Clean Shaven 1994 EDP

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L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme

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Clean Shaven L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme is an Eau de Parfum launched in 1994. L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme opens with Bergamot, Lemon, and Yuzu, settles into a heart of Geranium, Lotus, and Nutmeg, and dries down to a base of Musk, Cedar, Sandalwood, and Vetiver. Clean Shaven's L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme carries a Statement verdict, a fresh-led wear.

Clean Shaven's Issey Miyake dupe channels the crisp citrus-aquatic opening that made L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme a 90s benchmark, but the sandalwood-vetiver depth that gives the original its quiet, long-running character doesn't carry through nearly as far.
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  • Clean
  • Crisp
  • Sophisticated
  • Timeless
  • Understated
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L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme Eau de Parfum bottle
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L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme by Issey Miyake
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Scent Profile

Composition

Timeline

Showing: Overall Blend

Top, heart and base are the brand's own listing, not a timing claim - the industry classifies a note by its character as much as by how fast it fades. Each curve here is modelled from that material's own volatility, so groups can overlap when a house lists long-lasting materials in its heart.

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Performance & Mood

Performance

Longevity
Short (2-4h)
Projection
Intimate
Intensity
Light

Mood

Mood Energising
Calming
Character Playful
Serious
Sentiment Uplifting
Brooding

When To Wear

Best Seasons

Best For:
Spring Summer

The crisp citrus-aquatic profile is built for warm weather and loses relevance as temperatures drop.

Best Occasions

Best For:
Office Casual
Also Works:
Date

Clean and understated enough for the office, versatile enough for casual wear, with modest presence for low-key dates.

Ingredients and allergens

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About

Issey Miyake's L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme has been a benchmark aquatic-woody scent since 1994, built on a crisp yuzu and bergamot opening that settles into a nutmeg-tinged heart before a genuinely long-running base of vetiver, sandalwood, cedar and musk - reviewers regularly report six to eight hours or more of that quiet, structural presence. Clean Shaven's version gets the freshness right: the citrus opening is clean and recognisable, and there's a light, appropriately understated woody quality underneath. What's missing is the original's slow-burn depth - genuine L'Eau d'Issey keeps developing on skin for hours as the sandalwood and musk settle in, while the dupe's dry-down thins out much sooner into a generic clean-woody note rather than the composed, structural finish the original is known for. Solid for a quick, fresh application, less convincing if you're relying on it to last the whole day.

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