A Scent by Issey Miyake
A Scent is what Issey Miyake sounds like when the house turns toward the garden rather than the sea.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Floral55
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
By the editors · 2 min readA Scent is what Issey Miyake sounds like when the house turns toward the garden rather than the sea. Galbanum opens with cold, green sharpness — that distinctive resinous cut that smells of broken stems and morning air — before jasmine enters with a warmth that neither cancels nor compromises the green but enriches it. The contrast holds for longer than most white florals manage.
Vetiver at the base provides a dry, slightly earthy foundation that grounds the green-floral development without pulling it into the soil. The base woods are clean and unobtrusive. A Scent has clear priorities: green, then floral, then clean — each phase intelligible, the handoffs smooth. For those who find Issey Miyake's aquatic fragrances too cold and their florals too sweet, A Scent exists in the precise gap between.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
