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Perfume Room

21. Creating Photo-Realistic Scents (w/ D.S. & Durga’s David and Kavi Moltz)

Perfume Room

Emma Vernon

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.9619 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

David and Kavi Moltz, the husband and wife duo behind D.S. & Durga, join me in today’s episode! David is the perfumer, and Kavi is the brains behind the brand’s modern aesthetic and packaging. We talk about the origins of D.S. & Durga, which scents they’re personally wearing most, David’s process and inspiration for creating the photo-realistic scents D.S. & Durga is so well-known for (including the origin story behind the infamous Cowboy Grass), the pop-culture phenomenons inspiring them most right now, and how it’s about damn time the Festival of Lights holiday [Hanukkah] had its own scented candle.

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LISTEN TO DAVID'S MUSIC ON SPOTIFY: Hiko Men


FRAGS MENTIONED:

Durga, St. Vetyver, Amber Teutonic, Burning Barbershop, Tuberose Myrrhder, Breakfast Leipzig, Breakfast Highlands, Concrete After Lightning, Rose Atlantic, Bowmakers, Radio Bombay, My Indian Childhood, Portable Fireplace, ’85 Diesel, Tomb of Eagles, Prime Chanukah, Notorious Oud, Cowboy Grass


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the perfume room.

0:13.0

My scent of the day today, surprise, is like seven different cents because if you haven't

0:17.1

figured it out by now, I have no self-restraint.

0:20.0

So let's just start with the first

0:21.2

thing I put on today, which was indeed, I don't know what, by Dia Sundurga. If you like another 13,

0:27.7

if you like not a perfume, if you like Namat, Amber, you need to go try, I don't know what.

0:33.6

It is in that family of just amazing, clean, easy to wear, easy to layer skin sense.

0:40.0

But this one just has a beautiful beginning, middle, and end, which makes perfect sense,

0:45.4

as you'll hear in the interview, because today's guests are David and Kavimaltz,

0:50.2

the creators of D.S. Enderga. This interview is sur good. But then I also received the new

0:57.1

discovery kit from Commodities relaunch and I was like, oh, I'll try like one or two of these.

1:02.2

True to myself, I got carried away and I sprayed like five different perfumes on one wrist and

1:06.4

now I can't tell what's what and I'm wearing like every perfume in the entire collection.

1:10.4

And you know what? I smell fucking good. My perfume juice of the day is a rant and that is on

1:15.7

1969's newest fragrance Chinese tobacco. Shout out to oh shoot it's Ali who DM me the scoop on

1:22.9

this. I feel like Ali is my source of tea if anyone listening to this would also similarly like to always

1:30.0

send me fragrance gossip. You know I'm always here for it. So Ali sent me this post and I did more

1:34.7

research and I found that Yosh Han, the creator of scent festival, which is a digital

1:38.8

scent festival whose mission is to decolonize scent and highlight intersectionality in perfumery.

1:50.0

Anyway, scent festival had posted about 1969's newest release Chinese tobacco. This fragrance, like the description of this fragrance just bothers me so much.

1:55.0

It has since been updated, but I'm going to read you what originally was written.

2:00.0

Again, as you know, apologize for the sirens.

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