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kopee4ka90 – :
Very light. Airy, sour and intimate. Sits close to the skin all the way through and the sourness is the type you find in YSL Y but softer. The iris is very hidden, which is a disappointment to me as I love iris a lot, but still there, still noticeable if you dig your nose in.
jimen – :
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.
19647759 – :
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.
yaVgenij – :
nymph at the source (Nymphe an der Quelle) BY Ferdinand Keller
roma199021 – :
Last a very long time on my skin. Smells amazing.
Black MoHaPx – :
sour, soft jasmines, & iris.
This one is quite soft as well (like the others) with a very short silage but nice blend as i can detect cedar, amber, wood, & something midley sweet.
“The Different Company” fragrances are quite soft, with short silage and med longevity. Their fragrances are meant to be used more often through the day to keep them alive which sometimes is quite interesting for the ones who doesn’t like allot of fragrance on
prihno – :
@becuille: Atelier Cologne is just the name. The concentration in their perfumes is close to parfum extract.
Back to After Midnight, it’s an okay scent but not bottle worthy.
Hobobes – :
Too masculine for me, but I’d love to smell this on a guy. The name made me think I’d be getting a spicy, sensual kind of scent, but instead, it’s light as air, with an aquatic feel to it.
It opens with citrus and angelica, summery, watery and slightly herbal. It soon drys down into iris and cool woods. I don’t notice amber at all. There’s nothing oriental about this to my nose. I thought I caught a whiff of something resinous once or twice, but it was gone so fast I could barely register it.
Unfortunately, like the others in the cologne line from this house, you have to practically douse yourself in this to smell it and then it doesn’t last for very long.
Calling something a cologne shouldn’t automatically mean it’s got terrible sillage and longevity. Atellier Cologne have managed to make a whole range of colognes that only require a couple of sprays and last for hours.
Really nice while it lasts though.
valeg – :
Party scent. I can smell mostly neroli and flowers, not much of resins. It’s quite aromatic and I can imagine it being worn by both sexes.
Steker – :
Very well donr scent. It started as a unisex , very clean fresh smell like Prada infusion. Then about 15 min into the dry down it turned totally feminine, but still a well done watery bright sparkley transparent floral. Perfect for a women but not quite strong enough for a man.
prl786JeomiWogkig – :
After Midnight opens with a neroli accord that immediately speaks of CLASSIC Eau de cologne. The fragrance is then joined by a subtle, sort of weightless ambery note that’s not so distant from Comme Des Garcons Ambar if not for the fact it’s way weaker. Resins lurk in the back providing a woody-incensey-ambery vibe. Nice and, after all, forgettable.
Rating: 6.5/10
turkmenistan – :
This perfume is genius in that all of its notes are normally rich, heavy-hitters (like labdanum, benzoin, jasmine), but even though I can detect all of those notes, it is actually very transparent and light. Like other reviewers have already said, it’s primarily a tranquil light aquatic floral.
When first put on the skin I think I can detect a little bit of grape juice (or maybe that is just psychological because it is purple liquid).
After Midnight reminds me of sitting on a park bench at night, and also that Patsy Cline song:
“I go out walkin’ after midnight
Out in the starlight, just hoping you may be
Somewhere a-walkin’ after midnight
Searchin’ for me”
коля дудник – :
This is a lovely scent but when I first tried it, the scent seemed to disappear on my skin. I was feeling very sad because I love this fragrance in the drydown and wanted to be able to wear it. Well, I don’t give up easily, so I did not give up on “After Midnight.”
After 2 more days and more tries with this fragrance I am happy to report that I firgured it out! I read the perfumer’s details again and these scents are supposed to be similar to an eau de cologne, i.e. they are meant to be very light and therefore require a lot more of the goods on your skin. I just had not put enough of the fragrance on my skin. After a good dousing with the scent this afternoon it lasted 4 hours and 6 hours later I can still smell it on my skin and it is very lovely- I get tiny wafts of it as I moved around. No really noticeable sillage but it’s there. And it’s a great layering fragrance, too.
I am wearing After Midnight now on my hands and A Lab on Fire” Liquid Night” on my wrists and they go really well together- who would have thought it? A sillage monster and an eau fraiche type scent? But they do go together brilliantly. Both “After Midnight” and “Liquid Night” are going to be mine. After Midnight does have an aquatic quality to it and it reminds me of a pond in a Chinese garden with lovely floating white florals. Calming and light.
Groreibiork – :
The Different Company AFTER MIDNIGHT is one of the four new “L’Esprit Cologne” launches which are explained on the manufacturer’s card thus:
“L’esprit est ‘Cologne’
la concentration est Eau de Toilette
la création est un parfum”
Translation:
the spirit is that of a cologne
the concentration is that of an edt
the creation is that of a perfume
Huh. Okay. I guess that they’re trying to say that this is not just some infusion of flowers? Well, anyway, I definitely agree that the spirit is that of a cologne. As with TOKYO BLOOM, AFTER MIDNIGHT has a very watery quality to it (I do not mean dilute…), making this seem more like AT DAWN to me. I always associate words like ‘midnight’ with dark oriental elixirs, and that is not what this is.
However, I could imagine wearing this at midnight on a hot summer night lying in bed naked under a ceiling fan. It’s light and refreshing and cool, and somewhat floral but in a cologne style with, again, a slightly aquatic feeling. I cannot claim to be able to tease out any of the individual notes, but overall this smells pretty nice.