My love affair with Issey Miyake

It's love at first sight.

The striking blue bottles of L’Eau Bleue D’Issey Pour Homme that are neatly displayed at the counters of Duty free shops in Suvarnabhumi heaved my attention…until the petite Thai sales lady spritzed the tester on my wrist…and I climaxed!

Issey Miyake’s perfumes are the unusual mélange of mandarin orange, lemongrass, rosemary, ginger absolute, patchouli, sandalwood, and musk mallow. Yeah, they could be mistaken as a concoction of your local thai dish that gives the sniff of a delicious, herbaceous, sharp aquatic fragrance.

L’Eau Bleue’s smell for example is similar to the effect of standing right in front of an oil essential display showroom. What I love most in this perfume is the earthy yet subtle patchouli blend with sandalwood aroma that begins to emerge as the tang of the mandarin smell quickly dissipates!

And then the Intense arrived followed by the limited concrete edition of L’eau D’Issey Pour Homme in the spring of 2009 targeting the executive travelers.

Again I was completely bowled over with their creative innovations by adorning the bottles and the tops in real concrete. The wordings on the bottle are in the same style to that of a graffitis…and the scent! It just can’t stop penetrating your skin deeply…beautifully hour after hour. Its sexy and unabashedly masculine. A real must have!