Le Feu D'Issey (1998)
by Issey Miyake

Warm, peppery, plasticky, milky. It is difficult to pin this one down. Maybe it isn't supposed to be. Ethereal and indescribable. Don't try to figure it out, just enjoy it.

i LOVE this fragrance, and am so bummed that it is no longer available. the other reviews made me giggle, folks seem to have strong reactions to this one. a neighbor gave me a bottle a few years ago, and i was so excited because it had been discontinued. she went on at length about how putrid she thought it smelled (which, i am not surprised, as she favors fig smells). this would be my signature scent if it was available. it is sexy. i get notes of amber and pepper and it settles into some nice vanilla tones with my ph. love love love it. it is unique, feminine without being coy.

I adore this fragrance and have mourned its passing for years now especially since infrequently i am insulted by its pale little sister Le Feu D'issey light which is repellent worn presumably by those who never smelled Big sister.

When ever i wore it people would stop me in the street to ask me what the beautiful scent was that i was wearing, and on more than one occasion was told that this perfume was what someone thought heaven smelt like ( once by a women who confessed to having ridden the elevator longer than she had to just to continue to enjoy the scent ).

This fragrance is so complex and unusual i think it missed its potential market and was tared with the same brush as L'Eau D'Issey but was totally unable to communicate with a casual perfume wearer.

I keep meaning to hunt this perfume down online but end up forgetting, maybe I'll finally get round to it and get back to smelling like heaven again.

Very odd fragrance. I had to try it because for professinal reasons I had a stock of bottles that disappeared within hours of me getting them.My customers from Paris to Sydney are crazy about that one, and I have a waiting list! I had to see what the fuss was about.
Now , I know. I sprayed it on wrist, and at first sniff, I absoltely hated it.A reviewer called it putrid and I agree.I was seriously wondering why women all over the world would want to pay up to $300 a bottle for something like this?
Well, within 20 minutes,,the putrid scent had totally disappeared and was replaced by something that I can only describe as addictive! The scent was soft, kind of hypnotic even, if this can be said about a scent?
Well, needless to say, I kept myself a 75 ml bottle of this perfume, and will make sure to keep one instore for myself whenever it turns up in my stock again. This is seriously addictie.

it gives me a headache, being so overpowering at first. After like a few hours, this sweet yet complex note emerges and ... oh well, maybe i should try to light version

When I first sprayed this on I thought it was kind of putrid. After a few minutes the putridness faded and the smell became warm and sensuous. My significant other purrs like a kitten when I wear it - so on special occasions I do.