The Different Company
The Different Company
181 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The ginger-bergamot-pepper trinity hits with almost bitter immediacy, like biting into fresh black pepper corns dusted with citrus zest. Your nose registers aggression before it recognises artistry, a deliberate refusal to coddle.
The frankincense and white violet gradually leaven the spice, creating an ambered, slightly smoky middle register where the fragrance's woody skeleton becomes visible. The peppery violet lends an unexpected herbaceous quality—less floral, more botanical—whilst the sandalwood begins its creamy whisper beneath.
Chinese toon's peculiar savoury-woody character emerges as the top notes evaporate, creating an oddly animalic finish where elemi resin's subtle citrus persists like distant memory. Unfortunately, projection deteriorates significantly; what remains is largely skin-scent, a softened woody-spicy whisper rather than a presence.
Sens & Bois Un Parfum des Sens & Bois announces itself with the kind of restraint that suggests quiet confidence rather than timidity. Céline Ellena has constructed something defiantly unsettling here—a fragrance that treats woodiness not as backdrop but as protagonist, wrestling against a genuinely peppery, almost medicinal spice accord that refuses to soften into sweetness.
The opening assault of ginger and black pepper creates an almost astringent sensation, aggressive enough that your first instinct might be defensiveness. But then the frankincense emerges, creamy and slightly resinous, attempting to mediate between the fragrance's warring impulses. The white violet adds an unexpected floral texture—not pretty or romantic, but rather peppery itself, almost metallic in its restraint, as though Ellena deliberately stripped away the note's conventional softness.
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