The wild shrill of Black Francis coming through the radio in the August heat. Ripe fig, iris, coconut milk, tonka, and dry blond woods.
Debaser is one of the best known songs by American alternative rock band, Pixies. Lead singer Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, who used the stage name “Black Francis”, wrote the song after watching the surrealist film “Un Chien Andalou”, which translates as The Andalusian Dog, by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. The 1929 silent film has no plot in the conventional sense and jumps from one point in time to another.
Debaser by D.S. & Durga is thankfully a fragrance with a more decisive plot whose opening scene is painted by rich greenery, zesty bergamot and luscious pear. A leading cast of iris, exotic fig and coconut milk bring this olfactory storyboard to life before the final scene comes into focus with a vivid panorama of woods, tonka bean and moss.
