Top Notes 
Coconut water
Fig nectar
Lemon
Heart Notes 
Eucalyptus
Cardamom
Geranium
Nutmeg
Rosemary
Base Notes 
Ambrox
Salicylate
Patchouli
Woods
04/21/2021
Elysium
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The Impact Of The Mineral
Fusion d'Issey is part of a new trendy family that includes fragrances with mineral scents, such as the newbie Hermes H24, for example. Solid, inorganic, and crystallized substance, minerals derived from a natural geological process. In creating perfumes, minerality is a subjective concept because there is no family of minerals in the strict sense. With its moist and salty facets, the mineral notes give perfumers an alternative way of expressing freshness in their creations. Predominantly ozonic notes, such as Calone, with a light and slightly scented aroma of anise, marine, suggestive of the sea, rocks, and iodized air. A perfumer can also use cashmeran for its salty facet and amber and final notes of fucus that evokes bitumen and stone, respectively. In Fusion, I bet the dyad coconut water, and fig nectar turns out just too milky and mineral, wonderfully. The ingredients of modern perfumery have come a long way in recent years, and there have certainly been many successful scents based on coconut milk. Fusion turns around three keynotes: a mineral lemon, solar sandalwood, and volcanic patchouli. Since this D.N.A., it should be clear that Fusion is quite different and not just another l'Eau d'Issey.
Instead of a citrus mix bomb, a more old-school blend, Fusion opts for an offbeat approach that's not afraid to dabble in artifice. As a starting point, the lemon zest opens along with a highly distinctive amber background. Here the nose opted for lemon "primofiore," a citrus fruit quality from Syracuse, Sicily, harvested in winter. Soon, a relatively dry and mineral accord joins the yellow citrus fruits and unfolds notes of lactonic, milky, tender, and sweet coconut water and salty, dry, and penetrating fig. The fig leaf milk makes the coconut trend towards its creamier side. Fruity? No, I wouldn't say it, far from it. Fig turns out green and woody, more from the tree and leaves than luscious fruit nectar. The hand of the master perfumer Nathalie Lorson is palpable. I pleasantly recognize chords present in other creations of her. The freshness of the modern take on coconut water and fig milk outlines the backbone of the fragrance, you'll get them right away, and this mineral and salty accord will be the signature of the perfume.
Just a clarification: the mineral notes have the advantage of being more lasting than citrus notes, extending their freshness to the heart of a fragrance and the dry-down notes. The explosive freshness of a lively, bitter lemon meets the intensity of spices in the heart. It isn't easy to distinguish the middle notes one by one; instead, I feel a compelling aromatic and slightly spicy accord that derives from the mixture of fragrant rosemary, eucalyptus, and balsamic cardamom, a greenish hint of geranium, and a sweet touch of nutmeg. The accord is decidedly mineral, very sunny, and it emulates the scent of minerals basking in the sun; it almost seems to smell a wet river stone washed by a fall of violet leaves juice.
Deep in the base, a creamy shade of sandalwood contrasted with a sincere earthy, almost lava, patchouli look. The sandalwood in this is tremendous and sinks deep into the dry down along with other notes. Ambroxide, created from minerals and a slight fragrance of ambergris, is the ingredient showed, but I think there are at least a couple more to refine that mineral and salty quality. Here the amber of manufacture is smooth, has no marine nuances, and is far from the "Diorish" Sauvage vein.
My last words about Fusion d'Issey, it's a mineral fougère fragrance, polished and clean, nearly unique, with average longevity and moderate sillage, influential in the first hour, and then turns into a skin scent. The overall smell is delightful and compliment-worthy. It is suitable for warm weather, both Spring and Summer seasons are OK, daytime, for leisure and working time.
I based the review on a 100ml bottle I have owned since April 2021.
-Elysium
Instead of a citrus mix bomb, a more old-school blend, Fusion opts for an offbeat approach that's not afraid to dabble in artifice. As a starting point, the lemon zest opens along with a highly distinctive amber background. Here the nose opted for lemon "primofiore," a citrus fruit quality from Syracuse, Sicily, harvested in winter. Soon, a relatively dry and mineral accord joins the yellow citrus fruits and unfolds notes of lactonic, milky, tender, and sweet coconut water and salty, dry, and penetrating fig. The fig leaf milk makes the coconut trend towards its creamier side. Fruity? No, I wouldn't say it, far from it. Fig turns out green and woody, more from the tree and leaves than luscious fruit nectar. The hand of the master perfumer Nathalie Lorson is palpable. I pleasantly recognize chords present in other creations of her. The freshness of the modern take on coconut water and fig milk outlines the backbone of the fragrance, you'll get them right away, and this mineral and salty accord will be the signature of the perfume.
Just a clarification: the mineral notes have the advantage of being more lasting than citrus notes, extending their freshness to the heart of a fragrance and the dry-down notes. The explosive freshness of a lively, bitter lemon meets the intensity of spices in the heart. It isn't easy to distinguish the middle notes one by one; instead, I feel a compelling aromatic and slightly spicy accord that derives from the mixture of fragrant rosemary, eucalyptus, and balsamic cardamom, a greenish hint of geranium, and a sweet touch of nutmeg. The accord is decidedly mineral, very sunny, and it emulates the scent of minerals basking in the sun; it almost seems to smell a wet river stone washed by a fall of violet leaves juice.
Deep in the base, a creamy shade of sandalwood contrasted with a sincere earthy, almost lava, patchouli look. The sandalwood in this is tremendous and sinks deep into the dry down along with other notes. Ambroxide, created from minerals and a slight fragrance of ambergris, is the ingredient showed, but I think there are at least a couple more to refine that mineral and salty quality. Here the amber of manufacture is smooth, has no marine nuances, and is far from the "Diorish" Sauvage vein.
My last words about Fusion d'Issey, it's a mineral fougère fragrance, polished and clean, nearly unique, with average longevity and moderate sillage, influential in the first hour, and then turns into a skin scent. The overall smell is delightful and compliment-worthy. It is suitable for warm weather, both Spring and Summer seasons are OK, daytime, for leisure and working time.
I based the review on a 100ml bottle I have owned since April 2021.
-Elysium
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