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Юрок2011 – :
“The Cosmic” is a nighttime desert experience. It takes you miles from civilization, where stars fill the sky and the earth is silent. Quiet eddies of air move above cooling sands, carrying the scent of aromatic growth. The smell of desert shrubs hangs in the dark.
There’s a unique blend of plants found in the vast deserted expanses of Texas, an environment known for UFO sightings and rugged terrain. EC is a wonderful pungent homage to the tough shrubs that grow there with their incredible fragrance. They have a clean, wild windswept feeling, and I loved every note. This scent highlights pinon pine, creosote bushes and mesquite. With a hint of smokey alien afterburn . . . maybe from the Marfa lights! El Cosmico is a chance to enjoy a side of the desert’s beauty not often encountered. Soft sillage and good longevity.
shumo08 – :
Bone dry cedar kindling, wood smoke, a sharp camphorous pine that reminds me of turpentine. As A_Sky_of_Honey said this is wicker with a lacquer sealant on it. This does remind me of Marfa and West Texas but I also see my artsy grandmother’s funky adobe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The sun heats up the room with some wicker furniture in it. Dry cedar kindling sits next to last night’s smoldering fire. A work in progress desert landscape oil painting fumes turpentine. The notes in EC are strikingly realistic.
Unisex, maybe masculine and not really sexy. Would probably be okay for work but I can’t imagine a specific situation this scent would be well suited for. Only lasted a few hours before becoming soft. Sillage and projection feel average. The composition is so unique it is a shame El Cosmico faded so quickly. I’m very impressed with the quality of the notes but for this price I need a little more performance.
VOLFTOR – :
A very sweet woody fragrance, maybe a bit too much IMO. Projection and longevity average. Some may like the over-woodiness but it is not a date fragrance nor even an office one. I would only wear this casually. I received as a free sample from LuckyScent and will not be making a purchase.
igs – :
Got this as a small sample from Lucky Scent. My spouse reports that I smell like I went outside and rolled in cedar chips in the doghouse, which was a turn-off to her. I picked up something vaguely smoky Laphroaig-ish, but since I don’t drink much anymore, that was even a bit of a turn-off to me. Very one or two note. Love DS & Durga (Burning Barbershop is just stunning and one of my top 10 all-time, and Mississippi Medicine is almost as good), but I won’t buy this one.
symon72 – :
This is my first ‘review’ here 🙂
I loved El Cosmico,
it is like nothing I smelled before,
I would consider it a work of art.
As to wearing it, don’t think so
Yet glad to have a sample 🙂
uup846Unlogrere – :
All associations and descriptions aside: this smells like a wicker basket. So basically, dry, treated wood.
I’ve lived in the Southwest my whole life. I’ve taken many nature walks in the Mojave desert here. Was expecting something a bit more magical based on the reviews and description.
I didn’t find it an offensive smell, but it’s not something I will wear again. Smelling like wicker furniture isn’t very appealing, and personality wise, this fragrance is about as bland as you can get.
TewChoofhom – :
D.S. & Durga El Cosmico purports to evoke a dry woody desert, and in this respect I find it to be quite successful.
It entails the woody notes of oak and pine but without their lively fullness.
Additional contributors that add a certain spikiness are pepper and creosote. Pepper provides conventional spiciness but creosote is an odd, almost synthetic-smelling note that is almost dirty in its smokiness. Very odd stuff that I’ve only seen used a few times, in my estimation.
The projection of El Cosmico is pretty boastful to start and longevity seems to be quite good as well.
This is mainly a cold-weather scent for men but can really be used as liberally and by whomever sees it fit. I rejects being taxonomized in a traditional area, so it gets a nod of versatility above the burnt but more woody-heavy entries like Dasein Winter Nights or La Curie Incendo, which lend themselves pretty much exclusively to cold weather wearing.
I want to like El Cosmico more and I daresay that I’m close to that, but it just doesn’t draw me in quite that much.
6 out of 10
kanstyle – :
Almost freakishly evocative of a bone-dry, big sky desert, complete with thrilling wafts of dry herbs, desiccated wood and natural resin. It took me right where it was meant to, to the arid American Southwest, despite the fact I’ve never been there! I smelled this in the recent exhibition in Somerset House, London, called “Perfume”, which is all about provoking your other senses to consider how you perceive and react to scent – and it was a hugely successful experiment. This has a natural beauty and magnetism to make you linger and it’s a brilliant example of scent which evokes a specific spot. Some might think it more the smell of a wonderful place, than a perfume they’d want to apply to themselves … but it’s their loss… this is pure olfactory magic, imho, verging on witchcraft in its conjuring power.
At D S & Durga prices I am unlikely to ever afford a FB of this, but it is an experience that anyone who enjoys scent and has a chance to sample, should try – even just once. It truly takes you on a journey – sorry if that sounds pretentious, as well as being a terrible cliche, but it DOES! (Unless you already live in Marfa, West Texas, and go on a lot of hikes anyway, of course.)
I didn’t get to apply any directly (at the exhibition you had to sniff it from some sort of weird stone diffuser?) so cannot comment on how it behaves in real life, though.
junior71 – :
El Cosmico is an extremely dry, woody fragrance, like well-cured cedar kindling before you throw it on the campfire. Pine and creosote are the most prominent notes. It’s long-lasting and the sillage is good but not overpowering. It skews more masculine, but that shouldn’t stop a woman from wearing it. It would be suitable for the hottest days of summer when other fragrances bruise or wilt in the heat. It’s impossible not to think of the desert when I smell it!
yojegg – :
I’m very new to appreciating fragrances, so I’m not great at identifying individual notes. I’ve owned a few different colognes, but wore them infrequently and wasn’t enthusiastic about them. The first time I smelled El Cosmico, I was immediately transported to the desert landscape of the Big Bend region. If I pictured myself at Big Bend National Park with a campfire going, and a tent in the background, I would imagine the whole scene smelling like El Cosmico.
erikc – :
So lapacho tea! And that’s what I love about it. Neither warm nor cold. I would say it smells with red, dry, south american desert, which is chilled in the afternoon. Plus coniferous forest.