Al Sahra The Different Company 2020

I love night walks in nature - away from any artificial light of village and city. When the moon illuminates the whole world with its dim light and bathes it in a mystical silvery gray, which has so many variations that upon closer inspection it develops its own play, without revealing the colors that things have by day.

Al Sahra tells of the moonlight as it meets the earth. It smells like the image of the moon itself, reflecting on wet stone and in calm water. Particularly at the beginning, Al Sahra surprises with a cool, gray character. Mineral notes as an apt description, it smells like cold, damp stone, like the scent of rain on asphalt, like exactly the scent when night triumphs over day and water lays itself in small droplets across the whole world. In this silvery gray moonlit night, violets stand, not radiant violet, but fragile and glass-like, giving much less of a fragrance, rather a soft tinkling of their delicate blooms.

And yet there is life - a familiar warmth, a softly blooming rose, and far away a group of calm people in this sparkling desert, where each individual, clear grain of sand tries to shine. A hint of the faded perfumes of the day wafts over, a quiet ambiance, the scent of bare skin. And as one approaches, the fire around which the caravan sits dims the silver light of the moon and brings its warm yellow glow. Patchouli, woods, and delicate spices come to the forefront, making the scent darker and warmer. A cool incense takes over the role of the mineral notes, until after many hours hardly anything remains but the last breaths of the deep dark red glowing sandalwood embers.

The Different Company has captivated me with this scent and its story. I find here a fragrance that authentically tells what its description promises. For me, absolutely unisex and despite its complex and dual nature, still very (and for many occasions) wearable.