L'Eau d'Issey Pure Eau de Toilette
The opening reads cool and watery — neroli and a marine accord setting up the signature aquatic-clean impression of the line, without any obvious citrus sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Marine85
- Salty55
- Ozonic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Orange Blossom
- Damask Rose
- Ambergris
- Marine
- Neroli
- Ambergris
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening reads cool and watery — neroli and a marine accord setting up the signature aquatic-clean impression of the line, without any obvious citrus sparkle. It's a quieter entry than the parent.
The heart thickens with white florals — jasmine, lily of the valley, orange blossom, damask rose — but they're rendered translucent rather than opulent. The bouquet sits behind a veil of clean water, never tipping into heady territory. Lily of the valley does most of the dewy lifting; rose and jasmine feel like supporting scaffolding.
Ambergris in the base adds a soft, salty animalic warmth that keeps the composition from going sterile. The dry-down is skin-close, marine-tinted, gentle. Spring and warm-weather wear, office or casual, low-effort signature use.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
