Issey Miyake
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men)
Citrus Aromatic · 2020 · Jacques Cavallier
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Spring
Bright grapefruit meets the dry lift of cardamom over a grounding thread of vetiver. The effect is clean and understated, cool and lightly peppered without ever turning heavy.
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On Zenyra's five taste axes, L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin. That is 7th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 37th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 39th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
L’Eau d’Issey Shades of Kolam (Men) keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 4th percentile for sweetness across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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