White Peacock Lily D.S. & Durga 2016

Bottle Design:
Kavi Moltz

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6.9 / 10 30 Ratings

A perfume by D.S. & Durga for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is floral-sweet. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Creamy

Green

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Grapefruit

Cabreuva

Oleander

Heart Notes

White lily

Egyptian jasmine Violet

Violet

Base Notes

Vanilla

Ambrette seed

Mist note

Perfumer

David Seth Moltz

Ratings

Scent

6.930 Ratings

Longevity

7.622 Ratings

Sillage

7.322 Ratings

Bottle

6.529 Ratings

Submitted by AmyAmy, last update on 12/24/2024.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/10/2024

8
Scent

Misericorde
3 Reviews

Misericorde

2

dank watery lily.....

Hmmmm which iteration of white peacock lily will I get today....

Perfect lilyheads drooping in cold morning fog?

A Miami couple retire in Sicily and decorate the villa gardens with pink flamingos?

Algae dumped in a new box of sneakers???

The abandoned well in the middle of every TK Maxx??

Always, there is something incongruous and not quite right.
WPL is sometimes my favourite or most hated lily and I can't tell until I put it on... I often have trouble with the strange earthiness of the grapefruit, which in general is among my least favourite notes.

It begins bright and full, waxy and quite round. After an hour or so, there's something quite limp and lifeless. Graceful but dead, and floating in the water.

WPL can feel suffocating and oppressive after too long. Salem Gothic by this brand is comparatively sunny and exuberant.

Polarising, definitely.

08/12/2022

4
Pricing 6
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Anamandy
104 Reviews

Anamandy

2

The Most Perfect Lily

This is a flower blossom bonanza, that's airy and light, yet grounded too. It didn't start out that way though. It started out very strange, and a little hard to describe, like a dank earthiness. I just was not sure where this was going, though it wasn't offensive enough where I felt the urge to wash it off. Just a little dark and weird. Fortunately, that opening salvo passes soon enough to reveal a beautiful floral scent.
This is the most beautiful lily perfume I've ever smelled. Lily is front and center in this scent and has a wonderful earthiness that brings to mind lilies grown in situ. I also love the ambrette in this. It adds a subtle animalic muskiness to this scent that is soooo sexy. But what really sets this apart for me from so many others big floral perfumes of today is the underlying mossiness reminiscent of vintage perfumes of the past. I had no idea where that was coming from until I looked more closely at the note profile. Honestly, I was still a little perplexed until I read up on the note Cabreuva. I've never smelled that note in any perfume before but am enchanted by what it adds to this scent, which is an earthy mossiness similar to oakmoss, yet lacking that note's greenness. Between it, and the ambrette, it provides this beautiful musky, mossy base from where the floral notes float around it. And while silage does go down to a discrete level, I was aware of it and catching lovely wafts all day. Just beautiful!

11/24/2016

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

ScentFan
334 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 3

"One of the Most Beautiful"

I learned about this fragrance in an article entitled "Why the Prettiest Scents Contain the Ugliest Things." http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/david-moltz-perfumer-interview-gross-things-in-perfume.html.

In it, D.S. & Durga perfumer David Moltz referred to White Peacock Lily as "one of the most beautiful scents of all time." I did a double take. How could he risk the reputation of well-regarded D.S. & Durga by saying such a thing, especially about a scent he made himself? Then my heart skipped a beat. I felt the all-too-familiar, gotta have it, blind buy-a-coming thrill. What if it really is one of the most beautiful scents of all time? Lamenting, briefly, the power of mere lovely words, I put the fragrance firmly on my wish list, rather than in a online cart somewhere, determined to calm down and not be bamboozled. Next day, briefly, hubby and I had words of a slightly less lovely kind. Shortly I learned my wish list had been perused and the fragrance was on its way. [To no avail I've pointed out the indignity of offering or accepting emotional bribes, er apologies.] The perfume came last night. I am not sending it back. It is too beautiful.

What's in the top? Grapefruit, Red Mahogany, a scent I know. When we married and, four months later, I marshaled courage and moved into his house 1200 miles away, hubby bought out a wood store of its supply of red mahogany to make bookshelves for the office I needed, fashion oriental screens for the tall windows with his own hands. Red Mahogany for me is the smell of love. Poisonous oleander is a top note, too, its rosy sweetness tamed by the other two. Not to be outdone, a genuine note of lily pairs with indolic jasmine and bright violet to take and possess center stage for a long time. No rush. They want to give you time to see how beautiful they are. Only gradually do spicy/musky ambrette, vanilla and something akin to fog exert themselves. Hours later, they are what you smell, supported by the florals. Unfortunately, there is a definite period when lily alone predominates--about thirty to forty minutes in. It's a less lovely stage than the others, lending a vegetal air. Just wait for it to subside and you'll be rewarded with the haunting beauty that still clung to my hand when I woke this morning.

I don't know if White Peacock Lily is one of the most beautiful scents of all time. Maybe. It's certainly one of the most unusual, distinguished, and fascinating scents I've ever smelled.