Issey Miyake launched L’Eau d’Issey in 1992, his first fragrance, an eau de toilette by Jacques Cavallier meant to smell of water on a woman. The house calls it an aquatic floral: a lotus and rose accord on top, lilies and peonies in the heart, and a base of precious woods, amber and musk, in a glass cone topped with a sphere, the memory of a moon above the Eiffel Tower.
An unadorned frosted glass cone with a matte metal neck, topped with a sphere: a full moon above the Eiffel Tower, as seen by Issey Miyake.
The bottle was designed by Issey Miyake with Fabien Baron and Alain de Mourgues. His studio describes it as an unadorned cone with a matte metal neck, topped with a crystal sphere, for an essential beauty that depends on neither time nor fashion.
The house tells its origin: one evening in Paris, Issey Miyake saw a full moon rising at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and the scene became the concept of the bottle. Today it likens its slender line to a suspended drop.
For Jessica of Now Smell This, this frosted glass cone topped with a drop of silver, now an icon, made it clear in 1992 that the fragrance had nothing of the powerful perfumes of the eighties, such as Giorgio or Poison.