Issey Miyake · 1994 · Jacques Cavallier

L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme

VersionEau de Toilette

Issey Miyake says

You’ll smell yuzu, lemon, tangerine, water lily note, spicy notes, sandalwood, vetiver and amber accord.

More from Issey Miyake’s description

It also mentions Yuzu Accord and Nutmeg.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme’s scent picture, a draft: lemon, mandarin, sandalwood, vetiver, nutmeg, geranium drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme, top notes: Yuzu, Lemon, Mandarin, Geranium, Lavender, Sweet orange, Bergamot

Heartthe first hours

L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme, heart: Water lily, nutmeg, cinnamon

Dry-downhours later

L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme, dry-down: Sandalwood, Vetiver, Galaxolide, Iso E Super, Coumarin, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

28 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

4 citrus7 herbs & lavender7 florals3 woods2 sweet4 spices1 musks

Citrus4

LimoneneBitter orange oilBergamot oilCitral

Herbs & lavender7

Lavender oilSclareolMentholCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals7

Geranium oilHydroxycitronellalCitronellolGeraniolAmyl cinnamalGeranyl acetateFarnesol

Woods3

SantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)Vertofix

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Spices4

EugenolCinnamon bark oilCinnamalIsoeugenol

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Not in Ingredients yet5

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yetCarvone, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell6

AlcoholWaterDipropylene glycolOctinoxate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)BHT (keeps it fresh)

Named by Issey Miyake, never on a label

YuzuLemonTangerineWater lily note, not in Ingredients yetSandalwoodVetiverNutmeg

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 28 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.