Le Feu d'Issey Light by Issey Miyake c2000

 Le Feu d'Issey Light by Issey Miyake: launched in 2000. Created by Jacques Cavallier.

Household & Personal Products Industry, 2000:

"Issey Miyake's latest scent is being billed as a fresh floral containing top notes rose essence and bergamot and middle notes of gardenia. The scent, Le Feu d'Issey Light, is markedly different from the designer's introduction of a few years ago, L'Eau d'Issey, a green floral.  

L'Feu D'Issey Light complements L'Feu D'Issey in Issey Miyake's interpretation of fire. L'Feu D'Issey is the strong and intense side of fire that symbolizes passion, warmth and energy; L'Feu D'Issey Light is the sparkling and luminous side of fire embodied in its spark, according the Ms. Nicolas, of Beauty Prestige International, the manufacturer of Issey Miyake's fragrances.  

Light is a sensuous, floral fragrance with top notes of rose and bergamot, middle notes of gardenia and base notes of milky amber and Gaiac wood. "Recent trends are turning around," said Ms. Nicolas. "Before, women were looking for fresh, light fragrances. Now they are looking for more sensual fragrances, such as monoflorals." 

Fragrance Composition:

So what does it smell like? It is classified as a floral woody musk fragrance for women. Light is described as a sensuous, floral fragrance with top notes of rose and bergamot, touched with an unusual combination of anise and coconut, narcotic middle notes of precious jasmine, hortensia and creamy gardenia with drizzles of caramel, and base notes of milky white amber and a quartet of woods: mahogany, cedar, sandalwood and guaiac, leaving a trail of vanilla and musk. 

• Top notes: rose, anise, mahogany, coconut, and bergamot
• Middle notes: gardenia, rose, hortensia, caramel, milk, and jasmine
• Base notes: white amber, cedar, vanilla, musk, sandalwood, and Guaiac wood

Fate of the Fragrance:

Discontinued, date unknown.

Feu d'Issey:

Le Feu d'Issey: launched in 1998. Created by Jacques Cavallier. The launch for the fragrance was unlike other brands, it merely consisted of a modest luncheon held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris for fifty reporters and editors. No elaborate displays, wild entertainment or fireworks, just with speeches by the brand's executives. Samples were handed out to the guests to take back to their offices.

Fragrance Composition:

So what does it smell like? It is classified as an ambery oriental fragrance for women. Like the fire in its name, Le Feu D'Issey flickers with licks of Sichuan pepper, Bulgarian rose and zesty bergamot, then glows with a lush base of milky amber and soft, crackling embers of exotic woods laced with sensual musk and a balsamic trace of vanilla. 

• Top notes: Sichuan pepper, Bulgarian rose, lily, coriander leaf, bergamot, coconut, rosewood and anise
• Middle notes: amber, jasmine, milk and caramel
• Base notes: benzoin, amber, cedar, sandalwood, Guaiac wood, vanilla and musk 

Bottle: 

The futuristic bottle was designed by Gwenael Nicolas/Curiosity Inc/Beauty Prestige International. It is made in two parts, a glass bottle which holds the perfume and a case which holds the bottle. The red casing is made of injection molded thermoplastic polyurethane, softer and warmer than glass.

Fate of the Fragrance:

Discontinued, date unknown.