D.S & DURGA                                       

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50ml

Aging vials of umber hues, weird brown orchids, coffee flower, and dry jasmine buds littered with faded citrus peels.
This is a deep brown flower perfume for amateur modernists dressed up in gigantic peak collar brown velvet tuxes and cheetah pantsuits to sip martinis at their friend's friend’s glasshouse out of the city.

TOP NOTES
acabia
dried cedrat
queen anne’s lace

HEART NOTES
brown orchid
coffee flower
sambac jasmine

BASE NOTES
aged musk
roots
coffee

50ml EDP

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Brown Flowers

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.
Radio Bombay is a deconstruction of the Mysore santal rebuilt from all the aspects written above. I imagine the radio sitting in a small hot shop in Bandra —the “Brooklyn” of Bombay (sorry). The heat deconstructs the oils in the wood. Ragas and Geeta Dutt tunes jangle out of its tiny speaker in the busy city.

TOP NOTES
radiant wood
copper
cedar

HEART NOTES
sandalwood
radiant iris
boronia

BASE NOTES
balsam fir absolute
coconut musc
ambergris

50ml EDP

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Radio Bombay

American sagebrush, flowering white thyme, and prairie switchgrass from the wild western territories. Perfect for robbing banks on horseback.
Cowboy Grass is a play of contrasts. The freshness of bergamot with the dustiness of thyme. The medicinal notes of clary sage and basil against the softness of rose otto. And ultimately the dry peanut wood crackle of vetiver against the warm amber of benzoin.

TOP NOTES
rosewood
wild thyme
bergamot

HEART NOTES
sagebrush
basil
rose otto

BASE NOTES
vetyver
grass
ambergris

50ml EDP

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Cowboy Grass

Sparkling leaf, cubeb, green pepper, & cracked coriander seed. Cool spices & Black Sea breeze—like the hills above Odessa.

It is an everyday scent, light enough to meld with skin and project its presence with a subtle aura. Fresh, but unique with its pungent green atmosphere.

TOP NOTES
coriander
pepper
juniper needle

HEART NOTES
geranium
clove stem
clary sage

BASE NOTES
musk
magnolia
mace

Coriander

[i]I think pistachio is an elegant nut. Also a fun nut. It's around good climes and everyone seems to dig it. We made this on a whim; a fragrance with no story that just evokes the fun of pistachio (especially as a dessert flavor). It was a STUDIO JUICE (limited edition of 100 bottles). People went nuts for the concept (pun somewhat intended) and we knew we had to add it to the line. It's dank & unabashedly sweet which is something I don’t normally do.[/i]
-D.S.

TOP NOTES
pistachio  
cardamom 

HEART NOTES
more pistachio
roasted almond
 
BASE NOTES
even more pistachio 
patchouli
vanilla crème

50ml EDP

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Pistachio

I DON’T KNOW WHAT 

I Don’t Know What is a wonderful tool for anyone who wants to play around with perfume. Of course it can be worn as a modern wonderfully transparent aroma, but it can also be layered over anything. Often when I leave the house, I will wear a touch of sandalwood, rose, jasmine, patchouli, oud, etc. These oils are lovely but can be muddy and they don’t last more than a few hours. IDKW sprayed over them makes the oil into a PERFUME. It does this because it is made with no notes! It is a secret combination of materials that perfumers use to highlight and enhance notes in a perfume. A Bergamot accord announces freshness, Vetiver Acetate a thin amber, Firsantol a lingering sandalwood, Iso E Super a radiance, and so on. It is like a building with only structure – no interior. You can fill in the interior with an oil, a scent you like, even an old scent that has lost its way. IDKW is built to layer and enhance everything else it touches.

TOP NOTES
Bergamot Essence

HEART NOTES
Iso e Super
Vetiver Acetate

BASE NOTES
Civettone
Firsantol
Ambrox Super

I Don't Know What

DEBASER 

Music is essential to life. I was born in a house of blues – dad’s from Chicago. At 9 I went to camp on an island. Cool older punk kids showed me the Misfits and the Pixies. (One of those kids was actually comedian Rob Delaney). That summer was ruled by Doolittle. The provocative lyrics. The cackle of Frank Black. I absorbed it in the summer heat. August humidity. Young romance. Our Debaser scent is hot, humid, sexy. Green stems, deep purple fig, soft blond woods, a wet white ethereal musk, and the coumarin-vanillic note of tonka bean.

TOP NOTES
Bergamot
Green Leaf
Pear Stem

HEART NOTES
Fig
Coconut Milk
Iris

BASE NOTES
Blond Woods 
Tonka Bean 
Moss

Debaser

BURNING BARBERSHOP

The other original mainstay of DSD along with Cowboy Grass. A truly old fashioned dandified visit to ye old barbershop through classic aromatic association – lavender, pine, mint, roses, vanilla – with a unique modern twist: devastating smoke. 
 
Burning Barbershop is a fougere – a classic genre of usually men’s fragrances that use hay and vanillic notes with herbal lavender and the bitter green base of oakmoss. It is instantly recognizable on grandpas everywhere. 
 
This is the scent of a fougere that’s been through fire. I imagine the bottle was full, cooking in the extreme heat of the blaze until the glass was black and cracked. After the embers had cooled, it was dug out underneath the rubble. Inside, stuck to the glass was the cooked resin of all that was fresh and inviting from the cologne. So you have the brightness of limes, cleanliness of lavender, joy of roses, zing of mint, and the sweetness of vanilla all cooked down into a rectified solid mass.

TOP NOTES
Spearmint
Lime
Hemlock Spruce

HEART NOTES
Lavender
Absolute
Turkish Rose

BASE NOTES
Burnt Oil
Vanilla
Hay

Burning Barbershop

60ml

NOTORIOUS OUD 

Oud is the most notorious ingredient in perfume. Everyone seems to have an opinion about it. Real oud oil is the most expensive perfume ingredient on the planet. Rare logs from the jungles of South East Asia are guarded by the government – theft penalized by death! Whole logs of Aquilaria that have been infected with the black resin can sell for millions. Oud is the stuff of fables - now endangered from overharvesting.

Aromatically, oud is among the most varied and complex oils on the planet. Depending on location, age, and method of extraction oud can display countless shimmering effects that appear at once woody, spicy, floral, smoky, rooty, musky, fine, fecal, and animalic. The hunt for rare ouds to be prized and worn directly on the skin is a little different than the making oud perfumes.
Oud perfume, like most modern perfumes, seek to take inspiration from studies of oils that could never be mass produced (for regulatory, environmental, artistic and economic considerations). The magic of the perfumer’s touch is his or her ability to reconstruct specific aromas with other materials.
Notorious Oud is me sitting in Brooklyn, thinking about a rare Indonesian Oud that I procured. Thinking what would make its essence sing and grow from a single oil into a transcendent perfume. I took fine materials from all over the world – Bulgarian Rose, French Lavender, Egyptian Papyrus, and Afghani saffron—and built a support structure around this wonderfully complex oud accord. Oud that wears easy and beautiful.

TOP NOTES:
Saffron
Camphor
White Galbanum

HEART NOTES:
Indonesian Oud
bulgar rose
lavender absolute

BASE NOTES:
civet
cetalox
papyrus

Notorious Oud