L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022, a perfume crafted as a journey signed Issey Miyake. It all began in 1992, when the designer Issey Miyake decided to create a perfume dedicated to the movements of water: L’Eau d’Issey. Initially designed for women, this juice was quickly followed by a masculine edition, starting in 1994.
L’Eau d’Issey is a cult perfume by Issey Miyake, created in 1992 and originally intended for women. Playing on a pun with odyssey, it tells the incredible journey of water, taking on its scent through the elements it encounters along the way. Then, in 1994, Issey Miyake decided to create its masculine counterpart. Since then, the story has continued, and L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme frequently returns under new names in limited edition. In 2022, the focus is on travel. This time, the story takes place between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast. Here is our review of this masculine perfume, deeply steeped in a sense of escape.
Olfastory’s review
A highly collaborative work between three perfumers
Like all perfumes, L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022 by Issey Miyake is built on an olfactory pyramid crafted in three successive stages. Moreover, it is not uncommon to see perfumers collaborate on a fragrance. Here, however, the approach is quite different... In most perfumes, whether masculine or feminine, noses work together on the entire recipe. Here, each has their own olfactory section. The goal is for each stage to draw on a Mediterranean destination of its own, evocative of a perfumer’s memories. Each note of L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022 thus immerses one in a particular elsewhere. Yet the whole displays a perfect harmony, while offering a genuine olfactory road trip.
L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022, a perfume akin to a journey
L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022 develops according to the territories it crosses. Indeed, each element of this perfume reveals a bit of the history and memories of its creators. It all begins with Dora Baghriche. Born in Algiers, she captivates with the jasmine scent of the city, whose alleys are lined with pines. In turn, Daphné Bugey decides to set down her bags in Italy. Here, the lemony wind refreshes the highly characteristic scent of the aromatic herbs. Basil also blends with eucalyptus, ultimately evoking the refreshing depths of a cedar forest. Finally, Marie Salamagne promises an escape to the Portuguese coast. The salty breeze of the Atlantic Ocean tickles the warmth of cypress.
The bottle of L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022, the work of Kevin Lucbert
While L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022 by Issey Miyake is a highly creative perfume in olfactory terms, it also incorporates a work of art on its sides. Indeed, its bottle was decorated by the French artist Kevin Lucbert. A graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, he is known for his surrealist works and his ballpoint-pen compositions. It is therefore his signature style that can also be found on the transparent sides of L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Summer Edition 2022 by Issey Miyake. He imagined a kind of map marked by different stops. Undoubtedly, Issey Miyake’s journey wins us over, and we are won over indeed!