D.S. & Durga
American perfume, told as short stories
D.S. & Durga is a Brooklyn-based perfume house founded by David Seth Moltz, a self-taught perfumer, and his wife Kavi Moltz, an architect. The pair started blending in their kitchen in 2007, releasing fragrances inspired by American folk songs, mid-century literature, road-trip landscapes, and obscure botanical references. The house occupies a particular niche in independent perfumery: its compositions read like short stories, often built around a single odd material — pencil shavings, debris from a dunes hike, a Polish vodka cellar — pushed forward without polish. Bottles are sold through Liberty London, Bergdorf Goodman, and a Williamsburg flagship that doubles as a workshop. Releases tend to land on critic best-of lists each year, and the house has helped define what American niche means: literate, eccentric, more interested in narrative than in luxury signalling.
Releases
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.

































