Iss by Laura Tonatto, 2003

Iss was a pleasant surprise. It opens with a strong lemon note that comes off as more vibrant and heady than many other classic citrus offerings. On my skin, this is a truly powerful scent. The grassy vetiver note sneaks in later into the development. This scent oozes class and stands out in a sea of other similar scents. The quality is excellent, lasting power and projection are unbelievable. Just when this fragrance starts to smell familiar, it takes surprising turns. Iss provides a very uplifting and sensual trail. I highly reccomend this fragrance. A true sleeper and a keeper!

Opens up with a very powerful vetiver/lavender/citrus fourgere scent. Perhaps a little synthetic smelling, but I think it might just be the lemon that makes me think this (as I often associate lemon with cleaning products). The lemon definitely dominates the top notes.

It dries down to a unexpected cinnamon and vetiver. Fairly warm.


It's nice, but nothing too exciting or unique.

Opens up really green like a fourgere but gives way into a really fine, clean vetiver. Refreshing.

Iss is a very direct citrus / vetiver scent refreshing, clean, and linear. Its citrus opening sparkles because of the refined accord of neroli, lemon, and Petitgrain: Ive loved this combination in every fragrance in which Ive met it, and this one is as well done as any Ive encountered maybe even better. The openings longevity is remarkable: the top notes hold on my skin, gradually lessening in intensity, for almost an hour. As the citrus weakens, the vetiver strengthens metamorphing the citrus dominance into a warm, light wood base. There are occasional whiffs of a rich warm musk floating in and out of the cooler vetiver movement, providing spasms of sensuousness within the cleaner, fresher main themes of the fragrance. Iss is solid, clean, now-and-then sensual, long lasting, and, as is typical of the Laura Tonatto fragrances Ive tried, it sends out a very healthy sillage. Great stuff, this.