Brown Flowers

I may update my review at a later time once I've spent more time with it but for now, since there aren't a lot of reviews up I thought this may be helpful for those interested. I (M40's) thought this may lean too feminine for me and whilst I think that could be true for some, I think this does fall pretty comfortably as unisex (depending on your preferences of course), particularly in the dry down. The initial blast definitely aligns with the name 'Brown Flowers' with a burst of drab floral accords. This gives strong vintage vibes and reminds me of old record or 2nd hand stores or my nana's house with pot pourri around. This lingers for a while and gives off some strong sillage but pretty quickly quiets down with the musk and coffee flower in the base becoming more prominent. After a few hours, I am really finding the aged citrus poking out and I am being reminded a lot of a more subtle 'Unknown Pleasures' vibe - almost lemon meringue like...am I crazy? Overall this is a lovely scent that gives 'moderate' performance and an addictive dry-down. Smells great on clothes! I agree the name could be more inspired. Perhaps 'Drab Majesty'?

Is it vintage or is it nostalgic? It's avocado appliances, amber glassware and macrame but in the comforting way of childhood corningware patterns and brown plaid couches. Brown Flowers is an era in a bottle. If you left it in a drawer with an ashtray full of Virginia Slims, it would become a literal portal to 1979. It's that one cool aunt or family friend that was the epitome of the chic woman you wanted to become. It's the free spirited neighbor that drank coffee from a glass and had a brother that was a roadie for Stevie Nicks. If you were there, welcome back. If you weren't, I hope it will inspire a deep sense of anemoia, a feeling of nostalgia or longing for something you've never known. *I most enjoy layering BF with a toasted coffee based fragrance like Akro Awake or Follow by Kerosene

Highly under-rated in my opinion. The detritus note makes this a perfectly suited autumn fragrance with a gorgeous, interesting, linear white floral scent. I adore this fragrance. I agree with others that I might be interested in something a bit darker, though the 'brownness' here adds an intriguing deeper sweetness. To me, this is a great example of the DS & Durga approach to fragrances. Easily one of my favourite purchases this year!

it’s warm, humid, intoxicating. it’s still, but alive and breathing. it’s unlike any other white flowers perfume- it’s heavy and muddy but i love that about it. i couldn’t get enough and i find it comforting. definitely feel the carrot and dirt and coffee. it’s earthy.

I really like it! And in my opinion I do understand the name association, there is something dried and past peak in the jasmine, and the coffee flower definitely adds a splash of brown to the whole experience. It’s a rich fragrance with a lot of character.

It does smell like spent flowers in a vase! This is very creative, but I wouldn't wear it as perfume. I'd keep it as an example of how extraordinary perfume can be.

i absolutely adore this. withered and dusty flowers, with earthy roots and a touch of citrus. both beautifully modern and vintage at the same time ❤️

This scent is very unique compared to other white florals+ coffee based perfumes that I have. What I mean by that is that while it’s super heavy on jasmine, the most of the other supporting notes are not the typical ones that we encounter in most floral. For me personally, it’s the first time I’ve tested a perfume with wild carrots, roots and coffee blossoms. And it does smell different than most jasmine focused fragrances. It has a strong vegetal, almost savoury, earthy feel in the opening. Don’t think you get any resemblance of a coffee scent in this, though it had listed both coffee blossom and coffee, it doesn’t smell like coffee at all. I’m bummed about that, it would have made it more to my liking, I love coffee in perfumes. I don’t particularly see the association with the colour brown when I smell this perfume, but it’s certainly very white floral smelling. It’s pretty, has a touch of citrus freshness and it’s very feminine. Nuances of citrus, carrots, damp soil and clean musk surround the coffee blossom and jasmine and make the scent a more complex one than just another white floral. Does this perfume worth the money?? Definitely not for me. While it has some minor particularities, it’s at core a (more nuanced) white floral. And unfortunately it’s not one of those intense, strongly projecting one. It would be an amazing one, cause it does smells pretty good. On skin, I have only tried Brown Flowers on skin, it’s gone in about three hours and while it’s there, it sits close to skin, doesn’t radiate in the air when I move my arm... To sum it up, it’s just another white floral fragrance, slightly sweet, slightly earthy, musky with underwhelming performance. Smells even better when it’s dried down, losing the wild carrots accord, but not for 150+ euros per 50 ml bottle! It’s so overpriced!!! I will be using my travel size this spring season and I will move on..

Sampling Brown Flowers, one of the more recent mainstay releases from the Brooklyn-based house of D.S. & Durga that it’s actually plausible to get a sample of, and it’s a fittingly-floral, mostly a mix of white and yellow floral vibes, quite pleasant, with a balanced woody and musky base, quite an agreeable, unisex floral scent that nonetheless leans stereotypically feminine and feels a bit unspecific, a pretty safe entry for the line that adds some variety without intriguing me too much, and its performance leaves a little bit to be desired while being decent overall. Its concentration and retail pricing are the brand’s standard EDP and $300/210 for 100/50ml, respectively. It’s sold in the US via the house website as well as great boutiques like Ministry of Scent and Luckyscent. 7 out of 10

I was quick to give Brown Flowers a "mid" review, but I judged too fast. This is a white floral, it is bound to have that lingering "commercial" feel to it. that doesn't make it a bad fragrance, but I was ready to find it basic. But after reading the notes and going back for a few more whiffs, I like this very much. I like the root and coffee base notes, it truly ignites this fragrance. this is a much more intentional white floral. It has that department store nostalgia but it's totally elevated. to me this fragrance feels studied, it feels classic and smart. I wish I got a bit more coffee.

Blind bought this for "the vibes". Oops. Agree with others that the name Brown Flowers is not the most descriptive nor evocative. Very white floral forward. Initial spray is pure jasmine. There's a drab and deepening of the florals as it blooms. Dry down after about an hour became more citrus forward with a hint of coffee. Overall a nice frag, subtly complex, light and wispy. I was expecting a more pronounced dusty vintage vibe something more along the lines of a Thin Wild Mercury frag. Oh well. Its still a pleasant and niche floral.

It's quite a huggable scent, very comforting and down-to-earth, not got enough of the dead flower notes to really distinguish it from a regular sort of dusty floral. It's got a bit of dried fig for me, but yeah, mostly a nice white floral, maybe a little bit of the ripeness of a half dead flower, just not striking enough, you kind of have to be looking for it. I'm looking for something much stinkier, more like how Queen Anne's lace is in real life, but it's genuinely very pretty, just not for me.

I find this really nostalgic. specifically it reminds me of deep late summer, we’re headed towards the evening and you’ve spent a long day playing outside with your friends. You can smell the dead grass and you’re watching bees die on the windowsill as the temperature starts to drop. The flowers your mom bought are drooping and the stagnant water is brown and full of mulch. you’re a kid so you don’t follow the weather but you know that this is the last day you’ll feel warm this year.

To me this is very powdery and musky, I don't get too much coffee. It starts out fresh, a little green and delicate, then develops to smell sort of vintage or antique. It's quite an interesting smell, it reminds me of digging through little boxes of antiques and smelling something sort of sweet, dry, and elusive. It sits quiet on the skin and lasts a good few hours. not sure if I would wear this but it's an interesting portal of a scent.

Honestly, it smells very similar to a lot of fluffy neroli fragrances I've encountered. Not the sharp green ones, but the soft white flowery ones. It has a dry earthy tone to it, sure, but if these flowers are dried, they haven't turned brown - they're miraculously still white but very fragile and about to disintegrate into powdery dust.

It's neat but a little tiny bit cloying on me. Can't decide between ok and like because I keep sniffing my wrist even though I'm still unsure about it. It's very different. I think knowing there's coffee in it ruins it for my psychologically. My brain wishes it were black tea rather than coffee

NOW i understand the bubblegum-jasmine comparison!

DS & Durga loves to challenge! I find that their perfumes are, often, more artistic than wearable. I do own a couple. So, I'm not a fanciful person. I don't buy into the idea of something because of advertising hype. So, when it's called Brown Flowers, and I read what Durga writes about it, dead flowers, brown velveteen tuxes and cheetah pantsuits, I laugh out loud .. But, here's the deal. This does smell, strangely, like the almost dead, wilting flowers on my table right now. That and loads of Jasmine.. Does it smell bad? No. Not at all...but I think this perfume requires a certain type of unconventional wearer... It takes me back in time to the late 60's.. My brother's girlfriend would stop by..she was this unbathed hippie chick, braless, tank top & embroidered hip huggers, a slight pit odor emanating, mixed with Jasmine oil that she bought from the PlumPit, a shop that sold music, black lights, roach clips, incense and other hippie paraphernalia.. This smells like Sharon. I was just a wee bit of a girl and I loved her. This perfume? Eh.. How's that for fanciful?😊 The drydown is straight up jasmine, dead flowers cleared away. Only average performance. In the end, it's just another jasmine perfume. I find Jazmin Yucatan to be imminently more wearable than this offering. And it's think it's overpriced.🤷

Brown Flowers goes on with sparkling citrus and some sweetness, almost like a lemon drop candy. There's some summery white florals as well. It settles into a dense ambered white floral. Basic but good. The "lemon drop" sweetness sticks around under the flowers. I don't get the promised "brown" at all. It should be called "Lemon Jasmine". And there's better, more realistic jasmine scents out there -- but let's be real, I'm never going to complain too much about a white floral.

Where’s the brown? I got nothing but light springy white floral from this but I expected a dusty old or dirt component based on the notes. It smells a lot like a more zingy white shoulders to me. Silage was weak and longevity low.