge and have little self-restraint. I thought it would be the glam-rocker of the bunch. (That would be 1804.) At the risk of mixing eras, I’d imagined, a sort of ‘what happens in the Moulin Rouge stays in the Moulin Rouge.’ On the contrary, 1889 turns out to be a rather quiet and contemplative perfume.

It starts out smelling like the inside of a purse that has a ripe pear in it. As others have mentioned it is a lipsticky, face-powdery iris fragrance but it also has a sweet, fruity side. I’ve seen prune, plum, tangerine listed as notes, but it smells like pear to me. It simmers down pretty quickly and in the end it's fairly reserved and stays close to the skin reminding me a bit of the iris-hyacinth accord found in Lutens’s Bas de Soie. Cool, matte, muted. Moulin Rouge? More like a red herring.

02/18/2012

7.5
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 5
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

6

Sometimes More is Too Much

One can hardly expect subtlety from a perfume with a name like 1889 MOULIN ROUGE, even produced by the illustrious house of Histoires de parfums, and in fact it's pretty much in your face (nose) with obnoxious sillage and longevity that can be curtailed only with a hot bath. This creation has a loud cinnamony-fruity—obviously intended to be red—personality perhaps befitting of one of the ladies who graces places such as the Moulin Rouge.

For me, it's all a bit too brash, not at all seductive, and although I am confident that this composition contains only niche-quality components, they add up to all too much, proving yet again that sometimes less is more. The dominant scent in the opening could be approximated by eating a large quantity of Fire Stix Jolly Ranchers candy while swilling down copious volumes of cheap, sweet, jug red wine. In a word: yuck. The drydown comes closer to a mix between Chopard MADNESS and one of the Givenchy floral fruity frags.

There's got to be a drugstore Dana facsimile of 1889 MOULIN ROUGE out there somewhere for those who like this sort of thing, but Histoires de Parfums has managed to convince me that even the best of ingredients cannot make such a perfume compelling to me. Désolée.

12/19/2022

5
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

5

Can-can't

With a name like this, one would expect a grande burlesque performance. A night venue with can-can dancers on stage. High heels, fur coats and heavy make-up. This is a theme to go big, bold and boudoir. All stops out. But that is not what I get here. This is way too decent for all this.

1889 is best described - in my view - as a fruity iris. Light and fresh at first, slowly thickening along the way. Sillage is under great restraint, which contributes to a tasteful variation on iris. Occasionally a waft of plum goes by and that is about as naughty as it gets.

This perfume would suit any occasion. It could be worn to church and nobody would frown on you. Anyway, apart from an ill-chosen name, this is a perfectly fine fruity iris.

06/15/2025

7
Pricing 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 7
Scent

OscarSC
15 Reviews

OscarSC

2

Unhinged backstage

This perfume transports me to a backstage, where there are people painting and putting on an absurd amount of make up and face/body powder, that is still floating in the air. It's not a soft powdery perfume because of the other accords that come along;

A lot of people are serving some kind of drink to endure the night, one that contains some orange slices, cinnamon and tastes a bit like plum. This accord makes the perfume go from soft and delicate to unhinged. Almost like the people are a bit too drunk, and you can smell it when they talk.

I wish the powdery notes were more prominent on this one, I think I would enjoy it more. But nice scent, definitely worth smelling at least once!

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