Miyabi Woman

This fragrance surrounds you with a filmy veil of beautiful scent, vanilla, peach and light florals. The fragrance opens with the peach and tonka in the forefront followed by a pretty strong vanilla. The peach is a deep scent and it smells much more like apricot to me, probably due to the addition of amber to the mix. While this fragrance may initially give some of the same feeling one gets from Kenzo Amour, I think Miyabi is a superior fragrance. As Yohji and flowers-in-the-springtime said, this fragrance gives you a centered, peaceful feeling, like being surrounded by a veil of peace. I have that quiet meditative feeling all day long when I wear Miyabi. Also there is no rice note in Miyabi so one does not get that "foody" vibe. As the scent develops it becomes more of a skin scent but it remains with you all day, a calming presence, a balm to the spirit. As the hours pass you can smell the freesia more and a bit of green and a tiny bit of almost a hay note that I believe is the sunflower. I do not find the musk or amber to be excessive at all. They give Miyabi a depth and lasting quality without overpowering the beauty of the other notes. Finally, I rather like the bottle. It's very simple. It reminds me of a small vessel that might be used in a Japanese tea ceremony.

Miyabi is a true child of Annayake house - distinguishably perfect and refined. From same (or almost the same notes) no one could create a miracle, yet Annayake manages to do it. Again and again. All their fragrances are very different - from each other, from the rest out there. In my olfactory world there is two-dimensional perception from now on - Annayake fragrances and "all other fragrances" They are not your American-European-niche ones where you can go on about top notes, middle notes and base notes, - nope! Its just A smell, that you hardly can call "A fragrance" - its a smell of YOUR hair, of YOUR skin, always tender, mysterious, undeniably visual Back to Miyabi - masterpiece. One moment its all about milky-vanilla-peach, another moment it is tender breeze of the white florals with spice, then you forget about it and all of a sudden you stunned by persistent aroma of neroli and tonka. No comparison for me with anything. Very very sensual in a very very surreal way. Liv Tyler in the "Lord of the rings" sort of girl. Eahhh....

This does something gorgeous on my skin. The dry down is beautiful. I get candied ginger and orange rind up front, slightly floral (freesia?) after several minutes, and then this incredible, perfectly round, slightly ambery vanilla in the base that actually surprises me as I get wafts of it hours later. Ginger prevents this from being too sweet throughout. Someone said apricot and I completely agree. Apricot ginger warm floral vanilla. Miyabi is long lasting and beautiful on my skin. Signature worthy and just might be mine.

I find a lot of Japanese fragrances too sharp or watery. This is neither of those. It is warm and fruity but not too sweet, gentle but persistent and the vanilla is tempered by the slight spiciness. Sillage is not huge but longevity is great. My clothes smell wonderful after I wore this . It smells very expensive and just a little bit old-fashioned but in a good way.

I've had a sample of this one and I fell in love. It's a milky, slightly warm fragrance. The sample spilled in my bag and my bag smells wonderful, although I really wanted to use all of it. Anyhow, it is a fragrance where you constantly want to smell yourself. I think I'm gonna purchase Miyabi one day.