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Issey Miyake Issey Miyake Pleats Please L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 for women
Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake Pleats Please L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 for women

Fresh
Floral
White Floral
Aromatic
Woody
Patchouli
Earthy
EDP · 2013 · womens

Issey Miyake's Pleats Please line has long been the designer's playground for seasonal and limited editions, offering fresh takes on the original Pleats Please DNA. The L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 is a holiday-specific release that leans into the house's signature minimalist sensibility while exploring a floral direction.

The fragrance opens with gardenia and heliotrope, giving an immediate soft floral impression with subtle sweetness. The heart develops through sweet pea, peony, and white flowers, creating a cohesive white floral core that stays tender and airy rather than heady. Vanilla and patchouli anchor the base alongside cedar, providing warmth and subtle earthiness that prevents the composition from feeling entirely powdery. The overall character is a balanced white floral with creamy vanilla undertones -- sweet but grounded, more refined than sugary.

This works best for someone drawn to classic floral femininity with just enough vanilla sweetness to feel comforting without veering into gourmand territory. It suits cooler months and quieter moments where you want presence without projection. Consider it if you gravitate toward The Romantic, The Hedonist, and The Homesteader.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Fresh
36%
Floral
100%
White Floral
100%
Aromatic
50%
Woody
100%
Patchouli
50%
Earthy
50%
Powdery
60%
Vanilla
80%
Sweet
82%
Gourmand
50%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Gardenia
Gardenia
Intoxicatingly creamy and white-floral with a waxy, almost narcotic sweetness. Gardenia shares the heady indolic quality of jasmine and tuberose but with a fresher, greener edge from its glossy leaves. A challenging note to use well, too much overwhelms, but a well-handled gardenia accord is memorably beautiful.
Heliotrope
Heliotrope
Powdery, sweet, and slightly almond-like, heliotrope is the quintessential 'retro' note of Victorian-era perfumery, now experiencing a fashionable revival. It smells of sugar, vanilla, and just enough floral to keep it interesting. In modern fragrances it tends to read as nostalgic, soft, and unapologetically pretty.
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Sweet Pea
Sweet Pea
Soft, delicate, and slightly powdery, sweet pea is a garden flower with a gentle, breezy sweetness that feels effortless. It's less assertive than rose or jasmine, sitting quietly in compositions and adding a clean, natural floral quality. The note that makes a fragrance smell like a fresh spring garden rather than a perfume counter.
Peony
Peony
Light, watery, and fresh with a clean floral sweetness that never feels heavy. Peony reads as modern and optimistic, the scent equivalent of a spring wardrobe refresh. It blends seamlessly with other florals and is a common building block in sheer, easy-to-wear feminine fragrances.
White Flowers
White Flowers
A family rather than a single note, white flowers in perfumery typically refers to an accord of white-petalled blossoms (jasmine, gardenia, tuberose, lily) blended to create a rich, heady, indolic warmth. The quintessential note of feminine oriental fragrances, sensual and enveloping.
Base · 3–12 hrs
Vanilla
Vanilla
Warm, sweet, and universally appealing, vanilla is to fragrance what salt is to cooking. Real vanilla is complex and slightly smoky, though most perfumery vanilla is synthetic and reads as clean, sweet, and creamy. It slows the evaporation of other notes and is the reason certain fragrances feel like a second skin.
Patchouli
Patchouli
Dense, earthy, and darkly sweet, patchouli is the scent of damp soil and dried herbs with an almost chocolatey richness. It polarizes people because in high concentrations it's overwhelming, but as a supporting note it adds depth and longevity that almost nothing else can match. The backbone of countless oriental and chypre fragrances.
Cedar
Cedar
Who Wears ThisScent DNA matches
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The RomanticBest match85% match
Your fragrance is a love letter you never stop writing.

Warm roses, vanilla, amber, creamy musks. Soft, evolving, intimate.

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The Hedonist85% match
More is more. You've always known this.

Opulent, rich, long-lasting. Vanilla, amber, dense florals, gourmand warmth.

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The Homesteader83% match
Rooted, warm, and entirely self-sufficient.

Warm skin musks, sandalwood, soft cedar, clean vetiver. Grounding, intimate, unhurried.

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Scent Profile
Fresh36%
Floral100%
White Floral100%
Aromatic50%
Woody100%
Fragrance Family
Floral
EDP

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What does Issey Miyake Issey Miyake Pleats Please L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 for women smell like? +
Issey Miyake's Pleats Please line has long been the designer's playground for seasonal and limited editions, offering fresh takes on the original Pleats Please DNA. The L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 is a holiday-specific release that leans into the house's signature minimalist sensibility while exploring a floral direction. The fragrance opens with gardenia and heliotrope, giving an immediate soft floral impression with subtle sweetness. The heart develops through sweet pea, peony, and white flowers, creating a cohesive white floral core that stays tender and airy rather than heady. Vanilla and patchouli anchor the base alongside cedar, providing warmth and subtle earthiness that prevents the composition from feeling entirely powdery. The overall character is a balanced white floral with creamy vanilla undertones -- sweet but grounded, more refined than sugary. This works best for someone drawn to classic floral femininity with just enough vanilla sweetness to feel comforting without veering into gourmand territory. It suits cooler months and quieter moments where you want presence without projection. Consider it if you gravitate toward The Romantic, The Hedonist, and The Homesteader.
What are the notes in Issey Miyake Issey Miyake Pleats Please L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 for women? +
Top: Gardenia, Heliotrope. Heart: Sweet Pea, Peony, White Flowers. Base: Vanilla, Patchouli, Cedar.
What fragrance family is Issey Miyake Pleats Please L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 for women? +
Issey Miyake Issey Miyake Pleats Please L'Elixir Edition Noel 2013 for women belongs to the Floral fragrance family. It is an EDP.
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Grey market retailers sell authentic fragrances sourced through unofficial distribution -- typically excess inventory from authorized distributors. The product is real and identical to retail. FragranceNet (est. 1997), Jomashop, and MaxAroma are well-established with millions of verified reviews.

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