Issey Miyake Le Sel D'issey EDT 100 ml
Issey Miyake, the Japanese fashion house founded in Tokyo in 1970, built its fragrance identity on the Japanese philosophy of ma — space, emptiness, and the beauty of what is unseen. The house's fragrances begin with water, air, and now salt — elemental forces rendered as wearable architecture. Le Sel d'Issey is the masculine counterpart to A Drop d'Issey, exploring salt not as a flavour but as a sensation: the feeling of seawater drying on skin, of oakmoss-covered rocks at the waterline.
Launched in 2024. The nose behind this fragrance is Quentin Bisch.
Fragrance Notes
Top notes: Sea Salt, Ginger
Heart notes: Seaweed, Vetiver
Base notes: Cedarwood, Oakmoss
Fragrance Family
Woody Aquatic
The Experience
Le Sel d'Issey opens with an immediate, precise hit of sea salt alongside ginger — not the food-spice warmth of ginger but its sharp, fresh facet, like biting into a sea-sprayed ginger shoot. The salt accord is the technical core of the fragrance: Quentin Bisch built it from salicylates and a laminaria seaweed extract whose brine-spray effect is both vivid and restrained. Vetiver in the heart grounds the marine opening with damp, earthy depth, preventing the fragrance from reading as a generic aquatic. The dry-down is clean cedarwood and oakmoss — woody, slightly mossy, masculine without loudness. The result is a fragrance that smells genuinely like the sea rather than the idea of the sea.
Ideal Occasion
Office wear, active outdoor settings, coastal travel. Works year-round but peaks in warmth — its clean, mineral character reads effortless in heat. Best sprayed on pulse points for the full salt-on-skin effect.
Longevity
As an Eau de Toilette, expect 3–6 hours with fresh, moderate projection. The salt and moss dry-down persists close to skin. Performance varies with skin type and ambient temperature.
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| Gender: Men |
| Size: 100 ml |
| Brand: Issey Miyake |