The Different Company
The Different Company
101 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
A shock of neroli and bergamot cuts through immediately, bright and faintly herbal, with angelica root adding an almost green earthiness that keeps the citrus from floating away entirely. Within moments, you sense the spice beginning to assert itself beneath the sparkle—this is not a conventional cologne opening.
The iris emerges with a slightly chalky, mineral character, softened but not sweetened by jasmine, whilst mastic lends a dry, resinous quality that prevents the floral heart from becoming lush or indulgent. Cinnamon weaves through with a subtle heat, creating a composition that feels almost architectural in its precision.
The musks become prominent, offering a skin-like, intimate second skin rather than a cloud, whilst benzoin Siam and labdanum provide a honeyed, almost tobacco-like warmth that lingers as the other notes fade. What remains is understated, barely detectable on skin, but unmistakably present in the immediate olfactory sphere.
L'Esprit Cologne – After Midnight is a fragrance that operates in the liminal space between day and night, where the usual rules of cologne freshness meet something altogether stranger and more contemplative. Emilie Bevierre-Coppermann constructs this composition around a peculiar tension: the bright, almost sharp citrus-neroli opening immediately clashes with a creeping spiced florality that suggests something has been left simmering in a darkened room since dusk.
The iris in the heart is not the powdery iris of classical fragrances, but rather one rendered slightly roughened by the mastic—a resinous note that introduces an almost medicinal astringency, as though walking through a linen cupboard after someone's burned incense nearby. Cinnamon and jasmine circle around this iris-mastic axis, the cinnamon's warmth preventing the composition from becoming too precious or cosmetic. This is where the fragrance's true character emerges: it's neither warm nor cool, neither classically fresh nor patently oriental, but rather exists in an uncomfortable, intriguing middle ground.
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