Miya Shinma
Perfume is a quiet presence that escapes words.
Miya Shinma is a Japanese-born perfumer who set up her eponymous Paris atelier in 1999, after training at Cinquième Sens under Monique Schlienger as the school's first Japanese student. She had moved to Florence in 1995, switched into perfumery there, and arrived in Paris two years later — the resulting house sits at the intersection of Japanese restraint and French structural training. Her first three fragrances — Hana, Tsuki, Kaze (Flower, Moon, Wind) — were each built around a phrase from the Hyakunin Isshu poetry collection, with Shinma writing her own paired poem before composing the scent. The catalog has grown into an independent haute parfumerie line stocked in Paris and selectively in Asia. It suits wearers who treat fragrance as miniature literature: short, exact, and rewarded by attention rather than projection.
Releases
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
