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Almond Milk
Damascus Rose
A Drop d'Issey
Almond milk is an odd thing to put at the top of a flower led fragrance, and it is the first clue to how Issey Miyake A Drop d'Issey Eau de Parfum works.
It is soft, cool and slightly sweet, more the liquid than the nut, and it gives the opening a creamy texture rather than a bright one. Damascus rose comes with it, deep and jammy, and between them the first minutes are rounded and almost edible without ever being a dessert.
Lilac is the centre of the fragrance and the reason it exists. It is a difficult flower to render, green and powdery and slightly soapy, with a cool sweetness that smells more like spring air than like a bunch in a vase, and here it is given room. Jasmine warms it, orange blossom adds a honeyed lift, and star anise threads a dry, sweet spice through the middle that keeps the whole thing from turning merely pretty.
The base is modern and smooth. Musk and vanilla give softness, atlas cedar a dry resinous timber, and ambroxan the clean mineral warmth that makes a fragrance cling to skin and read as expensive. Ten materials, and the arc from creamy to flowered to mineral is clearly drawn.
Ane Ayo is the perfumer and the year of release was 2021. At this strength it carries through a day while holding a polite distance after the first hour, so it suits work, daytime and mild weather as much as evenings. It is a women's fragrance and an easy one to wear without thinking. Issey Miyake is a Japanese design company, founded as Miyake Design Studio in 1970 with ISSEY MIYAKE INC. incorporated the year after, and it still works out of Shibuya in Tokyo. Clothing came first, built on experimental construction and pleating, and fragrance followed in March 1992.
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