A Scent by Issey Miyake Eau de Parfum Florale Issey Miyake for women

I like the green, earlier version of this one. This one I can describe as being Vintagey Jasmine Issey Miyake style. Not very strong jasmine which is a good thing.

it doesn't smell good at first but after 30min or a little more it smells so special and very nice.

i think it smell so especial but after 30 minute on my skin.I LOVE IT
I cant find anything similar to it's smell.

Very powdery and cold. I don't like it at all, it is strident and unfeminine.

Typical boring floral-musk that smells like everything else, but then they added some kind of incredibly harsh synthetic thing layered over it. I smelled the original "A Scent" and realized that harshness is just the original formula, so if you like the idea of that over a typical commercially popular floral musk, then you will like this because there are no surprises here. This is the first time I've smelled something that actually made me feel sort of sad, not in a wistful melancholy way, just depressed.

The original "A Scent" is just too harsh for me, and I like woodsy and dry things. This stuff is just a couple of steps too far removed from the real thing, like it was made by people who are so used to synthetics they started to forget about the actual scents they supposedly reference.

Love the bottle..

Tras probar "A Scent" puedo afirmar sin duda que este EDP es su hermana tímida. El aroma me recuerda muchísimo al anterior, comparten el galbanum y el jazmín, pero éste es mucho más floral. Creo que es ideal para aquellos que han encontrado un aroma con personalidad en el original pero demasiado verde, este es un intermedio.

Es un perfume muy primaveral y diurno, limpio, fresco pero sobretodo seco, cosa que veo innovadora para ser un floral (según mi experiencia). La longevidad me parece buena.

Estoy sorprendida de estos dos perfumes que he probado de Issey Miyake, ya que no conocía nada de él, y me han resultado totalmente distintos a la mayoría de perfumes que conozco. Pueden gustar o no, pero desde luego los he encontrado muy originales.

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After testing "A Scent" I can say without doubt that the EDP is the shy sister. The aroma reminds me a lot to the previous share galbanum and jasmine, but it is much more floral. I think it is ideal for those who have found a scent on the original personality, but too green, this is an intermediate.

It is a spring and daytime perfume, clean, fresh but mostly dry, innovative thing I see to be a flower (in my experience). Longevity seems to me good.

I'm surprised these two perfumes I've tried to Issey Miyake, and I did not know anything about him, and I have been totally different to most perfumes I know. They may like or not, but since then I have found very original.

Nice, but only nice. Inoffensive, subtle, but forgettable. Nothing special at all.

Quite nice, but I am not a big fan of ylang-ylang which happens to turn out quite strong on my skin, so this spoils the fragrance for me a bit. It was surrounded by a very nice, fresh and just a little bit powdery flowery composition and this the part of the fragrance that I really liked. I also enjoy the dry down in this perfume. A little bit sweeter in comparison to the previous phases, without the powder and still very fresh.

This is not very original though. Just nice for me.

Subtle, soapy, clean and floral. I get something minty too when I smell this. Nice but that's all.

If you take a stroll down soapy-floral-lane you'll meet A Scent parfum florale.
While its predecessor A Scent is quite a one of a kind green as green can be fragrance that somehow stands out, the floral interpretation is the timid flowery sister.

The main theme is still present, but it's tamed down by mellow flowers which fit perfecly with its rosy toned color. The lovely freshness of original A Scent is accompanied by soapy florals, that mingles into an altogether out of the shower-fresh-flower-soap scent. It's not bad, but it's very special either, I dare say it's quite a good office scent, not offensive, ligth and airy though still noticeable and for a floral, very good staying power. A lovely spring and early summer scent.

If you're looking for a clean and fresh scent with good longevity, give it a try.

It's difficult knowing where to start when it comes to describing the way A Scent Florale makes me feel. Thankfully it doesn't repulse me like the original, acrid and green A Scent did, however this fragrance lacks something.

It's fresh, just like its predecessor, however it has lost all its greeness and become more 'pink' and soapy. I'm not really enjoying its girlish charm, and I think the trend of the 'pink' perfume is starting to bore me to tears.

It's very subtle on the skin, so much so that I don't see the point in wearing it. A friend of mine actually mistook this fragrance as the scent of my shampoo, so I can't say that it has a real 'perfumey' vibe. It's one of those pleasant, inoffensive type fragrances that aim to please those around you rather than yourself.

Honestly, the scent is not too bad, however when it comes to clean florals, I would much prefer to sniff a bar of jasmine and peony scented soap than spray it on myself. The idea of smelling clean is something that I personally cannot fathom. Clean fragrances leave me uninspired.

I must say that the lasting strength is pretty good, especially since Issey Miyake does attempt to state in big, bold writing that this is an EDP by stating it in the perfume's name. I find that on fabric A Scent Florale tends to radiate a lot stronger, however the skin does lap this stuff up, making it very quiet and subdued.

For the sake of creating a flanker that I can now stomach, since the original A Scent made me nauseous, I am glad that this was released. However, like I unfortunately expected, this was yet another bland and boring soapy floral for me.

Gosh, I need to re-review my old one: what was I thinking? Hugo Boss femme? I don't think so now! Hugo Boss femme is kind of an alluring-office-perfume. A scent is a blushing-woman-on-a-tartan picknick-blanket-in-the-park-scent. I love how romantic floral this is; the original has a too sharp green citrussy note which makes me not like it.

Hello paeony! Hello lilac! Lilacs? yes definately lilac despite it not being listed as a note. Lily of the valley? Hmmm maybe, I get that note from the sample card but not from my skin. The jasmine only comes in a little later for me. Rather fresh and spring-like. So far, so good, but so what...This improves immensely after twenty minutes or so so when I'm really getting the ylang-ylang which turns the sex-dial up a notch (at least for me)

It's a little like Chanel Allure eau de toilette, in fact it could be Allure's brattish younger cousin who constantly tries to copy everything Allure does but gets it ever so slightly wrong. It's rather nice, but I don't really need another rather-nice floral, I would rather just go buy another bottle of Allure..

The drydown is unremarkably soft and powdery.

The more I think about this one, the more dissapointing I find it. I am an avid collector of Issey Miyake's clothing and only wish that a little more intellectual rigour had been applied to this fragrance. I would expect something more from one of the fashion worlds true innovators.

@Milkyway
You say shampoo, I got peppery toothpaste!! Totally killed it for me! Wow, if it didn't smell like that I could have loved this fragrance! I even kept using the sample to see if I could get pass that note. Well I couldn't!

I have not worn an Issey Miyake fragrance for ages & I really mean ages. I just stopped including it in my collection. Then today I decided to test this & Wow! It definitely caught my attention. Alluring, Sensual, Seductive & most certainly Captivating! I could bathe myself in this stuff BUT I would probably be hoarding it to fearful of emptying my bottle of new found treasure. The Ylang Ylang was most dominant for me & I relish the note. A big YES for this beauty.

it smells SO NICE in the beginning! very fresh and sweet and promising...but as it hits the middle notes the scent evolves into a washing powder like smell...and by the time the base notes step in it's a full-on shampoo/shower gel you get in a hotel smell...it was a bit disappointing to say the least, i had to spray some kenzo amour on top of that to cover up the sharpness..and you know what? the combination of these two actually produced a decen scent..

A scent i love,for its greenyness and lilyofthevalley-sort of scent.
This is the same ,bur with flowers. Same green,same lemony ,but the flowers... they are not a little even tinyest bit sweet -no - dry in some way,a bit of a catpee tone there. it settles and gets a little better ,but no Its not for me.

Oh well...Flowers, quite real, freshly cut flowers, appropriate for decoration but not for my skin.

Seemed to me like a meaningless launch.

The bottle looks beautiful in that coral shade. It reminded me of a soap bar. Cool. But I'm afraid the juice is forgettable.

Wonderful!!

I am disappointed with Floral A Scent. Smells like "must make floral version" of quite good ancestor. Rancid and synthetic floral overlay overwhelmed me. Smells like cleaning liquid, flavored candies painted fluorescently pink and tasteless so called floral perfumes.

On top of that grass green smell, sharp as razor, emerged after an hour. The original A Scent collided with this pink soup. I remembered scenes from videos where I dance at people’s weddings. The music had its rhythm and my legs moved in indefinable paths.

Floral A Scent is just like that. Tactless.

Like dead dried flowers. Did not like.
Very much liked the A Scent original though.

this one is delicate and feminine (the green bootle makes my sister, my mother and I sick and nauseous)

this is a very unplassant and sharp smell.Dont like it at all

I like it and I can tell it is the pink sister of the green old brother. But not really for me. I love the green version, I think it cannot be beaten. But I agree that some people might find this one more bearable if they cannot put up with the green floral version.
All in one, not bad.

light jasmine and resin.. and that's it.. i'm definitely not going to make friends with this one, just like i didn't with the original Scent :(

I find the resin note to be very noticeable, even annoying, at the beginning. Ads in magazines show a pink peony, but I smell the tropical flowers most. Maybe because of the galbanum, this fragrance reminds me the smell of certain flowers when they decay, like gardenias. It takes some time to notice any freshness; then it is another clean-smelling fragrance and is very difficult to identify any particular note.

Jasmin is the main note in this fragrance. It's a very fresh rendition of jasmin, but I was expecting something greener, like the original A Scent, but with a floral touch.

Well, it's really nice, but I prefer the first one and its mineral purity.

I like this one, fresh and floral, though nothing really special. Familiar to hugo boss femme(though the notes don't resemble).

I love A Scent. I can't wait to try this!