Concrete Lightning

On the bottle they list electricity as one of the notes and I thought "that's stupid" and then I smelled it and realized it was not stupid and somehow they put electrical current into this juice. Sharper in the beginning as people noted, but dries down into a nice skin scent. I love Iso E Super so I'm not mad about this. An interesting, original take on a skin scent, even though I guess people were expecting more from it. I see her where she is at and love her for what she is. Similar vibes to Steamed Rainbow for me though rainbow is a little more earthy; I think Concrete Lighting just works better with my skin chemistry. Does smell different than the candle! I think the candle is a little more earthy if I recall correctly but I may be remembering the wrong candle all I know is that I liked the perfume better I found it to be prettier.

Opens up light, faintly spicy, faintly smooth aldehydic-ozone, but pretty soon the steam accords, some rainy, wet accords, and a present concrete sensation. The steam accord kind feels like being in a clean sauna, but it’s not overbearing—this bears a musky bias in which it’s actually pleasant. Overall for the drydown, a smooth ozonic/mineral/aquatic profile with the faintest greens+spices to accentuate the cleanliness here. This is the type of frag you put on after a shower and it just screams and masculine to me IMO, but honestly anyone could wear this. Quite the streak from this house of the # of frags that I have come across that I’d want a FB of, or at the minimum, completely mesmerized by. + 1 * Clean -> -- Into the FBW queue it goes.

An absolute impeccable depiction of the candle. If you love the fragrance of the candle, you will love this perfume. I've been waiting for this EDP for what feels like forever, and it did not disappoint. For years I would put the candle wax on my wrist to bring Concrete After Lighting to life on my skin, now I don't have to take such unusual measures. Bravo, David!

Hard agreement with everyone saying it smells just like the candle. I was not disappointed by this at all, and I'm contemplating picking up a backup just in case. Love this one, it's second only to IDKW.

I haven't had the chance to smell the original candle fragrance, so I can't attest to how well this has been translated into its full bottle form. Still, this is quite the interesting experience, albeit a little flat for my liking. I feel like a lot of DS & Durga scents wager on either spectrum of being incredibly short lived and imperceptive (e.g. Steamed Rainbow) or concerningly eternal (e.g. Amber Kiso) to my nose. This unsurprisingly, falls into the former and leans heavily into that iso-e-supery base that's in a lot of DS & Durga's dna. On first spray, this goes straight to the back of your head, like a splitting migraine that wracks your sinuses with an electrical surge of malfunctioning circuitry. It's sharp, gritty and heavily ozonic. As it dries down though, there's this sweetness that blooms out from underneath and rounds things out just slightly. This makes it quite addictive and makes me want to keep smelling it to figure out what's going on exactly. I would say this is a somewhat challenging perfume if you're not into something overly sterile and metallic. Though, it is ubiquitous and I can see this being worn at anytime by an ambitious individual. I do appreciate the imagery this evokes for me and enjoy the experience of wearing it. Billowing and charged Cumulonimbus hanging over a city. Metal sculptures in an avant-garde art exhibit. An empty laundromat at night with fluorescent lights beaming down on the white tiles. It's quite fun, but hard to convince myself it's worth a full bottle outside of the novelty it provides. I wouldn't say this scratches that petrichor itch, more industrial electricity, so skip this one if that's what you're hoping for. Still worth a try purely for the experience if you can get your hands on a sample :)