L'Eau d'Issey Pure

I love this fragrance. It's got so many notes that I like and I get loads of complements when I wear it. It's clean yet has a personality other than just typical aquatic floral. The ambergis gives it that salty, sweet, ocean note. The beautiful floral lilly, jasmine, orange blossom, rose combination is divine combined with the musky cashmere, salty ambergis, and aquatic notes.The lilly and jasmine are the stand outs in the floral bouquet. I live at the beach and it’s perfect for this climate. Wherever people ask me what I'm wearing and I say, "It's called Pure." I get that it's a fitting name. It’s clean, fresh, salty, floral, and clean musk. Other people have described the mineral accords and that it’s addictive and I know exactly what they are referring to. (I love Tigerlillian’s review). I literally can’t stop using it. I’ve used this fragrance for years and it’s one of my absolute favorites. In fact it’s one of the fragrances that opened me up from very mild fragrances to full on perfume love. It opens on the skin so well over time. It’s got a very tranquil quality that I just keep going back to over and over. It truly has an almost magical, serene core that you find meditating on the beach especially during the dry down that last 6-8 hours after. It’s such a zen like essence that truly does capture the nature of the ocean that I’ll never tire of it and will lament the day that it’s no longer around. If you love the ocean it’s a must for your collection. Make no mistake though this fragrance IS animalic and salty (almost briny) just like the ocean, but it is also floral and beautiful. I have yet to find any fragrance that really gives me the ocean the way this fragrance does and I doubt I will ever see anything that emulates the feeling of the grand, vast, beautiful, calm, quiet ocean that this scent convey’s so perfectly in my lifetime. I have as much love for this fragrance as I do for a favorite movie or memory that brings me back to a beautiful time and place in my life. It’s a very under rated fragrance in my opinion.

Love this ! Compared to the classic this is a lot less carnal, less flowery and more watery as in fresh water ,moist, wet and ozonic. It presents itself as clean ,fresh and musky, has less animalic notes as the classic but is definitely of the same DNA with a slight carnal undertone. It's clean ,wet and fresh without any citrus and almost resembles fresh running water as well as the sea with a salty tinge. it's so unique as there aren't many perfumes that smell WET or MOIST. The base ,or dry down is my favourite part ,it lasts forever and smells like fresh clean skin slightly salted and sexy . It's the ambergris and cashmere woods with a marine salty vibe ,it's quite genius. I would like to know the nose behind this one. The new EDT is excellent as well but with a completely different twist ! It is more musky ,drier and has a citrus orange note added as well as maybe some cedar. It's quite fantastic and I slightly favour it to the new EDT as it is more my style !? ,,,although I find the moistness and uniqueness and lasting power of the EDP more genius. This is making me want the classic Edt !

L'Eau d'Issey Pure is quite a departure from the original calone-bomb 90's perfume. This era in perfumery had brought Issey's iconic fume into the age of animalics balanced with botanic naturals (or simulated notes) and avant garde industrial minimalism. Here, I smell sand, lots of hot mineral accords, parched wooden docks imbued with oceanic salt, and tide-washed concrete piers. Hundreds of small briny seashells roll in with each wave and tickle my feet. Scrubby florals subtly float on the ozonic breeze while bare toes curl into the foaming wet beach. The flowers are lacings of mentholated lily of the valley, jasmine and anisic sea grass -- salty, a little grey, yet joyfully liberating. I can almost feel the salt crust on the hem of my breezy linen pants as the stinging beach air whips by. L'Eau d'Issey Pure is calming solace at the water's edge on a foggy day. I find this clarifying in a joyfully subdued way.

Scent: this is a very floral, crisp, aquatic and fresh scent. Strong and powerful, but soft and clean at the same time. It's an updated, more minimalistic version of the classic, more floral, cleaner and more confident than the original. Perhaps a bit too strongly floral for me compared to the more rounded original and it lost some seductive qualities, still an excellent (and more up-to-date) scent. I've received a lot of compliments. 8/10. Who/where/when: this fragrance is perfect for many occasions. It works particularly well in warmer weather, but is refreshing in winter too. It could easily be worn to office (although it's strong, so spray lightly), as it is clean and inoffensive. It's definitely unique, though, and people will recognize you by your perfume. The person who wears this is elegant and confident. Longevity: very good. Sillage: quite strong. [Review of the EdP]

One of my colleagues at work was wearing this perfume. All I could smell was this heavenly lily, drifting near her. I had to try this for myself; I sprayed a little on my skin and was very pleased with the sillage and longevity. I am surprised by how much I love this perfume as it really isn't something I would "normally" wear. It's been warm here today and this has been gently radiating from me for over six hours - remarkable in itself as I have skin which normally sucks up perfume ridiculously fast. To me the strongest note is the most beautiful natural smelling lily (my favourite flower). Highly recommended for warm days - it's refreshing and cool.