Lumière d’Issey is an eau de parfum for women by Issey Miyake, launched in 2026 and signed by Fabrice Pellegrin and Marie Salamagne. The house describes it as a luminous floral amber: an organic green mandarin opens it, orange blossom forms its heart, and a pistachio wood accord blends with a creamy sandalwood in the base.
Nessa Humayun, beauty editor at Marie Claire UK, has worn it since January 2026 and sees it as the ideal solar fragrance: better balanced than others in its category, warm and optimistic, with a hint of intrigue.
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The solar ideal
On April 9, 2026, Nessa Humayun, beauty editor at Marie Claire UK, wrote that she had been wearing Lumière d’Issey since January. Most solar fragrances strike her as too bright and unbalanced; this one seems to her the very ideal of the family.
A ray rather than a sun
She stresses that the fragrance does not seek to imitate the sun but to capture the purity of a ray of light. She singles out the opening orange blossom, the freesia and white musk, the gourmand pistachio and the enveloping sandalwood.
She finds in it the essence of spring, warm and optimistic with a hint of intrigue: a scent that greets the season without overdoing it.