Issey Miyake - Le Feu d'Issey

One night you have a wonderful dream. You´re dreaming that you have won a stay at a luxurious tropical resort. A resort that millionaires and celebrities stays at, and you are feel so lucky.

Your private bungalow is situated right at the golden beach and you can here the waves when sitting on the veranda. The bungalow is surrounden by tropical trees and flowers and you can smell their discrete, but gorgeus scent in the air. Strange birds are singing in the trees and down at the beach a romantic coupple walks by. From the bungalow next to yours you can hear laughter and the smell of fine cigars lingers in the air. You wrap yourself in a shiffon sarrong and go for a walk in the water´s edge, the little waves caresses your feet. You´re enjoying the warm water, and the sunbeam at your face and inhale the scent of golden, tropical sunshine.

When you wake up the next morning you still remember the dream, and you know that you probably never will visit such a luxurious place. But, strangly enough, the scents of the dream still lingers around you. An elusive, but still very concrete smell of tropical sun.

That is how I could describe Le Feu d'Issey, if I had visited a tropical island. I think the closest is some island in the medditerean and it´s not the same. Le Feu d'Issey reminds a lot of the light version, but with more smell. It´s stronger, more flowery and also more complex. The obvious cigar-note is really nice, but a bit strange. I cant really understand why they stop making Le Feu d'Issey, while light is still in production. I find them both to be really, really good. And they both smell of summer, sun and beaches, just that the beaches are situated at totally different seas. One doesn´t exclude the other, in my opinion they complement each other.

Wich of Le Feu d'Issey do you prefer? Or maybe you dont like them at all?

Issey Miyake - Le Feu d'Issey Light

It´s a wonderful and sunny summer day. You decide to go to the beach together with family and friends. You bring some picnic, towels, sunscreen and some beach toys. Because it´s hot there are already a lot of people at the beach, but you manage to find a private spot and put your blankets in the shadow of a big pine.

You put on some sunscreen, sunbathing, builds sandcastles with the small kids, chasing the bigger kids in the water, having a swim contest, throw some ball, eats icecream, puts on some more sunscreen, drinks coffee and eat sandwiches, listening to the seagulls, crushes your sunglasses by mistake when chasing a ball, makes some barbecue and having coke, have a last bath, manage to get the kids up from the water, searching for lost bike keys and a slipper, bribe the kids with a last bun, and apck your belongings and start the ride home.

When you arrive at home you´re having a cold beer at the veranda and later on you have some more barbecue and stays out for a long time in the darkening summer night. A perfect summer day are about to end. When going inside again, you can feel the all the scents of the day remaining on your skin. Your skin smells like a perfect summer day, as if the sun have perfumed your skin in the most natural and beautiful way. You probably should take a shower, but don´t.

Well, something like that is what Le Feu d'Issey Light smells on me. It´s a almost perfect sunshine scent. In autumn and winter it´s a greta reminder of summer, and in spring it is a promise that the summer is on it´s way. It´s nice using during summer to, but not really necesarry then. It is light, caressing and very different. Longlasting and still discrete. Le Feu d'Issey makes me happy and alert.