Riga

All my life I have had vague memories of the Riga perfume and cosmetic series. Now it is a very rare thing, probably because it was exported and therefore people rushed to use such perfumes, and did not keep them if they received it as a gift. I received a miniature of an old release. The top notes became a ghost, the main sound is warm, true. I was transported 50-70 years back to Old Riga at sunset and stylish cafes with aromatic pastries and signature local alcohol, shops with amber souvenirs nearby. This is the Riga that already in those years sent to an even deeper layer of retro, as if cultivating its myth of the Golden Age. Such a delicate caramel amber with a seamless piquancy... Sweetish-velvet, muted and infused sound, nothing cloying, deafening. This is a quiet, soothing glow of proto-gourmet oriental in the city of the Lutheran rooster. The animalic saltiness of some notes rolls in like the coolness of Gothic vaults and a breeze from undiscovered dungeons. So many precious natural components form such a treasure...