 Claude Debussy used the scale in "Soirée dans Grenade", "La Puerta del Vino", and "Sérénade interrompue" to evoke Spanish flamenco music or Moorish heritage.In popular music, Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow used the scale in pieces such as "Gates of Babylon" and "Stargazer".The Miles Davis jazz standard "Nardis" also makes use of the double harmonic.. 
Opeth also used this scale in their song "Bleak" from the album Blackwater Park

The double harmonic scale features radial symmetry, or symmetry around its root, or center note.