Well...what can I say about this one? Another classic in my book! I wore it throughout the mid to late 90's and early 2000's. I found a bottle I've rarely worn lurking in my collection from about 2004. Still potent as anything with that biting calone. It's very citrusy at first...big blast of grapefruit then it mutates into a unique accord even for a 90's aquatic Issey should out. It is just plain nice and for me never never really gets old. I find it very powerful indeed and lasts for ages, for whatever reason it garners a lot of comments and even the odd compliment. Still a winner!
This was the very first perfume I bought many years ago, in the mid 90s. It seemed both unbelievably expensive (a bottle then cost much the same as a bottle now), and totally unique. It reminded me of the Issey Miyake clothing line, which featured heavily in magazines like The Face, clipped and minimal, yet playful in the way it experimented with form. I wore it daily for years.
Recently, in a fit of nostalgia, I bought a bottle again. And it still smells good. There's the initial burst of sherberty citrus, which at the time I thought was lemon but now know to be yazu. The floral notes are more obvious as well, white floral, something that escaped me in all those years when it was my daily wear. When it settles down, the yazu is still there, but it's less dominating and the spices - nutmeg and sandalwood in particular are allowed to come through.
It still seems very clean and stipped down and there's still nothing that is quite like it. Longevity is poorer than I remember, but it doesn't seem to have wandered far from its original formulation.
A bit of a classic designer frag this, one that has worn the passage of time very well.