Amber Teutonic D.S. & Durga 2018

Bottle Design Kavi Moltz

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7.8 / 10 164 Ratings

A popular perfume by D.S. & Durga for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is woody-resinous. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Woody

Resinous

Spicy

Green

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Alpine cedar

Cardamom

Green mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Silver fir cone

European larch

Geranium

Base Notes

European black pine

Opoponax

Musk

Perfumer

David Seth Moltz

Ratings

Scent

7.8164 Ratings

Longevity

7.9139 Ratings

Sillage

7.4142 Ratings

Bottle

7.6115 Ratings

Value for money

6.149 Ratings

Submitted by AmyAmy, last update on 11/14/2024.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/13/2019

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Silverfire
130 Reviews

Silverfire

3

Amber Without Amber

This scent goes on with a warm kind of ambergris feel but also spiky (cedar) at the same time. It's aggressive and has a nice solid projection at a few feet. It billows around you but it doesn't overwhelm. After 30 minutes or so, the cedar withdraws and the scent becomes the warm amber of Amber Neu, which I love. Oddly enough, I can't pinpoint the notes that create this scent -- ambergris or stryax isn't listed, so perhaps this is opponax? I don't get any of the tree scents here, nor the geranium (for which I am grateful). The mandarin helps create the warmth and the summery amber aroma, but it is blended so well that you don't ever get it as a separate note.

Amber Teutonic lasts all day, gradually fading to a warm amber skin scent. I do enjoy it, and if you do not have an ambergris scent, this is top-notch. It does differ from Amber Neu in its initial aggression, but they are similar enough that it's probably not a great investment to own both. I am biased -- my first experience with an ambergris scent that worked for me was Amber Neu, so I'm going to get it first. Also, although I love DS&Durga, Atelier (Amber Neu) is a bit cheaper.

In short, a good quality ambergris-style scent. If I wasn't already spoken for in this department, I would be getting this (well, eventually as I'm still not rich).

12/27/2018

7
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Greenfaerie
86 Reviews

Greenfaerie

More tropical than Teutonic

Being the forest lover that I am, as soon as I heard about this fragrance, I bought it blindly. When will I learn that that's never a good idea?! I could have bought a backup of Bowmaker's instead. To me this fragrance smells coconutty from the get-go. It's really annoying. I was never a huge fan of amber, and this one smells very much like many ambers out there--the kind of amber that seems a bit like play-doh. It's the same amber I get from L'Artisan's Amber, Mona di Orio...lots of others. That isn't a bad thing in and of itself, I mean, it's called AMBER Tuetonic for goodness sake, so you should totally expect amber. The weird, creamy coconuttiness bothers me and seems really out of place. I am not getting these wonderful woods that are in the notes. It's all drowning in this common amber with coconut. There is also a citrusy note that annoys me. So basically, I am not reminded of any type of old forest, much less a European one. Really no forest at all, come to think of it. Anyway, not my cup of tea, although I tend to enjoy a lot of this house's fragrances. I would love to know if I am the only one who is getting this creamy coconut note.

06/16/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Chizza
287 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 28

Amber collecting in Teutonic forests

The house of D.S. & Durga recently told me quite little and even now my knowledge of this house has not exactly grown exorbitantly. But that can still be, because what has grown very well is now my interest in the fragrance house and this is due to Amber Teutonic, because the fragrance is for me a kind of balsamic and in places fresh-citric egoist. I hardly dare to say it, but Egoiste is actually my favorite perfume and that without leather.
Now what does a Teuton smell like, one might ask. What it lives on at least, that's what the scent tells us not least of all, namely the trade with amber. So should it rather be about the scent of amber, which smells differently from this region? Is it more a shot of a typical scenery of that time? You don't know and today I don't want to tell you a fictional story, but only describe the scent in detail, which in my eyes is outstanding and I want to appreciate that.
First it will be very tangy and fresh, which will probably be the green mandarin. Our alpine cedar seems to have donated some sweetish resin, respectively the one from Opoponax - more about this later - because for a moment Amber Teutonic wavers in this direction, but fortunately it will catch again immediately. Then the cedar smells as royal and sublime as we know it from her. Wonderful, I love it! Now we have cardamom which has been added. If I were to say that the olfactory perception is intense, I would have to lie. What he does with the cedar, however, is this: the cedar gets a dirty, beguiling note, and at the same time it gets a little warmer, as if the sticky resin is flowing down irregularly in small chunks. Subliminally, we also have the tangerine, which trickles its still bitter juice onto the resin.
Now it will be more balmy. Larch and fir cones are added. The smell becomes woody. Now you have to imagine that, what does a fir cone smell like? Rather weakly woody, sometimes earthy in undertone, so my memory. Now the pine cone in Amber Teutonic gives off more of a fine aura, reminds us that we are exploring the forest, reminds us to find the amber. The larch itself is used in medicine here and there as a soothing element, and so here too a soothing woody tone emanates from the larch. It is not a cold winter in the forest. The sun is shining, it is mild, the birds are chirping, it is simply a beautiful day. An idyll.
In the end, we arrive at what was already playing a permanent role in the fragrance, but which I only really learned to assign in this perfume: Opoponax. This resin smells balsamic and woody, slightly sweetish but very intense. I have the feeling that it reminds me of this sandalwood-tobacco-vanilla blend at Egoiste, but with a woody touch. This scent woven into A more intense net, gave the cedar new facets and woven the net more tightly around the larch and fir cones. We were drawn to it like sirens, and it also highlighted what I consider to be the few differences to Egoiste: a tiny trace of earthiness that clings to the green.
Amber Teutonic is wonderful and I thank AdAstra very much for the rehearsal, where I first adorned myself and decided to go for other bottlings. He nevertheless enclosed a sample of this fragrance. I got to know a wonderful scent and my bank account got to know another debit. Joy on one side, suffering on the other. But at least now I will be able to sleep soundly thanks to the balsamic note.

05/22/2024

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
Scent

Theris
15 Reviews

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Theris

Top Review 27

With rhyme to the green amber stone

(The full version or the leaning to the statement)

On a sunny day I left the house
because the gray walls became too narrow
and bumped my head on the ceiling

About time I saw something green again
No, not the broccoli between my teeth
I mean going into the forest

On a new path that I took
i discovered a forest entrance
contrasting, light-flooded reception
where many pine cones hung

Should I go in? And started to ponder
I dared to take a small step inside
Then a pine cone plopped onto my turnip

Staggering briefly, he began to speak:
"Hey hey stranger, come on in
This is the tangerine grove"
The cone is talking, I was just imagining it
Maybe the after-effects of yesterday's wine

"No no, this is real" he replies
"Welcome home, don't you know it?"
"The hiding place of the green amber stone?"
"My cone friends will show you the way there
Condition between us, it remains a secret"

Okay okay I thought and stopped asking
Gave the pest my word
A little adventure can't hurt

I followed the cones and cones of light
Vitamin D flowed through my veins
The lightly fruity sensation felt like a blessing
Felt feelings of happiness expand into me

The trees became lighter and lighter, the air more ethereal
Resin shone in amber colors
Similar to honeycomb
It smelled as if the pines were coming closer and closer

At the end of the path I saw a shrine
Adorned with woods and resins
What could be hidden here
It felt like a farce

I opened the chest
My mouth remained open
It sparkled green and white
Like a mix of jade and danburite

Noticed the scent intoxication in me
Green, as if I were a piece of the forest
White wings that unfold
Graceful, with a soft receipt at the same time

Let me be carried away, fly away
Eyes that could not be opened
Literally befuddled by the intoxicating scent
As if in nirvana - senses overridden

Arrived at the bottom of the facts
I regained my senses
Was just a little dazed

Found myself at the entrance to the forest again
Exactly the same position
Only there was no more forest and entrance
Was it all just an illusion?
My gaze slanted to the ground
And didn't want to believe it
Then I saw a cone lying there
I just thought, come on, I'm going home...

10/18/2020

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Dustymusky
14 Reviews

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Dustymusky

Very helpful Review 12

Siegfried and the palm forest

What made me buy this fragrance was a good bit of curiosity about the many woody scents that are otherwise hard to find in the Parfumo database, but which clearly suggest a deep forest. Larch is present in eleven listed perfumes, European larch is not in the database at all. Searching for white fir cone doesn't come up with any success either, but entering "white" in the fragrance search engine leads to some surprising suggestions : blue-green willow?? Only contained in the fragrance "Leonore" by Red Dear Grove, together with sweet pea ?! - All right, go on !. Beaujolais wine !? Found in "Wine and Roses" by Soul Purpose. All entirely uncommented fragrances so far. After finishing this unexpected educational journey on Google, I still note: black pine and alpine cedar seem to be other unique selling points of Amber Teutonic.

About the fragrance: a purchased sample revealed to me a truly extraordinary aroma. Soft resinous, with slightly cool fruit, distantly woody - and superficially some sweetness, which seems strangely familiar, but can not be immediately classified. No matter - perhaps a bit befuddled, but Teutonic brashly rushed forward and the flacon hunted down - er - bought, imposes itself on the second wearing immediately the sweetish note again. To which of these noble woods do you belong? Yes, now I know what it is! It smells like coconut! Ouch!!! Instead of being in a Teutonic forest myth, I'm standing under a coconut palm? What a spoiler! And once you have an image in your head, you can't easily get rid of it. Do you want to take it straight to the souk? That would be very unteutonic! The greatest sword-wielding Teuton of all times didn't run away just because he couldn't do anything with his sword, but threw tree trunks at the dragon. The direct approach to new fragrances is not always the best. Self-deception takes place in one's own head, so why not deceive one's own self-deception? When this sweet aroma jumps out at me, I ask: And what mystical coconut are you? Yes, now I smell it! A superficial, exotic resinous aroma, with cool tart fruit and mystical, coniferous ethereal tones right behind. Later on, the woody notes come out more clearly. You can do it! My advice: try twice before buying.

Edit: with the log Siegfrid can hold out for a long time. 12 hours at four on the chest !

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