The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2020 - Issue 27

bite perfume DS & D urga Jada Brookes is delighted with DS & Durga, the most inventive perfumer she has come across, and falls in love with their mind- blowing enduring fragrances. W hen you combine a self-taught perfumer with an architect who seeks clarity in form and function, you’re going to get something amazing. DS, co-founder Da- vid Seth’s initials, reached his level of expertise in making perfume thanks to immersing himself in all things fragrant. Kavi, his wife whom he nicknamed Durga after the Hindu goddess, designs everything. As an architect, she thinks in angles, light, shadow, and texture. You could say she builds buildings for our scents and cities for our universe. Starting from scratch, the husband-and-wife team did things their way. They even reference this as “more Sid than Sinatra” which brings to mind Frank Sinatra’s timeless song ‘My Way’ and his other memorable hit ‘New York, New York’ which seems fitting since DS & Durga is based in Brooklyn, New York. “We began by turning things we loved into scented stories of cowboys, open terrain, Russian novel characters, folks’ songs, and packing them into Perfume Is Armchair Travel Designer Brand Profile