Fragrance / 2021Fragrance / 2021Don't Explain by DSH Perfumes is a Floral Green fragrance for women and men. Don't Explain was launched in 2021. The nose behind this fragrance is Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. The fragrance features Butter, Mushroom, Gardenia, Civet, Cheese, Tiare Flower, Castoreum, Ambergris, Leather, Tuberose, Green Accord, Musk, Jasmine, Valencia Orange Flower, Jasmine Sambac, Australian Sandalwood and Tobacco. Don't Explain is one in Hurwitz' Women Artists Series. It is a tribute to singer Billie Holiday and writer, artist and perfume evaluator Ida Meister. Hurwitz pays tribute to both these woman and also worked on the fragrance as a collaborative process of ideas with Ida for a number of years. It is a gardenia-centered perfume with notes of: Orientalgris, Australian sandalwood, bleu cheese nuance accord, butter CO2, castoreum, civet, gardenia, jasmine grandiflorum, leafy green accord, leather, musk, Spanish orange flower absolute, jasmine sambac, tiare absolute, tobacco absolute, tuberose absolute, and white button mushroom accord.
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Earthy, amber, animalic accords
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Shares tuberose, musk, jasmine (sambac); white floral accord
Premium
Shares tuberose, musk
Shares jasmine, gardenia, tuberose; amber, white floral accords
Shares jasmine, gardenia, tuberose; amber, animalic, white floral accords
Shares jasmine, gardenia, musk; Leather, amber, animalic accords
Shares jasmine, tuberose, musk; Leather, amber, animalic accords
Shares jasmine, gardenia, tuberose; Leather, Earthy, animalic accords
Shares jasmine, tuberose, leather; Leather, animalic, white floral accords
Shares jasmine, gardenia, tuberose; amber, animalic, musky accords
Shares jasmine, gardenia, tuberose; Leather, amber, animalic accords
Shares gardenia, tuberose, musk; amber, animalic, white floral accords
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Jasmine
Gardenia
Tuberose
Musk
Leather
Jasmine (Sambac)
Ambergris
Civet
Castoreum