Le Feu d'Issey Issey Miyake for women

I love it a lot and I have try to looking for other perfume close smell like this one, but never found finally I mix with 2 bottles of ( 3 spray of > Simple Elements Warm Sunshine Avon for women ) and ( 1 spray of > Imari Mystique Avon for women )
I'll tell you how's from
one night I get my new Imari Mystique I try it I think smell is very sexy but when I'm in the car my boyfriend said it's to over for me then I sprays simple elements warm sunshine after because he like it it's very surprise me when smell it after I take of my dress after back home I wonder where's this smell from? is it's my forever favorite perfume I think of I have mix it with 2 bottles after I try how will be best close to this Le Feu d'Issey, and now I got it :D you must try if you love it, and avon is not expensive prove it your self / but I'm sorry if Issey Miyake company please don't blame me I love your perfume not only this smell Issey Miyake always have best for people. that's why we are wait this perfume back to the market/ perfume is art and I didn't try to copy it for sale I just love people to happiness with this taste of smell again

an interesting fragrance, but smelled the most foreign on my skin, I just wasn't able to accept it near me and got a headache whenever attempted to use it. My friend loved it though and I gave it to her eventually

Please bring Le Feu D'Issey back. This is the most amazing perfume ever!!!
love it!!!!!

In my review of Midnight Oud by Juliette Has a Gun I've mentioned that I think Midnight Oud is quite similar to Feu d'Issey. I think the most commonly known substitute is Etra by Etro, but I have always found Etra a little too broadly painted, a little too fruity and fresh and lacking in Le Feu's depth, spiciness and heat.

To all my fellow Feu d'Issey fans I highly recommend that you check out Midnight Oud, which also has a difficult topnote but an incredibly seductive drydown, which I feel is very akin to Le Feu d'Issey and which you may find very satisfying as a replacement.

Extreme and beautiful perfume.Warm, dark red, definitively a night scent but not in cozy, sleepy way. IMO for mature ( I mean experienced)women.One of rare perfumes you can spray, breathe, spray again and never is enough.

I have recently come back to this scent. When it was first released the note structure was far more simple than listed above:

Bulgarian Rose, Coriander
Sichuan Pepper, Golden Lily
Guaiacwood, Milky Amber

These seem to be more accurate to me. Anyway, at the turn of the century I first tried this when shopping with my mother I described it simply to myself as dried apricots and black pepper oil. I thought, coming back to it a decade later with a more refined nose I would laugh at this adolescent description. As it turns out, it wasn't a bad description.

Le Feu is a high pitched scent that opens with a sweet fruity note then undertones of black pepper oil join in. Warm milky amber fleshes out the base of the scent. I don't it find particularly complex or deep but definitely alluring.

At any rate, the lasting power and sillage are exceptional. I thought it might make a good winter scent but due to it's vibrancy it might work better on spring summer evenings.

i have one brand new sealed bottle of le feu d issey,1,70z,50ml.please pm me if youre interested.

I am happy finally to have had the opportunity to try Isaac Miyake LE FEU D'ISSEY (many thanks to Vickalena!!!), and now I know why it was discontinued. The problem is that during the first few, crucial—at the counter and deciding whether to buy—moments, this composition smells not at all unlike mildewy, rotting wet wood. After several minutes it becomes clear that this is a deep and dark absinthe/wormwood creation, with a lot of appeal for those who appreciate woody oriental perfumes with a masculine bent. But the opening is such a turn-off during those “decision-making” minutes that I definitely understand why many potential buyers would have been dissuaded from giving this worthy creation its full due—or a second sniff.

Once the fragrance has fully developed, it is a big, beautiful, dark woody perfume with a somewhat overwhelming sillage, given how out of the ordinary the scent itself is. I would compare the overall effect to that of freshly cut mahogany chips soaked in absinthe and then set out under the hot sun to dry (so that the alcohol all evaporates away). The longevity is impressive. The sheer eccentricity of this composition probably explains its discontinuation as well, since it really smells nothing like the standard categories of feminine perfumes. I would not be at all surprised if some women who purchased FEU D'ISSEY scent unsniffed—or received it as a gift—ended up passing it on to their husband. That's how masculine this so-called feminine composition is.

Without having read the entry in “The Guide”, I am surmising that this one got rave reviews, since LT (a man) happens to favor perfumes with a masculine edge—imagine that!

FAB!!!!


I luv.

The best Scent !!!

Le Feu d'Issey ...
In my opinion, Le Feu smells a bit herby, woodsy, and milky sweet first spray. It’s like the smell of freshly chopped-in-half coconut (shell & all) mixed with crushed cilantro seeds.

As a few minutes passes .. Boy .. Not only does Le Feu get spicier, it also gets milkier and sweeter at the same time. To my nose: herbaceous cilantro seeds to a potent tobacco/cigar scent then softens to licorice candy. The spices float atop the woodsy milky floral undertone.

With time, the strength of the spices wears away. Leaving my skin traces of woodsy milky sweet licorice as it dries down.

Le Feu is a multifaceted spicy aroma. I’m surprised to find Le Feu to be a cozy and comfortable fragrance although it’s not the type of perfume I would wear. It’s mature but not out dated. It’s familiar but unique. I dare say that Le Feu can be worn by all genders.

For somebody who wonders about Le Feu and Le Feu Light. To me, they are nothing alike. Le Feu Light starts off a little richer, sweeter, and creamier. My nose detects less spices and there were more floral (rose) and vanilla notes. Le Feu Light is a dessert-spice woodsy oriental gourmand and definitely more feminine than Le Fue.

If there should be any similarity between the sisters, I would say they both dry down to a totally comfortable creamy with soft & warm spicy scent. Although they contain very different types of spices.

Le Feu and Le Feu Light have impressive sillage and longevity. They linger all day on my skin.

I don't care for Le Feu but I heart Le Feu Light. I’m content to own a Le Feu d'Issey sample :o)

UPDATE: I found Agent Provocateur Eau Emotionnelle smelling similar to Le Feu "minus the milkiness and smokiness." Agent Provocateur Eau Emotionnelle opens with a little more floral but they both have that same spicy quality once applies on the skin. Agent Provocateur Eau Emotionnelle is also lighter and airier. If Le Feu should have a young teen daughter it would be Agent Provocateur Eau Emotionnelle!!!!

This weekend I have unexpectedly bought a mini-version of this outstanding perfume. I heard about Le Feu d'Issey a lot, and opinions were mostly positive. But to me Issey Miyake associates firstly with his L'eau d'Issey (which I also really like).
So, what can I say? First of all I would agree with those, who said here that Le Feu was too ahead of its time and may be this is one of the reasons why it has not been understood and widespread. And today we need so badly such kind of fragrances: which has its own character and 'personality'.
I would be very surprised and happy if Issey Miyake house relaunches it. The scent is still very modern, unique and bright. I personally like very much such original perfumes, which don't require 'modernization'.
The composition is very rich, but I can define most of the notes. However it's not a mess at all but very stylish and sharp scent.
If you find it in store, I recommend you to try it and buy. This perfume can be a real 'adornment' of your collection.

Odora di Braulio o di qualche altro liquore alle erbe. :S

Oh wow...this one is sharp! My boyfriend's mom gave me a sample of this and it boggles my mind how she - a conservative little old Italian lady - could wear such a loud, sour, controversial scent. But on the other hand, it makes perfect sense. With age comes that devil-may-care attitude where you no longer care about pleasing others - you do what makes you happy whether or not it is "appropriate" or "acceptable". I feel completely humbled and totally naive trying to review this one - I just don't understand it. It definitely commands respect, if not like. I will not be wearing it any time soon, but I'm happy to have a sample. I will certainly revisit it in a few decades when I'm a ballsy little old Polish lady.

I really think this fragrance didn't sell because it was too good for its time, revolutionary even. Guys from Issey Miyake should seriously consider relaunching it. I mean, come on, it won't cost much more than another L'Eau d'Issey summer flanker, after all... Times have changed and not everything that's not an aquatic in a transparent, ultra-simple flacon is considered bad taste. And what was wrong with exploring the idea of 4 elements instead of getting stuck forever on water? The sales' director responsible for this decision won't be my best pal, I think.
Le Feu for me is a piece of art. Much more interesting than L'Eau, which also has its original part (once again, they would make a beautiful couple...). Surprising, uneasy, very complex, with different and contrasting tonalities mingling and interfering together - like in a dish of 5 savours. You get some sweetness from vanilla and caramel, sour and sweet milk, fresh and sour bergamot, bitter coriander and woods, spicy pepper... the composition makes me think of a music piece, contemporary avant-guard one. Cavallier is my man certainly! And when I think about it, the market rejections that some of his compositions suffered only confirm his artism and inner independence (because quality certainly wasn't at stake in any case). So once you decide to release a piece of a genious artist, can't you really keep selling it, goddamn?? At least in a limited number? What's wrong with these companies?

It's not a typical woody or oriental. If you can imagine something like aromatic-woody-spicy-gourmand, Le Feu is this more-less.

Silly, silly, silly me that I didn't buy 10 ltrs of it when it was available... naturally, I considered it freaky and stinky back then. But, well, I was just a stupid teenager loving strawberry and pure jasmine scents :)

It sure is a strange one.. I nearly scrubbed it off during the drydown. Sour, ultra sweet and sharp! It made me feel extremely uneasy! Couldn't think of anything else while wearing it. Then it settled.. and I forgot I wore it. Some time went by and about half an hour later it just exploded. The sugary sharpness almost disappeared (only almost! now it got interesting.) and warm notes of spicy woods and amber made me forget about our bad start together. Usually I can't really forgive a scent that started off really awful. But damn it, Cavallier, you did it again. It happened with Kingdom and now with this.

As I'm not an expert on notes I compensate with being an expert on feelings instead. Haha. So, the interesting part about this is in my opinion how that strange sugariness stays on top of the deep amber and woods. It's almost as if it was candied, dipped in sugar and that's it. Another thing I like is how it doesn't turn TOO deep. Even though it's quite oriental and "thick" it isn't a gothic mysterious ultra musky dry hard-to-wear scent. I would say it's... Posh. That's right. It's posh.

Update: 8 hours later, still going strong!

Update again: 10.5 hours, same thing.. This stuff is amazing.

Very strange and VERY unique smell. A bit similar to the smell at a clinic,, of a dentist or a hospital in general, like a sterilizing liquid, maybe a detergent, with a very strong, freshly ground clove! I spray it around the house to give it sort of a sterilized, sharply clean atmosphere and it does strike visitors.. you can see it in the way they turn their heads! LOL.. If I spray it on me,, it kind of hits people in the face as if sniffing into a new bottle of medication. Truly, a very strange,, but lovely to me, smell. That is why I love it. I have a bunch of them stored, as I went hunting for whatever left of them in town, once I realized they are out of stock. I keep them like jewels! And they are like jewels to me. The nose behind it is genius. And the bottle design,,OMG! Never will I ever see like it! Issey, you are a wonder!

I could not resist and got me one on ebay. I was so excited when I saw the package had arrived. Would I still like it? Had my skin changed? Would it still smell good? Opened it, sprayed and - boom. Have to add that in the nineties I used to get the most compliments when the weather was really hot. It seems to have been especially made for hot summer nights to mingle with a bit of sweat... Great staying power. Loving it. Also tried scents that were said to be similar. At first "Etra" really does seem near but it is one-dimensional compared to Miyake.

Mansky, your review is soperb, magnificent, I just been trough it 3 days ago, and what you wrote express exactly how I felt with the bottle in my hands at the store... I also owned one in 1999 and the images that came to my mind were absurdly clear, it was something, with all my expertize in fragrances, I had never felt before... They should defenetly relaunch this fragrance.

Hello everybody. I'm new to the Forum and just registered because of Le Feu D'Issey. I ADORED this scent and keep trying to bid on it on e-bay, but it is very hard to get it, the prices are beyond... On my last stroll through e-bay, I found this review, which talked right from my heart and I would love to share it with you:
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Launched in 1998 and taken off the shelves 3 years later, ahead of its time? An experts view follows..

This scent was launched in 1998 as the followup to the phenomenally successful L'eau D'Issey, but surprisingly, managed to become a colossal commercial flop. Suddenly, after a life span of almost 3 years, it was stripped from shelves the world over. Many were quick to claim "too avante garde", but it was few that actually mourned the death of this perfume. As for me, despite my wife working with Parfums Issey Miyake at the time; I was indifferent.

Fast forward to yesterday, ten years on. I was visiting a local out-of-the-way perfumery, sampling at the rear of the shop, when suddenly I smelled the very discontinued Le Feu D'Issey cart-wheeling on the air. I recognised it instantly - vivid pictures blazed behind my eyes of summers spent with friends, good food on hot balmy evenings, cold champagne, and lazy afternoons spent sprawled on grassy lawns. I was amazed (and a little overwhelmed) at my immediate sense of recall... I spent moments rearranging the pictures in my head, trying to achieve a sense of order. By olfactory association with the scent my wife used to wear, I was suddenly at a sundowner lawn party in 2002, held by the internationally acclaimed West Australian artist, Waldemar Kolbusz. Champagne and canapés were circulating freely, and I recalled the long evening shadows criss-crossing the lawn. It was a hot Perth night, and the parakeets were chattering excitedly in the trees across the road. Warm bodies in crisp-ironed clothes mingled effortlessly - our necks and decollitages moist with perspiration, thanks to a setting desert sun.

As I stood in the perfume store, immersed in my recollections, I thought what a fitting scent Le Feu d'Issey was in having inspired this particular daydream. Le Feu after all, was a fragrance release that celebrated the elemental force of fire.


My belief is that Miyake's creation was well ahead of its time. It was launched on the heels of countless androgynous, unisex releases of the mid 90's, and in terms of its style; embraced qualities that represented the polar opposite of those scents that had found their success at that time. A perfume that honoured fire, (and indeed one fashioned in true Issey Miyake minimalist style) was simply dismissed as unconvincing, unimaginative and characterless. However, if the truth be known, Le Feu d'Issey may be more relevant to perfumery now in the "noughties", than it was in the nineties. Miyake lent heat to this composition with sichuan pepper, amber and benzoin - yet with a delicate hand, he reduced the volume on the combustible warmth with golden Japanese lily, bulgarian rose and milk accords. Exotic guaiacwood and coriander also contributed a radiant piquancy to the mix.
In hindsight, Le Feu was forging new bounds in perfumery that perhaps at that time, the world wasn't fully able to comprehend. I wonder whether if resurrected and re-released tomorrow, yesterday's failure might in fact, become a modern-day triumph.


So, as I purchase the one remaining precious bottle of Le Feu d'Issey in the perfume store, my mind returns once more to the intimate gathering on that steaming Perth afternoon. With many guests retreating to the shadows beneath the trees, I am led inside to take a look at Wal Kolbus'z work with my wife, who is wearing the same resplendent elixir that I now hold in my hands. I Find it fitting that the artist himself embarked on his expressionistic journey whilst travelling through the parched Arizona and Nevada desert. His canvases exude an intensity of emotion, and his use of striking colours are so exciting, they emit a certain volume - and indeed a certain temperature.

Miyake's olfactory palette - much like Kolbusz's artistic one - infuses his work with colour, beauty and abstraction. Le Feu d'Issey is perhaps an abstract ideal made tangible when the world was looking the other way."

So now I wrote AGAIN to Issey Miyake, hoping for a relaunch! Maybe all of you could do as well? If they find out, they could sell it again, maybe they will do something? Come on everybody, let's MOVE something :-)

god, i really hope so badly that one day they release it again... i miss this frag like u miss someone u love... i loved this so much! this was like aphrodisiac for men in a way i never experienced with any other frag, sometimes it was funny to observe:D
i just really wish this would be back...:...( but i am not willing to pay 150euros =(200dollar?) to a cheeky seller until u cant watch into the bottle if its complete full or not, and finding it original wrapped in the plastic is a hard business:(

Like christmas sweets and fruits on a colourful oriental market. Warm, rich, full of lights and music, spicy, deep, fanciful, mysterious and promising. Like wearing a whole exciting world on skin. To me one of the best perfumes ever. Miss it so much...

u can find it sometimes on ebay, but horrible expensive:((

Read the notes--you just want to drink it straight from the bottle! What a whirlwind of delicious notes that competed--but also collaborated--so well on my skin.

The milky rose, sweetened by rosewood and coconut, deepened by a coy cedar...

This is a love affair in a bottle.

if only i could find a place where they still sell it.......

well, like everybody else, i agree that it's a love or hate experience.

i have suspected for a long time that i must suffer (or enjoy) multiple personalities. it seems that they exchange places with each other from time to time, each getting a chance to twang that little rubber band that puts my brain in motion, and then they get to spin the unattached steering wheel to admire their driving skills.

all of them seemed to get a turn at the same time with le feu etc, which i think should be called le fugue d'issey.

i absolutely loathe it for a full hour - maybe 2. and then i totally love it. and i can't make out one "single" smell to save my bloody life, except, during the love phase, something in the vague "oriental" category. that's hardly definitive.

i have tried to categorize the tumult of odiferous carnage that comes out of that pool ball on acid when it erupts into the air, and onto my skin. can't do it. i do not know what the hell is going on.

i don't smell anise, which has never wafted with ANYTHING other than a fully engaged weapon of mass destruction into my poor nosebone. and if i can't pick that out, i'm obviously at a complete, utter loss.

it's as if my nose were an agorophobic, who went to bed in it's safe, comfortable and always lived in home, only to wake up in the mall in my imagination that i call RUSH HOUR IN NEW YORK CITY SHOPERAMA, on the friday after thanksgiving at around 11:00 am. assault on the senses doesn't even begin.

as i'm still only in my first "fugue d'issey" state, i really don't have any idea how to explain what i like in hour 2. i'd say i was at a loss for words, but the preceding drivel makes that out of the question.

i AM at a loss for how to explain this concoction. maybe i'll figure it out someday. if i do, you know i'll be back. bad penny syndrome.

one thing i can say for sure: you cigar smokers? what in the name of all that grows in nature or in an illegal lab are you smoking? whatever it is, i think you're smoking A LOT of it before scent application, because you are already in one heck of a fugue state if issey's fugue smells like it just popped out of the humidor. (before anyone takes that amiss: it's meant to be funny. and i take as good as i give. please refer to beginning of this novelette in which i describe my brain as being operated by elastic bands and an unattached steering wheel driven by multiples. if that doesn't do it for you, at least give me credit for choosing the moniker oopsfauxpas for good reason.)

hope i can still smell AT ALL when this fugue in wacky issey majorly major is finished.

From reading the many reviews on this fragrance, I can see that it provokes strong reactions in most people--either love or hate. I sampled Feu d'Issey a couple of times and it just did not work for me. The opening was really strange, like pickled peppers and cough drops. After an hour or two, I got a warm woods smell but for me it was not worth the wait. I usually like spicy, oriental, woods and incense. This was just too odd. The only true scrubber I've experienced to date. I understand that it is now discontinued. Sorry for those of you who love it.

I adore this perfume, it's tenebrous and sultry, and yet it hums and scintillates with a unique inner magnetism.

There's a deep liquorous Rose heart with bright fizzing electric top notes of Anise and Coriander which suggest gustatory delights, but which never quite develop into anything edible, despite having taken time to make your mouth water.

Whenever I wore this people would sniff at me, in the vast majority of cases they would do so appreciatively or often with an air of confused wonderment, far less frequently they would seem disconcerted. It never failed to garner comment, negative or positive.

What I remember most about it though was how unique and completely different to anything I'd ever smelt it was, and how well it seemed to suit me.

Savoury and sweet, tart and lushous , not aromatic and yet not floral, this perfume is more than the sum of its parts and is also something quite divorced from them too. I detect its influence in dozens of fragrances which are not its equal which have been formulated since its discontinuation. I miss it very much.

Bewitching.

I overdosed on rotting leaves stink and when I died some higher power sent me to flower hell because they mistook me for a dead plant.
After I managed to bring the mistake to their attention (an hour later) they made me wait in a room with the other misplaced parties: anise (a lot of it), jasmine and rose (out of place because still alive) and a milky substance. If they'd been a person sitting next to me on the bus I would have fled.
3 hours later we were finally released. On my way home I was accompanied by the anise, it followed me like a lost puppy until it found itself a nice little coriander puppy. I watched them play on a flower meadow that was also used as a kitty litter box. From afar it was almost bearable. Deep down hidden in the base notes I found some sandalwood. Eventually after 6 hours I was through with that unpleasant experience.

It stinks! It's pungent and obtrusive and please just keep it away from me.

At first sniff, I smelled the worst bug spray, vitamin stink & cat pee...Now, it's wafting a woody, peppery scent...I hope it gets better because of all the good reviews it's gotten from y'all...Luckily, I found a small vial on ebay and didn't invest in a large [now hard-to-find] size...

If the sun had a scent this will be it's scent the opening is of dry Mahogany
almost gives you an impression of a dry
desert with sun cracked ground of dark crevices and sand blowing in the hot air.
The spiciness of Coriander leaf and the anise seed makes a nice scent in a likeness of Rye Bread' and the powdery
finish of the top note of rose.

The wood notes drowns out the delicate
lily that makes it hard to detect Jasmine with it's Semi-masculine scent
makes a nice presence but what captures me the most is the drydown of pure creamy milk Coconut flakes and Caramel
makes it Delectable and ends with it's semi sweet vanilla warm amber fiery sandalwood exotic guaiac woods and sharp cedarwood.

This has to be the only versatile fragrance in my collection it can change
from dry and smoky to sweet and creamy like the changling i have an sample right now and i just love the glowing
orange sun motif it brings out alot of energy.

I still have some remains left of this my all time favorite scent (so far). I remember getting it from the local supermarket when desperately pondering with the dilemma where to put all my money (haha). Anyway the kind salesperson helped me and persuaded me to take one of the last bottles of this nectar - a thing I usually don't let happen to me, but this person was exceptionally attentive and kind. (Perhaps she just wanted to get rid of the remaining stock of this. Too bad I did not take the largest bottle of it.)

To be honest I was not instantly in love with the juice, the heady pepper and bitter grapefruit (I'm sure that there is grapefruit) attacked bit hard with the other spices. But gradually I started to appreciate the complexity of this scent, the milkiness of it is very soothing and the sweetness almost tames down the zesty notes - when at same time it exudes warmth and restrained spicy energy, bubbling, bursting. The drydown is exceptionally beautiful amber-woody mix where almost all of the weirdly well mixing notes have their final word. On the whole lifeline the scent takes twists and turns, tickling my imagination and keeping my senses awake. The sillage is also very unique, I got so many compliments when wearing this. And my clothes smell heavenly when they have been in contact with LeFeu.

The only minus is the bottle - whatever prizes it has won it is still a piece of ugly plastic crap in my eyes.

Please bring this back! Please!

After reading all the reviews on this fragrance, I had to track some down and try it. I have a vague recollection of trying this about 7 years ago and liking it but not being moved by it. Now, however, and maybe this is because it isn't readily available, I'm loving this. It is sweet but not in a corn syrup way. I can smell the heat from what is a very clean wood being burned. It is a gentle fragrance and not easily defined or explained but it keeps your interest and is always changing. When you think you have identified one note, it discreetly segues into the next. The rave reviews are a good indicator of what a fine fragrance this is and I'll admit I lack the expertise necessary to articulate in words how fabulous this fragrance is.

I wore this several years ago when I was much younger, as my "signature scent." I loved the exotic, fresh, spicy smell. Nowadays I tend to gravitate more towards a fresh, floral fruity type perfume, but I still enjoy Le Feu.

My boyfriend bought it for me when i said i wanted LEAU DISSEY and i was really annoyed as i didnt like it at all at first, but now it just smells like love!

Sexy fragrance. Fabulous scent. ;00 Please, return it back. I keep just few drops for special events.

I HATE this perfume....its horrible...oh my god....

shhhhh.... well i just come in to tell you my secret, when i put this perfume i had my first" Multi orgazma" and its worked again and again ...really startup
you must try it! .. ( nathaliZ - maybe you had spoild bottle? )

Gorgeous,warm,milky with a dry wood smoke hint. It plays with you during many hours and gives you pleasure, real pleasure!
This is definitely a masterpiece. The layers of different accords, that leads to exotic, "unusual melody", that everybody want to play, but only a few can. This perfume alone worth at least 10 or more other perfumes! It was totally "new" aroma back when it was issued and absolutely "unusual" until nowadays!No similarities with any other brands!Too bad it discontinued, but good for those ones, who posses this treasure.

Does anybody know how to get this lovely perfume?

I want my favourite scent back, but can't buy in anywhere...

Update: I am sad to say this is a bit too woodsy for me. I won't be buying a bottle of this. :(

this smells really strange, very woodsy and milky, but I am drawn to it!! I have just sprayed it and the woods are very strong yet I can smell creamy milk. It does kind of remind me of a cigar. Very interesting and unique scent; I will need to smell it later once it calms down to determine if I go on the hunt for a full bottle or not.

A very interesting mixture of scents for who likes a strong,elegant,sexy, interesting smell. I love it! And I'm very dissapointed that is so hard to find. So pitty!

I agree, Please, Please relaunch this perfume and the entire line that goes with it!!!

I had this perfume but unfortunately you can's find it anywhere...This was without a doubt the best perfume ever..every time I wore someone wanted to know what it was and where to get it. I wish it was that easy!!

The first spicy notes of the coriander and star anise that dominate remind me of the start of Kingdom Eau de Parfum (Alexander McQueen) also made by the same perfumer, Jaques Cavallier.

This is followed by an unusual powdery feel I can only describe as powdered woods and milk that are blending in with the spices. This later transforms itself into a fresh, floral composition tinted with fragrant spices that sit on a sheer and transparent powdery veil.

The base notes are the sweetest part of the fragrance with a mixture of soft, oriental notes and the still present milky - woody ones. My impression was like having a cup of spiced milk that was heated on charcoal wood. There's a light smokiness lurking underneath that gives some depth and darkness to the drydown.

If you like unusual spicy - woody oriental fragrances that are smooth, not too sweet, not too sharp but have a dominant spicy feel, you've probably heard of / worn Le Feu d'Issey and haven't found anything remotely similar to it.

A shame that it's been discontinued, its little sister, Le Feu d'Issey Light Eau de Toilette, is similar but also different in certain ways however its staying power is quite poor.

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

Have you ever experienced a physical pain so bad that it made you sick??? This is like a kick in the crotch...with steel-toe boots. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why everyone likes this fragrance so much. I can usually learn to like many unique fragrances...but this one, on ME, is beyond unusual. In fact, it's putrid. It really must HATE my skin bec. I definitely do NOT get what everyone else is smelling. The notes of milk and coconut drew me in....but I have yet to smell either one. I cannot distinguish any of the notes at the moment. To be honest...I'm already at the point where I don't even WANT to.

The only good thing about this (though for me, it's terrible) is that the sillage is excellent and so is the lasting power. I've tried scrubbing it off 3 times and it's still clinging to every pore on my hand! Where's ammonia when I need it?

Very unusual, sharp...the scent that stands out - and unfortunately not for me, at least for now...The scent reminds me of a ski polish cream, a scent I dearly love but can`t imagine wearing on my skin - not until I will have some serious personality change. I also feel prunes, wood shavings, the scent of wood polish.The carpenter shop was mentioned before - that`s it! I see this scent on a curly redhead with milky skin, wearing Vivienne Westwood corsettes.

Gorgeous, original scent. Absolutely agree with Rebella - one should write to Issey Miyaké or the company behind and urge them to relaunch this.
It is special and as a very individual touch to it - something I miss in many other creations.

Finally I´ve got a chanse to test this, thanks to dear F_A.

I have L'Feu de Issey light and like it a lot, and find this very similar but also very different.

L'Feu de Issey is like being on a beautiful tropical beach in the late afternoon. You´re skin smells of salt water, some remainings of a luxury suntan lotion, and a little of the warmth of your skin, around your neck you have a necklase made of fresh tropical flowers... the ocean surrounding the wonderful island smells salty and full of life... You stroll on the beach with the waves around your feets and reaches your beautiful private bungalow. You sit down at the veranda, having a refreshing drink and watch the sunset, from some other bungalow you can smell some one smoking a fine cigar... You can feel the smell from the sunwarmth wooden furniture and the djungel right outside you´re bunglow... You feel like you´re in paradise... Oh, please make this scent last for a really long time!

Yes, it´s longlasting and one of the most comfortable perfumes I´ve smell. I cant at all understand why they stop making this???

If L'Feu de Issey Light is sunshine in a bottle (oh, yes it is and I like it still) somehow collected after a long day in the sun at a beach at the baltic sea, L'Feu de Issey is also sunshine in a bottle, but a different sunshine, the sunshine from magical resorts in a tropical paradise... A day at the beach is a day at the beach, no matter wheres the beach is, but I guess most people would love to be transfered to that magical tropic beach, at least in their imagination. L'Feu de Issey does that!

Please, try it if you can get a chanse. And then I suggest we all write a kind letter to Issey Miyake and begging to put this masterpiece back in production!

My scent. I have used this perfume since I found it and fell in love with it 10 yrs ago- even bought the last bottles available in my cntry- still two to go. very special scent- first strong, then slowly melts into something warm and sensuous yet a deliciously orangeish afterglow-kids love it, young men love it, mature man loves it.
the bottle compliments the scent.
only scent I ever bought more than once- too bad they stopped producing. Info from Miyake salesrep. was they sold too little, it was "too special".

Sorry to say I find this perfume dischordantly busy. Lots of fruit, food, and spice atop a woodsy base. Interesting, yes, but on me it had an overripe fruit smell that made me run to wash it off. One friend did like it on me, while another made a face like this :p

I am sampling this fragrance today and I CANNOT believe such a fantastic scent could be discontinued! Why, oh why?

Warm, fiery, toasty, spicy, milky, peppery, and even sweet...this perfume is so many things all at once. I can't even pick out distinguished notes to describe it. Very well-balanced, long-lasting (5+ hours), and most excellent in the winter!

Now, does anyone know where I can find a full bottle of this?!

These days I had a reconciliation with this perfume :) Im very happy to have it.
Its perfect on my skin, and makes me feel confident. So good! :)
I think the citronella smell any days ago, could be the mixture of mahogany, coriander and bergamot... fortunately right now, everything its ok about le feu d'issey... especially the drydown: sensual and comforting :)

Im happy for found a bottle of this in a little store of my city these hollydays :)

Any years ago, I was searching some fragrance to combine with cigars smoke... (I used to like this combination). So, this one was for me, the perfect match!
Right now, Im re-discovering this fragrance, and I perceiving a hint of citronella, at the beginning, its not completely pleasant (these days at least)... I hope, this change with time :)

Maybe later, I must to write another comment about this perfume

Anyhow, Im felling lucky to have it... the dry down its comfortable, warm, subtle and interesting on my skin

Are cigars your thing? Not mine! Do you like the scent of cigars? Not at all! How about a fine Cuban cigar with it's mild hint of rum or a supreme British Dunhill with it's soothing quality of coffee, caramel and woody tones? Yes! Now that's what I'm talking about!
Le Feu d' lssey will light your fire and will make you feel like you just exited a trendy cosmopolitan cigar bar.The initial take off is wild but hang in there until you reach the center with it's floral feminine composition of the jazzy jasmine and sweetness of the milky caramel. In the final chapter your convinced you made an excellent choice with the lasting presence of the woody notes and sensuous vanilla. It's sexy, torrid and dangerously different.
This premeire version is scarce and hard to find but it definitely should be back in play so Myake, encore please!

Its one of the most long lasting perfumes i ever smelled.
Its feminine in a very sensuous way!!!
Warm, comfortable, distinctive, too pleasant!!!... Its can make me feel happy :D and confident
This is the impression i have about Le Feu d'Issey years ago... I still want it!!!

Wow..... This perfume is amazing! At start it's strong and it smells like car tires and cigars or something, but already there's a hint of sweet rose. It develops to a very warm scent without being too sweet. It lasts very long, I've put it on yesterday and I can still smell it! It's a nice sweet flowery scent now. This is really my favorite perfume!

they need to bring this one back. I am lucky as I have a good size bottle and the lotion to go with it. I bought it at Sephora. At the time it came out, the floral-fruity stuff was taking off. I think they gave up to soon. It def. would attract more attention now as it is more in style but still unique.

At first it smelled like Vitamin B complex on my skin :-) Then turned into a nice creamy and citrusy scent. I really like it but not available anymore.. Lighter version is still available and it is not a faint one, quite similar and more creamy..

I still miss this perfume and have never found anything else to quite replace it. please relaunch - it has such meaning for me and for so many others.

WHY THIS IS NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE???
It was the best!!! SO UNIQUE, so strong, so sexy and full of fire!!! NEVER i became SO MANY COMPLIMENTS with a smell NEVER, it makes man totally crazy when they smell it, it gives you a FULL SEXY WOMAN - mood, what a shame, it was the most favorite smell i ever had, i would pay 150 Euros for it when they bring it out again... Mr.Miyake PLEASE!!!! I beg you !!!!

It really was discontinued????
Too bad ...

Big sister of Etro "Etra". Love its fruity-milky scent that turns into the milky sweet cigar smoke scent. Absolutely fabulous perfume, incomparable to anything - can't stay indifferent to this fragrance.Pity it's discontinued...I treasure every little drop of it.

I tested this years ago when I was 15 years old and Le Feau d'Issey was just released.

At that time I was impressed about the putrid smell of it, but the development was really nice. But, I had no previous experiences with perfumery and maybe, nowadays, I'd find it a masterpiece.

Unfortunately, it was discontinued and can only be found at very high prices at Ebay. Why do they always discontinue gems like this?

Complex, unusual, heady and warm and very, very sexy.

This has to be one of the most special perfumes I have ever tried on! It smells like a cigar(!) at frist; extremely strong, and I would never dream it would transform into such a comfortable, sexy scent. But it does.