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Akcents" (Smaržas Akcents) perfume bottle
Object/Artifact
A small clear glass scent bottle with a distinctive molded body formed as a stacked column of rounded cushion/bead segments, roughly half to two-thirds full of amber perfume. The black cap is banded and lettered in silver.
2025.6.26
Belonged to Mirta Martínez.
The Martínez Suquet family collection
Mirta Martínez Forteza collection
2025.6
Mirta Suquet
Gift
Dzintars
1980s
Riga
Latvia
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
Akcents
Maker: Dzintars — Rīgas parfimērijas un kosmētikas ražošanas apvienība "Dzintars" (Riga Manufacturing Union of perfumery and cosmetics "Dzintars"), Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR. Date: The Akcents fragrance was launched in 1985; this bottle dates from circa 1985–1990 (Soviet period), within 1959–1990. (Dzintars remained a Soviet state production union until becoming a joint-stock company in late 1991.)
Inscription
cap
Smarža Akcents
Russian
Cap (silver on black): "Smaržas" (Latvian — perfume); "Akcents"; "5 ml" (with an apparent net-weight figure). Latvian-language labeling.
8.5 cm
2.5 cm
bottle, cap
Glass
Plastic
Materials: Clear molded glass (bottle); amber perfume liquid; black cap with silver printing (plastic and/or metal), likely with an inner stopper. Technique: Mold-blown/pressed glass bottle; printed and banded cap.
Good
Mirta Martínez Forteza
owner
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
acquisition, use
Latvia
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
production
Akcents (1985) is a women's fragrance — top notes bergamot, lily-of-the-valley, violet; heart hyacinth, rose, jasmine, ylang-ylang; base galbanum, musk, pepper (per fragrance databases).
"perfumer: Antonina Vitkovskaya (per fragrance-database attribution)" rather than as a mark-confirmed fact.