El Cosmico
D.S. & Durga
The desert airs of Marfa, cosmic axis of West Texas. Creosote shrubs and sumac primed with Chihuahuan mesa woods– mesquite, oak, and pinyon pine. Created for our friends at the El Cosmico hotel in Marfa.
Top: Desert Shrubs/Desert Pepper/Pinyon Pine
Middle: Creosote/Oak/Khella
Base: Dry Sand Accord/Shrub Wax
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
Amber Teutonic
D.S. & Durga
Mahler’s hut, perched high above the valley of Alpine fir, horn echoes in the primeval forest. A Nibelungian hoard of precious emerald ambers.
Top: Alpine Cedar/Cardamom/Green Mandarin
Middle: Geranium/European Larch/Templin Cone
Base: Austrian Pine Absolute/Opoponax/Musk
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.
A moisturizing formula made with vitamin C, vitamin E, glycerin, green tea leaf, and hyaluronic acid. Vegan and cruelty free.
Top: Spike Lavender, Wayside Herbs
Middle: Vetiver Grass, Lavender Flowers
Base: Suede Asphalt
Specifications - 236 ml / 8 oz.
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.
Radio Bombay
D.S. & Durga
Transistor radio hewn of sandalwood radiates ragas in the Bandra heat. Hot copper tubes warm the soft wood releasing blooms of musk, cream, peach, ambrette, coco, cedar distillates.
Top: Radiant Wood, Copper, Cedar
Middle: Sandalwood, Radiant Iris, Boronia
Base: Balsam Fir Absolute, Coconut Musc, Ambergris
JazmÌn Yucatan
D.S. & Durga
Jungle, humidity, snake plants, jazmín yucateco, crocodile by the cenote, shaded temple, limestone ruins.
Top: Water, Passion Flower, Bergamot
Middle: Jazmín Yucateco, Sambac, Clove
Base: Snake Plant, Vetiver, Copal
Holy Ficus
D.S. & Durga
The revered fig tree of Siddhartha and Lord K???A. Silently watch the flame for 7 hours and you may spy liberation.
Top: Cardamom, Frankincense
Middle: Fig, Cedar
Base: Ginger Root, Saffron
Specifications - 7 oz / 198 g.
Greatest Hits Vol.1
D.S. & Durga
A 1.5 ml sample set with D.S. & Durga's greatest juices.
DEBASER
ROSE ATLANTIC
RADIO BOMBAY
IDKW
BOWMAKERS
COWBOY GRASS
Crystal Pistil
D.S. & Durga
Add transparent orange blossom water, crystalline flower parts, and dew to any fragrance (or just rock it solo).
Top: Orange Flower Water, Dew-On Petals, Pink Pepper
Middle: Crystal Flower Parts, Paradisone, Jasmine Water
Base: Civettone, White Musks, Ambrette Seeds
Cowboy Grass
D.S. & Durga
American sagebrush, flowering white thyme, and prairie switchgrass from the wild western territories. Perfect for robbing banks on horseback.
Top: Rosewood, Wild Thyme, Bergamot
Middle: Sagebrush, Basil, Rose Otto
Base: Vetyver, Grass, Ambergris