D.S. & Durga

Radio Bombay

2013
Sandalwood and radish root in a Brooklyn-Bombay collision — perfumery as cultural anthropology, unexpected and irreducible.
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Sensory Profile

Sweetness Freshness Woodiness Intensity Longevity Complexity

Composition

Concentration Eau de Parfum
Style Niche
Notable Ingredients
radish root coconut sandalwood copper cedar tulsi

Olfactory Structure

Family Woody
Evolution Dramatic
Sillage 6/10

Character

Moods

earthy mysterious meditative bold

Season

Autumn Winter

Occasion

Casual

Thematic Territory

Subcontinent meets Brooklyn — sandalwood and copper mingling with radish root in a fragrance that sounds wrong on paper but smells like discovery

Era & Context

Postmodern

David Seth Moltz's love letter to Indian culture, filtered through his Brooklyn lens. Radish root as a fragrance ingredient is a DS&D signature move — finding beauty in the unconventional.

Spiritual Links

Le Labo Santal 33
7/10
Woody Foundation Cultural Bridge
Tauer Perfumes Lonestar Memories
7/10
Compositional Parallel Leather Thread
Etat Libre d'Orange Rien
5/10
Leather Thread Mood Convergence

Influences

Absorbed from

Le Labo Santal 33 The sandalwood-as-protagonist concept reimagined with Indian spice

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