D.S. & Durga: Steamed Rainbow

Not Just Another Rainbow: A City’s Essence, Captured in a Mirage of Scent

I can absolutely buy the notion that if you steamed a rainbow, it would smell like this.

Warm and wet, with psychedelic notes of elemi and vetiver that feel extracted straight from the earth below.

Things like oil slicks, leather jackets, asphalt and metal don’t escape being drunken in and distilled into these vaporous traces of petrichor—really, nothing does: Steamed Rainbow smells like an entire city.

The whole of the physical world below seems drawn upward into this colorful yet empty appearance, mirroring the illusory nature of everything we think we see.

It’s a beautifully spinning take on one of nature’s most beautiful tricks. It turns the transient beauty of a vividly appearing —yet totally empty — mirage into something tangible. This scent is a mirror of that ethereal beauty that you can wear and carry with you into the greyest of days.