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"White Acacia" ("Белая акация") perfume bottle
Object/Artifact
Small molded colorless-glass scent bottle, bell-/tombstone-shaped, with a flat front tapering inward at the shoulders and a short neck, fitted with a ribbed cream/ivory plastic screw cap. Roughly 40–50% full of amber liquid. A fragmentary circular gold foil label is on the front; additional label text is visible in mirror image through the glass, reading as "Белая акация."
2025.1.189
Belonged to María A. Arús Caraballo
Purchased in the parallel market.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
María A. Arús Caraballo collection
2025.1
Severnoye Siyaniye
Leningrad
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
White Acacia
Maker: "Белая акация" (Belaya Akatsiya, "White Acacia") — a Soviet perfume (per your identification). The producing factory is not legible on this bottle; surviving examples of this fragrance are most often attributed to the Leningrad factory "Северное сияние" (Severnoye Siyaniye, "Northern Lights"), though it was a widely issued Soviet line — factory attribution here is tentative pending a legible mark. Date: Circa 1960s–1980s (tentative). The fragrance was produced from about the 1960s to the end of the 1980s; this specific bottle is not independently dated but falls within that production window.
Label
белая акация
Russian
White Acacia
7 cm
bottle, cap
Glass
Plastic
Fair
María A. Arús Caraballo
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
acquisition, ownership
Leningrad
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
production