Charmes et Feuilles The Different Company for women and men

I love green notes, I love herbs and citrus, but my God, this combo does not get on with my skin chemistry at all, at all! In the opening I am greeted by minty-thyme notes, and my nose perks up with anticipation. So far, so good. Then the marjoram pops up. Not a sprig, not a bunch, but a whole freaking barrel, kind of like you've stumbled into the herb warehouse at Pak Khlong Talat market in Bangkok. It's just a bit much. A little apprehensive at this point, but I keep searching for jasmine and vetiver, hoping they will throw me a lifeline. Betrayal! Instead of the green flowery patch I was seeking, my nose is violated by a pungent rabbit hutch odor, a nursing home that is a bit overcrowded and facing a shortage of housekeeping staff. It leaves me gagging and dismayed, and eager to wash this off as soon as possible.

Le bottiglie verdi sono le nuove formulazioni….. quelle trasparenti quelle più vecchie!

amazing summer perfume

This is a classy fragrance, and even it is marketed for men, I see myself easily wearing this one.
It is fresh: you get an initial blast of peppermint, other fine herbs and citrus, light, balsamic and refreshing.
then other herbs appear, thyme, and something that smells woody and masucline.
But so pleasant.
There is a touch of sweetness given by the jasmin, in the end a little charm by the patchouli leaves (the name Charme & Feuilles is right on spot, opposite to other offerings from this house , whose names are often misleading).
I like it. Moderately longlasting and very pleasant, I feel it like a Fall scent, calm and reassuring.



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All those notes combine into herbal honey on my skin

The start is hesperid, this is clementine in alliance with sweet mint, shaded with tart grapefruit and special herbs. Then from the heart of the work comes the fragrance of a sun-warmed bundle of vetiver roots with fine exquisite bitterness. Further, jasmine, beautiful and noble, enters into its own rights. Following him on the stage come out a little modest spicy sage, accompanied by musk-earthy patchouli, giving a little moisture composition.
Summing up what has been said: a sweet, slightly balsamic shamanic perfume.
The persistence of an average of 3-4 hours I hear, there is a plume, but I do not particularly feel it.
7 of 10

When I was a child, we sometime liked to put a piece of fresh wood on the ant hill and lick it afterfards; it smelled&tasted formic acid. If taking a piece of fresh pine wood and putting it into the and hill.. to get formic acid on top of pine resin smell.. it would be exactly this perfume. Interesting.. somehow comforting.. not anything I would like to buy though...

An off-balance and ultimately forgettable green. Charme et Feuilles is more aromatic than floral, but in a strange way that is neither edible nor wearable. It's a bit like sticking one's head into a marjoram shrub.

Sometimes quick sketches shouldn't be made into full-blown paintings. Charme et Feuilles is one of those sketches.

Charme et Feuilles is a fresh, summer fragrance.
I have the white package.
The fragrance is definitely unisex.
It reminds me very much of Neroli Portofino Acqua by Tom Ford.
Sillage and Longevity are above average. As I would expect for the price.

I have the original version with the green bottle , not the clear one, so I suppose that is the pre-reformulation version. It has a black box.
Ok, on me it is fairly long lasting with soft to average silage. It's overwhelmingly green , aromatic to the max, like truly a herb garden . There are some flower and fruits in the garden too, but I cannot really describe them . There is positively no soap here or lily of the valley , I don't know how the other version smells because I cannot imagine what the other reviewer smelled, sounds like a different perfume to me.
This one reminds me of the movie Avatar. If you've seen it, you know the kind of nature and gardens I am thinking of . It's lush, humid, warm, green, strange. I cannot distinctively talk about each note, they are well blended.
It's a unisex scent, not just for women, easily wearable by men too.
Quite unique , but if I was to look for resemblances I would compare it with Bond No 9 Eau de NY or maybe even with the old Eden, in a much more refined version.
Interesting, an olfactive adventure!
I am not sure how wearable it is, frankly I don't see myself wanting to smell like a herb garden and rainforest too often, but it is distinctive and memorable . Since I don't wear it often enough, it is availabe for swap, a big bottle, should it be your piece of cake.( or garden )

Jasmine/green combo splash. Delicate, fresh and warm, with a touch of sweetness, perfect for summer. Feels feminine, nice and proper.

The marjoram is now overwhelming in this, and I don't detect any jasmine note at all. To me this is now a very masculine fragrance, completely herbal, and more of an aftershave feel than that of a full-fledged perfume. The sillage is very strong. I would not recommend this for a woman looking for a fresh green perfume, which is what I thought I was sampling.

It's as though the middle notes originally listed are nonexistent, as I also don't get any citrus. The vetiver and the sage do seem to have survived the reformulation in the base.

This has been reformulated since the green bottle. It's now more unisex. Marjoram dominates the top notes, no longer as balanced by the jasmine and mint, which I barely detect. Although the base accord is recognizable it is less floral, there is an almost grass or hay-like quality (without the dirty or green aspects) in the heart and I sense a 'fresh' accord reminiscent of Cool Water in the drydown that was not present in the original. The original developed like a real perfume, this is simpler in its evolution. Much more unisex borderline masculine now. Different top middle and end, if we still had the original version this would compare as an Homme flanker. Since this is not the case I'd have to say it's really lost something of its originality while remaining a quite pleasant and long-lasting fresh herbal and mint scent.

Smells good... grapefruit, galbanum, stemone, very hedione.. nice

Without any knowledge of the notes, to my nose, UN PARFUM DE CHARMES ET FEUILLES is a unisex woody floriental which seems to contain wormwood or absinthe or some combination of notes with a similar effect. The dominant floral is definitely jasmine. There is more dark forest than there are flowers here, although the overall feeling is rather subtle compared to many green or woody perfumes.

I find this offering from The Different Company to be quite a bit more interesting than some of the others I've recently tried. CHARMES ET FEUILLES evokes in my mind images of Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood walking through a lush forest as the sun begins to set. Danger seems to be lurking just around the bend...

Green and even greener, weirdly spicy citruses at the opening soon changed to a marvelous green perfume, it's very refreshing and a good choice for summer. Anyway - I love the jasmine it this beauty, it's so gentle, shy and blended together with green notes that it's almost unnoticeable, but it just lingers around.

The downside? Silage, I almost can't feel it.

This one starts off slightly medicinal, but very fresh and uplifting at the same time. Settles into more of a soft floral in the middle then dries to a very faint woody scent. It's a Shame that it is not long lasting (even in EDP form) as I really liked it.

This was a big hit with me. Warm and sweet on the skin, not at all a typical citrus aromatic.

To me it was mitsouko-ish, i.e, an edgy fruit note on a damp, eathy base. I couldn't take my nose off my wrist.

The sillage wasn't as good as I would like, and this is one I'd prefer in parfum form (to make it longer lasting)