If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Who stole the heart notes of the scent “I Don’t Know What”? It could be anyone..
.of any combination..
. but you’ll have to layer your own solution together with D.S.
& Durga’s new Murder Mystery Layering Set . Was it the fruity Madam Currant? Or perhaps the royal Prince Amber? Or was it the deviously spicy Pat Von Chouli? Plenty of fragrance brands like Olfactory and Scent Lab are now allowing for a Choose Your Own Adventure- style of allowing you to mix and match your preferred notes into the signature scent of your dreams. But none have done it as playfully spooky as D.
S. & Durga’s Clue -inspired kit ($275), giving you a lineup of six different mini perfume bottles (the “suspects”) you can combine into your own “Murder Mystery Formula”. The base of the kit is “ I Don’t Know What “, the brand’s popular scent with “no heart” — basically a fragrance enhancer with no strong middle notes.
This gives it a kind of ‘transparent’ aroma that you can use to highlight and enhance the notes of other, stronger-nosed perfumes and colognes. “I have wanted to make a layering set that actually works for years. I am passionate about having clients involved in their own creation process,” writes brand co-founder David Seth Moltz on the site.
“While solving the mystery of who stole the heart of I Don’t Know Wh.