Pleats Please

Ok so I bought this and when I first sprayed it it smelled a LITTLE bit like cat piss???? after 20 mins that weird faint smell went away and now it’s great. I will wear it regardless ( nobody is perfect). Initial spray : 3/10 Dry down : 9.5/10

Very sweet and pretty. This isn’t pleats like a short skirt, it’s pleats like something from Muji or Uniqlo. Long, feminine, classy but a bit playful. While it’s not necessarily a blind buy I would consider this office safe. Sadly after a few weeks of testing on and off it’s a bit too indolic on me. I find my skin really likes to pull patchouli and indole so it’s not her, it’s me. I’m going to rehome it to another perfume lover to enjoy.

This is a pretty floral scent, but unfortunately it reminds me too much of a clean fresh bathroom and I just can't get that out of my head!! Luckily I purchased a sample. I would not recommend as a safe blind buy.

I’m so impressed and so in love… makes me feel like a flower fairy.. super likeable and pleasant. I recommend if you like florals !!!

Nice example how to make a fragrance smell "wet" without green-freshness. Credits to pear & pea combination

This is a very likable, flowery perfume, with a touch of sweetness and depth. The opening is sharp florals, and then the sweetness and fruitiness appear, and then the patchouli gives it depth, but the patchouli is not strong at all. Very pretty and elegant, ideal for spring, autumn, cooler summer days. Longevity and projection are average. Beautiful bottle 🩷

The patchouli and sweetpea are main players in this. I usually avoid big patchouli, but I still like this for reasons I can't understand. It's an older vibe than for teens and early 20s. Sophisticated, but still has a touch of the Issey Miyake refreshing aquatic vibe (even though it's not listed as a note). It's not as refreshing as some of the others like the OG, all the flankers and the Drop d'Issey line. It's a different scent category than those and I wouldn't suggest blind buying just because you love those. I'd say more of an autumn or spring perfume when you want something lady-like but not stuffy. If you're mainly into freshies and want to branch out (but don't like all the thick vanillas that are on the market these days) - I suggest testing this. When I wanted to graduate from young freshies this scent was a stepping stone for me. The vanilla isn't noticeable to me here - it's a bit sweet in a refreshing way from what seems like realistic sweet pea rather than a syrupy synthetic sweetness some reviews are describing. I think the patchouli is helpful here too - the green kick cuts some sweetness. It's nice that Issey Miyake can do different things. Love this frag house!

linen!! linen and a flower and vegetable garden!! brisk spring day!! the imagery is so strong with this one. such a pleasant little treat and so cheap i feel like i need to buy 10 bottles to last me through the springtime

This is not a juvenile scent. This scent reminds me of a warm love, like a mother. It’s warm and floral. A perfumey perfume that I can imagine a woman in her 30s wearing or above! Anyone can wear it and I’d say it smells a bit sophisticated so it’s up to you if that sounds up your street ! I don’t think it’s sparkly or very juicy fruity to be honest so if you’re looking for that, I’d recommend a range of other fruity florals. I’ll update when I wear this alone.

Extraordinary, unuslual, sparkling, bringing feelings of joy! One of my favourites. I don't find it syrupy, as mentioned below. I feel it light, still performing a good longivety. If you need uplifting, you should give it a try - the same I recommend with Kate Spade 'New York Sparkle'.

This is a quality fragrance, the values I've come to expect from the house of Issey Miyake. First off, the bottle is really nice, well designed and imaginative, it's a little different. The fragrance, very sweet, very feminine, heavy on the florals. The peony note is very prominent, as is that wonderful pear note, everything works well together, it's so nicely blended. Longevity is excellent, this stuff lasts.

Like the writer a couple of posts below me, I also go back and forth with this one. Sometimes I LOVE it and appreciate the complexity, other times it feels sickeningly sweet and the sweet pea leaves it feeling juvenile. I think it's a great option if you're looking for a floral fragrance that has some uniqueness to it.

Very unique bottle and good quality juice as per usual from the house of Issey Miyake. Unfortunately I do not love this one, it smells like a flower and thats about it to my nose. It does open up unique with the pear, but after that it is very bland. If that sounds like something you would like, go for it. Pretty easy to find a 50ml at your Shopper's $20 rack.

I go back and forth on this one. It's a bit sweet, quite indolic, and a little warmer than I expected. There is a slight plastic-y powder note on the opening spray that sometimes throws me off. I think I was hoping for a little more freshness here, but it'd make a good cool-weather scent. I enjoy this sprayed against the skin, with a shirt over it to calm it down. That said, it's a beast performance-wise with great sillage (don't overspray this one!) I layer it with Valentino Coral Fantasy for more of the juicy sweetness I was looking for; that combo makes a gorgeous candied violet scent. I also sometimes layer with Cabotine Rose, as the astringency brightens up the sweet heaviness of Pleats. Overall, if you like a powdery violet, this is a safe BB for the price & performance. If you're looking for Issey Miyake aquatic freshness, I don't think you'll find it here. I also wouldn't call it a fruity scent - I can detect the pear here but none of its juiciness. That said, this is a really friendly scent and great for casual settings. I'd love to try the green bottle!

Another blind buy. This is such an amazing perfume. I can smell juicy pear and some powder, projection is amazing and the scent is loud. I love it, such a lovely spring perfume. It is sweet but not suffocating, perfect for cooler days.

I'd forgotten what a pretty perfume this is until I recently sprung for a bottle because it was going at a good price on a major online retailer. It's a delightful summery burst of pear that settles into a pretty sweet drydown - not too sweet, mind you. Just pretty.

I finally figured out the secret to enjoying this scent - a little goes a LONG way. The opening is so intense for me that I can easily over spray if I apply the way I would other fragrances. I’m so glad I figured this out! I could not understand why this seemed to have notes I love but was not one of my favorites. Problem solved. I’m loving wearing this now!

To me it sounds as unisex fragrance. Unfortunately didn't understand it, but at list it's not annoying. Absolutely in love with L'eau version of it, which I tried first, so was expecting same feelings towards original one, but no.

Sweet, clean, and a little immature. The musk and pear dry-down is just lovely. Very very feminine, and almost cloyingly floral on first spray, but it settles down into the skin really well. The longevity is shockingly good, this stuff will basically linger until you wash it off.

Initial review from sample sprayed on paper: Sweet fresh pear opening turns into full-on Turkish delight/musk lolly. I keep going back to smell the paper. Intuitively I think I love it but I worry I might start to hate it if I wore it all day on skin (common with me as designer fragrances are often stronger than I enjoy with even a half-spray). I am cautiously moving the sample to my 'wear for a whole day on skin' test box.

Indolic in a gooood way, and I dont like indolic.. It is very flowery in both delicate and simple way. It is not old lady like, although for someone indoles might always be old lady like... My first sniff was wow! I am gonna buy this. Now, when the pear note weakened (in a few minutes after spraying), it became indolic and flowery only, so I am not sure... the pear gave it a spark. Its like pure pure sweet lovely jasmin (not like alien or armani code - these are so dirty). It is quite sexy though. So I love it, although it is indolic. But everything indolic feels dated to me unfortunately, even this beautiful. So if I would buy it, it would please me in pleat at home, since I would hesitate to wear it on public.

I wasn't expecting this to be so different to Pleats Please L'Eau, which I have owned for some time. Pleats Please is such a singular beast! And yet it is just as lovely. A floral beauty with pear at it's heart. I am already considering buying a back up bottle, as I have done with my L'Eau and my A Scent By Issey Miyake. Another triumph for Issey Miyake, may he live on forever and ever xo

There's something in this that reminds me of air freshener and I just can't get passed it.

Nice floral scent. Nothing groundbreaking but a safe blind buy.

Light, bright, straightforward. It smells clean and friendly. I reach for this one on my days off from work where I just have errands to run and cleaning to do. It's comforting, I really like the sweet pea and pear combination - it's not something I've seen a lot of in perfumes. A hidden gem (I love the bottle design).

I debated on whether to give Pleats Please a "like" or a "love". I settled on "like", but am considering the purchase of a full-sized bottle. I currently have samples, and those are the basis for the review. There are very few perfumes that I like enough to purchase full-sized bottles, so my full-size collection is quite limited. The first hit is sharp pear. The sharpness quickly dissipates and I get a creamy floral with a touch of spice. If sweet peas smell like this, I'm adding them to the garden next year, because I love the floral notes here. The nice thing is that the cedar isn't overpowering, as it so often is in other fragrances. Cedar is ok, but when you get a fragrance that promises floral and all you smell is cedar, it's annoying. The individual components blend well here and this fragrance is mostly a medley instead of a progression of one sequential component after another. I get more vanilla than cedar on the drydown, although you can still detect the cedar. Pleats Please lasts a few hours on my skin, but it stays close. However, it has better performance on clothing. I sprayed it on a t-shirt yesterday late morning and, when I went to launder the same t-shirt this morning, I was unexpectedly met with Pleats Please. It was still very pleasant, so there is more projection from clothing than skin.

It's definitely all about the sweet pea as previously mentioned. It's a fresh sweet pretty long lasting perfume. Lots of compliments of how nice I smelled. It lasted the whole day although it did become weaker towards the end of the day I could still smell it on my clothes. I'm very impressed as I only paid £20 to smell that good all day long

It's all about the Sweet pea! This is a really lovely, realistic Sweet Pea scent. I get very little Patchouli and no Cedar. A very pretty, luminous floral, slightly sweet, with touch of freshness from the pear. This for me, is a mood lifting, carefree scent. Can be worn anytime of year but really shines in spring. It's a very strong like, that would be a love if the Indole showed less of itself. Protection and staying power are good. I also own Nina Ricci Premier Jour, another great Sweet Pea fragrance, which I find beautiful though a little quieter than Pleats Please.

This was one of my first perfumes and a signature scent of mine for about 2 years before I really started my collection. I was 13 years old and my mom got this for me and I just fell in love, I still have a bottle now three years later and its super nostalgic. Its a lovely floral scent that has some sweetness from the pear note. Its very fresh and I smell quite a bit of patchouli.

This is more like a story, rather than a review. I first sniffed Issey Miyake Pleats Please during my travel to Nuremberg to visit my little brother in 2016. I was already at the bus station, waiting to return to Leiden. There was a cosmetic and perfume shop called Müller inside the station and I tried to kill the time by sniffing some perfume. I can't remember what other perfumes I tried then, but Pleats Please just spoke to me. It was very memorable, I couldn't forget the scent since it lasted the whole journey to Leiden (>12 hrs). It smelled very sweet, floral, and nothing like I had ever smelled before. A few days later, I bought a full bottle in either Kruidvat or Etos (I just can't remember, sorry). The end. I just need to write this so I don't forget in the future (I even start to forget some details now), since this perfume is a part of my life journey and the meeting was magical. Only a few perfume can hold this kind of title throughout my life haha.