I keep thinking about how to write about this perfume and decided to start from the pepper mint. The thing that was escaping me while I was smelling it for the first couple of times. And then it hit me - that it was mint I was smelling and then I went to check the notes. And here they are:
Notes: majoram, pepper mint, sage, serpolet, jasmine sambac, grapefruit, clementine, patchouli
I cannot tell you how happy it makes me when I figure out a note by myself. I am still learning how to distinguish so many stuff that it makes me so happy when I realize I learned to discover something new.
I had time to think a lot about this. It smell more like a cologne to me than a perfume, but I love it so much. The mint and majoram opening just plain do it for me. They make this green, springy, bough smelling perfume into one of the best scents I imagine in the spring. It reminds me of dewy morning cool grass (in the spring).
I just simply love it.
I had to go and check what exactly is serpolet - it turns out it's thyme. And the name of the perfume made me think I might be understanding something wrong, but it turns out it does mean Charmes and Leaves, and it is charming (very much so) and it does smell leafy. :)
I love the fact that sometime after you out it on, it sortb of spreads around you, like you are standing in a meadow smelling it, and then it gets timid and sort of sticks to you. Later it gets into this late spring/early summer sweetness, like some white and yellow flowers blooming on that meadow you are standing in.
I'm lucky that for the time being I have two 2ml samples from TDC but once they go, I will need a bottle of this. It just feels like I'm putting on some herbal perfume healing remedy that speaks to my soul. It makes me smile each time I wear it and makes me so happy I almost get tears in my eyes from it.
And it made me realize I need to get to know the work of Celine Elena much better.
Notes and pic by: http://www.thedifferentcompany.com/
Notes: majoram, pepper mint, sage, serpolet, jasmine sambac, grapefruit, clementine, patchouli
I cannot tell you how happy it makes me when I figure out a note by myself. I am still learning how to distinguish so many stuff that it makes me so happy when I realize I learned to discover something new.
I had time to think a lot about this. It smell more like a cologne to me than a perfume, but I love it so much. The mint and majoram opening just plain do it for me. They make this green, springy, bough smelling perfume into one of the best scents I imagine in the spring. It reminds me of dewy morning cool grass (in the spring).
I just simply love it.
I had to go and check what exactly is serpolet - it turns out it's thyme. And the name of the perfume made me think I might be understanding something wrong, but it turns out it does mean Charmes and Leaves, and it is charming (very much so) and it does smell leafy. :)
I love the fact that sometime after you out it on, it sortb of spreads around you, like you are standing in a meadow smelling it, and then it gets timid and sort of sticks to you. Later it gets into this late spring/early summer sweetness, like some white and yellow flowers blooming on that meadow you are standing in.
I'm lucky that for the time being I have two 2ml samples from TDC but once they go, I will need a bottle of this. It just feels like I'm putting on some herbal perfume healing remedy that speaks to my soul. It makes me smile each time I wear it and makes me so happy I almost get tears in my eyes from it.
And it made me realize I need to get to know the work of Celine Elena much better.
Notes and pic by: http://www.thedifferentcompany.com/
very interesting blog. just keep writing about niche perfumes. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, I am going to send Musette over here. She's a fiend for Charmes & Leaves. Completely bonkers. I like it, but have no romance like she does. Or, as it turns out, you do. :)
ReplyDeleteIf you do end up with a FB, those TDC bottles are delightfully heavy. They mean business. And the larger size are a sharer/decanters friend...the tops *screw off*! Most awesome. The sprayers on either size are wonderfully solid. (Can you tell I approve?)
So glad you found a love, and had a success with note identification! It's fun, this path, isn't it?
I own TDC Bergamote, but this is very pleasant too, as is the scent with Ailleurs in the title - they don't go in for overly memorable names, do they?! Am not a huge fan of mint, but this one is happily not the full Wrigley.
ReplyDeleteHey Anon, thank you. :) Hope you visit again.
ReplyDeleteScentScelf, yes, this is a fun path. I was just thinking this morning that it actually took me around 3 years (that would be sometime now) to start identifying for real what I am smelling. I am wearing Mure et Musc today and now I know how the name applies, before I was just wondering around.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what I will smell 2 years from now and can't wait. :)
Now that you mentioned the bottle, I think when I decide to buy it (and if I'm phrasing it like this, it means I already decided), I'll go for a larger bottle. I love swapping! Btw, I'm still waiting for you to say if there is something of mine you might like... :)
Flittersniffer, I actually like lot of TDC perfumes, but this one just hit all the right buttons. :)
ReplyDeleteThe full Wrigley?! I love the reference. :D
Wait... am I being totally dense here? This sounds like something I would *love*, but I don't see the title of the perfume anywhere? Help! "TDC"?
ReplyDelete(LCN, it's The Different Company Un Parfum de Charmes et Feuilles - Charms n' Leaves, if you don't speak French.)
ReplyDeleteMusette lurrrves this one. I might have to try... lovely review, Ines.
LCN, I was just going to explain, and I see Mals beat me to it. :)
ReplyDeleteCan you try it somewhere in SF?
Thanks Mals! :)
ReplyDeleteI somehow missed that Musette loves this (plenty to love so I totally understand). ;)
I think that my skin eats The Different Company perfumes - when I've tried them, they're lovely and then they're gone. But mint and thyme and marjoram are all pretty determined scents, so maybe that wouldn't happen?
ReplyDeleteCF, that's bad. Since I really enjoy quite a lot of their stuff - maybe the mint would be able to stick around? :) Let me know when you try it if it survived or was eaten.
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