Issey Miyaké
Nuit d’Issey
Nuit d’Issey was released in 2014, a woody, leathery masculine from Issey Miyaké, which the house announces as an ode to wood. Dominique Ropion and Loc Dong built it on a contrast: grapefruit and bergamot in the opening, a leather accord backed by black pepper and vetiver, and a base of incense and ebony softened with tonka bean and patchouli.
- Brand
- Issey Miyaké
- Launch year
- 2014
- Perfumers
- Gender
- Men
- Olfactory family
- Woody
- Concentration
- Eau de Toilette
Where to buy
Issey Miyaké entered perfumery in 1992 with L’Eau d’Issey, whose masculine version was released two years later. Nuit d’Issey arrived in 2014 and takes the opposite stance to that freshness, built on an accord of leather, spices and dark woods.
The formula is by Dominique Ropion and Loc Dong. A more concentrated version, Nuit d’Issey Parfum, was released in October 2015 on a different construction, where pink pepper and vanilla take the place of black pepper and incense.
The line expanded with Bleu Astral in 2017 and Noir Argent in 2018, two variations that keep the black bottle and the name. The original fragrance remains sold in France in seventy-five and one hundred twenty-five milliliters.
The house's discourse holds to a single image: a black night lit by the moon, from which the man returns with a new power of attraction. Critics have disputed this nocturnal promise without disputing the quality of the composition.
Olfactory pyramid
- Top notesThe first minutes
- Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
- Base notesWhat lingers
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The advertising
A nocturnal film by Ryan Hopkinson
Photographer and director Ryan Hopkinson signs a film in which a man travels through the night, guided by the moon, across a graphic and majestic landscape.
For the launch, the house partnered with British photographer and director Ryan Hopkinson, whose work plays with textures and light at the border between art imagery and advertising imagery.
The film tells the nocturnal journey of a man guided by the glow of the moon across a majestic landscape, from which he returns charged with new energy. The treatment is graphic and dreamlike, two choices that the film's presentation claims as its own.