Pure Petale de Nectar
The 90ml bottle is the argument for Issey Miyake Pure Petale de Nectar Eau de Toilette 90ml: a large format of a gentle, easily worn scent, which is the right way round to buy fragrance you use every morning. Cashmeran is the material that makes it work, even if it is not the one on the label. It is the soft, dry, slightly musky element that gives modern fragrance that clean skin quality, and here it is what keeps a sweet composition from turning sticky. Around it, sandalwood adds a creamy warmth and ambergris lends a faint salted glow, so the base reads warm and smooth rather than heavy.
Above that sits the sweetness. Honey is the lead and it is the pale, waxy sort, closer to the comb than the jar, with that slightly sour animal edge real honey has. Pear cools it, crisp and watery, and rose runs through the middle softly, more a warmth than a bouquet, which is what makes the whole thing wearable for people who normally avoid both honey and rose.
It is an eau de toilette and behaves accordingly: pleasant and present for the first hour, then close to the skin for a few more. This is not a projection monster and it is not trying to be, and on the right skin that restraint is the point rather than a shortcoming. Warm weather, daytime, work and the kind of occasion where you want to smell inviting rather than dramatic. It is aimed at women, and it is dated 2019.
Issey Miyake is a Japanese design company, founded as a studio in 1970 and incorporated the following year, with its first store opening in Tokyo in 1974. Known in fashion for pleating and for unusual garment construction, it has been making fragrance since March 1992.
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