Issey Miyake
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Issey Miyake — the Japanese fashion designer whose design philosophy of integrating beauty into the fundamental experience of everyday life has made him simultaneously one of the most genuinely creative and the most specifically accessible of all the great Japanese designers, and whose fragrance legacy including L'Eau d'Issey (1992) has produced some of the most specifically original and the most genuinely beloved feminine compositions in the history of accessible luxury Japanese fashion fragrance — launched Pleats Please in September 2012 as the most direct and the most specifically joyful olfactory expression of the Pleats Please fashion collection he had introduced in 1993. The Pleats Please collection — a line of pleated fabrics and bright colors specifically designed to follow the movements of the body and to embody the most fundamental Issey Miyake design philosophy that the true value of design lies in its integration into everyday life — had become one of the most specifically celebrated and the most genuinely beloved modern Japanese fashion lines available. The fragrance named after it was commissioned from Aurélien Guichard — one of the most consistently creative and the most specifically accomplished perfumers of his generation — with the most specifically and the most authentically joyful brief available to a fine feminine fragrance: to create the perfume that moves you, a joyful, optimistic, and exuberant composition of genuinely uplifting character. Guichard's response — nashi fruit in the opening, peony, sweet pea, and the Indole molecule in the heart, and an intensive base of patchouli, cedar, vanilla absolute, and white musk — achieves this brief with complete compositional confidence and complete, genuinely beautiful creative originality. The fragrance bottle, inspired by the Pleats Please Bio Bag collection and decorated with a stylized white flower cap, captures the collection's aesthetic with immediate visual charm and with specifically beautiful minimalist Japanese design sensibility.
The opening of Issey Miyake Pleats Please is a single-note fruit accord of considerable immediate freshness and considerable immediately distinctive, crisp, and specifically beautiful character. Nashi — the Asian hybrid fruit generated by crossing apples and pears, where the pear flavour dominates — provides the most immediately distinctive and the most specifically original quality of the opening. Nashi's quality of clean, slightly crisp, and specifically beautiful Asian pear character gives the opening its most immediately uplifting and its most genuinely joyful first impression — simultaneously immediately appealing and distinctly more interesting and more genuinely original than standard Western pear or apple opening materials. The specific use of nashi rather than standard pear is one of the most directly visible expressions of Aurélien Guichard's and Issey Miyake's specifically Japanese creative sensibility — a compositional choice that makes Pleats Please immediately more interesting and more specifically authentic in its Issey Miyake creative DNA than any more conventionally European floral fruity feminine opening could achieve.
The heart of Pleats Please reveals peony, sweet pea, and Indole — a three-element floral heart of considerable immediately beautiful and genuinely feminine, specifically luminous, and specifically joyful mid-wear character. Peony provides the most immediately beautiful and the most specifically luminous quality — its fresh, slightly rosy, and specifically lovely spring-floral character giving the heart its most immediately appealing and most broadly beautiful floral warmth. Sweet pea accompanies with the most immediately distinctive floral element — a warm, slightly sweet, and specifically beautiful outdoor spring floralcy of considerable immediately appealing and distinctly fresh outdoor character. Indole completes the heart with the most immediately unexpected and the most specifically original element — the Indole molecule providing a quality of simultaneously slightly animalic and specifically fresh, simultaneously immediately distinctive and specifically more complex and more genuinely interesting, creating a quality of genuine, vigorous, and specifically beautiful floral naturalness. Together, peony, sweet pea, and Indole create a heart of genuine, luminous, and entirely beautiful spring-floral feminine joy — the specific quality of spinning circles in a park with your face to the sun that the source copy most evocatively and most accurately captures.
The base of Issey Miyake Pleats Please is intensive, warm, and genuinely beautiful — a four-element foundation of patchouli, cedar, vanilla absolute, and white musk that gives the composition its most lasting and its most warmly intensive dry-down character. Patchouli provides the most immediately distinctive and the most specifically rich quality — its warm, slightly dark, and specifically organic earthy character giving the base its most genuinely intensive quality of warm, complex, and sophisticated lasting depth. Cedar contributes crisp, clean structural woodiness. Vanilla absolute — specifically absolute rather than standard vanilla, a quality designation that indicates a more complex and more genuinely beautiful vanilla material — provides the warm, creamy, and specifically beautiful sweet warmth that grounds the composition in the most specifically lovely way. White musk provides the most skin-close and the most genuinely personal quality. Together, patchouli, cedar, vanilla absolute, and white musk create a base of genuine intensive warmth, genuine clean complexity, and genuinely beautiful lasting character.
Pleats Please belongs to the Floral Fruity Woody Musky fragrance family — and it represents that family with the specific quality of joyful, uplifting, and genuinely beautiful Japanese feminine vitality that Aurélien Guichard's composition and Issey Miyake's most fundamentally optimistic and most specifically joyful design philosophy most completely and most authentically deliver. The nashi opening gives it its most immediately crisp and most specifically Japanese-fresh first impression; the peony-sweet-pea-Indole heart gives it its most luminously beautiful and most genuinely joyful mid-wear character; and the patchouli-cedar-vanilla-musk base gives it the intensive, warm, and genuinely beautiful lasting depth that makes the full wearing experience of Pleats Please as continuously uplifting and as specifically joyful as the perfume that moves you the name most completely and most honestly promises.
Spring and summer are most naturally its seasons — the nashi opening is most immediately crisp in warm, bright conditions, and the peony-sweet-pea heart is most beautifully expressive in the mild temperatures most associated with an open park in full sunshine. For daytime casual wear, days off, and any spring or summer moment calling for joyful, luminous, and specifically uplifting feminine freshness, it wears with complete ease. Every bottle at GuiltyFragrance.com is 100% authentic, brand-new, and sealed in original Issey Miyake packaging — sourced from authorized distributors, never a tester or imitation — and backed by our free US shipping and 30-day return policy.
Floral — Floral Fruity Woody Musky
Top Notes
Nashi (Asian Pear-Apple Hybrid)
Heart Notes
Peony, Sweet Pea, Indole
Base Notes
Patchouli, Cedar, Vanilla Absolute, White Musk
What does Issey Miyake Pleats Please smell like?
Pleats Please opens with nashi — the Asian pear-apple hybrid where pear flavour dominates — immediately crisp, specifically fresh, and genuinely more interesting than standard Western pear. The heart reveals peony, sweet pea, and the Indole molecule — luminously beautiful, specifically joyful, and genuinely fresh, the Indole's natural floral vitality giving the mid-wear phase a quality of genuinely alive and specifically spring-beautiful outdoor floral character. The patchouli-cedar-vanilla-white-musk base is intensive, warm, and genuinely beautiful.
What is nashi fruit and what makes it distinctive in Pleats Please?
Nashi — Asian pear, Japanese pear, or Chinese pear — is the hybrid fruit generated by crossing apples and pears where the pear flavour dominates. Its clean, slightly crisp, and specifically fresh Asian pear character is simultaneously more genuinely interesting and more specifically Japanese-authentic than standard Western pear alternatives. The specific use of nashi is the most directly visible expression of the composition's Japanese creative sensibility, and the note most responsible for the opening's genuinely joyful and specifically uplifting light-and-free freshness.
What is the Indole molecule and what does it contribute to Pleats Please?
Indole is a naturally occurring organic compound found in many white flowers — simultaneously slightly animalic and specifically floral, simultaneously immediately distinctive and specifically more complex and more genuinely interesting than standard floral alternatives. In the Pleats Please heart alongside peony and sweet pea, Indole provides the freshness and vigour that Fragrantica's original launch description most accurately identifies — creating a quality of genuinely alive, specifically natural, and beautifully joyful spring-floral mid-wear character that distinguishes Pleats Please from simpler or more conventionally constructed floral fruity alternatives.
What is the Pleats Please fashion collection and how does it relate to the fragrance?
The Pleats Please fashion collection (1993) is one of Issey Miyake's most specifically celebrated modern fashion lines — pleated fabrics and bright colors designed to follow the movements of the body, expressing the fundamental philosophy that design's true value lies in its integration into everyday life. The fragrance (2012) is the most direct olfactory expression of this philosophy: joyful, optimistic, exuberant, and specifically designed to move with rather than simply rest on the wearer.
What season and occasions suit Pleats Please best?
Spring and summer are most naturally joyful — the nashi opening is most immediately crisp in warm conditions, and the peony-sweet-pea heart is most beautifully expressive in mild park-in-full-sunshine temperatures. Fragrantica reviewers consistently recommend it for days off, casual spring and summer daytime, and any warm-weather moment calling for genuinely joyful, uplifting, and specifically luminous feminine freshness.
Is the Issey Miyake Pleats Please at GuiltyFragrance.com authentic?
Yes, without exception. GuiltyFragrance.com sources exclusively from authorized distributors and carries only 100% authentic, brand-new fragrances in original sealed manufacturer packaging. Every bottle of Issey Miyake Pleats Please sold here is factory sealed and untouched in original Issey Miyake packaging with the distinctive bottle and stylized white flower cap — never a tester, knockoff, decant, or counterfeit. Every order ships free within the US and is backed by our 30-day hassle-free return policy.
Spring, Summer, and Fall
Everyday, Special occasion, and Casual
Female
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