Sir D.S. & Durga for men

I so want to love perfumes from this company: Scrappy Brooklyn start-up hand blending fine fragrences to compete with some of the most respected boutiques in the world. It's an all American underdog story! And they have really cool-ass bottles!

So far, it's been more 'like' than 'love' though.

As Vincents noted, this is sort of a pseudo-Chypre: I didn't really get any kind of musk or oakmoss, and definately no citrusy anything - but I'd agree that smelling on paper there is some spice here. On my skin, however, whaterver mace that is there disappears and I get like 90% amber with the other 10% jasmine/floral sitting way in the background. I wear Bois 1920 Vetiver Ambrato, and this feels like it could be the base for that - all it needs is like 100 more ingredients to actually be interesting.

To be fair, I'm biased against really linear scents - I like my cologne to waft me with differnt notes thru-out the day - and this plays on me like it's 3 or four ingredients which just don't coalesce into anything greater than the sum of parts.

Long lasting, though. I could easily still smell this up on my wrist 10 hours after putting it on, and my parts per billion nose girlfriend picked up sillage hours after that.

So if you want to smell like amber, amber, amber and more amber for a loooong time, pick some up. If, like me, you like a little more personality in your scents, pass.

Spicier chypre than most green, wet, cypress, oakmoss chypre scents. This one has a bit of grit and woody tobacco spice. I like this one a lot and more than the old Marblehead Reds by DS & Durga. Like it more than Chypre by Essentially Me (cumin shouldn't be worn).