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.

Right notes, please Top: peach, tangerine, neroli and ginger Heart: freesia, heliotrope, tuberose Base: tonka bean, vanilla, white musks, amber, sandalwood

I’ve had this since I was 16 and somehow I still love it at 27. Even though my taste has change drastically, I have not outgrown this and I love reaching for it when I don’t know what else I’m in the mood for. It’s inoffensive and lovely. A clean and light vanilla, not Italian or French gourmand vanilla, but the slightly lemony Spanish vanilla. I could swear I smell iris but maybe it’s the blend of the other flowers. Super light and airy amber! It’s perfectly balanced and I would say this is a blind buy for anyone who likes soft and light scents. It’s not fresh but also not heavy or cloying. I LOVE how this settles on my clothes and will likely repurchase this for many years. Only downside is that it only comes in 100ml. Opening: 8/10 Dry down: 10/10 If pastel yellow paper lying in the sunin the end of summer was a perfume.

I have been wearing this perfume for a few days now and I don't think that the fragrance is about the notes, but it is all about the experience. When I wear this I am wearing a piece of clothing which clings seductively to my body. When the wind blows, the smell wafts around me as a gentle reminder of its presence. This is a beautiful fresh perfume befitting of those hot summer months where the body glistens in the heat of the day and this scent creates a veil of beautiful florals. Longevity on me has been inconsistent. On a warm day the lasting power is amazing but on a cold day it fades quickly. Projection is subtle, this stays very close to the skin. A stunning floral composition!

Currently testing this perfume, really loving its soft notes. Initially I got milky soap smell, very pleasant and inoffensive, perfect for office or similar environment, where sharp notes and monster projection are not the greatest..:) It dries down to a beautiful spicy vanilla, when I smell my wrist I am feeling like I am in a fancy coffee shop

Wonderful warm scent. Reminds me at "Amour" by Kenzo but Miyabe is more beautiful on my skin. I ́ve always looked for a scent smells like Amour because it doesn ́t work on my skin. Now I ́ve fount it. Beautiful fragrance and happy to have it.

Very nice scent indeed. Warm, slightly sweet in a resinous way. Unfortunately it has almost disappeared on me after about 2 hours. Let's say 'understated'.

Mainly vanilla and freesia, both clean and sweet, some heliotrope and tonka too. It's smooth, like pudding or some other food for babies. Initially it was lovely to my nose, but wearing this made me grow out of it pretty fast. I would have liked some note contradicting for some depth and texture, but that is me. Try on before committing, anyways.

@guest: You can buy Annayake at the online shop of Douglas. Annayake is the house brand of Douglas. I personally didn't like any Annayake scent yet and find them too expensive for a house brand. About Miyabe: I find it hardly discernible and a bit harsh.

I have it and I ́m not happy with it. Much to sweet in my opinion, doesn ́t work on my skin - same as Amour does. What a pity!

I love this perfume. I got it as a sample, and have been wearing it for quite some time. Trying to find out if it will still work with migraines before I buy it. It is a warm scent, lovely, I keep smelling my wrist. It seems like it would be good for any occassion, and it kindoff feels like a burberry trenchcoat. It is classy, but not boring. I tend to hate vanilla with a passion (I lived in an apartment where it was used as airfreshner in the toilet, associations..) but I didn't even notice it was in here, with the nice way the scents are all blended. It is not too sweet. Edit: update, 2024, so 8 years later. Eventually I did pull the trigger and bought it, after someone in my class asked what it was and kept wearing it as a signature, got sad every time I smelled it and it wasn't me. I rarely wear it, since it's quite expensive, and it feels aspirational, and felt like I don't "deserve" to wear it. Which is of course not true, I'll wear it more. It's a precious scent, longlasting, non offensive and comforting. Really shines in cold weather, and on rainy days. Sticks to clothing very well.

I somehow had never worn this fragrance...bought it blind and into the cupboard it went. Well, that's a shame. It opens on me with a beautiful tangerine-amber combo that is both juicy and sweet, but in a rounded soft way. Heliotrope adds a powdery softness to the entire composition from start to finish, but not in an overly headachey powder way--more of just a creamy powdery feel to the whole thing. I get very little peach, but its definitely there. On the whole, the balance between the sweet oriental notes and the soft florals make this a very feminine and gorgeous perfume. It smells very expensive, the bottle is gorgeous, and it was well worth the blind buy.

A decadent rich scent. The moment I sprayed it on it hit me as the scent I was searching so long for. Miyabe feels like silk when it touches your skin. I disagree that it is too sweet, to me it's more of a woodsy one with a mix of flowers. I find the peach note not to come through too strongly either. This one is my new passion. I tried Kenzo, it is not for me it lacked the ommph of Miyabe. Absolutely gorgeous. I think it smells A LOT better than Kenzo "Amour". If you can afford the price, it's worth falling in love with this one. Too me, it's worth EVERY penny.

I do find it resembles Kenzo amour but it is slightly louder, a little...screechier...perhaps, not as soft and milky-vanilla comforting as Amour (which I also own and love.) The peach note is quite strong so it overpowers the soft powdery floralcy of this at first. After only 10 minutes it softens and becomes more mily-powdery and resembles Amour alot more. If you wanted a more floral-fruit punch to your Amour then this would be a good choice. Not sure if I'd actively seek this out to buy but I would swap for it.

@Habanita Annnayake is exclusively sold at Douglas, but that doesn't make it a housebrand. Annayake is a luxurious cosmetics-brand from Japan. All Annayake fragrances consist of 80% natural ingredients. Perhaps that explains the price. For the mods: this scent is called Miyabi, not Miyabe. You can even see it on the bottle in the picture if you look closely. As for the fragrance: it's wonderful, simple and elegant fragrance; Miyabi even means elegant in Japanese!

I got a tester of this one and WOW! do I love this one!! I don't know wich note does it but I keep sniffing my wrist :-0 It's summer here at the moment but your can perfectly wear this one. This is going to be my fav. parfume for now! Good sillage and the parfum stay's on forever. But it's not in your face at all. A very sensual and misterious parfume. My husband loves it to.