Fragrance Notes
L'Eau d'Issey Eau Essentielle
Pear is what sets L'Eau d'Issey Eau Essentielle Eau de Parfum apart from the rest of the Issey Miyake range, and it is the first thing anybody notices about it. The fruit is handled juicy and crisp, more like biting into a ripe pear than like a sweet made to taste of one, and it gives the opening a rounded sweetness that the original idea behind this range never had. It is immediately likeable, which is rather the intention.
Orange blossom sits underneath and changes the register. It is clean and white and faintly soapy in the way the flower always is, and it carries a honeyed quality that meets the pear halfway rather than fighting it. Between the two of them, the middle of this fragrance is soft, bright and quite easy to wear. Cedarwood finishes it. Dry, sharp and faintly like sawdust, it is the only material in the row that pulls in the other direction, and it is what keeps the fruit from turning syrupy as the hours pass. Three materials, so there is no complicated progression to follow, just a clear idea delivered confidently.
The eau de parfum concentration gives it a long wear that stays reasonably close to the skin after the opening. It suits spring and summer, daytime more than evening, and anybody who finds the cooler versions of this range too austere. It is an approachable fragrance and an easy one to recommend to someone buying their first bottle. The fruit is what sells it and the cedarwood is what keeps it respectable.
The house behind it is a Japanese design company founded by Issey Miyake, who opened Miyake Design Studio in 1970. ISSEY MIYAKE INC. followed in 1971, the first store opened in Tokyo in 1974, and fragrance came in 1992.
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