Le Feu d'Issey

Le Feu, a little ball of fire has been my all times favourite since it was launched at the end of 90s, the only scent that I can truly call signature as it just feels so 'me', like second skin. It also led me to this forum as I tried to find it again a few months ago. Just before it was discontinued, I stocked up a few bottles with lotion and shower gel that had lasted for several years. And recently, I was lucky enough to purchase almost new 75 ml again. I had also no idea its so highly rated. For me it has always been the smell that feels like coming home. Especially coming home for Christmas that is always the most beautiful time in our family. Le Feu always felt like having hot milk with honey made on bonfire in the middle of wild forest in crisp December night. There was an instant attraction when we met. When I spritzed it on my wrist, it was just complete recognition from first spicy burst until sinking under my skin with all this milky woodiness. I was in my early 20s and yet found it very non-demanding, perfect to wear any time, day or night, snowy winter or hot summer. I have met all my favourites this way, not through suggestions, ad campaigns, reading about their compositions, interesting history, legends etc. But it has to be love from the first sniff. Sometimes there has been the aspect of 'foreign' or 'sexy' or 'mysterious' that makes the fragrance enchanting. Le Feu, however, was the most naturally uncomplicated homey scent. Something that I wear for myself rather than for anyone else, the one that I put on when feeling lonely, the one that calms my mood before going to bed. Yes, even today, I spritz it on when stressed rather than for a night out. In a way, there is no need to un-code what are the notes in something so wonderful and unique. At first it reminded me spices and woods, the gingerbread and fresh spruce, although neither of these is listed as I now know. Perhaps because my skin chemistry has changed slightly over years, today its more about milk and honey with delicate spices. This scent is also alive, it changes and and breaths with you. It has never turned sharp or complicated on my skin. Always, slightly sweet in caring motherly way wrapping me into something delicious and warm. I think the fact that its discontinued has made it so intriguing as a scent for many perfume lovers and therefore gets a little overanalysed and even mystified. Imo, Le Feu so ingenious creation because its incredibly organic and emotional. Even simple in a way. It feels like your own experiences, like different experiences, moments of happiness and someone you've met before... And not at the fancy perfume counter, but in real life, while hiking in the forest, sitting in front of the fireplace with your loved ones, eating the cake your mum baked and sent over, waiting for Xmas morning. It smells like life itself, like the best days of your life.

[950] Le Feu d'Issey is one of the few perfumes that can truly be described as unique. A much-lauded, now difficult-to-find avant-garde scent from a pioneering fashion house, it is unlike anything I have smelled before. I have long wanted to smell LFI thanks to Luca Turin's glowing review, and found an unopened sample on eBay recently. LFI can best be summed-up as a loud, kitchen-sink-y woody floriental, but this simplistic description does it a disservice. It is a huge, baroque artwork that somehow achieves cohesion, and curiously is also in keeping with Jacques Cavallier's bold style. I didn't like it immediately - it is a polarising, challenging scent, of its era yet utterly futuristic. In fact, I don't think I'd wear LFI, but it is undeniably excellent. There is a lot going on here. LFI opens with dark woody notes complemented by peppery spice. The coriander is very prominent - a polarising note, but one I quite like. It also works really well here. Some syrupy white florals bolstered by lactonic coconut follow, paving the way to the milky rose at the heart of this scent. I completely understand Luca Turin's Vitamin B tablet comment - at one point during the opening, the resemblance is uncanny. It becomes very lactonic as it develops, but not in a distasteful way. The other notes temper the milky whiteness, and it serves to add a creamy smoothness to the intense woody notes. There is a gourmand edge here thanks to the milk note and sweetness that follows. The caramel seamlessly segues to the sweet amber base. The rich, resinous amber base comes to the fore as it dries down. It remains sweet and lactonic here, and feels strangely buttery. It is balanced beautifully by the rich woody notes that persist throughout. It fades to a dry, resinous woody-amber skin scent. Sillage is strong and longevity is long-lasting. It is a feminine-leaning autumn/winter scent. I can't get over the cohesion of this composition despite its complexity. The plethora of seemingly discordant notes is rendered somehow smooth and seamless. It doesn't matter that this is a difficult scent to wear - LFI is olfactory art. The yin to the sheer, minimal yang of L'Eau d'Issey. To quote one of my favourite old TV shows, it is both wonderful and strange. 5/5.

I've had my bottle of Le Feu d'Issey for over 20 years and it still smells the same as it did 20 years ago (I have, admittedly, stored it in a cool and dark place, as I do with all my fragrances). I first came across it in one of those small, posh fragrance stores with a lot of unfamiliar (for me, at the time), expensive brands. I tried it on and loved it at first spray! It was very unusual but irresistible to my nose. I came back to it over and over, trying it on, but I never bought it because it was an expensive fragrance for me. However, the sales person noticed my love for this fragrance and, one day, she approached me and told me that they had one bottle of it left and that they had cut the price of that bottle quite significantly, seeing as it was the last one and they didn't plan to sell it anymore. She let me know that the sales of Le Feu d'Issey was very poor and very few people seemed to like it. I bought it immediately, and to this day I still remember the thrill I felt to be able to get this masterpiece of a fragrance for such an affordable price! For me, Le Feu d'Issey remains the one fragrance that consistently gives me compliments when I'm wearing it. I live in a country where people rarely comment on other people's fragrances, but Le Feu d'Issey has, over the years, given me dozens of compliments. It just works really well with my skin chemistry, I guess. On me, it smells of woods, milk, rose and coriander, but the bergamot is also really prominent on my skin, which gives it a tart freshness. The amber is also very prominent on me, which adds warmth and sweetness and a smooth quality. It's warm, creamy and complex and simply delicious-smelling. It was marketed towards women but it's definitely unisex to my nose. I've been a fragrance enthusiast and collector for well over 20 years and have hundreds of fragrances in my collection, but I don't have anything that smells even remotely similar to this. I love it and I would call it my signature scent if I could afford to wear it more frequently. To this day, it remains my favorite scent of all time.

This was my first ”grown up” scent. It’s a kinda strange story how I got it, but it was love at first sniff and was my “go to” fragrance for more than 5yrs. My dad could be a difficult person, any and all scented products had to be okayed by him before being used at home. I can’t remember what year, but I had started high school so early-mid 00s. He had accompanied me and my mom to the mall and went along with us into the cosmetics store. Me and my mom went and looked at whatever it was we needed and my dad wandered off, only to reappear when we stood at the cash register. Smiling from ear to ear he held that iconic minimalist, square, white box and said “Here! This is the perfume for you darling!”. I was really surprised to say the least and had no idea what it smelled like, but I knew my dad had good taste and who says no to a gift like that? It was truly the surprise that kept on giving. First off, I mean come on that bottle?! The ingenious design and rich ruby red color. The most precious bouncy ball ever made one could argue. The gentle but rich fresh smell finishing with that sudden pinch of pepper which in my opinion gave it a presence I’ve seldom smelled since. I can’t imagine the fragrance without that pepper note, the picture wouldn’t be complete. The pepper wasn’t harsh or overpowering, it was almost just a snappy reminder of the truly amazing bouquet of scents that made up Le Feu. For me, this was truly a fragrance for any occasion and suited any season. I wore this to school, I wore this out to nightclubs, to work, dates - you name it.. It was more a question of how much of it you wore and if you layered it with anything else. This scent is so hard to describe. It feels like a well kept secret. Easily described as “if you know, you know”. I would never have had the pleasure of wearing and loving Le Feu if it hadn’t been for my kooky dad and I’m so grateful for it. All of this reminiscing makes me want to rifle through the boxes in the back of my closet and pray that I still have the bottle.

A unique existence located at the junction of the three major fields of gourmet, oriental and wooden. It is the crystallization of exquisite perfumery skills and excellent concepts. And it is also one of the very few extraordinary works that are difficult to trace the family relationship and inheritance system. In my olfactory memory, if I want to find a relatively close relationship, the only "similar" for comparison are Etro Shaal Nur and Caron Parfum Sacre. Caron Parfum Sacre is not very similar, and By Kilian Sacred Wood is just a fragment or a moment of Le Feu d’Issey. Therefore, it must be admitted that Le Feu d’Issey has no precedent. Le Feu d'Issey contains various types of elements, and the perfumer perfectly blends and balances them, making Le Feu d'Issey a harmonious whole, extremely sophisticated, without obvious hierarchical tonal boundaries. This is a mass of fire, an eternal fire that embraces all things in the world and has life. It's not scorching hot. Unusually calm and comfortable. When the flower-shaped flame blooms, the coriander is slightly pungent, and the fragrance of fennel and spices needs to be used as a gap to enter, reaching the core, and the hot feeling hits. The sweet and warm white guaiac wood is moistened by lactose-free milk, and the faint floral fragrance is hidden under the fatty film. Slowly, the sandalwood swells like bread, as if baked by the sun, and then becomes more fluffy and soft. After the musk-vanilla undertones are exposed, without becoming sticky, Le Feu d’Issey gradually turns from dry to silky and light. It's a pity that the top Le Feu d'Issey was sold for two years and then discontinued, and it was unknown. After Le Feu d'Issey disappeared, there was a derivative Le Feu D'Issey Light, and Iseey Miyake failed to replicate the success of L'eau d'Issey after all. High and low, because Le Feu d'Issey is too advanced, it is difficult for the public to understand. A flash in the pan makes me extremely sad.

I really think this fragrance didn't sell because it was too good for its time, revolutionary even. Guys from Issey Miyake should seriously consider relaunching it. I mean, come on, it won't cost much more than another L'Eau d'Issey summer flanker, after all... Times have changed and not everything that's not an aquatic in a transparent, ultra-simple flacon is considered bad taste. And what was wrong with exploring the idea of 4 elements instead of getting stuck forever on water? The sales' director responsible for this decision won't be my best pal, I think. Le Feu for me is a piece of art. Much more interesting than L'Eau, which also has its original part (once again, they would make a beautiful couple...). Surprising, uneasy, very complex, with different and contrasting tonalities mingling and interfering together - like in a dish of 5 savours. You get some sweetness from vanilla and caramel, sour and sweet milk, fresh and sour bergamot, bitter coriander and woods, spicy pepper... the composition makes me think of a music piece, contemporary avant-guard one. Cavallier is my man certainly! And when I think about it, the market rejections that some of his compositions suffered only confirm his artism and inner independence (because quality certainly wasn't at stake in any case). So once you decide to release a piece of a genious artist, can't you really keep selling it, goddamn?? At least in a limited number? What's wrong with these companies? It's not a typical woody or oriental. If you can imagine something like aromatic-woody-spicy-gourmand, Le Feu is this more-less. Silly, silly, silly me that I didn't buy 10 ltrs of it when it was available... naturally, I considered it freaky and stinky back then. But, well, I was just a stupid teenager loving strawberry and pure jasmine scents :)

Finally I ́ve got a chanse to test this, thanks to dear F_A. I have L'Feu de Issey light and like it a lot, and find this very similar but also very different. L'Feu de Issey is like being on a beautiful tropical beach in the late afternoon. You ́re skin smells of salt water, some remainings of a luxury suntan lotion, and a little of the warmth of your skin, around your neck you have a necklase made of fresh tropical flowers... the ocean surrounding the wonderful island smells salty and full of life... You stroll on the beach with the waves around your feets and reaches your beautiful private bungalow. You sit down at the veranda, having a refreshing drink and watch the sunset, from some other bungalow you can smell some one smoking a fine cigar... You can feel the smell from the sunwarmth wooden furniture and the djungel right outside you ́re bunglow... You feel like you ́re in paradise... Oh, please make this scent last for a really long time! Yes, it ́s longlasting and one of the most comfortable perfumes I ́ve smell. I cant at all understand why they stop making this??? If L'Feu de Issey Light is sunshine in a bottle (oh, yes it is and I like it still) somehow collected after a long day in the sun at a beach at the baltic sea, L'Feu de Issey is also sunshine in a bottle, but a different sunshine, the sunshine from magical resorts in a tropical paradise... A day at the beach is a day at the beach, no matter wheres the beach is, but I guess most people would love to be transfered to that magical tropic beach, at least in their imagination. L'Feu de Issey does that! Please, try it if you can get a chanse. And then I suggest we all write a kind letter to Issey Miyake and begging to put this masterpiece back in production!

Once again, Fragrantica has taken me on an unexpected journey. I was studying abroad in London in 1998-99, and I would always pop into a department store near the tube stop by my college specifically to spritz on some of this. I was obsessed by the gorgeous orange-red bottle and the delicious, spicy, unusual fragrance. I couldn't afford to purchase it, being an American student in London, but it so fit my style and life at the time. I had a few outfits that were knock-offs of Miyake's micro-pleated creations. I tried sushi for the first time because they sold it at Pret a Mange. I was able to indulge my childhood obsession with Sanrio at the Japanese mall, because at that time Hello Kitty was not everywhere in the US. She was still niche and nostalgic for us children of the 80s. Anyway, when I got back to the states and had saved a little money, I went to purchase this fragrance at our local department store in St. Louis, and they didn't have it, of course. I hadn't realized it was a niche fragrance, or I would have found a way to procure a bottle in London. I ended up settling for the newly released Hypnotic Poison. It's certainly not a good dupe, but it does have a similar creamy, spicy, sweet feeling to it. I remembered this fragrance and I couldn't remember the name, but I thought I remembered it being by Issey Miyake, so I looked up his page here on Fragantica, and immediately recognized the photo of the gorgeous orange-red bottle. Both the bottle and fragrance invoke fire for me. I would love to own a bottle of this now. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get one, but it would be a lovely thing to have.

I still have some remains left of this my all time favorite scent (so far). I remember getting it from the local supermarket when desperately pondering with the dilemma where to put all my money (haha). Anyway the kind salesperson helped me and persuaded me to take one of the last bottles of this nectar - a thing I usually don't let happen to me, but this person was exceptionally attentive and kind. (Perhaps she just wanted to get rid of the remaining stock of this. Too bad I did not take the largest bottle of it.) To be honest I was not instantly in love with the juice, the heady pepper and bitter grapefruit (I'm sure that there is grapefruit) attacked bit hard with the other spices, vitamin tablet and dying leaves... But gradually I started to appreciate the complexity of this scent, the milkiness of it is very soothing and the sweetness almost tames down the zesty notes - when at same time it exudes warmth and restrained spicy energy, bubbling, bursting. The drydown is exceptionally beautiful amber-woody mix where almost all of the weirdly well mixing notes have their final word. On the whole lifeline the scent takes twists and turns, tickling my imagination and keeping my senses awake. The sillage is also very unique, I got so many compliments when wearing this. And my clothes smell heavenly when they have been in contact with LeFeu. The only minus is the bottle - whatever prizes it has won it is still a piece of ugly plastic crap in my eyes. Please bring this back! Please!

Le Feu d'Issey smells gorgeous on me! I have never loved a fragrance like I love this one. I have also never had as many spontaneous compliments on any other fragrance - perfect strangers walk up to me in the street and compliment me on my fragrance and want to know the name. (And I live in a country where people are quite shy and reserved and fragrance compliments are few and far between.) On me, it smells like warm milk with oranges, spices (mainly coriander) and candied rose. After a few hours I also smell amber and woods but the fragrance still keeps its creamy milkiness. It's fresh enough for the warmer (well, att least warm-ish) months but deep and warm enough for winter. Nothing else smells quite like it, it's very complex and unusual to my nose. (Believe me, I would LOVE to find something similar so I didn't have to use my bottle so conservatively!) Someone called this masculine. I disagree. I think it's perfectly unisex, leaning more towards feminine. The only bad thing about Le Feu d'Issey is the bottle. While I don't dislike the look of it - I'd call it unusual and unnecessary bulky, but not ugly - it's completely impossible to see how much of the juice I have left. What if I'm almost out? That thought fills me with fear. Longevity is very good and the sillage is heavy.

This is for the ones who, like me, spent the last decades in the search of a simmilar fragrance to the extinct Le Feu d’Issey. Please try the oil version of it “le Feu d’Issey type” by “the Fragrance Shop”. You woun’t be dissapointed. Don’t forget it is an oil and not an alcohol based perfume, so it needs some minutes to “react and wake up” on your skin. So if you adquire a sample dont judge it by the first sniff at the vial. I spend a good money blind buying perfumes that resemble Le Feu d’Issey without succeed. This fragrance in oil is by far the clossest and best thing to the original I have tryed in all those years. Has a good silage and performance. It has a very rich, sexy and spicy/lactonic dry down. Smells expensive like the original. I just discovered this fragrance company recently and I felt I had to share this here in case it helps someone who like me still miss this fragrance. All my love and empathy to you. I hope this recomendation helps. PD. Update 14/03/2022. I tryed to post the link of the shop where I bought this oil here but seems not to be allowed. If anyone is curious about it please text me and I will send you the link. I donnot work for this company or get any bennefits for posting this information. I am just a happy customer.

Le Feu is an absolutely gorgeous melange of different genres of fragrance. It is spicy, floral, and milky, but it also alludes to soft, skin-scent musks. The floral notes are very gentle, not at all strong or heady. I perceive mostly the delicate silkiness of rose and the waxy freshness of lily. There is also a component that smells yeasty and warm, possibly sandalwood and guaiac, in addition to the well-known milk note in this scent. The composition is technically stunning. There is a LOT going on in this fragrance, but it maintains an incredibly delicate balance and never falls too far into one category before being balanced out in the opposite direction. Coriander brings out the lightly spicy qualities in rose and lily, while guaiac wood brings a savory quality to the milky notes. I almost never think this, but this scent would be absolutely gorgeous in a lotion, due to its fantasy interpretation of creamy, milky skin. I love that Le Feu is intellectually stimulating, and it is constantly rewarding you with new layers of complexity and nuance. It is dynamic, unusual, fascinating, and comforting. It was years ahead of its time, and was probably misunderstood when it debuted. But can't that be said about most good art, after all?

It sure is a strange one.. I nearly scrubbed it off during the drydown. Sour, ultra sweet and sharp! It made me feel extremely uneasy! Couldn't think of anything else while wearing it. Then it settled.. and I forgot I wore it. Some time went by and about half an hour later it just exploded. The sugary sharpness almost disappeared (only almost! now it got interesting.) and warm notes of spicy woods and amber made me forget about our bad start together. Usually I can't really forgive a scent that started off really awful. But damn it, Cavallier, you did it again. It happened with Kingdom and now with this. As I'm not an expert on notes I compensate with being an expert on feelings instead. Haha. So, the interesting part about this is in my opinion how that strange sugariness stays on top of the deep amber and woods. It's almost as if it was candied, dipped in sugar and that's it. Another thing I like is how it doesn't turn TOO deep. Even though it's quite oriental and "thick" it isn't a gothic mysterious ultra musky dry hard-to-wear scent. I would say it's... Posh. That's right. It's posh. Update: 8 hours later, still going strong! Update again: 10.5 hours, same thing.. This stuff is amazing.

Why must the good die young? Le Feu D'Issey is one of the most interesting, difficult to quantify perfumes I've ever encountered, and I'd like to get to know it much better than the .004 oz testers I found are going to allow. The strangeness of Feu at the moment you spray it, as it glistens on your wrist, is alcoholic in its splendor: rum, or perhaps tequila, slightly repellent and slightly rosy, so curious I kept sniffing. As the dry down begins I smell coriander, and lactones. I had to look up coriander leaf in the notes glossary, which reported that coriander leaf smells "spicy woody-resinous, [with a] clay-like background." And yes, I smell the clay, the wet basement smell of potter's clay fresh on the wheel. But the smell of Feu is also like the rich and slightly sour rightness of saffron, a spice of two colors, deep gold and deep red, which is a perfect description of Feu D'Issey. This perfume is glorious. I am going to be watching ebay very, very carefully for a while. An additional note: I've been wearing Le Feu for a week, and it has tremenous longevity on my skin. When I move a soft breath of it catches me, and I am wonder-struck all over again by this amazingly human perfume.

The first spicy notes of the coriander and star anise that dominate remind me of the start of Kingdom Eau de Parfum (Alexander McQueen) also made by the same perfumer, Jaques Cavallier. This is followed by an unusual powdery feel I can only describe as powdered woods and milk that are blending in with the spices. This later transforms itself into a fresh, floral composition tinted with fragrant spices that sit on a sheer and transparent powdery veil. The base notes are the sweetest part of the fragrance with a mixture of soft, oriental notes and the still present milky - woody ones. My impression was like having a cup of spiced milk that was heated on charcoal wood. There's a light smokiness lurking underneath that gives some depth and darkness to the drydown. If you like unusual spicy - woody oriental fragrances that are smooth, not too sweet, not too sharp but have a dominant spicy feel, you've probably heard of / worn Le Feu d'Issey and haven't found anything remotely similar to it. A shame that it's been discontinued, its little sister, Le Feu d'Issey Light Eau de Toilette, is similar but also different in certain ways however its staying power is quite poor.

This is the most interesting perfume ever, IMO. It's my most favourite, and like many who wrote here, I would give 'anything' for it to come back. I can't believe I owned it when i was about 13-14 yrs old (received it as a present) and I didn't know much about exquisite perfumes back then, didn't care too much but sprayed it pretty much with every occassion because I liked the smell. Needless to say I don't have it anymore now over 20 years later and how much I regret it. But even after so many years, I can still feel the smell in my nose. Super creamy-spicy and warm, with the most interesting notes combination that is hard to describe in words, really! But....for all the Le Feu lovers out there..try and get a hold of Etra by Etro. I can sincerely say it's probably the closest thing to Le Feu (ok, except Le Feu Light which is also discontinued)- found mine at Liberty London a while ago. I also bought a vintage bottle of Prowl by Avon which gives some vibes of Le Feu, but not super close and not near as potent and long-lasting. Oh...let's just hope that this absolute gem will come back at some point and not in a totally reformulated version.

I adore this perfume, it's tenebrous and sultry, and yet it hums and scintillates with a unique inner magnetism. There's a deep liquorous Rose heart with bright fizzing electric top notes of Anise and Coriander which suggest gustatory delights, but which never quite develop into anything edible, despite having taken time to make your mouth water. Whenever I wore this people would sniff at me, in the vast majority of cases they would do so appreciatively or often with an air of confused wonderment, far less frequently they would seem disconcerted. It never failed to garner comment, negative or positive. What I remember most about it though was how unique and completely different to anything I'd ever smelt it was, and how well it seemed to suit me. Savoury and sweet, tart and lushous , not aromatic and yet not floral, this perfume is more than the sum of its parts and is also something quite divorced from them too. I detect its influence in dozens of fragrances which are not its equal which have been formulated since its discontinuation. I miss it very much. Bewitching.

Le Feu - my absolute favorite scent. I searched for a certain perfume from my childhood for years (and never found it) but I stopped looking once I found this, because it no longer mattered. I have both the lotion and samples of the EDT, and I have to say that I never understood the reference to fire apart from the bottle design. When wearing the lotion, though, I can smell a faint but pervasive scent like the ashes of a dying fire and I finally understand! With a spritz from my samples, some days I sense mostly spicy, woody lily in the heart, and others I notice the milky rosey woods more, and the ashes are far less noticeable to my nose. Although some notes may be pronounced differently from day to day, the drydown is always the same and makes me feel happy and relaxed. I wear this on days when I have something I really don't want to do, for encouragement. At the top, the spicyness motivates me to get moving, and by the drydown, I'm pleased and proud that I've done the thing I was dreading. I'd make it my true signature if I could just afford a bottle (or six)!

I love this perfume so much, that ever since I ran out several years ago, I periodically search the web and try to find news of it... Hoping beyond hope that Issey Miyake has decided to bring it back. I know it's available on amazon and ebay, but the price is a bit high, even for someone who loves this fragrance as much as I do. I've searched far and wide for replacement scents, but, alas, have had no luck at all. It's been the only perfume for me since I started wearing it eons ago. I always got tons of compliments on it. Even had complete strangers stop me on the street or in a café. I loved that it was a bit marginal and kind of daring. It fit my moods, my personality, developped so well on my skin, with my own scent, any time of year. And it was kind of masculine, which I liked, becasue I myself am very feminine. It felt that it made my femininity that much more obvious because it was so rich and powerful. I'm still hoping that the call for Le Feu will be heard and that all of us who love this amazing and original fragrance will be satisfied once more!

★★★★★ The creative years of the past, those carefree days that are now precious memories, places, people. I’ve never smelled this back when it was out, I don’t have any associations with it. But the moment I smelled this for the first time in 2022, it transported me to those careless days of youth, where the world had so much creativity, mass market products were daring and quality was easier to come across. Feu D’ Issey failed commercially unfortunately, probably because people were sampling it in store and they were judging it from it’s challenging opening, the haunting boiled milk and overripe fruit combination, the smell of vertigo. It takes twenty minutes to witness the mysterious evolution of vertigo morphing into a beautiful milky sweet aura, a magnetic shield. Milk, solar rays, metal, hazy florals and sweet amber. Gucci Rush played with the same idea without being challenging, but things tend to get more exciting with a bit of mystery right? Feu D’Issey is bottled mystery, a moving experience. Jacques Cavallier is a genius.