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Alekshasha – :
Fragrance Review For Capucine
Fragonard
Top Notes
Bergamot Orange Tea
Middle Notes
Rose Jasmine
Base Notes
Musk Woods
Capucine was the name of a French fashion model and actress who was a friend of Audrey Hepburn’s. She was in a number of films before retiring to Lausanne Switzerland where she committed suicide. Capucine is from the French for nasturtium a spicy floral herb. This fragrance is not a floral nor is it going to make you think of Capucine or suicide. It’s a sweet soft Oriental tea note. I’ve developed a fascination for tea scents. I think they are both feminine and masculine/unisex and while not very complex, they are enjoyable and therapeutic. They soothe you like only a perfume can do.
The opening to this fragrance is a bergamot tea. It’s totally tea for days. I love how it jumps right into that tea. It’s also got a bit of a creaminess courtesy of an unlisted vanillin. It’s sweet tea. The floral note that protrudes from the middle note stage is the jasmine, not the rose. The jasmine is always very effective as a tea scent in and of itself so it makes perfect sense that the jasmine would be the strong floral note in this perfume. If you like jasmine tea this should delight your nose.
The dry down is woods and musk, not heavy, but clean and smooth. It’s muskier as it delves into the driest end. Musk is warm and dark like a coffee, not a tea, in this cologne. An aroma that makes you feel French, sophisticated, cozy, intellectual and artistic. It’s a fragrance that evokes French or Eurasian/Asian ladies at a bookstore or café.
Gorgeous
RouletteXpert – :
The importance of second chances ))) I disliked it at first, but after almost 5 years my perception changed. No I like the musk and rose.
Its a bit heavy though.
Сапёр – :
Capucine is one of my muskier fragrances, but I still think it’s quite friendly and not at all animally (still developing my vocabulary in this regard). Its musky in a human way, like the smell of someone’s neck or hair. It’s very cosy, ever so slightly smoky, like air baked hot by a fire. Very much like curling up close with someone wearing a fuzzy jumper, or like smelling roses off someone else’s body.
bannonw – :
This is a review for the pure Parfum.
To me this is just glorious: a cloud of musky, woody, powdery, sweet jasmine and rose. I don’t know if it’s the tea I’m picking up, but there is a green, slightly metallic note which I like; it seems to balance the sweetness and powderiness. Great sillage and longevity; a shopkeeper complimented me on it from the other side of the counter 6 hours after I had put it on.
I’m not sure, but I think this is named for the French actress, Capucine. If so, I think it’s a great tribute: beautiful, elegant and slightly mysterious. I love it.
GENTVER – :
I find it soapy/masculine, almost a blind buy, it smelled nicer in the Fragonard factory in Grass. And yes reminds me of Flower by Kenzo.
rolexreplica16959 – :
Most of all I feel in this fragrance musk, vanilla, rose and sweet green tea. And not too truly any of this notes, actually.
Candied soap with roses:) Something like that…
Not impressive.
vipeerr – :
I have a new 100ml bottle of this if anyone would like it? It’s a nicer/more modern box than in the illustration on this page.
znu992bedyWelty – :
Unfortunately the listed notes did not make an appearance on my skin apart from soapy and cloying musk. On me Capucine smells like overly sweet, artificial and cheap vanilla mixed with some plastic and musc. It is vaguely familiar and kept tickling my brain until I figured it out – the sickly sweet scent of Baby Born dolls, My Little ponies and every other plasticky toy in the market with slightly soft texture. Yarghk!
tygerussuri – :
I bought this perfume untested, and it’s exactly what I expected, yet it’s not what I expected. It’s extremely powdery. I agree that it’s reminiscent of Kenzo Flower, which also starts out smelling fresh, then settles into a comforting vanilla musk. When I walked into the room everyone was asking why it smelled like baby powder.
I don’t detect any tea. Instead, it smells more like “green notes,” which is much greener, more crisp, and more intense than tea.
At times I feel this smells like bug spray. I don’t think I like it. I honestly can’t smell jasmine or rose, just overwhelming powder and very intense notes of green plants. I don’t find this scent sweet or creamy the way other reviewers do. Maybe after wearing Hypnotic Poison for so long, other “creamy” and “sweet” perfumes don’t seem so sweet or creamy. I find this perfume rather dry (as another person mentioned) and sharp. I would never wear this on a date.
The drydown is the best part because the scent calms down, rounds out, and smells like a soft musk.
DgonKG – :
Clean, sweet, floral and lovely scent. I have the feeling, that a lot of Fragonards fragrances I have smelled before. I guess, Fragonard is the supplier of such a famous houses like f. e. Dior and the other designer take just Fragonard for a basis for their alcoholic’s creations called parfum. This is a parfum, like it should be. Without alcohol smell, just floral and sweet, oh I love it and NEVER would buy a mass fragrance anymore.
Valerii61 – :
Light, airy opening with green tea aroma. Not loud, somehow delicate green tea with a hint of jasmin. Pleasant, clean scent. In the drydown the sandalwood and musk give the creamy, soapy tone.(I can describe this scent as Elizabeth Arden Green Tea infusion with Kenzo Flower but this fragrance is much sophisticated.)
This scent is so french, elegant and sophisticated, like a french women’s touch.
Betta – :
I tested the EDT and it came across as a warm, floral suede fragrance. I think I skipped the top notes entirely, because I could not detect any tea or bergamot, although I did feel a gentle greenness buried within the heart notes. Neither could I smell the rose, but I think it was adding to the slightly powdery aspect of the scent.
Capucine honestly reminded me of Habanita, which was not what I was expecting! I can’t say it’s a love for me, but it surprised me and I can appreciate the scent.
pazzitiv – :
This is just so gentle and uncomplicated. It makes me think of Mrs. Darling from “Peter Pan” – a classy lady on the outside, the sweetest, gentlest, most caring mother on the inside.
The fragrance develops very quickly, and within a half-hour the bitter-ish top notes stop dominating, the gentle powdery flowers are in bloom, and the dry woody base is ready to provide a detectable backbone. But then it stops changing, and floats calmly just above the skin, drawing you in for another sniff again and again.
It’s so ordinary in a way – a very well done ordinary, but ordinary nonetheless – and I really don’t need another powdery floriental in my wardrobe (actually, it’s more of a floral woody musk), but I feel myself become so gentle, patient, and forgiving when I wear it, that I might get it as a kind of character makeover tool.
UPDATE: apparently I tested the pure parfum, and have since acquired the EDT (blindly) – no regrets! This scent is so simple that next to nothing is lost in the EDT version. One difference is that the top notes are even less pronounced in the EDT, but they don’t last in the parfum anyway, so in half-hour there is barely any difference between them. Just a smidgeon of creaminess is lost too, in favor of the woodiness, but not enough to change the overall balance of the composition; it doesn’t get any sharper, for example. The longevity and sillage are about the same, too.
Honestly, this is the closest parfum-EDT translation I’ve ever encountered, which is really impressive considering the significant price difference between the two (the parfum is about 4 times the price of the EDT!).
pasha017 – :
With my lack of finesse in French language, I assumed this fragrance would smell like a cappuccino. When I realised it didn’t, I turned to research and found that the direct translation into English was a type of water cress called Nasturtium. Apparently it is known for its tangy and peppery flavour.
Well Capucine is neither a cappuccino nor a pungent tasting herb. This fragrance is actually quite a delicate, creamy and sweet floral.
It has a lovely French aura to it, that makes me grasp for the words classic and feminine. It’s nothing particularly unique, but it’s a scent that stays with me long after it’s gone.
I get mostly creamy, slightly powdered rose and jasmine with a rich tea note that brings a touch of masculinity and boldness to the composition. At times this fragrance is mysterious, but its occasional candied sweetness brings it back to the land of the predictable.
It has one of the nicest musky drydowns I’ve found in a fragrance, with the distinctive creamy, vanillac sweetness working well in the base.
The lasting power is great for that of an EDT, and I can only imagine how much richer and creamier the pure parfum version of this fragrance would be.
v171 – :
Powdery soft and dry woody fragrance. A bit too dry for me. Could easily be unisex. The staying power is good.
andre2103 – :
Powdery musky wood, smelling somehow like French lipstick. Elegant and smooth as fine silk. No green tea to be sniffed, but still very pretty and feminine.
Exxxo – :
Baby powder. Totally baby powder, within minutes and it stays that way. I tried it today in a set of 10 Fragonard parfums, available at their web site.
gpl964Unlogrere – :
Capucine is warm, cosy, rich (but I don’t mean heavy, cloying rich. On me the richness is rather refined, somehow finely chiseled if that can be said about a scent :-)) and creamy indeed. It is also surprisingly sweet. But again the unexpected sweetness is somehow enjoyable, pleasant and agreeable here. I can’t pick any individual notes – there are some flowers there, some sweetish woody undertones and something strongly vanillic (although vanilla is not listed here). Elegant, sophisticated (but not sternly so) and somehow comforting and feminine and perhaps even quite sexy on the right skin, this seems to be rather “universal” fragrance. I think it could be worn in the office (really sparingly as it could be quite strong), on a classy evening event or in bed according to your mood/opinion.
kasyak – :
i found a set of ten mini fragonard fragrances and this is one of them. I like this one! I don’t think there is a fragonard fragrance that I dislike.
ybp073InsuffBooni – :
This is devine, Creamy Soft Wood comes to mind. I wear this to bed as it helps me fall asleep. The floral is light and the cream is strong. I think this is a must try for those who enjoy Rich scents. Very Devine and a keeper in my collection.