DS & Durga – ‘85 Diesel Candle

Description

DS & Durga ’85 Diesel Candle: On saffron tanned leather seats, in clothes that look like rugs, singing we must never break the chain. Lacquered chestnut paneling with puffs of burning fuel. Top Notes: saffron leather, suede, vinyl. Heart Notes: white violet, hiba, castoreum. Base Notes: diesel smoke, earth dirt, galbanum resin.

“In the 80s my parents drove Toyotas and Hondas. They were cool. But around the corner an English woman drove the neighborhood kids to school in a 1985 300TD Benz. If it was cold, it would not start. I remember jamming into the back with 6 kids (no belts) and sitting on the springy saffron tan seat just freezing; the sweet smoke of diesel coming through the warming engine (and our color changing ski gloves). Driving around was big in my family. Life seemed careless and endlessas childhood often does. We would pile in wearing our Vision Street Wear(my parents in oddly shaped orange, white, yellow, and brown shag-rug looking cloths) with our hair looking like the E.T. cast, and drive around the seaside towns of New England with the radio blaring Fleetwood Mac, Duran Duran, and Bob Marley Legend.