After Midnight

Surprisingly delicious powdery-woody-iris with a beautiful, jewelled purple colour in the bottle and a surprising amount of class on your skin. Like other Different Company things, strength and durability are subtle (if not actually weak) so this wouldn't be a beast of an all-day performer. And the various notes do all bleed into each other so very smoothly that this isn't in fact an outstandingly "different" scent at all; it's a recognisable, familiar, reassuringly gentle floral. (Still one with some special character lent by the mastic and cistus and angelica though.) And yet. I'm not mad for florals and often have particularly bad luck with iris fragrances, which can end up smelling of anything from room-freshener to wet rug on me - yet this one really really pleases me, at least in its first flush of strength. Something in the initial stages does "fresh but with depth" extremely well for my nose, with lovely warmer aromatic details in the margins too. Just unisex enough to be very very pleasing, as well. So why am I not head over heels in love with it? Somehow it can't leap any higher than "strong but qualified like" for me - perhaps because of its impeccable taste, comfortable familiarity and reliable discretion. Really very good but just doesn't make the heart beat any faster.

This is a very interesting scent! Sour, airy, floral with a rather distant but noticeable sweetness. It smells like how I imagine magic to smell like.. You know, the magic expelled from the wand of a blue-robed wizard. I don't know how else I can explain it. It's difficult for me to identify single notes in this, it just smells completely imaginary and fairy tale-like. But then I've never had the pleasure of smelling angelica flowers, so maybe that's what it is. Nevertheless, a magical scent that transports me to my imaginary fairy tale land of my childhood.

such gorgeous florals. i get a realistic just-bloomed jasmine, still captures the green essence of the soliflore, super feminine, for some reason reminds me of some elements of gucci bloom + bbw one in a million which makes me wonder if there’s gardenia in the composition. citrusy top disappears shortly into the life of fragrance at least on skin. musky, but doesn’t make the base smell warm imo, it’s just there. very effortlessly beautiful but nothing new, also doesn’t smell ultra niche.

I LOVE this fragrance! It's soft and mesmerizing at the same time. I really do smell the angelica and the mastic in it, and I have to say it: I never tried something close to this. I find it quite unique, and I love the work of The Different Company. Only downside: the lasting. Nothing, after an hour it's barely there. I'm heartbroken because this fragrance is one of those which are able to bring you to a different place... But unfortunately just for 30/45 minutes.

It smells like long after midnight, like a cold sunny morning in April, actually. Like bitter herbs and dew and crispy fresh air, and maybe even a tiny layer of snow or ice on the grass. Somewhere in Pennsylvania. A very underrated masterpiece. I tried it in Bucharest duty free 2 years ago and couldn't forget since then.