L'Eau d'Issey Absolue
L'Eau d'Issey Absolue opens with a soft freesia prelude, a watery floral that signals its kinship to the original L'Eau d'Issey but with warmer intentions.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Tuberose90
- Honey80
- Amber20
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Tuberose
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readL'Eau d'Issey Absolue opens with a soft freesia prelude, a watery floral that signals its kinship to the original L'Eau d'Issey but with warmer intentions. The heart shifts decisively into tuberose territory, made rounder and less piercing by honey's golden sweetness. This isn't tuberose at full narcotic volume—the honey tempers its sharpness, creating something pillowy and approachable rather than heady.
The result feels like a deliberate softening of Issey Miyake's aquatic minimalism. Where the house built its reputation on crisp, cool abstraction, Absolue reaches for comfort and gentle sensuousness. It suits someone drawn to white florals but wary of their intensity, or anyone seeking a fragrance that feels generous without overpowering a room.
Scent twins
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