The Different Company
Author-led French niche perfumery since 2000.
The Different Company was founded in Paris in 2000 by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena and bottle designer Thierry de Baschmakoff, at a moment when collectors were beginning to turn away from mass-market designer launches toward smaller, more author-driven houses. Ellena's early creations, among them Bois d'Iris, Osmanthus and Bergamote, set the brand's quiet, transparent style: linear compositions built around a single dominant raw material, presented in heavy faceted glass bottles meant to be refilled. When Ellena left in 2004 to become in-house perfumer at Hermes, Luc Gabriel took over creative direction and broadened the roster to include noses such as Celine Ellena, Bertrand Duchaufour and Emilie Coppermann. The house has retained its preference for lucid, restrained perfumes over showy gourmands, and remains one of the more thoughtful French niche labels of its generation, suited to wearers drawn to clarity and craftsmanship rather than spectacle.
Releases
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
