The Different Company
The Different Company
146 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Grapefruit and clementine burst forth with almost aggressive brightness, immediately complicated by marjoram's herbaceous, slightly medicinal character—it's as if you've just crushed fresh citrus peel against dried herbs. Within moments, the citrus becomes almost saline, less about sweetness and more about sharp, bracing clarity.
Peppermint arrives with cooling intensity, threading through the jasmine sambac which adds creamy, slightly animalic depth. Thyme joins as a peppery, almost spice-like element, creating a green accord that feels genuinely alive—less a fragrance bottle and more a living herb garden. This phase is where the fragrance achieves its most compelling balance between fresh and aromatic.
The clary sage and patchouli emerge with muted restraint, the patchouli offering earthy grounding without the heavy sweetness typical of the note. Within hours, however, the fragrance becomes a shadow—a whisper of herbs and distant citrus that requires proximity to detect. Its longevity is genuinely problematic; by the fourth hour, you're essentially wearing skin scent.
*Charmes & Feuilles* feels less like a fragrance and more like the olfactory equivalent of pressing herbs between pages—alive with botanical intensity but inherently ephemeral. Céline Ellena has constructed something genuinely herbaceous rather than herbal, a distinction that matters enormously. Where lesser green fragrances reach for abstraction, this one grounds itself in tangible plant material: the grapefruit and clementine open as bright, almost austere citrus notes that refuse to sweeten, whilst marjoram introduces an unexpected savoury edge that sits uncomfortably with convention. This isn't comfort-scent territory.
The heart reveals itself as genuinely wild—peppermint cuts through with crystalline sharpness, alongside thyme that tastes mineral and faintly peppery on the air. Jasmine Sambac arrives not as a romantic flourish but as a white, slightly indolic anchor that grounds the fragrance's volatile top notes. It's the jasmine that prevents this from becoming merely a cologne masquerading as parfum; it lends weight and slight sensuality to what might otherwise scatter entirely.
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