Rama Won't You Please Come Home
D.S. & Durga
Top: Tree Flowers, Tendu Leaf
Middle: Tuberose, Gardenia
Base: Civet, Cetalox, Papyrus
'85 Diesel
D.S. & Durga
On saffron tanned leather seats, in clothes that look like rugs, singing “we must never break the chain”. Lacquered chestnut paneling with puffs of burning fuel.
Top: Saffron Leather, Suede, Vinyl
Middle: White Violet, Hiba, Castoreum
Base: Diesel Smoke, Earth Dirt, Galbanum Resin
Specifications - 7 oz / 198 g.
Portable Fireplace
D.S. & Durga
To make it smell like you have a fireplace, especially when you don’t have a fireplace.
Top: Dwarf Pine Wood, Atlas Cedar
Middle: Smoke, Oak Ash, Cedar
Base: Birch, Birch Tar, Copaiba Resin
Specifications - 7 oz / 198 g.
Tuberose Myrrhder
D.S. & Durga
The night queen’s suspended bulbs in the hour of darkness, caked with spicy Ethiopian myrrh, cacao, currant, and dank Madagascar vanilla.
Top: Black Currant, Myrrh, Cacao
Middle: Tuberose Absolute, Paradisone, Iris Concentrate
Base: Madagascar Vanilla Absolute, Civet, Tolu balsam
Specifications - 7 oz / 198 g.
Rose Atlantic
D.S. & Durga
Spritzers aboard the famous Salt Spray Rose. Sinatra’s summer wind, dunegrass in the distance, rosehip, the white lighthouse.
Top: Bergamot/Petals/Lemon Oil
Middle: Linden/Salt Spray Rose/Dune Grass
Base: Muscone/Salt Water/White Moss
Notorious Oud
D.S. & Durga
Sublime Indonesian oud with a worldwide perspective. Formulated in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn with North African papyrus, Afghani saffron, and Bulgarian rose.
Top: Saffron/Camphor/White Galbanum
Middle: Indonesian Oud/Bulgar Rose/Lavender Absolute
Base: Civet/Cetalox/Papyrus
Mississippi Medicine
D.S. & Durga
Based on the rituals of the proto-Mississippian death cult of the 1200s. Native birch tar, viola and white spruce grounded in incense and cypress root.
Top: Red Cedar/Aldehydes/Frankincense Distillate
Middle: Cypress Root/Black Pine/Cascarilla Bark
Base: Incense/Spanish Cade/Birch Tar
Italian Citrus
D.S. & Durga
A bracing cologne of coastal Italian citrus rinds–chinotto, blood orange, cold pressed lemon and green mandarin–with ambrette seed and clean musk.
Top: Cold Pressed Lemon/Chinotto/Blood Orange
Middle: Green Mandarin/Violet Leaf/Incense
Base: Copaiba Balsam/Musk Ambrette/Oakmoss
I Don't Know What
D.S. & Durga
A fragrance enhancer with transparent radiance that gives any perfume a certain, as the French say, “I don’t know what.”
Top: Bergamot Essence
Middle: Iso E Super, Vetiver Acetate
Base: Civettone, Firsantol, Ambrox Super
Debaser
D.S. & Durga
The wild shrill of Black Francis coming through the radio in the August heat. Ripe fig, iris, coconut milk, tonka and dry blond woods.
Top: Bergamot/Green Leaf/Pear Stem
Middle: Fig/Coconut Milk/Iris
Base: Blond Woods/Tonka Bean/Moss
Burning Barbershop
D.S. & Durga
A fire broke out in the Curling Bros. barbershop in Westlake, N.Y. in 1891. All the shaving tonics with their spearmint, lime, vanilla and lavender burned. A charred bottle was found half- full. It smelled like this.
Top: Spearmint/Lime/Hemlock Spruce
Middle: Lavender Absolute/Tuberose/Turkish Rose
Base: Burnt Oil/Vanilla/Hay
Bowmakers
D.S. & Durga
Amongst the transcendental woods of the 1800s, craftsmen from the Massachusetts Bay Colony built violins and bows in BOWMAKERS the tiny towns of the Pioneer Valley. The shops were riddled with old growth mahogany, burled maple shavings, amber pine rosin, aged walnut and their unique secret varnishes.
Top: Violin Varnish/Mahogany/Outdoors Accord
Middle: Amber Pine Rosin/Maplewood/Cypress
Base: Spiced Tree Resin/Cedar/Moss
Wild Brooklyn Lavender
D.S. & Durga
Brooklyn flowering in the early aughts where wild packs of dogs roamed free among savage weeds and anything seemed possible.
Top: Spike Lavender, Wayside Herbs
Middle: Vetiver Grass, Lavender Flowers
Base: Suede, Asphalt
Specifications - 7 oz / 198 g.
Tomb of The Eagles
D.S. & Durga
In the far north, where Orkney eagles carried Stoneage souls beyond the jagged cliffs, clover, sea pinks, sweet cicely, the sonorous sea.
Top: Clover, Cold Sea
Middle: Sea Pinks, Sweet Cicely
Base: Island Moss, Bones, Grass
Specifications - 7 oz / 198 g.
St. Vetyver
D.S. & Durga
Soft island grass, sunbaked citrus where the tradewinds blow. Panama hats, cane plants, and aged rhum over the finest Caribbean vetyver.
Top: Sour Orange, Pink Pepper, Sea Grass
Middle: Cane, Clove Leaf, Toquilla Straw
Base: Vetyver, Breadnut, Rhum Agricole
Spirit Lamp
D.S. & Durga
Tea service at the colonial parlor of Mme. Revere, topless psychic. Hot silver heated by open flame. Bohea vapours, radiant heat, milk.
Top: Hot Metal, Peach Water, Petitgrain
Middle: White Ginger, Coconut Milk
Base: Radiant Musk, Bohea Tea
Specifications - 7 oz / 198 g.