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Annayake Miyabi Woman & Miyabi Man ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 4 November 2009 20 Comments

Annayake Miyabi

Japanese beauty brand Annayake will launch Miyabi Woman and Miyabi Man in December. The new fragrances reportedly embody "Japanese elegance".

Miyabi Woman (shown above left) ~ For the "gentle and graceful woman", featuring peach, freesia, heliotrope, sandalwood, tonka bean, amber and white musk.

Miyabi Man (shown above right) - For "an aura of timeless masculinity", with notes of blood orange, anise, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, violet leaves, sandalwood, white musk and tonka bean.

Annayake Miyabi Woman and Miyabi Man will be available in 100 ml, concentration unknown. (via cosmoty.de)

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  1. jonr951 says:
    4 November 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Lovin the bottles!! The mens sounds quite nice doesnt it! I hope I could find them in the US or online.

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    • Robin says:
      4 November 2009 at 1:00 pm

      I like those bottles too. Annayake is not easy to find in the US. I do know some of the discounters carry the line, but don’t know who else.

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  2. Zeezee says:
    4 November 2009 at 12:26 pm

    Love the bottles too.
    Wasn’t there a similarly named AnnayakĂ© before? Miyako/Miyamo/Miyabo/something?

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    • Joe says:
      4 November 2009 at 12:57 pm

      LOL. See the women’s line here:
      http://www.annayake.fr/english/en.html

      They’re all Japanese women’s names.

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    • Robin says:
      4 November 2009 at 1:01 pm

      There’s a Miyako. And Matsuri.

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  3. March says:
    4 November 2009 at 4:29 pm

    I have several although I like the woodier ones better (Miyake/Tsukimi). The men’s sounds great, and joining the chorus of love for the bottle.

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    • Robin says:
      4 November 2009 at 5:23 pm

      I want the men’s too…the peach & freesia I can probably do without.

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  4. lsnuing says:
    4 November 2009 at 5:03 pm

    Seems to be a bit of peach around at the moment – or maybe I’m noticing it because I don’t like peach.

    The bottles remind me of nail polish.

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    • Robin says:
      4 November 2009 at 5:23 pm

      They remind me of lab beakers, for some reason.

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      • Joe says:
        4 November 2009 at 5:53 pm

        I’d like the bottles even more if they came with those tile/pedestal things.

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        • Robin says:
          4 November 2009 at 6:15 pm

          Yes!

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        • March says:
          4 November 2009 at 6:25 pm

          That’s so funny …. in my mind they DID come with those tiles! I’d attached them mentally.

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  5. alotofscents says:
    5 November 2009 at 12:02 am

    If only the one for women had more citrus top notes, It might be love at first sniff. Right now, it is very similar to Jlo’s Live Lux, which I like but I seldom wear it, because it smells too much like the other fruitys. I’m surprised I don’t draw flies with it.

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    • Robin says:
      5 November 2009 at 10:43 am

      Almost everything turns out to have at least some citrus in the top notes though!

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  6. parfumliefhebber says:
    4 December 2009 at 8:37 am

    Myabi woman smells like bubble gum to me.

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    • Robin says:
      4 December 2009 at 11:51 am

      Oh, what a disconnect with the bottle!

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      • parfumliefhebber says:
        4 December 2009 at 3:14 pm

        So true. I expected something completely else. Maybe the sweet scent comes from the pear. First I smelled it at a paper strip, very sweet, but on skin it can smell otherwise. Unfortunately it didn’t. Lasting power on my skin was not very long, max. one hour. That was good for me…… 🙂

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      • parfumliefhebber says:
        13 January 2010 at 8:34 am

        Sometimes I am stubborn, and try a scent again, although I didn’t like it at the first sniff. My opinion stays the same with this second sniff. It reminds me also a little bit of Kenzo Amour (which I love), but this one is much sweeter (on my skin) and there is something in it, that disturbs me.

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        • Robin says:
          13 January 2010 at 5:35 pm

          I like Kenzo Amour too, but if it’s much sweeter than that I might not like it either.

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  7. oana1111 says:
    6 December 2010 at 11:00 am

    When I received the perfume I didn’t know it was supposed to be pricey and classy. My first thought was ‘my, what an ugly bottle, and the smell to go with’. Much as I try I cannot shake that first impression and by the perfume’s resounding non-success I can see I’m not the only one. Underneath the lovely, spiky dirty-sock smell I do detect some freesia though, for all the 5 minutes it lasts on my skin and the rest of 6 hours on my clothes. I should have prohibited him buying me perfumes after gifting bubbly me with JPG Classique X. Nice, but not my cup of tea either.

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