Description
At the beginning of 2018, the new flanker launches, called L’Eau d’Issey Pure Nectar de Parfum, which represents a bottled drop of blossoming flower nectar.
L’Eau d’Issey Pure Nectar de Parfum is developed by perfumers Fanny Bal and Dominique Ropion as a floral-woody scent. The Nectar edition represents “the ultimate stage in the metamorphosis of water, from sea to dew and from dew to rose.” The composition begins with a sweet pear accord. Rose absolute forms the floral heart of the perfume, described as honeyed. The base contains sandalwood, ambergris and signature cashmeran.
The flacon design that draws on a drop of water and retains certain similarities with the original is coloured in rose gold this time. The fragrance is available as a 30, 50 and 90 ml Eau de Parfum.
eqi752Unlogrere – :
Boy, this is a strange one, LOL! First spray on a card was screechy fresh (I definitely knew it had peony, but assumed it was a top note because it’s so prominent to my nose) and then there was a scent that reminded me of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Scandal that I see now is honey. I kept sniffing at the card and not quite being sure I liked or disliked what I was smelling (similar to my reaction to Scandal) so I decided to try it on skin. Initially, it wasn’t too bad, turning quite sweet and loud, but then I swore there was a huge, heady and horrifying hit of skanky, indolic jasmine as it reached the mid-notes and I was hurrying to scrub it off ASAP. I didn’t make it home as quickly as I wanted, so when I did arrive, I gave my arm another sniff just out of curiosity (the scent had died down in the interim, thankfully) and…it’s not half bad. This one is really leaving me mystified! It starts off not too bad (sweet and rather loud), but it quickly morphs into a weird mix of screechy fresh peony mixing with the honey and coming off as smelling skanky, poopy and pissy all at the same time, LOL! I definitely need to get a sample of this and live with it for a bit before committing to a larger bottle.
Earnerplalo – :
first opening was fresh, nice, original, honey dewdrop on the rose, but after few minutes it stared to remind all these sweet, too sweet perfumes for teenagers
D91844194 – :
Very strange skin kemistry: sprayed at 930 pm, 4 hours later is the dupe for CK Be.
PAntoXa – :
Beautiful woody, musky projecting beautiful invigorating smell.
It is heavy in smell in potency and oozes class, not only is this a beautiful scent lasts forever!! Talking hours!!
Beautiful bottle but worth the pennies!!
Absolutely in love with this beauty!
exa12 – :
Wore this recently, and didn’t get round to writing about it. Very impressed I was! Very heavy on the muskiness – more so than I expected at the very first. It’s airy also – it’s basically a musk+fresh-breeze combo first & foremost. I agree that whether the rest of it is woody or floral or what is difficult to settle, but that doesn’t bother me. Some people seem to find it strange. I wouldn’t say ‘strange’, but rather ‘inscrutable’ … or at least it’s a kind of strangeness that is pleasing.
But what impressed me most about this is that in the evening I was walking round wearing this without a jacket to contain it, and I was constantly getting whiffs from it as I was walking along. And by this time the application was quite a while previous, and I didn’t apply an inordinately large amount in the first place.
ололошечка – :
I couldnt stand this sharp scent at all, had to scrub this quick of wrist after 15 minutes.If you like roses you may like it, its basically all what i smell with citrus. No sweet scent for me in it.
Gramila – :
When I smelled this, I immediatly thought of Alien by Mugler, but fainter.
RuzaevTemirlan – :
I liked many other versions way better than this one.
It has that annoying kind of freshness going on.
It’s watery and a strong floral at the same time.
Also sweet.
Not something I would want to wear.
jeff.82 – :
Not for me. I dislike this one, deeply. Strange mixture of pear, sweet honeyed rose and salty aquatic and metallic woods. The sillage is very loud at first.
refasQ – :
This perfume smells as strange as the bottle. It starts with a heavenly blast of peach; very fresh and sweet, just like the name suggests. I’m surprised that neither peach nor nectarine are listed as notes here. The perfume quickly shifts to something that I call pure jasmine. It’s a kind of carnal, nasty jasmine that I always dislike in perfumes and I understand people who have voted for its similarity with alien versions. I definitely sense alien DNA.
The dry down is again something totally different. It’s a very sweet honey scent with amber in the background and even though it’s definitely sweet, it has something deeper than your usual gourmand candy perfume. Most issey miyake perfumes have an aquatic scent. Acquatic notes are not touchable here, but are vaguely there in the background and give it a mysterious, yet bewildered nature.
My total impression of this perfume is not that positive. I love the first notes, but it separates its way from being a youthful fruity nectarine in so many ways and I should alert that it’s a kind of perfume that can give you headaches. So the perfume can be as nasty as the bottle.
Kettilukomskaja – :
i loved it, but to me it smelled like a bouquet of white flowers. i felt nothing sweet rosey or honey in it. it’s sharp powdery and quite serious
TIMUR1 – :
Recently tested it in a perfume shop and really wanted to like it as I love it’s bottle’s color.while testing,I didn’t know it’s nose but I could say with a quick sniff that there’s pear and rose in it.these two are my favorite notes but something in it wasn’t in harmony with others.It was on the fresh side but also sweet,at least sweeter than it’s l’eau d’issey sisters.it became more woody as it dried down and even less appealing to me.sillage seems to be soft as I could only smell it when I sniffed my skin closely
After checking it’s notes there was no wonder that I didn’t like it as aquatic or woody scents were never my thing(though I didn’t find this one much aquatic).the only ones I like in this whole family is issey miyake floral and absolue
jigan – :
Honey and salty, really odd. It’s even hard to tell what is the character of this scent – sweet or marine.
ukso78 – :
I have Pure edp and this is a warm version of it.
Accords look right, woody, warm, aquatic, other.
Lasts well
alcoman – :
This is how you make an aquatic floral. It is sweet,clean, classy, mature and full bodied. The notes are beautifully blended. I do not like rose or cashmeran, but they don’t irritate me at all in this fragrance.
I think it is a great fragrance for office wear.
Feminine and soft, i really recommend it.
glebbb – :
First Issey Miyake I have liked, and would consider buying. Perhaps because there is a faintly sweet, barely there gourmand floating in the backdrop? I am not fond of purely aquatic scents, or clean, green florals, but this I feel would be perfect for somebody who appreciates the Miyake fragrance prototype whilst also having a keen nose for sweets in their collection.
colgate – :
Quite a nice perfume, but I didn’t love it enough to buy it..it is overall really floral, and kind of a fresh floral in the base,the rose is quite noticeable too, in a nice way.. and it gets a bit powdery too..elegant no doubt..I don’t detect any honey in it..it is a bit similar to the Issey Pure, Nectar doesn’t add to the line really..it is pretty, feminine, and if you like floral perfumes, worth checking into.
woulff – :
This smells like the lovechild of Armani Gioia Sun and Issey Mikaye Eau Pure/Eau de Toilette.
I liked – not loved – it after first spraying it on, but the longer it’s on my skin, the heavier it gets.
I think I will stick with the original Miyake Eau Pure/EdT (the one in the matte frosted white bottle).