Cowboy Grass D.S. & Durga 2008

Bottle Design Kavi Moltz

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7.7 / 10 173 Ratings

A popular perfume by D.S. & Durga for men, released in 2008. The scent is green-spicy. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Green

Spicy

Woody

Earthy

Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Wild thyme

Bergamot

Rosewood

Heart Notes

Sagebrush

Basil

Clary sage

Rose otto

Base Notes

Vetiver

Grass

Benzoin

Ambergris

Perfumers

Kavi Moltz, David Seth Moltz

Ratings

Scent

7.7173 Ratings

Longevity

7.3139 Ratings

Sillage

6.6139 Ratings

Bottle

7.1122 Ratings

Value for money

6.357 Ratings

Submitted by Feylamia, last update on 11/22/2024.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/04/2024

6
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

JewishJesus
58 Reviews

JewishJesus

2

A Transportive, Exquisitely Crafted Aroma

Cowboy as a perfume could swing a few ways. The first time I sprayed it, I was a bit thrown off and displeased as this wasn't what I was expecting. I expected a perfume to make me *feel* like a cowboy. To make me smell like a cowboy. This perfume is not that. Cowboy Grass is the aroma that surrounds as I envision myself within a sagebrush field in an expansive, Southwestern plain pictured by Albert Bierstadt or Thomas Moran. This perfume transports me to the fields of wild herbs and dry, woody grass. I can smell the herby, sage notes as they're carried on a light breeze.

In their pack of bestselling samples, Debaser and Cowboy Grass are two green scents on opposite ends of the spectrum. While one is fruity, milky, and fresh, the other is dry, woody, and herby. Over time, the dryness and bite of the grassy notes smooth out with a bit of florals and musk. The more I wear this perfume, the more I enjoy it.

Low-middle sillage, which I think is fitting for this scent, which should be more of a passing breeze than something loudly projecting its presence. The longevity is ok, although I do wish it persisted a bit longer. On my skin, at least in a humid summer, it lasts roughly 4-6 hours, but I expect it would last longer on me in other seasons (or somewhere dryer). Unlike some of DS&Durga's other perfumes, this is one where I really wish they diverged from their classy, but generic, bottling to help elevate this perfume in something more evocative.

Overall, a really great scent, although an envisioning of cowboy that aligns with it in its classic, Western sense. Maybe I just wish I lived in New Mexico, or maybe this is just an exceptionally executed perfume.

10/17/2023

Philyrae
21 Reviews

Philyrae

1

Dry sagebrush

It’s probably for the best that the cowboy in the name isn’t invoked realistically because I can do without the entrenched body odor, cheap liquor and animal smells that make up their olfactory world.

That said, this paints a more romantic idea of a sagebrush landscape colored with thyme and dry hay settling into a smoky twilight under a wool blanket. Some ambergris and musks appear warm up in the drydown and I get notes of palo santo and rosewood all throughout. It’s beautifully evocative and leans masculine though a woman can wear this as well.

07/31/2024

Bmblbee
11 Reviews

Bmblbee

1

Repulsed and then intrigued. Vicious herbs burning away to dry sweetness.

Hated this on first spray. Then came back again and again to pick out the middle and dry down.

This could be the dry chaparral scrub land counterpart to St Vetyver's island in the Caribbean sea. Not very desert to me. There's no deny the opening is harsh. I get oregano, thyme, very astringent herbs. Sometimes (sadly) I also get an oily aspect, like dirty automotive bearing grease or anti-seize. This noxious start gives way to a delicious grassiness that stays for the rest of the time. Not verdant green lawn but drying straw, barely a hint of sweetness if you look for it. In the background something burnt...leather, rubber, industrial but harmonized with herbaceousness. On hot humid days it might develop a musky tang that I associate with grapefruit and sweat, not overwhelming but still off putting. I enjoy the androgynous and rough nature of this fragrance, wish it could work for my skin but that oil / dirty grease aspect that sometimes pops up is unforgivable.

I can see how this is a polarizing fragrance. So much of it repels me, then pulls me back in for another whiff.

02/14/2021

7
Pricing 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

NuiWhakakore
69 Reviews

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NuiWhakakore

Top Review 32

Mapache!

It had been watching him. All through the cold night, as he dreamed fitfully of adventures. Had crept up to the fire and rummaged through his pockets, nibbled at his supplies. Now it watched from a distance. The sun was rising over the mountains, bathing everything in its golden light. The smoke from the fire was just a puff in the cool air, scented with thyme and dark wood.

The figure in the distance stirred. It should have disappeared into its den by now, but it was curious and couldn't tear itself away from the sight. It would get up and wander down into the plain, and that's when a crazy idea flashed through the little rodent's brain: why not follow it, leave its ancestral territory and explore the wide open spaces?

It followed him the whole day. The landscape grew drier and drier and more barren. It was exhausted and thirsty, but continued to follow as if in a drowsy trance. The air became hot and spicy, fragrant with mugwort and basil. No more clear thoughts, just on and on. Filled with the smells of the prairie, new smells and old familiar ones, dry and spicy mixed together. So different from up in the mountains, new yet familiar. Now there was grass to run over, scorched by the sun yet fresh. The sun was sinking, the heat giving way to a pleasant warmth. Amber light heralded the night.

It was sure, back there, beyond the black band, would be the paradise it dreamed of. With its last ounce of strength it dragged itself onto the smooth plain, still warm from the day. No more grasses and no more stones, a relief for its battered paws. Was this already the longed-for paradise? There came a light, so bright and invitingly shining! It came closer and closer, the tape vibrated, and then....

...Ol' John had been sitting in his Mack truck for 13 hours, kept going only by caffeine and sugar, thundering down the highway. A brief thump in the steering, that's all he felt.

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I've been thinking for a long time whether to write anything else about Cowboy Grass, there are already great comments about it, but the scent deserves it! Even if the cowboy theme already offers itself whether the name, it definitely brews but no new cowboy story to it, there are already very good. The journey from the cool mountains to the dry prairie is but an imposing analogy, it describes the scent course but perfectly.
So smells Cowboy Grass as described above, fresh, woody, spicy herbs, dry vetiver and at the end some warming ambergris. 6 to 7 hours lasts the journey from the mountains to the plains for him or her, in this case, I think but rather for him. Who likes creaky-green fragrances, test!

And thanks to Good Ol' John Medianus, he couldn't possibly see the little guy despite being overtired, he's not to blame!

For once, here's the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs8EdlomUzs

10/12/2020

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Chizza
287 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 22

Trail through the steppe

1820: my life as a bounty hunter took me through many a godforsaken nest, through valleys of death and above all through one thing: lonely landscapes, dry wasteland and starvation for days on end. As romantic as I imagined my existence at the beginning of my career, the reality was sobering. So today I left the lush green valley for the prairie with mixed feelings

I walked past the cattle, which were chewing the wonderful green grass, which smelled of life, so juicy it was. There were only a few barren spots, but these could not cloud the overall picture. So I sucked in the scent of these meadows and fields. By the way, free from olfactory accompaniment of the animal inhabitants. On the way I looked at various settlements of wild thyme, which smelled spicy and preferred these stony areas. Here it thrived, shaped not only the landscape but also the smell of the steppe.
The steppe here in South Dakota was quite picturesque with its herds of bison. The green still smelled of untamed nature but also of the dust of the badlands, which is carried by the wind into the prairie and completes the picture. The further one went in their direction, I had to learn this often, the more this grassy smell decreased. It no longer smelled saturated but successively more inferior as if the desert was taking over. Analogous to its barrenness, the scent became ascetic, not one-dimensional or monotonous, but rather varied in its wasteland. This was also due to the desert mugwort which grew without any problems further out on the dusty ground and is in principle a sage variant. Accordingly, it shaped the grassy scent, seemed bitter and yet sweetish at the same time, and gave the prevailing smell various facets.
But the sweet sublime nature of the grass, the vetiver to be precise, remained the expression of the life that lives in it. A traveller from other continents once told me that they used it to protect and at the same time fence in their fields and fields. This scent accompanied me on my way through the canyon, through the badlands, so that I always remembered the friendlier areas of this region. This helped me on my ways. But I have to be honest with myself: rather faster than slower the original scent vanished and became weaker and weaker. The surrounding countryside broke the energy of the grassland and so the scent lived on in my memory for the most part.
So Cowboy Grass is a fragrance which seems to be a pure grass scent. Animalik is not present, which one could think at the beginning, although Durga has in principle other craft strengths than Animalik. Cowboy Grass seems to have hit what it is. Authentic, interesting and so hardly to be found, the Wild West and its landscape is sketched. Beautiful? Yes. Better than other durgas? I don't think so, but that depends on personal taste. It's not a forest, it's not smoke, it's really grass in several variations. A harmonious scent of some kind. You should know that.
P.S.: how authentic the ingredients are now, I don't know. Vetiver and rosewood are not typically American, but that belongs under the artistic broad coat. Authentic and I mean really realistic natural scents of regions are available at Bravanariz, for example, who cares. Just by the way.

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