L'Esprit Cologne - Tokyo Bloom 2012

L'Esprit Cologne - Tokyo Bloom by The Different Company
Bottle Design Thierry de Baschmakoff
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7.5 / 10 195 Ratings
A popular perfume by The Different Company for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is green-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green
Fresh
Floral
Spicy
Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BasilBasil DandelionDandelion Blackcurrant budBlackcurrant bud GalbanumGalbanum
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Cyclamen leafCyclamen leaf JasmineJasmine
Base Notes Base Notes
White muskWhite musk AmberAmber Gaiac woodGaiac wood

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.5195 Ratings
Longevity
5.4148 Ratings
Sillage
5.1145 Ratings
Bottle
7.7134 Ratings
Value for money
6.517 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 24.04.2024.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Pricing
6
Sillage
5
Longevity
8
Scent
Aspasia0

25 Reviews
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Helpful Review 8  
Good grief!
Spicy basil, smells so fine,
a spring scent in the sunshine.
In the sea of leaves, so delicate and green,
sprouts the fragrance, lets hearts bloom.

Green is not only one of my favorite colors, I love it also as a fragrance, so Tokyo Bloom migrated quite quickly after my registration here on my watch list and I was very pleased when I discovered it now in a hiking package. Of course, immediately tried as the first (*cough* and rated as the last ).

Already with the first spray gives a Tokyo Blooom pretty much everything that gives the chlorophyll so. Herbs in the form of basil, leafy greens, plant sap and flower stems. The scent does not undergo a huge development, at most in the form that different notes are present over time, whereby they do not necessarily adhere to the order of the pyramid. Thus, at the beginning, I perceive mainly the basil, in this first half hour or so, the fragrance reminds me very much of Thé Basilic. Then I smell more violet, another time more galbanum. All notes are present from the beginning, but as if they are performing a circle dance, sometimes one, sometimes the other is in the center of the stage. However, the deep green fragrance character is always present.

The name is perhaps a bit misleading, because when I smell the perfume, I'm not in Tokyo in the spring, where the cherry blossoms bloom in full splendor, no I'm frolicking in a summer meadow, rolling down a hill and landing laughing with my face in the middle of the grass. Panting, covered with grass stains, but happy.
1 Comment
5
Sillage
4
Longevity
4
Scent
Silverfire

130 Reviews
Silverfire
Silverfire
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Immaterial
This one's been on my wish list for a while, but sadly did not live up to my (possibly unrealistic) expectations.

Initially, I get the aroma of wild grasses (first 30), then something more airy comes along which echoes being outside. I can't peg this. It's not ozonic, but something with a tinge of sweetness to it.

Occasionally, the scent transitions to pepper, and then a rotten waterlogged vegetable smell, then vanilla musk and aldehydes. Sometimes it just skips to the vanilla musk and aldehydes stage. The projection dies off in the first hour, vanishing to just about nothing. I don't think it lasts more than four hours on my skin.

Now this last stage deserves comment. Where it lands is a generic young girl's scent. If you suspect that you've found the most generic perfume you can possibly wear, congrats. You have. You've smelled it a million times before, under different names, but it's all the same stuff.

I was expecting something distinctive -- kudzu, cherry blossom (sakura), maybe even rice -- but not vanilla musk. I got the dandelion (wild grasses, I guess) note, which was nice, but nothing that spoke to me specifically of Japan or Tokyo.

Final evaluation: Not worth it.

It could always be that I'm romanticizing a place I've never been. Yet, doesn't the line Scents of Departure make the claim that different places smell different? The Different Company might look to them for some olfactory inspiration.

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7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
6
Scent
Sherapop

1239 Reviews
Sherapop
Sherapop
Helpful Review 3  
Kyushu Bloom
The Different Company TOKYO BLOOM is the first perfume I've smelled with a central dandelion note. Does anything in the world smell like dandelions but dandelions? No, I think not--though I may of course be mistaken. In any case, what I am perceiving as bright yellow dandelions are combined here with floral, green, and aquatic components along with a touch of wood to create a fragrance which lives up to this house's name, "Different", and conveys a sense of being outside in an untamed rural setting.

Initially, I really do smell the milky juice from the inside of just-pulled dandelions in this composition, which is an unexpected experience, I must say. Then the flowers become stronger, especially jasmine, but there is always a watery aspect which does remind me a bit of rural Japan, albeit not Tokyo. Overall, TOKYO BLOOM is a fresh watery green floral yellow dandelion creation, which is, yes, unique in my experience.

I suspect that some people may have difficulty surmounting our culture's anti-dandelion prejudice. People generally think of dandelions as weeds, not the basis of fine perfume. Those who do not know dandelions will in all likelihood read this more as a greenish jasmine perfume.
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ItchynoseItchynose 5 years ago
9
Bottle
5
Sillage
6
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Green, fresh and very reminiscent of Mugler Cologne, only with a slightly more bitter dry down.
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