Indie brand DS & Durga has launched Brown Flowers, a new fragrance.
Aging vials of umber hues, weird brown orchids, coffee flower, and dry jasmine buds littered with faded citrus peels.
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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. Have you met their eccentric childhood friend who wears polka dot headbands? She’s taken over the guest cottage & is making experiments with all sorts of dried flowers and herbs. The desk is littered with plant parts, vials of old extracts, and vases of bizarre looking orchids she sources from “the best little shop” in Chinatown. See her collection of antique herbals with ridiculous recipes for “tussie mussies,” “pomanders,” “herbal vinegars,” and rudimentary perfumes. Her newest fragrance is “to die for.” Made with “exquisite” floral extracts, her own distillations, and a musk that “she can only get in Europe.” -D.S.
Additional notes include acabia [sic], dried cedrat, queen anne’s lace, "roots" and coffee.
DS & Durga Brown Flowers is available in 50 ($210) and 100 ($300) ml Eau de Parfum.
(via dsanddurga)
That imagery is actually fun.
It is, although the browned out “ad image” they’re using is less fun than the description.
I’ll definitely sample this one and am glad it doesn’t appear to be limited edition.
Let us know if it is to die for 🙂
And here I was thinking Brown Flowers was a euphemism for poop.