L'Eau d'Issey Florale
Mandarin sets the tone with a soft, sweet citrus brightness that feels watery rather than zesty.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Orange Blossom
- Mandarin
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMandarin sets the tone with a soft, sweet citrus brightness that feels watery rather than zesty. Lily and orange blossom emerge almost immediately alongside it, the lily slightly green and waxy, the orange blossom kept clean and powdery rather than indolic.
Rose threads through the floral heart as a rounding agent, adding fullness without taking the lead. The overall floral effect is luminous and fresh-cut rather than rich or narcotic, with the watery transparency that defines the broader Issey Miyake aesthetic.
The character lands as airy, polished, and feminine in a restrained way, suited to spring and summer days, office wear, and anyone who prefers florals that feel washed in light rather than perfumed in the traditional sense.
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.
