D.S. & Durga are a self-taught husband and wife duo that make small batch scents from their in Brooklyn workshop. Each perfume or cologne harks back to the old days of America, with stories of burning barbershops and cowboy grass.

Deep spicy green groves on the cool cool California coast. Big Sur After Rain is one of D. S. & Durga’s most successful products. People have asked for them to make it as a perfume, but they really don’t dig candle oils on the skin. So they 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.