D.S. & Durga
D.S. & Durga
185 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot and leaf green collide immediately, the citrus bright but quickly swallowed by a green, slightly bitter herbaceous quality that dominates. Within minutes, you're enveloped in something closer to crushed foliage than conventional freshness.
Fig and coconut milk emerge with peculiar restraint, the coconut lending a subtle, slightly soapy creaminess that never fully sweetens the composition. Iris softens everything into powdery, almost intellectual territory, creating a complex middle ground between sweet and savoury.
Blond woods and white musk establish themselves with gentle precision, whilst tonka bean adds whispers of vanilla warmth that never overwhelm. Moss grounds the composition into skin-scent territory, fading into a delicate, barely-there woody-creamy whisper.
Debaser is a fragrance that interrogates the boundary between fresh and creamy, landing in that uncomfortable, compelling space where neither fully dominates. David Seth Moltz constructs something deliberately unsettling here—the bergamot opens with characteristic brightness, but it's immediately shouldered aside by a leaf green accord that smells like you've crushed bitter vegetation between your palms. This is where Debaser reveals its contrarian streak: rather than allowing citrus to establish dominance, the green notes assert themselves with almost aggressive herbal clarity.
The heart introduces coconut milk and fig, but this isn't the creamy tropical sweetness you might anticipate. Instead, the coconut reads watery and slightly soapy against the fig's jammy earthiness, whilst iris grounds everything with powdery, almost dusty restraint. There's an oddly austere quality here—the creamy accord never fully surrenders to indulgence. It's as though Moltz deliberately prevents the fragrance from becoming comfortable.
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Escentric Molecules
3.6/5 (98)