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zaxspb78rus – :
Smells great for a brief moment, then like a fart in the wind it’s gone.
Karden666 – :
Where is the fujiyama black label and fujiyamaa private number?
zaycevsergey0408 – :
Just to correct adoratek Issey Miyake mens cologne L’eau D’issey was launched in 1994 a full year before Fujiyama Homme Succes de Paris for men was launched so Fujiyama Homme Success de Paris would be the knockoff scent plus Issey Miyake L’Eau d’Issey last longer because its stronger and a much more complex original masterpiece if price is too high for you always check out Fragrancenet.com or through ebay.com has a shop Fragrancenet if you want a cheaper imitation fragrance then pick the fujiyama
Zakonnik – :
Fantastic green scent.
Love the pungent green note that the bamboo adds.
Unique… Fresh of the Fresh.
This is one of those “aura” fragrances, as the sillage is light, and become more of a personal pleasure in the aroma therapy department.
Yes, it is definitely worth 10 bucks at TJ Maxx.
Or you can pay $40 + for some knockoff called “Issey Miyaki” that smells very similar. 😉
Otto429 – :
Fujiyama homme is a minty classy fresh aquatic scent. It is perfect for hot summer days. However like all summer scents this one definitely doesnt last at least 2 hours. Longevity is very poor and either sillage is. But it has reasonable price and fresh smell you can spray it over and over again.
Kipish_Dambas – :
I haven’t tried Issey Miyake, so I cannot make comparisons between the two.
However, I can say that this was a very good buy for 10 dollars at my local Marshall’s. The scent opens with lemon and spices. Within five minutes it dries down into a light, slightly salty aquatic that sits fairly close to the skin. This is a perfect outdoors scent. It blends with the air, trees, and grass to produce such a fresh, intoxicating aroma. This functions well in doors as well (perfect for office wear!), but it’s real magic is outdoors. It is so calming and refreshing!
Longevity is on the lower end of average. It lasts up to 4 hours. The sillage is very close to the skin. This won’t attract a ton of compliments unless you recently applied it, but it will make that special someone want to be closer to you.
It smells fantastic and the quality of the scent is good enough that it can pass as a designer frag you would find at Macy’s. Vey safe blind buy.
Longevity: 4/10
Sillage: 3/10 (but perfect for the scent)
Scent: 8/10
Value: 10/10
saIRus – :
Amazing fragrance. Has semi-weak longevity; overall, (clone, if you don’t have the money for the aforementioned, here is a cheaper version) Issey Miyake all the way for a really inexpensive price!!!
Антихрист9 – :
This is like Issey Miyake as others have commented. Its an amped up version though I feel
viktoranatol – :
Smells great. Sort of like Issey Miyake for sure. Longevity is poor though. I asked several of my female coworkers what they thought. 1 girl did a double smell saying she liked it, One described it as subtle and another said she loved it. I got it for 10 bucks and should have grabbed the rest of the bottles that were there. But then I thought I should just buy a bottle of Issey cause that spray last a lot longer.
Porlezof – :
Fujiyama Homme is a Bok Choy stir fry. It has a crispness to it that adds a lot of crunch to its flavor, and adds a lot of nutrition and crunch to a fragrance collection at an affordable price.
First, let me say that in my opinion this fragrance is not really like Issey Miyake. I understand why people think that it is or say that it is has a lemon note in it. But Issey Miyake has some beautiful florals balancing out that lovely yuzu note and is a masterpiece while this one has a tart citrus but heads into the woods for a green foresty bamboo scent trail. If anything, this fragrance might be a softer and more elegant and gentler cousin to Zen White Heat for Men by Shiseido if you really want to flip coins over it’s citrus aspects. The citrus note is not listed in this fragrance but there is a definite citrus in it and whether blended with several others and bergamotized or on its own it seems to be the closest fragrance based on citrus notes to White Zen Heat that Ive smelt. And WZH is a very difficult fragrance to find, own, buy, and wear. I like it better overall but I wear Fujiyama Homme 10X as much and my smallish bottle of WZH is probably a lifetime supply of it.
On a scent basis, Fujiyama Homme is wonderful. You have that big sour citrus note but its blended down into just a completely lovely bamboo note. The bamboo is realistic enough that when worn, its almost prudent to look around for a Giant Panda lest you get your block knocked off for stealing its dinner. There is a slight hint of synth but almost every fragrance has it these days and the overall natural smell for a fragrance of this price range is astonishing. The mint seems to green the fragrance up and some say there is a hint of clover and other greens. I would not argue their nose points of view. It is indeed a green scent. The fragrance has a lovely pink pepper note as background wallpaper and I adore pepper. This one is done right and is a very well done supporting cast member rather than a dominant note like you might find in the much more expensive Creed Royal Oud. The other spices blend into the fragrance almost unnoticed in presence and yet do contribute to the composition. The woodsy feel is pronounced but it has a bit of a sawdust feel. Cedar usually comes with a cut chip feel and the vetiver also contributes to a cut sawdust feel that drys out the greens. And the geranium is lovely as always but very much in the background as a distant note. Some say there are a 100,000 varieties of Chinese geranium but this is a forest rather than a garden and the flowers seem a bit rare to the meadow and wild.
Its hard to talk about Fujiyama Homme without mentioning other fragrances in its category. There are about 5 other designers that compete with it and which I’ve yet to try. You have Calvin Klein Truth, 2 by Mont Blanc’s in Starwalker and Presence Cool, Salvatore Ferragamo Incanto Pour Homme, and Perry Ellis Platinum Label. In niche, you have Zoologist Panda and there are probably a few others that slip my mind. Overall, there are probably less than 10 fragrances starring bamboo in the community which is a shame for such a lovely note. If I had to guess then Id say that Fujiyama Pour Homme would be a fair bit like Zen White Heat layered with Zoologist Panda when you combine the Hasaku type citrus and a strong bamboo and then blend it down to a wearable scent.
When I wear Fujiyama Pour Homme, I get an exceptional flute like crispness of reed like note. Its green, and yet also woodsy and dry. Its not sweet or pretty and does have a manly presence to it. Its not a sweetie pie fragrance that women notice or a square chinned oud. It has poor performance and sillage and yet seems light and airy which the summer respects. I expect 6 hours out of designer and perhaps another 2 as a noticeable skin scent by the wearer and sadly this struggles to give you half of that expectation with 3 hours of notice and perhaps an hour of skin scent before it dies. Even though this is an EDT it wears like a cologne and is perfectly safe and inoffensive even for the over sprayer. I find it completely unique and unlike anything else that I own. It is my absolute favorite fragrance to wear when I go out and eat Chinese, Thai, or other oriental type cuisine. For some reason, it just seems very additive to the dining experience. This is a fragrance that passes the shoe test with flying colors. I love and adore fragrances that let me hike, run, or walk miles and miles and inspire me to believe that I am taking a journey and visiting another part of the world. By journey, it is not implied that this fragrance develops. It is pretty linear though you get a 1-2-3 punch of citrus – green bamboo – and dry woods. But rather when I wear this I could believe that I was walking through the Guangdong forest amidst Giant Pandas, Clouded Leopards, with some of the supposed 100,000 varieties of Chinese geraniums wafting in the background of bamboo and trees. Its debatable if I will ever get to do this but Id like to pretend that I can at least smell such a place on a nightly walk.
Success de Paris is an odd little company. It seems to be a Sue Devitt company which is based in Australia, labels itself by Parisian and European moniker, and then markets it’s fragrances as being from the Orient. Sue Devitt is probably most likely out of business. And this fragrance along with the others in the line have found the clearance and discontinued retailers and bargain bins. You can easily find this at many TJ Maxx and Marshall type stores and it is also dirt cheap on Fragrancenet and Amazaon and the other discounters. I paid less than $10 for my 3.4 ounce bottle and it is one that I have liked well enough to inspire me to purchase a backup bottle even at $15. And like most reviews that I do, this one regards a bottle half empty. Though some are useful, I dont really like the reviews on this site where someone purchases a $400 bottle of cologne, sprays it once and writes a review. This is a fragrance that I have used a good bit of and really enjoy. I can name samples of fragrances that sell for more than the current full bottle price of this one. But should someone desire to get it, I would not recommend waiting deep into the future.
Overall, I am going to grade this one out at an 84. Based on scent alone it would easily garnish an A. It gets some brownie points for price being available between $3-$5 an ounce though with performance issues you have to apply 2X as much and I rate it a $10 an ounce fraggie which is still below the $20 an ounce I view as reference. It gets even bigger brownie points for being unique. Its light enough, that its almost a summer scent only and better for day than night, though its pleasant enough to be used in late spring, early fall, and at night if you really desire. It does not seem to be a woman’s scent though I know some that could pull it off and I would admire the ones that can. It gets a little dock in grade for overall versatility which for me is not a problem due ownership of other spring / falls / and winters. And it gets major red correction marks for sillage and longevity. I do not mind a 3-4 hour scent when its $3 an ounce as I own decants but sometimes you just want to put something on once and enjoy your day. For such occasions there is Issey Miyake or White Zen Heat. But some that might purchase this might not own those. 84 from me is a solid rating and I have handed out lower ratings to others that cost 10 or even 20X as much as this one.
This review began by saying that Fujiyama Pour Homme is a Bok Choy stir fry. And sometimes you get stir fry and it has all kinds of wonderful and tasty shrimp and chicken and potatoes and broccoli bits but its the Bok Choy that crisps the whole thing up and gives you a bit of crunch and something that you can sink your teeth into and chew. And for me, summer can get a big soggy. At times, I really enjoy fragrances that are green, fresh, crisp and dry and give me a bit of crunch. Everything in this fragrance is dry. The citrus is one with a sharp tangy bite much like Yuzu, or Hasaku, or a grapefruit blended with more red than pink that grasps the tang more than the juice. And the bamboo is sharp and firm and you can almost hear the snap of its freshness, or the crunch of the panda breaking it off to chew, or listen to the flute of the reed and pipe. The woodsy base is dry and almost kindled to the point of being ready for the flame. Plenty of citrus based fragrances and greens also have reputations of being short lived and this one is no exception. And yet, in the very heat summer, I like the ones that stay light on the skin. I find this one unique and different than most anything I own short of Zen White Heat and it is completely wearable and usable unlike the Zen. Its a childlike wondered Hasaku rather than a grown gang member Hasaku. Im sure that I will drain this bottle dry and it is one that I wear and enjoy rather than look at on the shelf and collect. Its perfect for a night out at the China joint. And I enjoy it very much on walks and runs and hikes and outside activities. Even without cuisine and walks, it works on its own during summer as a scent of the day. Bok Choy is just one of those veggies that is crisp, cheap, and healthy and that you do not realize that you miss until its gone and the stir fry gets soggy. Sometimes, the chopstick needs a bit of crunch to stab and hold.
PEPS13 – :
Is it like Issey Miyake? well, it looks like it to some extend, but I don’t think it smells like it. Issey Miyake has something sticky to it, and it is very strong and sharp. This fragrance is calm, just right, and smells fresh.
Editing: I’ve had it for about two months now and THE LONGEVITY sucks. Stays on for about 15 minutes.
editing again after 4 years: so I’ve been putting on this fragrance on and off, and I should say I made a mistake in saying the longevity is poor. The projection is very poor but the longevity is not bad actually. Although it is going to be so weak that probably only you can notice it after 2,3 hours, but that’s ok because it makes you feel good.
durmanchik – :
Fujiyama Homme was launched in 1995 as a fresh woody fragrance for men. Fragrantica does not provide a nose. A year earlier in 1994, L’eau d’Issey pour Homme was launched. The similarities are so striking that the former might be considered an imitation of the later. Let me apologize in advance for being a review based almost wholly on a comparison with the Issey Miyake, however to not do so here would be to do an injustice to a scent that shares so many similarities.
The notes are: mint, bamboo sap, and sweet clover on the top, nutmeg, geranium, cedar leaf, and red pimento at the heart, and vetiver, benzoin, and cardamom at the base.
This is a greener, “fresher” (I’ll use that word, though I openly admit to how ambiguous and even useless it is) version of L’eau d’Issey pour Homme (LDPH). There is a top green note that has a lot of pungent herbaciousness; I’m guessing this could be the bamboo. While a lot of people on Basenotes and Fragrantica seem to think that this is “LDPH with lemon instead of yuzu,” both directories lack the listing of a citrus note. While this might be a mutual oversight, what I think is going on here is that people are simply unused to smelling the bamboo sap, which was admittedly new to me as well. The bamboo strikes me as a blast of green, with an ozonic quality that is reminiscent of the smell in the air after a thunderstorm. When this mixes with the mint, you get something earthy, but far from dark – it’s uplifting, and almost sparklingly effervescent. I definitely sense calone, though it too is not listed.
As far as smell goes, Fujiyama Homme is simpler than LDPH. It lacks the dirty earthiness of the clary sage that I get in LDPH, as well as the sandalwood, cedar, and more complex white floral accords. While there is verbena, blue water lily, and cypriol in the LDPH, Fujiyama just has the geranium to pull up the rear in the floral notes. This dirtiness is what makes LDPH the masterpiece it truly is. Because of its transparency and linearity, and especially because of the brightness of the mint, Fujiyama instead has a lot in common with many light aquatic scents that seem to be so popular these days with men’s fragrances.
If you like LDPH but you find it too expensive or are looking for an inoffensive spring and summer scent, this would be a fabulous choice. It definitely has its limitations: the longevity and sillage are definitely below-average on most people. It’s even lower than that on me, where it lasts perhaps 1-2 hours, and then quickly begins to hover close to the skin. I found this at a discount store (Ross or Marshalls, I can’t recall) in a gift set with the 100 ml after shave balm for around $14. For prices like this, if you can easily re-apply several times a day as needed without feeling guilty.
alexbelov84 – :
Good Issey dupe. I really can’t add much to what has been said. Performance is average. A nice scent to add to a beginner’s collection or a gift for a younger family member.
ultramate – :
Interesting fragrance for a low cost. A previous reviewer referred to this as the “Godzilla”. I can definitely understand what he meant by that.
Scent : 6/10.
Longevity : 6 hours.
Sillage : 3/10
Bottle design : 4/10 (cheap plastics)
Wollfs – :
A less herbal and aromatic version of L’Eau d’Issey that lacks the dirtiness the sage gives the original and instead of yuzu as the dominant citrus, here you get pure lemon. It’s really not bad at all after the alcohol accord fades in the first minute of application and this one airs out. The dry down is exactly the same to Issey Miyake after an hour of wear, but within that time frame it is easy to notice just how more complex the original is to this copy. Don’t pay much attention to these notes, they are fictional and a guise for law suits, as many of the notes of Issey Miyake but this is a little cleaner and less complex with a heavier does of bright, clean, fresh citrus without the gritty aromatic notes of its influence.
Longevity is around 2-3 hours in spring and summer on my skin and projection is moderate the first 45 minutes before being soft with 4-5 sprays, a good casual spray for sport or a 3-4 hour event. Inoffensive and often found at discounters for under $10. That’s the highest you would pay for this, it’s performance doesn’t merit any more investment. Still, if you love L’Eau D’Issey this is a great cheapie to own just to give you a little variation and the lemon in this is very enjoyable.
munchitor – :
This one smells amazing. It’s like the Issey Miyake but lighter. It doesnt last for 4 hours but it stays there. for 10 bucks? I would not mind just spraying again. It has potential, just wish it was stronger!
SAMBOSSM – :
I need some info about silve and gold edition of this perfume,why not present in fragrantica…
iamvtpkucpc – :
Had this! and i used it till the last drop!
I just love the smell and it gives me a sense of comfort and relaxation!
The smell reminds me of a fresh grass field in an early spring morning where the fog was just clearing up and the grass is still damp and lush.
Its fresh, slightly warm and comforting.
I got it for a good price too around $15.
I highly recommend this for its price it is exceptional,
only down side is the poor longievity.
SATERY – :
Fujiyama Homme can be described in three simple words…minty, fresh, and spicy. But be warned the first spray is a strong dose of liquid spearmint gum! Back in 2001 I must have gone through two bottles before I called it quits. But recently I came across it again at a mall…like an old girlfriend looking the same like she did back then. I asked myself hey why not give her one more shot for the heck of it. Let me play some old Linkin Park music while I get nostalgic with you.
The formula may have changed during the past 15 years but I do notice something a little better in today’s Fujiyama Homme. After the first strong spray it quickly dies down but a fresh clean yet synthetic smell remains on your skin. Its sort of like standing in the rain in the middle of a bamboo forest. Bamboo smells woody not too aromatic on its own since it is just a simple long plant. But I read somewhere that bamboo can absorb bad odors in a room so yea it makes me wonder sometimes. Here is something cool it lasts longer than it did years ago and so far I have received many compliments wearing it. A daytime cologne indeed and for a low price its actually starting a synthetic war with my Lomani cologne… check that review on Lomani on my page and you’ll see what I mean.
So for what its worth I will cross that line and say try it when you get the chance. It is a low budget risk and a good back up cologne to have with you at work or school in case you need it to cover up unwanted bodily odors! Its synthetic but I like it still after all these years.
7 out of 10
rozicckavirt – :
I have a bottle of Fujiyama tucked away in my horde of closeout finds. I tried it and find it close to Issey Miyake. I cannot use aquatics and this is no exception. The notes come apart on my skin and run rampant across the room. I cannot wear this in public. This is not to say its bad. For the price, its rather exceptional and unique. It has a place. Outdoors, in the wind on a sailboat is best.
The notes are pleasant and considering this bottle probably is from the 1990s and no rules were in place. I detect vetiver and oakmoss amid the sweet spicy composition. I get a heart of mingonette and water lily. Its typical 1990s fanfare. The color implies swimming pools and the bottle is modern like a Tokyo skyscraper.
Then, out pops the note that makes me wince-calone. Some people can pull it off. My skin rejects it most of the time. Seaweed? Clams? Tokyo Bay? I refer to this as “Godzilla”. If you like large, powerful, spicy aquatics then by all means track down a bottle. They are getting hard to find in the current market, where calone is probably banned forever.