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Hylnds - Isle Ryder D.S. & Durga 2013

7.8 / 10 124 Ratings

A popular perfume by D.S. & Durga for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is spicy-woody. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Green

Resinous

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Fir cone

Meadowsweet

Poplar bud

Heart Notes

European spruce Broom

Broom

Jasmine

Base Notes

Mead

Rush

Woodruff

Perfumer

David Seth Moltz

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Scent

7.8124 Ratings

Longevity

7.5105 Ratings

Sillage

6.8105 Ratings

Bottle

7.385 Ratings

Value for money

6.613 Ratings

Submitted by Apicius, last update on 06/10/2025.

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05/10/2016

6
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
Scent

Silverfire
134 Reviews

Silverfire

Very helpful Review 4

Adventure Calls You

This is another winner in the Hylnds collection. Isle Ryder smells like leather, with a mineral-woody base, but it's more than that. Stone and moss are also present. There's also a touch of something medicinal, not camphorous, just what might emerge from a medicine bottle - dusty, musty - it just screams adventure. Unfortunately it lasts about 5 hours with at most 1' projection and it becomes a skin scent after that. However, I have only tested a pipette, so perhaps it lasts longer as a spray.

Recommended.

12/23/2023

7
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7.5
Scent

loewenherz
89 Reviews

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loewenherz

Top Review 33

Sleep, Dearie Sleep

This is the name of an old Scottish tune, originally written as a lullaby and cradle song. Today, however, the piece is usually performed seriously and with dignity on the bagpipes at the graves of fallen soldiers. During her lifetime, Elizabeth II ordered in the so-called Operation London Bridge (the detailed planning of her funeral) that 'Sleep, Dearie Sleep' should be played at her funeral - legend has it that this was on the recommendation of her personal piper, Major Paul Burns, who was very close to her.

Sleep, Dearie Sleep. There is comfort and sadness in these words - and the end of duty and toil and privation as well as the promise of long awaited rest and tranquillity. And comfort and sadness and rest and peace may have been the inspiration for Hylnds - Isle Ryder, one of those quiet fragrances that D.S. & Durga dedicated ten years ago to the brittle land in the heart of Scotland, on the edge of which lies Balmoral Castle, the summer palace of the British royal family where Elizabeth II died late last summer.

Sleep, my darling, sleep. D.S. & Durga's Isle Ryder quotes much from that quiet Scottish lullaby and mourning song. The brittle, the rough. Sketched out by the burst and dry undergrowth of needles. The unapproachable, rugged. Rendered by a dull, strangely dull green that lacks any freshness and youth. And finally the conciliatory, the calm. Illustrated by a sweetness that is more resin and honey than flowers. And a wounded tenderness - like a rapidly approaching light, yet still suffused with lament and loss.

Isle Ryder is not a difficult fragrance if you don't want to find it difficult. Then it is gray-green-brown and woody, reserved and perhaps a little strange. But if you open yourself up to it, allowing the brittle and rough, the aloof and rugged to come through as well as the conciliatory and sweet - like the notes of those distant bagpipes - then it gives you much more. Dry upland moors and deserted heath. Delicious tranquillity and an unexpectedly soft fund. And the memory of a queen in her beloved castle on the edge of the Highlands.

Conclusion:
'Dearie lie down on your wee pickle straw -
it's not very broad and it's not very braw but
Dearie it's better than nothing at all -
Sleep, Dearie Sleep...'

10/19/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Chizza
299 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 27

On Störtebeker's trail

D.S. & Durga are one of my favorite perfume labels. This is usually due to the stories a fragrance from this house tells and the sometimes unusual ingredients. So I really appreciate this descriptive package insert of the bottles and also find the variety of ideas brought to perfume very charming, although not everything suits me.

So today, Hylnds - Isle Ryder, for me a very linear fragrance driven by unusual notes. At first I thought of Zibet but no, there is no Zibet here, only nature. Maybe the idea is that behind the island predator is a kind of insular panopticon of the flowers and trees that grow there, but then it probably won't be a South Sea island, but it's still a warm scent.

For me, the real meadowsweet dominates. The name implies a certain sweetness, in fact you can describe the smell of meadowsweet as a kind of honey scent, which you perceive very vividly at the beginning. This is now mixed with the poplar bud, which is resinous and viscous as well as slightly balsamic. This exudes inviting warmth without being too much, the ridge is narrow
I can't say that much will change in this basic orientation, rather the other notes underline the melange. The broom supports the warmth, adds a herbaceous note to sharpen the character, jasmine provides the already existing sweetness, the spruce joins the poplar. Thus the construction of Isle Ryder remains the same, but Durga manages to construct a second layer, manages to show variations so that the sweet element is successively reduced and a certain saturation of the resins is perceived olfactorically.

I miss some of the base notes, but I think that mead, spicy mead, is simply the right choice and starts where the mead stops. That would at least explain the noticeable change in the course of time.
The combination of dried woodruff and rush, both of which smell of straw in the broadest sense, will later be responsible for the dry, gnarled element that accompanies Isle Ryder after three hours. Not to be confused with henbane in mead.

I like the course of Isle Ryder very much because the initial honey note is softened and at the same time the hay scent is not too pronounced. Both in moderation are finely balanced and it is a pity that Durga has adjusted the scent well.
Oh, and where could the island robber actually live? Actually, a lot could point to North America or Europe, in the end it might be the German islands because the common spruce is only found in Central Europe. Now the title is getting round as well.

02/03/2019

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
670 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 9

Um... can you steal an island?

Isle Ryder means island robber and sounds strange, but interesting. Either it means that you raid islands, whereupon you would be a pirate or something (which would be less adventurous and romantic in real life than in the "Pirates of the Caribbean"), or that you steal whole islands,... however that should work :D

But to steal such an own island, um, I thought I had of course, only for myself, where one can completely detach oneself from all others (yes, among other things also from you perfumes!), that would be something. In the long run certainly boring for long term stays, but as a home with a fast connection to the mainland certainly a dream (and of course with fast connection to the Internet...! No one needs to deny that. 30 years ago this would have been imaginable if someone had said that he would like to retreat to the mountains or to a lonely island, but today you are already biting the grass, you should be "only" 48 hours on Internet withdrawal, or you go insane if it fails for 10 minutes!!).

But enough stupid talk, as always... I finally come to the scent!

The fragrance:

At the beginning I smell flowery notes, which smell a little sweet and also diluted, or like flower water from florists, as I sometimes describe it here. Anyway, it's a pleasant, beautiful floral scent. I can assign the sweetish one to the jasmine, I know this note meanwhile somewhat well, as far as flower smells concern :D
But I'm not so sure about the watery one, so I guess meadowsweet (I really have to see what it is!), because I can exclude the other flowery notes. Fir trees are also present, the resinous woody scent of these great trees smells wonderful as always, but the flowery scents will soon be a little stronger again.
In the fragrance pyramid there is also woodruff, and I have to say that I had been looking forward to this note the most, because I love woodruff, but unfortunately you can't smell this out here, at least not me.
Later in the base, the fragrance continues to smell of woody pines and floral notes with a slight sweetness of jasmine. That's a nice smell.

The Sillage and the shelf life:

In the beginning, the fragrance is still fairly strong, but it quickly wears off and, like most fragrances from D.S. & Durga, becomes rather average, which you cannot smell at a greater distance. The shelf life is quite good, because you can still smell the scent on your skin after more than eight hours.

The bottle:

The bottle is rectangular and filled with orange scented liquid. On the front there is a label with the name of the fragrance and also with the inscription 'Hylnds', since that is a particular series of fragrances within that mark and there are therefore several Hylnds fragrances. Without the big black lid, the bottle would look even simpler than usual.

Okay, so the smell doesn't smell like an island to me. Cause I'd expect a more exotic scent for that. But it still smells very nice with floral and woody notes. All this mixed with a beautiful, flowery sweetness. But because of the flowers and the sweet notes he smells a little feminine as unisex.

Although the fragrance is not soo special now (since one has sniffed out such similar scents often times, especially in the mainstream area, but the mainstreams are mostly sweeter), but it belongs to the better scents of D.S. & Durga for me and is therefore worth a look or smell. Weak for going out, but still suitable from the smell (you can spray yourself again if necessary). Of course, it is also very suitable for daily use, and best of all on warm days.

Hmm... ah yes, my own island... To be honest, it has always been my dream (one of those rather unrealizable dreams :D) to own my own island:D Where I can breed dinosaurs and such...hm, I think I've seen too much Jurassic Park and now that there are new movies of it lately, this passion has flared up again, just like back in the 90s when the first movie was released and I wanted to become a paleontologist (yes, you can already make sense of it): With Indiana Jones I wanted to become an archaeologist :D).
Don't laugh...! You know I'm a little childish anyway :D

So, enough nonsense talked,... as I said the smell is beautiful and worth a look.
And I wish you all a nice evening and a nice beginning of the week, see you soon :)

01/11/2019

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Serenissima
742 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 19

Early Summer in the Archipelago

I am known to always be drawn southwards: Italy is, after all, the homeland of my soul and the climate there suits me better.
And yet, Scandinavia has its own unique charm: especially the light over the water, particularly over the archipelago and in the fjords. I won't even start to rave about the wintry, mysterious northern lights here.
All of this I only know from pictures and, of course, from television: crime dramas set there are in high demand, but they are usually either too drawn-out or too brutal for my taste.
(Yes, that's how it is! Even though I have been grumbled at for this opinion and even called ignorant more than once.)
I prefer the Sunday evening entertainment that Inga Lindström (alias Christiane Sadlo: also known to me as a screenwriter) offers us in beautiful images with nice stories.
To each their own - you know what I mean!

"Isle Ryder" could well have been composed as a fragrant embodiment of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood." So bright and ethereal, yet still grounded, both fit together excellently for me.
Do you hear and feel it too?
The flat land illuminated by the first rays of the sun; the lark is just rising, greeting the day in the clear, cool air. She loves this morning.
The island flora is just a step above the awakening of nature: everything is still pristine - in the process of becoming!

The poplars have already unfurled their first light green leaves; a gentle breeze plays in them.
Their reddish-brown, parchment-like protective caps form a soft carpet on the still somewhat wintry soil.
They crunch lightly under the steps of the morning walker; pine cones can also be found there again and again.
The increasing strength of the early summer sun begins to warm, and robust spicy aromas develop from all this awakening nature.
The spruce also chimes in - here a little "Into the water with Badedas!" is heard; it is a bit too "spruce-y": perhaps less would actually be more in my opinion!
The mostly low vegetation beside our path, which is actually more of a footpath, harbors original, non-hybridized herbs with their own spicy scent.
But first, gorse and jasmine blossoms shine; both enjoy the sun's rays and develop their own, always somewhat unusual aromas.
Gorse and jasmine! How good it is that so much resinous-spicy green surrounds both fragrance notes; this combination of both floral scents would be too much even for me!
But lively, zesty woodruff entertainingly mixes into this concert of scents; meadowsweet is also present. When did I last encounter meadowsweet? Was it in our botanical garden?
Where there is meadowsweet, there is also mead - these two are the "ideal pair"!
And mead is, of course, honey; perhaps some beehives are hiding here, from which the thick, golden honey comes? The vegetation for bees would be present; encountering a beekeeper would not surprise me.
To my fine nose, there is indeed a hint of honey running through this natural mixture.
Actually, mead belongs to "the ancient Germans" (if one can believe crossword puzzles).
But who says they didn't also roam around here and thus brought their honey schnapps with them?
Migration has always crossed borders; we did not invent this.
(I can only remember that "Bärenfang," the concoction made from honey and spices, wonderfully warmed when enjoyed in the first cups of coffee in the early eighties.
But starting the day sometimes became a bit blurry. Especially, of course, when the morning gathering lasted longer, the phone disturbed less frequently, and the boss did not show up, a slight headache was almost guaranteed.)

All in all, "Isle Ryder" is a bright, very nature-connected fragrant creation that I really like.
It brings a lot of light and pleasant spice into the wearer's day without being burdensome or intrusive: a lovely companion for several hours, whose scent journey does not become boring.
It feels as if I am sitting on a blanket after a first walk through this Nordic landscape, enjoying a small snack, a good book beside me, the warming sun in a fragrant environment.
Edvard Grieg with his sound paintings remains in the back of my mind; for music would be out of place in such a setting.
Here, it is more fitting to listen reverently to nature, its rustling, whispering, and murmuring.

I am glad that the bottle, which Heikeso has so generously left to me, is indeed rich.
So I can travel to a land I would not otherwise visit on these gray, damp winter days with Edvard Grieg and "Isle Ryder."
Scandinavia - here I come!