Nuit d’Issey
Nuit d'Issey is a significant departure from the house's aquatic-fresh history — darker, more angular, built around leather and spice rather than water and air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readNuit d'Issey is a significant departure from the house's aquatic-fresh history — darker, more angular, built around leather and spice rather than water and air. Grapefruit and bergamot open cleanly, a brief citric frame before the character reveals itself. Leather, black pepper, and vetiver together form a dry, slightly smoky accord that is uncharacteristically assertive for Issey Miyake. The leather isn't soft or suede-like; it reads as dry and mineral.
Tonka bean and patchouli in the base add warmth and earthiness, tempering the leather's severity. Incense rounds the drydown with a resinous haze that lingers. The overall effect is a well-constructed dark masculine — more niche in sensibility than its mainstream price point suggests, with a sillage and staying power that L'Eau d'Issey never attempted. For nights when the usual citrus-woods formula feels insufficient.
Scent twins
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