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Suren1987 – :
So, what’s left to say about this mesmerizing and totally magical potion? Honestly, Capriccio is one of those scents that makes me think of sweet and joyful memories and just good vibes.. This stuff is heavenly! I would say again, if there’s a scent that the angels would wear, this is it!
MEJetruily – :
I don’t remember how the top note was, but the base note is clean wiped ceramic floor! it’s like the medical washing soap (mostly detol) and a shiny ceramic after wash!
Quite weird and honestly i don’t want to smell like a cleaning soap or a washed floor!
antonyskype3 – :
It was my wishlist’s #1 for at least to try for ~6mo. I’ve discovered this scent while looking for serious white florals for my mom. While the price tag of this juice is way out of her league, it looked extremely worth a try worth me (esp after reading/watching other perfume lovers reviewing Capriccio). There was one “but” – it wasn’t available in US at that time.
The day I saw Sospiro line being introduced to Lukcyscent was a huge happiness: finally I can try this masterpiece!
And then pretty much nothing exciting happened. I received a vial, tried it, was not impressed. Notes are interesting, quality is definitely there but I don’t find it that great.
It’s somewhat bitter (cranberries ?) white florals that evolves into something different but I couldn’t identify what, at least looking at the notes list.
The closest similar perfume that comes to my mind – Diptyque’s 34 blvd Saint Germain. Yes, I know there are barely any matching notes, but it feels so similar! While I like both perfumes, they go into some weird bitter, juniper-like land that I do not entirely enjoy.
Longevity/sillage – hard to tell because it goes unnoticable after couple of hours and I simply forget to check it out, all 4-5 times that I tried.
Of course, my impression might be totally wrong because I sampled Capriccio from a sample vial, but I found many other gorgeous perfumes this way that I later enjoyed from the full bottle.
rizit – :
@Muzzamil: You can find very good Authtentic testers on eBay, a site called Luckyscent…, as well as a few sites in Europe that sell them… Please try: Wardasina, Duetto, Erba Pura & Verde Accento… You won’t be disappointed… As far getting FULL BOTTLES- try a place called Parfums Raffy in California….
stranger87 – :
I am in search of this perfumes , but it is out of stock in Dubai. Can anybody sale me the use one or help me in finding its tester. I will be really grateful.
d1680 – :
Again kicks in Sospiro magic, one of Xerjoff brands, in bringing into the expensive perfume market what you find in the mainstream one. For me, it’s hard to see this strategy without critics. I cannot understand, unless you are a collector of expensive bottles, the appeal of purchasing a beautiful and exotic presentation and receive a fragrance that i would be very surprised if it costed, in formula terms, 10% of what is charged. You know, it’s like, in chocolate terms, paying for a Godiva (or other chocolates more expensive) package with a Hershey’s content. what’s the point, paying high just for pay? The final result is not bad, this is not the case, but what you receive is not consistent with what you expende. Structurally, this perfume is for me Narciso Rodriguez in the EDT concentration. Like Narciso, it has a radiant aura and conveys a creamy, cozy, exquisite aura, a mixture of patchouli, luminous ambars and musk that trade the silky roses here for white flowers as silk as the roses in a way that there isn’t a huge difference at the final result. Like Narciso, it’s a sufficiently unissex fragrance due the musky and woody (non dry) aura. I would like to believe that there is higher cost in the production of this one, but even from the creative point i cannot justify it for me. It’s, basically, another exclusive/niche fragrance made for who doesn’t want to wear what everyone can without noticing that it’s being folled and paying high for what many can get at a more affordable price.
JemAdjumZoode – :
I’m six or seven years old. My stunningly beautiful and young mother is ironing some clothes on a cold winter afternoon. She’s using some new, groundbreaking ironing spray, whose great “innovation” is having a handle attached to its can. The windows become slowly steamy and our small kitchen is filled with an almost magical scent of warm and cuddly cleanliness. I raise my head from my toy soldiers and, nearly ecstatic, I sniff the air. My mother looks at me and smiles. “Smells good, huh kiddo?”. For the next couple of ironings I wouldn’t omit to spray some of this comforting elixir on me every time my mother would leave the room, so as to experience a little more of its magic, and my very first encounters with terms like sillage and longevity. Until I was caught red handed, and the can was put way out of my reach. In what feels like a thousand years ago, my petite, delicate mother used to live in the realms of Fidji, J’ai Ose and Tamango. But all these huge scents aside, a cheap ironing spray is the scent that reminds me of her the most. The scent of an ordinary family moment on a cold winter afternoon, some forty years ago. And this is exactly the reason that makes it so unique, beloved and unforgettable…
men4ak – :
Just try Lancôme Tresor and see how similar they are!
etic – :
Just bought the bottle. Went through (2) Min New York samples. After purchasing Laylati and possibly Duetto next week, I was taken aback by the DRYDOWN. Ohh My, I wish I could’ve oversprayed. I just sprayed the last bit I had, and about to take a nap to go back to work from midnight -8am. Wore Modoc to work, and over the last 2 weeks have purchase so much Xerjoff, I need to acquire some stock ASAP. Anyway, this starts off like old ladies perfume to me. I don’t smell Oud or too much citrus, just old lady. Nothing against older ladies, but I’m an old man…..LOL
I just remember testing today next to Vivace on my free muscles….the sweet scent permeating off of my skin was fantastic. Vivace reminded me a little of Erba Pura, in that, when you get to the mid to drydown, its gets this vinegary tartness to me. The opening is nice and sweet. Thats all I have to say. Too late to get it shipped tonight, so I have 8 hours to confirm the feeling I felt earlier. I’ll stay in touch. RaJuR real deep kool.
RASH – :
XerJoff real magician!
This magical potion – can’t breathe ! ))) Uses only NATURAL ingredients and method of cold pressing. CAPRICCIO made in the best perfume traditions.
This is a masterpiece!
Knos – :
Wow! How amazingly different each reviewer is interpreting this perfume! And yet, presently wearing Capriccio, I can understand, each one’s viewpoint.
It is a rich and formal perfume, better for autumn and winter. Spray with restraint: I imagine this one would easily turn into a monster; it is that concentrated.
First impression: very much like several of the Clive Christians. I haven’t smelled them for a while, but I’m thinking “C” or perhaps the original. They share the citrus note. I smell it as “pineapple”; I see everyone else is saying bergamot or lemon so what do I know? At any rate, it is very similar to whatever CC uses.
It is a “big”, opulent perfume, like Angel, though the sillage is not quite as much. It feels a little too “dressed up” for me to enjoy everyday, and that is probably its worst fault (Amouage Gold, 24 Faubourg et al suffer from this). Had Xerjoff followed Parfums MDCI’s lead, rather than Clive Christian’s this would have coming out smelling something like Rivage des Syrtes. It’s got good bones and quality materials, but a less heavy-handed approach, imho, would take this from something to admire to something wearable and lovable.
coppypync – :
When I requested a sample of Sospiro CAPRICCIO, I thought that it was a XerJoff perfume. Now I see that Sospiro is some sort of XerJoff franchise, with an independent face. Maybe the situation is similar to the LVMH umbrella covering both Christian Dior and Acqua di Parma, et al., with a single house perfumer overseeing the creative output. I wonder why XerJoff, which is relatively new, would not just want to issue this group of perfumes as a special series in its line-up, rather than establishing a whole separate house. Probably for the same reason that Acqua di Parma and Dior pretend to be independent, though François Demarchy signs all of the perfumes being launched by both houses these days. Ah, the twists and turns of the modern business of perfumery.
How does CAPRICCIO smell? Well, I should say that it smacks of Thierry ANGEL, especially since I recently revisited that perfume. The truth, however, is that it is much closer to Molinard NIRMALA, which would surely be identified by some as an ANGEL knock-off, were it issued today. Instead, it was launched in 1955, so in order for it to be a knock-off, the perfumer would have had to travel forward in time more than fifty years! CAPRICCIO, too, could easily be mistaken for an ANGEL knock-off, in fact much more easily, since it was launched after, not before that perfume.
Why are all of these would-be knockoffs better than ANGEL, according to my nose? Because they are actually wearable and, yes, CAPRICCIO is a case in point. Sweet patchouli flavored with fruits. The texture is somewhat chewy but pleasant and the overwhelming opening of ANGEL seems to have been edited away, that is, never put in in the first place!
Going against the grain, I tend to prefer the “knockoffs” to the original dark ANGEL, which is a classic case to my nose of more is more than more: it is simply too much! That said, I would recommend Molinard NIRMALA to anyone who takes a liking to Sospiro CAPRICCIO. You’ll be able to buy yourself a new iphone or some other quintessentially twenty-first-century gadget with the change that you pocket by settling for such a backwards, twentieth-century perfume offered still today by a house with a 150 year history but which gets no respect for some inscrutable reason.
I suppose that it might have something to do with their country bumpkin marketing. I simply delete Molinard’s emails, preferring to focus on the scent of their perfumes, which is often quite good.
oix753Bessinepome – :
Capriccio has not blown me away.
The initial blast is too tart, too green and too intense for my taste – on my skin the bergamot and neroli came out immediately.
Sweet and spicy cinnamon and cumarin, a mix of vanilla, hay and greenery, join the intense top notes within moments.
While the fragrance dries down I notice patchouli and agarwood (not a fan) becoming stronger before they are replacing the green and spicy notes.
The patchouli accord is the same as in Wardasina, but apart from this these two fragrances have nothing in common.
I was hoping for some nice white flowers, but on my skin Capriccio is “just” something I would describe as tart-hesperide-spicy-earthy-woody.
Still, I am glad that the drydown is much better than the harsh opening.
The sillage is average but Capriccio lasts for 12+ hours on my skin.
I am sure the fragrance is great on the right person, but that person is definitely not me, I am afraid.