• Two bottles of "burning barbershop"  perfume by d.s. & durga in varying sizes.
  • A bottle of Burning Barbershop fragrance by D.S. & Durga is held by a hand covered in melted candle wax. Five lit candles are placed on the tips of the wax-covered fingers, producing small trails of smoke against a dark background.
  • Bottle of "burning barbershop" eau de parfum, 50 ml size next to its packaging.
  • Bottle of "burning barbershop" eau de parfum, 100 ml size next to its packaging.

Burning Barbershop

Perfume

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A fire broke out in the Curling Bros. barbershop in Westlake, N.Y. 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.

Top Notes

  • spearmint
  • lime
  • hemlock spruce

Heart Notes

  • lavender absolute
  • tuberose
  • turkish rose

Base Notes

  • burnt oil
  • vanilla
  • hay

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A close-up image of a straight razor with a brown and cream-colored handle, displaying its sharp blade on a grey background.

The other original mainstay of DSD along with Cowboy Grass. A truly old fashioned dandified visit to ye old barbershop through classic aromatic association—lavender, pine, mint, roses, vanilla‚with a unique modern twist: devastating smoke.

Burning Barbershop is a fougere—a classic genre of usually men’s fragrances that use hay and vanillic notes with herbal lavender and the bitter green base of oakmoss. It is instantly recognizable on grandpas everywhere.


This is the scent of a fougere that’s been through fire.

I imagine the bottle was full, cooking in the extreme heat of the blaze until the glass was black and cracked. After the embers had cooled, it was dug out underneath the rubble. Inside, stuck to the glass was the cooked resin of all that was fresh and inviting from the cologne.

So you have the brightness of limes, cleanliness of lavender, joy of roses, zing of mint, and the sweetness of vanilla all cooked down into a rectified solid mass.-D.S.

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Ingredients

Alcohol Denat., Fragrance (Parfum), Water (Aqua), Limonene, Benzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, Evernia Prunastri (Oakmoss) Extract, Farnesol, Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, Isoeugenol, Linalool

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