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El Cosmico D.S. & Durga 2015

7.0 / 10 81 Ratings

A perfume by D.S. & Durga for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is green-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green

Spicy

Woody

Fresh

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Pinyon pine Bushes

Bushes

Chili

Heart Notes

Khella

Creosote

Oak

Base Notes

Khella

Sweetgale

Sand

Perfumer

David Seth Moltz

Ratings

Scent

7.081 Ratings

Longevity

7.866 Ratings

Sillage

7.268 Ratings

Bottle

6.963 Ratings

Value for money

6.129 Ratings

Submitted by AmyAmy, last update on 11/06/2025.

Interesting Facts

This scent is a collaboration with El Cosmico, hotel and campground hotel in Marfa, TX.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/04/2017

9.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 2

Pecos Glory

This perfume was a collaboration between D.S. & Durga and a place called El Cosmico, which hosts the annual Trans-Pecos Festival of Music + Love. All I can say is if this is what El Cosmico smells like, I've got to get myself over to this "21 acre nomadic hotel and campground in Marfa, TX." Gee whiz! Who but D.S. & Durga can take creosote (creosote?), bushes, sand, khella (khella?-an herbal remedy), pine and oak and such and make them smell like this? Hubby, who's only a tenth the perfumisto as I am a perfumista, smelled it and moments later both his eyes and his wallet popped open. Unfortunately, when I went to order Durga, we learned El Cosmico was sold out. Talk about disappointed. He started giving me long explanations of why El Cosmico smelled so good to him and asked if he could have the sample I'd ordered. Next my discount code didn't work, so I sent an email asking for help and explained the angst El Cosmico's unavailability was causing. A short time later and they'd found 2 bottles and a new discount code. Because of its woody outdoorsy freshness and spice (Chili) El Cosmico isn't a scent I want to wear, just smell a lot. Happily we await its arrival along with Durga.

David Seth Moltz is on a streak of sheer brilliance, folks. Best check out everything he does.

03/19/2023

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

DerYoon
11 Reviews

DerYoon

2

Cold sand and wood

I've never been to Texas and Marfa and El Cosmico camping, but I've seen pictures of the area as well. Dry area, sand, single rocks, poor vegetation. I looked there as I fell in love with this fragrance. It's not green-spicy, it's "cold sand-woody". It has a good projection and longevity, which is not a guarantee with DS&Durg recently, and the chord really reflects the photos of the surroundings of the mentioned campsite, although more in a cold evening or early morning than in a sun-hot day.

01/18/2025

CloudsAround
33 Reviews

CloudsAround

2

Creosote (mineral derivative) and the creosote bush

I wanted to smell this for soooo long because I am fascinated by the smell of creosote (think: wooden telephone poles). In El Cosmico, there is a note of 'creosote bush', named after creosote (a mineral oil derivative) which is often put on wooden poles to make them resistant to mold and such.
The creosote bush grows naturally in the Californian desert, and I have never been, so I can't tell how much the smell creosote (on telephone poles) differs from the smell of the creosote bush.
However, I did buy some dried creosote leaves so perhaps they give me an idea of the scent of the Californian desert.
On to El Cosmico, which should also invoke this scent. Well... I really like it, for starters. It does not smell like telephone pole. It DOES smell a bit like the dried creosote leaves.
Also I get petrichor - rain after drought. I smell a thunderstorm.
El Cosmico lasts a long time, and I don't think I want to smell like it, but I want to sniff it from time to time.
And as a last thing - I just love it when a perfume house tries to create something that is not in one form or another already out there. Not a perfumey perfume, and I applaud that.

06/15/2020

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Floyd
574 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 36

The Course to the Cosmic

Sometimes Smeralda thought the little gnarled pines in front of our porch were threateningly enchanting; she felt overwhelmed by their breathtaking ether, all that grand green shimmering from the hot resinous needles of the Pinyons in the blazing sun of the Texas summer. In this feeling of picturesque paranoia, immediate escape was necessary, the moment for a short trip to the Cosmic had arrived. There was no time for rigid roads that we could have driven on with our rickety convertible; the direct course to the Cosmic led through herbaceous thickets that swirled in wild clouds above us, as if we were plowing through the semi-desert with a John Deere hotrod lawnmower. And of course through Uncle Chuck's chili fields. When the juices of the hot pods splatter, it comes as cool as the pine ether.
The Cosmic is located in Marfa, Texas, a former water station near the Mexican border, and in summer it can get as hot there on some days as in Death Valley. Apparently, we had overlooked warning signs, and because we weren't driving fast enough, our tires began to melt on the boiling tar, and a mile later we were stuck. Do you smell that? Smeralda asked with a happy grin as the scent of green thicket and ethereal chili from the cracks of the tires mingled with the melting rubber on asphalt. Then we smelled rain, the spicy one of the desert, earthy and sharp, as if we were sailing in a boat on bishop's weed and creosote.
When we stopped hallucinating the rain after a few hours, there was smoke on the Texas earth, and as a gaggle bush was just about to mirror itself in it, the bishop's weed began to envelop it along with the desert landscape into a gigantic resin-dripping hemp flower. We were happy, Smeralda and I, for surely seven hours, somewhere between the gnarled pines and the Cosmic in Marfa, Texas.
**
The Cosmic:
https://www.rollingpin.de/konzepte-openings/inspiration-el-cosmico-in-marfa-texas

Marfa, Texas:
https://www.vogue.com/article/city-dwellers-guide-to-marfa-texas

(With thanks to Gschpusi)

12/27/2015

5Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

DaveGahan101
535 Reviews

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DaveGahan101

Helpful Review 7

Oh Tannenbaum built on sand!

Yes, Oh Tannenbaum... I think we've really had enough of that lately... still, bring it on with the latest El Eccentrico from the house of Durga. Yes, yes... I still find the brand highly exciting, innovative... far from beaten paths. But when it comes to evaluating fragrances based on how good or pleasant they are to wear or whether they are even wearable at all, I am slowly reaching my limits with Durga. What I initially found wonderfully refreshing and exciting, yes I admit it with a slight, typical snob niche fragrance mentality... in the end, I don't want to stand out from mass-produced scents at any cost by wearing Durga fragrances;-)!
With the first spray, a whole Christmas tree (without tinsel) comes out of the bottle, very authentic, has nothing of "In the wood"-synthetic... and yet there is an immediate disturbing factor... something that is really annoying right away... so one should not have a nervous stomach... for me, it makes me feel quite queasy... like at Christmas after the seventh Williams;-)! The pine needle note is so penetrating that I can hardly breathe... so over-ethereal, minimally lacquer-benzene-like, that I unfortunately cannot properly appreciate the beautiful sand note. They really implemented that beautifully, like warm sand on the beach, pampered by the sun all day, trickling slowly through your fingers. But that's all there is... this fragrance has 2 sides, pine needles and sand. So the scent "stands" for hours... zero change or development... you get tired of it after 3 minutes. For me, an unbearable, eccentric fragrance that screams for attention... I slowly have that feeling about the whole brand. Not for me... I have no idea who this should be for. Unfortunately, it is only authentic in the first 2-3 minutes... and then completely turns synthetic!
The longevity is excellent at over 8 hours, the sillage is very strong... I will dispose of this "Christmas tree" before January 6th... for sure!!!

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