Radio Bombay Pocket Perfume

Pocket perfume with oil-based rollerball

TOP NOTES
Radiant wood
Copper
Cedar

HEART NOTES
Sandalwood
Radiant iris
Boronia

BASE NOTES
Balsam fir absolute
Coconut musc
Ambergris

LINER NOTES
I am interested in hypothetical scent. Not everything has a strong or readily perceivable aroma, but objects can suggest a fragrance. Light bulbs glow. Electricity courses through their metal filaments. They melt the dust on their surface emitting wisps of heat. The tubes in amplifiers have a certain aroma. When my ‘69 Fender Deluxe gets heated-up (after rip-roaring monster shredding), the back of the amp produces a hot dusty metallic grease perfume—the scent of backstage in a humid venue.
So what if there was a tube amplifier in an old radio made of sandalwood? Then the interaction of the heat would open up the pores of the wood, singing its smooth elegant fragrance - puffs of musky cedar, peach, coconut, lactones, milk.
Real sandalwood essence is perfection. I often wear it neat. It smells of India, effigies, purity, focus. Unfortunately, it has been overharvested, so perfumers don’t use the oil from Mysore anymore.
Radio Bombay is a deconstruction of the Mysore santal rebuilt from all the aspects written above. I imagine the radio sitting in a small hot shop in Bandra —the “Brooklyn” of Bombay (sorry). The heat deconstructs the oils in the wood. Ragas and Geeta Dutt tunes jangle out of its tiny speaker in the busy city.

-DS

ORIGIN
Made in United States

Fragrance (Parfum), Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Citral, Coumarin, Limonene, Linalool

10ml

DS & Durga is a New York-based fragrance house renowned for its innovative and evocative scents. Founded by David Seth Moltz and Kavi Moltz in 2009, the brand blends unique ingredients with storytelling to create fragrances that transport you to distant lands and imaginative realms. With a commitment to quality and a flair for the unconventional, DS & Durga turns perfumery into a dynamic sensory journey.