Love Brown Flowers Not Just for Autumn

She sits looking out through the panes of her domed glass house. The sun low in the sky, casting a brown-orange hue across the wooded landscape. All around her is brown, every hue from tan coffee, mocha, chocolate via musk, chestnut, bronze and burnt umber. It is the end of summer, but for her, this time of year, with its subtle shades of cinnamon, cocoa, and russet, comfort her. The new perfume from brilliant niche perfume house D.S & Durga celebrates this very feeling, and you don’t just need to enjoy it in autumn, it’s perfect for now. Find out more in Love Brown Flowers, Not Just for Autumn

After all, she was wrapped up in her favourite topaz belted cardigan, her auburn hair fell long onto her shoulders, her toes wrapped in maroon socks, her flared velvet slacks a tawny brown. This was a place, a time, and a set of tones that worked for her.

Even the home around her, as modern as modern can be with its Vico Magistretti designed Mobil Girgi “Sapporo” Three Seat butterscotch sofa, her Arne Jacobsen beige egg chair, her mid-century walnut scandi dining table with its caramel rattan chairs reflected back at her; her love, her mood, her place of joy; sat with her plethora of dried flowers surrounding in earthenware pots.

Her hand with long, refined fingers finished with nails coated in a shimmer blush that lightly held her smoked brown glass coupe with a martini with a single brown kalamata olive.

She loves scent, whether it be the potpourri she has shipped from New York or her incense from India, it’s her perfumes she loves best.

Her newest one, she tells her friends, is “to die for, very European”, she says, slightly dismissively. So what is her scent of the day today? Meet Brown flower by DS& Durga, of course.

‘It’s chic, it’s drab, it’s what all her friends are wearing in the city. Don’t you want to try it?

David Seth of DS & Durga

Think ageing vials of umber hues, weird brown orchids, coffee flower, and dry Jasmine buds littered with faded citrus peels. This vibrant take on dying flowers is not what you may think. Opening with a vibrancy of somewhat candid citrus via dried cedrat that softens the tartness of this citrus fruit, allowing for a sort of citrus warmth rather than a bright rush. Alongside the wildness of Queen Anne’s lace with its citrus carrot-like facets and finally, within its top, find the brown hue via Acabia.

Its heart a floral fusion with Coffee Flower, the flower that blossoms before the cherry bud of the coffee bean, a light, floral, sweet, and slightly warm note that echoes both Orange and Jasmine and so here is an added highlight to the magnitude of Jasmine Sambac and the most unusual accord of brown Orchid. This is not about the singularity of each floral note but the combination of them bringing a creamy softness to the team.

It’s final flourish? A deep draw down into rooty hay-like notes with more coffee and aged musk to wrap the wearer in a gentle caress.

Sepia tones of her 1970’s velour heaven, reek from this perfume, but in the best possible way. As much as an ode to a type, a period, a feeling, it is yet another way this eclectic perfume house looks to interpret florals. The perfume allows us, the wearer, to engage with a nuanced take on a multi-printed 1970s floral carpet and let us find out that we love it.

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