“I like the idea of scents but not that of a fragrance,” Issey Miyake once quoted. “I do not possess the culture of fragrance, but rather the culture of scents.” The late designer’s approach to ...

PARIS — Issey Miyake, the Japanese fashion maverick who died on Aug. 5 at the age of 84, was groundbreaking in the world of fragrance, too. The designer — who founded his design studio in 1970 and ...

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He also launched a string of popular and innovative fragrances, headlined by his iconic L’Eau d’Issey women’s scent. A-POC — or A Piece of Cloth — the experimental line Miyake founded in 1998, was ...

For men who came of age in the mid-Noughties, Issey Miyake’s L'Eau D'Issey will likely have been an olfactory rite of passage. Elegant and understated, this classic cologne arrived once you’d made it ...

Warm, woody and delicately intense – when it comes to autumnal perfumes, these are non-negotiable qualities for many of us. That’s because as the weather turns, so does scent desire. Light and floral ...