Issey Miyake L'Eau Pour Homme Summer EDT Spray, 125 ml 3423474887552

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There was nowhere to study couture, so, once Japan permitted travel abroad on a tiny budget, he went to Paris in 1965 for a course at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, and interned for Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy. The important Parisian education, though, was the student protests of 1968, revolting against the haute-bourgeoisie, usual customers for couture. Miyake sided with the students, wanting to make clothes, both wilder and more useful, for ordinary people, unconstrained by age, size, gender or fit. Very fresh, delicious fragrance. Best for summer days and nights (whoever has voted best for winter must be joking or a troll...). Now, hems and hips were nipped, rippled, pinched and folded, creating athletic and sea creature-like shapes all over the body thanks to the use of ribbed knits. Indeed, it was in memory of the late founder and creative director, Mr Miyake. As the house’s designer Satoshi Kondo noted, “we see design as a process driven by curiosity, built upon a comprehensive exploration — bringing joy, wonder, and hope to life, and of course with a touch of playfulness.” DISLIKE RATING: 4/10. The fragrance is very bitter, the cypress and vetiver are strong and give the fragrance a classy vibe.

In 1973, he began to show in Paris, distinctively different from other Japanese designers arriving there. His regular collections of sculptured, high-end clothes were spectacular, but the real fun came with a change of focus to volume production ready-to-wear lines through the 1990s. They brought him nearer his ideal, unfashiony customers. For Issey Miyake, the quietly transgressive Japanese designer who passed away in August, everything began and ended with fabric. Through technical innovation and novel technique, his early work established him as a pioneer in the realm of material development. Alongside his textile director Makiko Minagawa, who helped bring Miyake's ideas to life in the ‘80s and ’90s, the designer proposed radical new ways to understand the clothing-making process, incorporating unorthodox materials like pineapple, bamboo, and jute, often treated with then-unusual plant-based dyes. After graduating from the department of graphic design at Tokyo's Tama Art University in 1964, Miyake moved to Paris, where he worked under Guy Laroche in 1966 before decamping to Givenchy two years later. Following a stint with the American designer Geoffrey Beene, Miyake founded his eponymous design studio in Tokyo in 1970, introducing his first collection in New York a year later and debuting at Paris Fashion Week in 1973.Miyake went on to New York in 1969 as an assistant for Geoffrey Beene, to learn about mass production. But in 1970, another bout of radiation-related disease returned him to Tokyo for treatment, where friends loaned him the money to start Miyake Design Studio. In his remarkable first show in Tokyo, a model stripped off many layers until nude, a scandal that alarmed his sponsors and made clear his originality. This fragrance is magical. I say that because the moment I smelled it, it made me think I was on vacation. Not any specific vacation from my past, but it transported my state of mind to another place. It truly captures the essence of being on vacation in a beachy / tropical environment. The scent is soooo good. The mid accord of pineapple-nutmeg is surprising. Very fresh citrusy fruit well balanced balanced with spices, cypress and vetiver.

Growing up just outside Hiroshima, Issey Miyake witnessed the atomic bomb explosion in 1945 in his city, aged 7. His mother died three years later, after being badly burned, and he suffered from radiation-related diseases. Photograph: Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters OCCASIONS: Outdoor gatherings, gym, office, casual, holidays, vacations. This is an office-friendly fragrance. After witnessing the 1968 student protests, Miyake became disenchanted by an industry designed to dress only the wealthy. It was this interest in fashion as art and function, democratic but aesthetically pleasing, which led him to establish the Miyake Design Studio in 1970, and show his first very wearable collection in New York in 1971. One of his earliest pieces was a jersey body, hand-painted using traditional Japanese tattoo techniques. Miyake kept the sorrows of his childhood private until 2009, and remained secretive about his personal life: his closest companions were his work collaborators, especially the studio president, Midori Kitamura, a former model.In a rare 2009 op-ed for the New York Times, Miyake recounted just how much that day, and his mother’s subsequent death, informed his creativity. “I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy. I gravitated toward the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic. It wears light, but has a bracing and uplifting punch to it which is exactly what you need in a summer scent. There's a touch more fruitiness than other Issey flankers and the airy vetiver drydown keeps giving subtle wafts for longer than you'd think with a scent of this type. For a light and pleasant warm weather option, I'm happy to keep it around. Born in Hiroshima in 1938, Miyake studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. But piqued by the crossover between disciplines, he pivoted to fashion and moved to Paris to become an apprentice to Guy Laroche and eventually work for Hubert de Givenchy around the time Audrey Hepburn was wearing his dresses.

All in all, the best part is the mouth-watering scent. I think it's disctintive and different from the mainstream fresh citrus offerings in the market. Reminds me a lot of Dior Homme Cologne. Both are very good, but I pretty much prefer this one, it's more complex to my nose. Step into a world where timeless elegance meets modern innovation with Issey Miyake Fragrances. Discover an olfactory journey like no other, where each scent is a testament to the brand’s iconic style and unwavering commitment to sustainability.Models display creations from Issey Miyake’s spring/summer 2023 men’s collection during Paris fashion week in June. Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA Issey Miyake L'Eau D'Issey Pour Homme Summer 2017 opens with a moderate projection of mostly cypress and grapefruit. The opening has an aquatic, seawater salty vibe, bitter, and pleasant. The coriander and nutmeg are soft spicy touches, similarly, the kiwi and pineapple are faint notes almost completely behind the more noticeable cypress and grapefruit. The grapefruit comes across as a very bitter and slightly dirty citrus note; the cypress brings a noticeable fresh, herbaceous, spicy, and woody note. As the fragrance commences to dry-down, the vetiver becomes more noticeable adding its earthy, grassy, woody, and green touch. The fragrance is linear, most of the featured notes come up as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry-down, except for the vetiver which intensifies towards the dry. Once Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey Pour Homme Summer 2017 has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, grapefruit, cypress, and vetiver fragrance with soft spicy accords. The fragrance feels very bitter, breeze, casual, classy, dense, earthy, fresh, grassy, intense, long-lasting, marine, mature, oceanic, seawater/salty-like, sporty, tropical, versatile, woody, and pleasant. A keen sportsman, function became the linchpin of Miyake’s work. His most famous and most affordable clothes, the Pleats Please line, was launched in 1993 as a retort to the price and unwearability of high-end fashion. The show, titled “A Form That Breathes,” promised a collection that moved with life. It wants to envelop the body not to constrain, but to become a part of oneself, not confining you physically or mentally. It’s an apparent thread throughout the Issey Miyake universe, a world of clothing that’s continually shape-shifting and playing with life around it, its forms often springing into action when being worn. A star-like creation for Issey Miyake during the 1999-2000 autumn-winter ready-to-wear collections. Photograph: Pierre Verdy/EPA

This really reminds me of Versace Man Eau Fraiche and indeed has saved me from purchasing a new bottle of that as it gives me the exact same vibe - Eau Fraiche might have a bit more depth to it but at this price I ain't gonna argue. Miyake never expected to reach old age. He was born in Hiroshima, the son of an army officer and a teacher, and evacuated to a nearby small town during the second world war. At 8.15am on 6 August 1945, he was at primary school when he saw the flash of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Seven-year-old Miyake set out alone for the family house, 2.3km from the blast centre, searching among the heaped dead and dying for his mother.Above all, he had unusual respect for materials derived from fossil fuels, seeing plastic, nylon and all the polys not as cheap disposable substitutes for natural substances, but as themselves having unique properties – polyfibres he developed with adventurous manufacturers were machine-washable, uncrushable, stretchy and kind to skin. Hi-tech production processes reduced yarn as well as fabric waste; his garments were visually timeless and made to last physically. Miyake never thought of hydrocarbons as infinite resources to burn. Their complex chemistry and potential uses were precious – the heat of long-gone suns made clothes and ingredients for his water-themed perfumes, starting with L’Eau d’Issey in 1992. In the 21st century, his Tokyo Reality Lab recycled plastic bottle tops into durable, wearable cloth. It's a pity this is not a powerhouse, which generally is a 'must' for me, but I bought it anyway and I don't regret it. Projection is heavy for the first 2h, moderate for 2 to 3h more, and now it's soft. I don't know how long will it last. I'll make another review in the near future.