L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Summer 2016
Grapefruit, kiwi, and coriander open with an oddly fuzzy fizz — the kiwi giving a green-fruity tang that's rarer in mainstream men's flankers, the coriander adding a herbal sharpness behind it.
The note pyramid
- Kiwi
- Coriander
- Grapefruit
- Pineapple
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit, kiwi, and coriander open with an oddly fuzzy fizz — the kiwi giving a green-fruity tang that's rarer in mainstream men's flankers, the coriander adding a herbal sharpness behind it. The opening reads tropical without going sweet. Pineapple and nutmeg take the heart together, an unusual pairing that keeps the fruity quality alive while nutmeg adds a dry warm-spice anchor underneath. The dry-down moves to cypress and vetiver — both dry, both green, the cypress slightly resinous and the vetiver papery — which pulls the whole composition back to a familiar Mediterranean aromatic register. Within a few hours it settles into a quiet woody-aromatic that sits close to the skin.
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