The Different Company
The Different Company
198 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The first spray is a sharp slap of galbanum and blackcurrant bud—intensely green, almost catty, with basil's camphorous spice cutting through like a cold blade. The dandelion note brings an unexpected bitter-milky quality, latex meets fresh grass stems, whilst citrus flickers briefly before dissolving into the vegetal assault.
As the initial ferocity calms, cyclamen leaf emerges with its characteristic watery-cucumber coolness, creating an aqueous green backdrop for the jasmine, which appears as white petals floating in cold water rather than heady indolic blooms. The spicy undercurrent persists, peppery and clean, maintaining tension against the florals' softness.
The gaiac wood slowly reveals itself—pencil shavings and faint medicinal smoke—whilst white musk and amber blend into a skin-like veil that's more about texture than sweetness. What remains is a ghostly green impression, cool and slightly austere, with just enough warmth to suggest skin rather than stone.
Tokyo Bloom is a study in contrasts—biting herbal sharpness colliding with translucent floral sweetness, like chrysanthemums crushed against a bamboo cutting board still damp with morning dew. Emilie Bevierre-Coppermann has constructed something genuinely arresting here: the basil arrives with its characteristic anise-like edge, but it's the blackcurrant bud and galbanum pairing that gives this fragrance its distinctive metallic-green backbone, tart and resinous, almost piercing in its intensity. The dandelion note adds a peculiar bitterness—latex-like, vegetal—that keeps the composition from veering into safe territory.
The cyclamen leaf in the heart reinforces this cucumber-cool, watery green quality, whilst the jasmine remains remarkably restrained, more stem than petal. There's an ascetic elegance to Tokyo Bloom that recalls Comme des Garçons' minimalist aesthetic more than conventional cologne freshness. This isn't a fragrance for those seeking comfort; it's angular, slightly abrasive, the olfactory equivalent of matcha's astringency.
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