Indie brand DS & Durga has launched Vio-Volta, a new fragrance that "comes from working with materials just for the fun of it".
“I was messing around with this chemical that [smells like] really weird candy rhubarb — super powerful — and this other new chemical that’s really strong, amber extreme. They say it’s the strongest woody amber. And those two things opened up this type of spaceship-like violet. I brought it more into a cedar-y incense and patchouli to make it not fully synthetic,” [David] Moltz said. “It just had a very vibratory effect.”
DS & Durga Vio-Volta is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum ($175 / $260).
(via wwd)
Wow, I really like the name for this perfume. Too bad I probably won’t like how it smells 🙁
I have no idea if I would like it — I do like the spaceship violet thing in CdG Stephen Jones.
I like that one too, plus Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s Quinacridone Violet.
Lots of fun rhubarb-y things out there, too.
Me too. They kind of lost me at really strong woody amber. Those seem to be my nemesis 🙁 I’ll give it a sniff when I see it in person.
Exactly! The first part sounded great, then they mentioned the strong woody amber and my interest died.