Concrete After Lightning Candle

Electric crackle, downpour, panic grass, sizzling asphalt steam. Respite on muggy summer days.

The scent after it rains is a favorite aromatic genre of mine – and many people as it turns out. Perfumers have a few tools to use in the category of ozone – or things that smell like water and air. Geosmin is the scent molecule released from bacteria in dirt after it rains. What’s lovely, is that the Geosmin blends with different aromatics in different environments. Whereas in the forest it smells dank yet fresh, in the city you get the scent of hot asphalt and concrete quickly cooled by rain. It is as if the whole city is boiling, overlapping in scent, and when rain and thunder come, all is released into the air in an instant. It smells fresh, unique and only of summer in the city. Concrete After Lightning is simple – you have the air, rain, steam, and some of the weeds that grow in the cracks of New York City.

D.S. & Durga is a Brooklyn-based husband and wife team with passions and expertise in the art, music, architecture and design worlds. The brand's disparate creative influences work together to create elegiacally eclectic fragrances with entire histories and soundtracks. Their slogan, "perfume is armchair travel," references their mission to rekindle foggy memories and imaginary universes through aromatic stimulation.