A fire broke out in the Curling Bros. barbershop in Westlake, NY in 1891. All the shaving tonics with their spearmint, lime, vanilla and lavender burned
A charred bottle was found half-full. It smelled like this
Real kinam is the rarest of ouds; when a piece of agarwood becomes heavily caked with the resin we call oud. Finding it in the world is like discovering gold (only rarer). The profile of this perfume is built from a piece of Vietnamese kinam that has an otherworldly presence. It seems to reinvent itself each moment showing shades of red spice, fruit, balsamic sweetness, deep wood, jungle vine, and much more!
Amber is an oft misunderstood term in perfume. To D.S., amber is a tree extract readily available for use with a vanillic, balsamic aromatic profile. Baltic amber is a fossilized tree sap from millions of years ago. If you melt it down, there is a deep smoky bouquet that took millions of years to develop. Here it has been used like that and creates an opulent supporting cast to bring out and preserve this most rare ingredient
