Indie brand DS & Durga has launched Big Sur Eucalyptus, a new limited edition unisex fragrance inspired by the brand's Big Sur After Rain candle.
Deep spicy green groves on the cool cool California coast.
Our Big Sur After Rain candle is one of our most successful products. People have asked for us to make it as a perfume, but I don't really dig candle oils on the skin. So I took the dominant accord, and many of the same materials and fashioned them into a foggy meditation on coastal California eucalyptus groves that sits wonderfully on the ol' epidermis. Eucalyptus is one of my top five favorite smells in the world. The oil alone cannot encapsulate it's [sic] real essence - balmy, green, woody, and deeply spicy. I hope this perfume captures this for all the seekers and tweakers out there.
The notes include wet wood, pacific spray, eucalyptus globulous, cardamom, rosemary, magnolia, eucalyptus cone, cyprus (cypress?) and dry leaves.
DS & Durga Big Sur Eucalyptus is available now at Etiket in Canada, in 50 ml Eau de Parfum.
(via etiket.ca)
This could be really good, because I have a memory of the way the bundle of eucalyptus scented our living room years ago. Eucalyptus, and cardamom, magnolia, and certain marine notes: yes, that would work for me!
I have never smelled the candle, but this does sound great and like my memories of SoCal as much as NoCal…
I stayed in Big Sur once and it was one of my favorite spots. I went a little over 20 yrs ago but loved it. A lot of why I loved it, was the scents lol..the smell of forest was amazing and the coast. I loved the smell of the sand..and put some into a bottle and corked it up. That sand maintained the scent for years..until I broke the dumb bottle one day lol..idiot. Eucalyptus as a note, I don’t relate to at all for BS. More of redwood, damp driftwood, seaweed/ kelp, cyrpus, sand. It’s a very beautiful area, one of the most beautiful I have seen:)
There are eucalyptus groves in Big Sur, but they are not native, which I think is also true of the groves in SoCal.
Yes, the eucalyptus were all imported from Australia.
I wouldn’t relate spicy to the area either..lol just caught…seekers and tweakers? Tweakers mean something pretty specific in NV. Not sure I would put that in a perfume description lol.
Another one?? Sounds nice though.
They are busy over there 🙂