# D.S. & Durga — Suckle Honey City

> Suckle Honey City is one of D.S. & Durga's tiny Studio Juice releases from 2022, and its artistic aim is specific: not a generic honeysuckle perfume but an urban honeysuckle field study built from gre

## Essence
Suckle Honey City is one of D.S. & Durga's tiny Studio Juice releases from 2022, and its artistic aim is specific: not a generic honeysuckle perfume but an urban honeysuckle field study built from green citrus, floral fuzz, and a milky vegetal base. What makes it distinctive is also what makes it difficult. It chases the odd, prickly, slightly fatty realism of actual honeysuckle growing in Brooklyn rather than the easy nectar fantasy most brands sell under that name.
## Scent Profile
The opening is tart and green, led by lime and lemongrass, sharp rather than sweet. It signals immediately that this is a botanical sketch, not a soft white-floral.
The heart is honeysuckle, but floral without being plush. The perfumer, David Seth Moltz, has said he studied real honeysuckle for years and finally captured facets he associated with fatty coconuts, geranium, and lemongrass, and wearers describe exactly that: green, prickly, fuzzy, sometimes coconut-adjacent, sometimes more like hot vines and bushes than sweet flowers. One wearer calls it a unique green floral that shows honeysuckle in all its glory; another reads it as a heavy cloud of leather, incense, diesel, and summer vegetation.
The base is lactonic and woody rather than syrupy. A milky note stands in for vanilla or amber, giving a humid, slightly creamy yet still green finish instead of a decadent nectar drydown. The signature accord is less honeysuckle-and-honey than honeysuckle tangled with stems, city heat, and a strange soft milkiness.
## Performance
Performance is lightly documented. The most substantive wear report describes moderate-to-strong sillage and very good longevity, suggesting it is more present than a sheer floral, though there is not enough repetition to commit to confident hour counts or to say how it holds across skins, climates, and batch age. Treat it as a moderate-to-strong performer pending more wear data.
## Wearing Context
The scent profile makes the intended context legible: warm weather, urban spring-to-summer wear, and an audience that prefers botanical green florals to polished white-floral sweetness. A brief wear impression found it honeysuckle-forward and somewhat femme-leaning, while its strongest admirers value realism and uniqueness over prettiness. This reads less like a safe office floral and more like an enthusiast piece for someone who wants actual honeysuckle near hot pavement and vines rather than honeysuckle body lotion. It can work for airy summer florals, but it is not a reliable compliment-getter.
## Comparisons & DNA
Direct smell comparisons are scarce, which is itself telling: wearers describe its weird realism rather than calling it a dupe of anything. The most useful frame is conceptual. Suckle Honey City belongs with D.S. & Durga's other city-flower studies, explicitly part of the house's flower-city Studio Juices series and shelved among its limited botanical studies. Against the house's own Debaser, the contrast is instructive: where Debaser is a creamy coconut-water beach scent, Suckle Honey City may share a lactonic facet but is far greener, sharper, and less beachy.
## Reception
Reception is thin and polarized, landing at a middling level overall rather than describing a universally loved hidden gem. The praise centers on realism, originality, and the successful capture of honeysuckle as it actually smells in Brooklyn air rather than as imagined in commercial perfumery. The criticism centers on challenge: harsh green tartness, strange leathery and incense-like facets, and a wearability problem for anyone who wanted something softer or sweeter. As a blind buy it is a poor candidate unless the buyer already collects D.S. & Durga Studio Juices or is specifically chasing experimental honeysuckle.
## Versions & Reformulation
This appears to be a single Studio Juice composition, hand-made as part of D.S. & Durga's limited-edition Brooklyn Studio Juices project. There is no evidence of flankers, concentration variants, or reformulation history for Suckle Honey City itself.
## Acquisition Notes
Scarcity is the defining fact: only 100 pieces were made, and it is a limited 2022 Studio Juice release rather than a standard line item. Dependable current pricing and standard size formats are not documented beyond that rarity context. The practical advice is simply that availability will be erratic and provenance matters, given how small the run was.
## Notable Facts & Lore
- David Seth Moltz described it as the latest in the house's flower-city Studio Juices, built from years of studying honeysuckle near Bed-Stuy fences and Brooklyn parks.
- The brief was to capture honeysuckle's fleeting bloom window as smelled in the city, which is why it behaves more like a botanical sketch than a sweet mainstream floral.
- Only 100 bottles were produced, making it one of the house's rarest releases.
- The perfumer cited fatty coconuts, geranium, and lemongrass as the real-life honeysuckle facets he chased.