It really does smell foul- people below mention getting a manure or urine smell straight away and that is right on.

L'Eau Majeure D'Issey is an invigorating marine Eau De Toilette spray for men by Issey Miyake, with notes of bergamot and grapefruit. It’s available in a range of sizes from 50ml to 100ml, so you can choose the fragrance that suits you and get the most out of your new scent. There’s no need for me to give you a fairytale about the different notes, but this is a superb summer fragrance. There's also slightly bitter tinge to the opening (I'm guessing due to some citrus or citrus aldehyde).Perfumes with natural ingredients often smell different in batches based on the source of the ingredients, while synthetic ingredients usually have consistency in their smell and lasts longer.

Some people mentioned the smell of urine, I believe they were being kind cause I left it there, bought some other fragrance and rushed home to wash off the smell where I applied L'Eau Majeure. To me though you can still detect the Issey miyake dna and its one of those refreshing juices that just flows the moment it hits your skin. I've been whining recently about generic, uncreative scents saturating the marketplace and you'd think I'd embrace something which evokes such a colourful response in either direction, for beeter or worse. L'Eau Majeure D'Issey evokes the concept of water in a larger accord, symbol of strength and movement as the principle of creation. This scent is strangely enveloping, just like an Issey Miyake coat, the fabric overwhelming in it's comfort.This is an aromatic-and-aldehyde scent, following the same theme idea of Versace eros parfum, SpiceBomb night vision edt, and JPG le beau. The circle is complete and I'm free to wriggle out from under a pile of pleated mess, like Sayoko Yamaguchi on that AW95/96 Issey Miyake runway. man do I fucking adore it ,maybe it's the sea notes colliding with that hedione or idk what builds up that makes this absolute magical summer scent.