From Monday's Scent of the day which was something I initial liked but has fallen out of favour to something which perhaps has done the complete reverse of that, in Issey Miyake's L'eau d'Issey pour homme Or Encens. This is a cracking little perfume which I wasn't sure about at first due to the connotations with that Bleu Issey one, which I initially hated then years later when I saw it was no longer on shelves, panic bought thinking it was something I might be into now...it wasn't... but I have to say I didn't hate it as much. This has much more of the authentic incense about it than Bleu but it's still a bit of a throwaway designer fragrance by the same token. There's a leathery, incense accord which is not without roughness, but generally smoothed out by a sweet but not overpowering rose and creamy woods of synthy santal, but never milky and with some rough n tumble texture. It's like someone re-imagined Kilian's Incense Oud for the designer market or took the oomph out of Dsquared2's Potion Royal Black...but also, it's like neither of those. I think Raynaud's efforts for Miyake of late are both really worthwhile perfumes and inject a much needed classy edge into what is quite frankly a tired line. The nuit ones aren't too bad but some of the recent sideways-flashing, flankers have been appalling to my nose, all the chemical nastiness and none of the appealing melon, yuzu or kiwi aspects that kept L'eau even slightly wearable.