Un Parfum d'Ailleurs et Fleurs The Different Company for women

Starts out with a blend of some floral notes and basically stays there as far as I can tell. Some say it's tuberose or white flowers, and I'll go with that because I don't know my flower scents well enough to really say what specific notes are in this. There are at least two flowers in this - I can make that out. The scent itself is nice and is blended well...it makes me want to go cavort around in a random field or something weird. This is listed as a unisex, but personally I find this too feminine for my tastes. The sillage isn't too strong, and the longevity isn't that great either. I got some random wiffs after a couple of hours, but it was kind of here and there and it still smelled like the top notes. I couldn't even tell you what's in the middle or base notes because it's rather linear on me. So, the rather feminine aroma, the short lasting power, and the rather expensive price tells me this is probably a thumbs down.

D'AILLEURS ET FLEURS is another friendly floral offering from The Different Company. This one smells to me like a pleasing mélange of white flowers and linden blossom—whatever the precise floral notes are supposed to be, they blend together in this composition fairly seamlessly.

Of the perfumes of this type familiar to me, Ineke AFTER MY OWN HEART may come closest to conveying this same aesthetic, at least by its dry down (the opening of the Ineke is quite different and more enticing to me...). D'AILLEURS ET FLEURS is a subtle, feminine, and politely floral perfume with an innocent feeling to it. But the politeness is completely natural and sincere, like that of a young child before achieving the age of guile and commencing down the spiral to corruption as he fights tooth and nail to climb the social ladder.

Basically, this is springtime in a bottle, but not really better than many other perfumes of the same type.

Nice but unremarkable blend of orange blossoms and neroli with a slight tuberose presence. Mannered, discreet, inoffensive...anything but distinctive. The fragrance per se smells fine but there's nothing particularly interesting in it. Botloads of better options at any price range out there...

Zero sillage, weak lasting power.

Rating: 6.5/10

I"m really liking this one, but I do have a complaint: there are no base notes, as you can see, and thus the longevity is short.

But here is what works: a nice sharp, earthy green opening. I always like to have a fragrance on hand for after work pick me ups, and this fits the bill nicely. I don't need longevity with this requirement, but i do need something energetic; something that 'soars' off the skin.

To me this is an 'outdoor' fragrance, i.e, something you would wear on a day to the vineyards. The scent is so full of life! I don't detect any one note, but the over all effect is spring like earthy goodness. It is not weighed down by floral heaviness at all.

Yep, I likes this one!