Fragrance Notes
L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme Vétiver
Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme Vétiver Eau de Toilette smells of vetiver kept wet rather than dusty, its earthy, rooty bitterness cooled by ginger at the opening and given a herbal sharpness by clary sage. The result is aromatic and a little saline, woody without weight.
Ginger, clary sage and vetiver work as one accord rather than arriving in turn. Ginger supplies the warm spicy, slightly fizzy heat, clary sage the dry herbal green, and vetiver the earth and the structure. Across the three the fragrance reads aromatic and woody with an aquatic transparency and a soft spicy finish, fresh in the sense of clean air rather than citrus. On skin the ginger fades first and the sage and vetiver hold the rest of the wear.
Marie Salamagne composed this Vetiver edition, which launched in 2023. Issey Miyake established the Miyake Design Studio in April 1970, and the fragrance line began with L'Eau d'Issey in 1992, built around water, which Miyake called both the greatest material and the greatest source of inspiration.
It has moderate longevity and moderate sillage, which makes it a close-wearing scent rather than a room-filling one. It works in all four seasons and is at home at work, on a casual day and on a night out. That makes it an easy office fragrance, and the aquatic transparency keeps it comfortable in heat.
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