Brown Flowers

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The scent The artist Try a sample first! Aging vials of umber hues, weird brown orchids, coffee flower, & dry jasmine buds littered with faded citrus peels. This is a deep brown fl ower perfume for amateur modernists dressed up in gigantic peak collar brown velvet tuxes & cheetah pantsuits to sip martinis at their friend’s friend’s glasshouse out of the city. Have you met their eccentric childhood friend who wears polka dot headbands? She’s taken over the guest cottage & is making experiments with all sorts of dried flowers & herbs. The desk is littered with plant parts, vials of old extracts, and vases of bizarre looking orchids she sources from “the best little shop” in Chinatown. See her collection of antique herballs with ridiculous recipes for “tussie mussies,” “pomanders,” “herbal vinegars,” & rudimentary perfumes. Her newest fragrance is “to die for.” Made with “exquisite” floral extracts, her own distillations, & a musk that “she can only get in Europe.” It’s chic, it’s drab, it’s what all her friends are wearing in the city. Don’t you want to try it? Notes include acabia, dried cedrat, queen anne’s lace, brown orchid, coffee flower, sambac jasmine, aged musk, roots, and coffee. D.S. & Durga, the Brooklyn-born, indie perfume house creating scents made for ‘armchair travel’. Show more