August 2023

D.S. & Durga’s next serve is a limited-edition, tennis-themed fragrance. Launching Tuesday ahead of the U.S. Open, Crush Balls retails for $280 for a 50-ml. bottle and features notes of green grass, rosemarin, white cotton and hedge flowers. “There’s something so inexplicable concerning the feeling of just smashing a ball with a racket versus, say, throwing a ball hard or hitting one with a bat — you might have to be so good at baseball to try this,” said D.S. & Durga cofounder David Moltz, who's more of a racquetball guy himself (the courts in Bed-Stuy’s Herbert Von King Park are his go-to spot) but whose wife and cofounder Kavi Moltz hails from a tennis family. “I’ve desired to do a...