David Seth Moltz

David Seth Moltz grew up in a New England bathed in oceans and forests, where a single bottle of Cologne won at a summer camp awakened his fascination with smells. He moved to New York in 2002 with his band, but it was perfume that ended up obsessing him. Self-taught, he immersed himself in this sensory universe, forging his own olfactory language. Kavi Ahuja Moltz, born in the shadow of New York skyscrapers, travelled the world as a child before returning, armed with her architectural inspirations. When she met David, the alchemy was immediate: she built imaginary cities, he captured their fragrances.
In 2007, in the creative effervescence of Brooklyn, they gave birth, almost in secret, to DS & Durga. A perfume house born of their union, of their combined visions. He, a musician in search of scents, composes fragrances like others write symphonies; she, an architect trained between Los Angeles and Holland, builds the invisible structures that surround them. Together, they conjure up the forgotten myths of pre-industrial America and the Nordic mists of old Europe.
In their Bushwick flat, they tinker, experiment and transform music, nature and legends into rare essences. Each DS & Durga fragrance is a story, a sketch of buried memories, a fragment of a dream landscape. Far from conventional, their bottles contain worlds: olfactory compositions on the edge of the tangible, where liner notes, playlists and images sketch out unfinished stories. In this way, scents are born like musical scores, half-remembered myths, always in search of exploration.