Rigas Cerini (Рижская Сирень, 2000)
Founded in 1882 in Riga, Dzintars is one of the Baltic region's oldest perfume houses, and Rigas Cerini — Riga Lilac — is a tribute to the lilac bushes that flood the Latvian capital each spring.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Amber55
- Powdery55
- Fresh50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Lilac
- Lily of the Valley
- Cyclamen
- Cinnamon
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readFounded in 1882 in Riga, Dzintars is one of the Baltic region's oldest perfume houses, and Rigas Cerini — Riga Lilac — is a tribute to the lilac bushes that flood the Latvian capital each spring. The opening is sheer and cool: lilac, cyclamen, and lily of the valley, barely distinguishable from a garden in May. The heart belongs to heliotrope and cinnamon — that pairing of powdery-sweet almond and warming spice that defined an era of Eastern European perfumery — with vanilla adding softness. Amber and musk close quietly. Simple, genuinely nostalgic for those who know it, and entirely honest about what it is: a small fragrance that understands its purpose completely.
Scent twins
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