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Pleats Please
Named after the pleating that made the clothes famous, Issey Miyake Pleats Please Eau de Toilette 50ml is the most cheerful thing in the house catalogue and the least interested in being serious.
Pear starts it, and it is the crisp green sort rather than the stewed sort, watery and a little tart, which gives the first minutes a snap. Sweet pea follows and it is an inspired choice, because sweet pea smells light, slightly honeyed and faintly green all at once, the flower equivalent of a pastel. Peony joins it, cool and watery with a green bite at the stem, and the two together make a bouquet that is pretty without being heavy or old fashioned.
Underneath, white musk does most of the work, soft and clean in the way warm cotton is, with patchouli adding a thread of earth to keep it from floating away and cedarwood providing a dry, quiet frame. The release dates from 2012. In wear it is light and friendly. Four or five hours is the realistic span, it sits close after the first, and nobody will object to it in an open plan office. That is the point of it. A 50ml bottle fits this kind of fragrance perfectly, and it suits spring, summer, daytime, and women who want to smell pleasant rather than imposing. It also makes an easy present for someone whose taste you do not know well.
Behind it is a Japanese design company, not a French perfume house. Issey Miyake opened Miyake Design Studio in 1970 and incorporated ISSEY MIYAKE INC. the next year, opening a Tokyo store in 1974 and working now from Shibuya. Its fragrance line began in March 1992, while the clothes stayed known for pleating and for construction nobody else was attempting.
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