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Issey Miyake · Est. 2012

Pleats Please

Pleats Please opens with pear — the kind that reads clean and watery rather than sweet, like a slightly ripe fruit held up to light.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2012
Statusenriched
Pleats Please — Issey Miyake
2012 · Fragrance
mus·van·ced·pea
Rating
3.6
1.7k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

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.

  • Musk
    60
  • Vanilla
    35
  • Cedar
    35
  • Peach
    35
  • Patchouli
    30

By the editors · 2 min readPleats Please opens with pear — the kind that reads clean and watery rather than sweet, like a slightly ripe fruit held up to light. The transition into peony is immediate and seamless, the floral arriving as a soft, slightly dewy accord that extends the pear's pale character without changing its register.

Cedar and patchouli in the base are used sparingly — structure and grounding rather than character, keeping the composition from floating away entirely. Vanilla and musk extend the warmth just enough to give the floral-fruit accord something to rest on.

The fragrance matches its fashion counterpart: modern, light, precisely made, designed to be worn without effort. Exactly enough complexity to be interesting, no more.

Filed: Issey MiyakeSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap