L'Eau d'Issey Summer 2014

I was comparing summer fragrances at Sephora today and this and the new Alien were the winners. I have very dry skin that soaks up perfume. Both of these are Edts and perform better than some Edps. I sprayed one spray each on the back of each hand at lunchtime. Almost 7 hours later with handwashings, I can smell a faint trail of both. The Issey is beachy, litchi sweet, but not too sweet. Really lovely and light, but not diluted. It has almost a lily pond water quality and I like it as much as last year's summer entry, but for different reasons. A very pretty fragrance.

Oh I should just give up and accept that I am a Issey Miyake perfume person. Ive done days of research on several occasions and visited perfume shop lately like 4-5 times and tried everything else but Issey Miyake stuff, but once you like it, you don't like anything else any more I guess. So I gave up and got the latest Summer edition...and as they really are very similar, by the time this one runs out, the new one will be in shops and I don't have to worry its a limited edition. I'd like an adults bottle though.

It's an clean, unique everyday smell.It has a sweet tone to it and it smells like clean laundry in a good way. I would wear this everyday if my perfume wasn't running out...I can't find this perfume in my country if i could find it im gonna buy it immediately.

This is a nice perfume, and I'm glad I got it. I really wanted to finally get a marine/aquatic perfume, and this is definitely that. Aquatic scent very prominent for quite a while. After a couple hours the aquatic scent fades a bit, leaving it pretty sweet smelling from the fruits and flowers. My husband immediately thought it smelled masculine due to the aquatic scent, but I don't think it's that masculine. I like it better than the original Issey but not better than the Issey Lotus. I haven't smelled a ton of other aquatics to compare this too unfortunately, but it does seem very pleasant and easily likable.

My coworker let me try this out recently and I like it a lot. It’s very tart and bright; it would be a great warm weather casual scent. It’s also pretty good layered over something like Jōvan Musk for Women or Kiehl’s Original Musk, too.