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uza118Negeltzex – :
THE best fig perfume on the market. I love the combination with the herbal and slightly bitter notes of eucalyptus, tobacco flower and tea. So green, fresh and clean. Instant love.
Recover – :
This was my first niche perfume and I loved it! I felt very grown up wearing it 🙂
It’s been years since I last sprayed it on, but I remember it smelling like freshly cut grass, chamomile flowers, lemon and sea.
Fresh, certainly, but not boring or without depth.
hqx273intitytek – :
This is rather dry and very herbal in the topnotes. It is on the edge of beeing bitter but to me not unpleasantly so. It then goes into fig and a fig that lasts and lasts, wich I find unique. All the other Figs I have tried lose the fig more or less when topnotes leave. This is dry and fresh and fig throughout and lasts all day whith a discrete sillage. I find no milkiness here and nothing sweet. I really recommend this for fig lovers that miss the fig when it leaves with the topnotes (like I do).
cold-74 – :
My husband was so turned off by this scent he actually stopped talking to me until I scrubbed if off. I only put it on to use up my sample and move on. I never would have purchased this, not my style, too herbal-fresh, but didn’t think it would inspire such a vile reaction from hubby (I could smell like dog-turd and he’d still want to cuddle me). So a no-go, ever again, from me,
stefik – :
Opens dry and bitter.
Fig note is prominent.
Not to sweet or fruity.
Good for hot summer weather.
RokEcopeFrork – :
I was curious to try Io Capri: on the one hand I’ve never tried a fragrance with a prominent mint note that I really loved, and too much aromatics tend to put me off as well – but on the other hand I can never resist something with fig, and Carthusia is undeniably one of the best when it comes to natural, sunny perfumes. In other words, my expectations of this one were ambivalent, and it’s not really surprising that my feelings after having spent some time with it are much the same.
The opening is really not my thing: so aromatic and especially minty! Very herbal and bracing, which I can take or leave, but there’s also this soapy quality that I’m really not sure about. Especially smelled up close it smells almost detergent-like to me, although strangely I don’t actually dislike it. I just really don’t know what to make of it.
Luckily, it gets a lot better as the opening fades into the heart and drydown of the fragrance. The soapy quality stays present for the duration, but it calms down a lot. Also, the initial aromatic mintiness gives way to a warmer, fruitier sweetness in which the fig and the mint seem equally present, and the tea comes out to play as well. That combination works much better for me. This stage I’m sure I could learn to love, but it’s a pity the sillage is already much weaker at this point, and it doesn’t linger for very long afterwards.
I’m sure I’ll enjoy using up my decant; it will be especially fitting for spring. I’m just not sure what’ll happen afterwards; will I have figured out what to think of the opening and order a full bottle, or will I say goodbye without much regret? Time will tell…
Seaman12 – :
What a complex confection!
It has that dry, fruity aura which (to me) captures the heart of the Mediterranean: dusty, herbal-woody and some dignified sweetness. It reminds me of how the air would smell while sitting on the veranda of a Tuscan villa on a hot afternoon in October.
Fragrance, if nothing else, stimulates the imagination.
Carthusia creates some magic in this and their other glorious, exceptional fragrances.
Update: I wore it today out and about. I love it more than ever, but that’s not helpful.
Fig is dominant and a lovely, petsistent dry sweetness. I adore this! I’m putting this as a late summer/fall fragrance. I wore it today on a dreary winter Portland (OR) day and felt … hmmm … more grounded. It’s definitely not a winter, cold season frag, but in that season, it may work to “dehydrate” an otherwise soggy situation.
I love dry scents: sweet, nutty, woody, earthy. Io works pleasantly in this palette.
supermaza – :
This perfume is marvellous. It is fresh and fruity.
This perfume smells almost exactly as Acqua di Parma Blue Fico di Amflia. The figs in here are the most dominant scent. Around it some subtle tones of citrus and tea, eucalyptus and litsea.
It gives you that typical clean and uplifting fresh feeling thats so typical for the most Italian perfumes from the master class.
Its a great composition and very good to wear on warm days. It has a nice projection and stays for a long time.
DemonLCP – :
To me smells so good. Opens with light citrus with a prominent fig note that is present in all fragance live.
In the dry down the fragance turns more dry.
A good frag not only for cold weather, good for spring and fall too.
I like it so much.
Longevity is about 6 hour and sillage is good (very good for this kind of fragance).
Scent: 7.5/10
Longevity: 7.5/10
Sillage 7/10
damien777 – :
I think I would do an injustice to this fragrance if I said it’s as simple as fig. It is actually quite sophisticated and difficult to describe really. When I smell it I feel refreshed but it’s not at all a soapy-after-shower type of fresh. Also a bit bitter, like grapefruit or kiwi…Worth trying on!
tox212speagoessenda – :
It wasn’t my intention to don a fig perfume today, but it happened. I was drawn to the name of this creation, Io Capri, and initially was convinced that it was a bracing aromatic cologne with lots of herbs and a few spices and some bright citrus. I was smelling coriander and capsicum, and tarragon and tons of other stuff along those lines.
By the drydown, however, the true long-range identity of Io Capri had revealed itself: it’s a fig fragrance! The fig wood and leaf are quite dominant, and most of the powerful opening aromatic elements have dissipated into the cosmos. To be honest, I preferred the opening to the drydown, but I may simply be suffering from fig fatigue. Anyone looking for a nonlinear fig fragrance should surely give this unisex creation a sniff. There is a soupçon of soap in this composition, which makes it a clean choice for summertime.
haliullinav – :
A very unusual scent which opens with a bracing top consisting of eucalyptus and mint which is very refreshing.Then after around 10 minutes the wild fig note kicks in and remains till the end.The fig is milky and dry and most of all delicious!
This is one of my three favourite fig scents with Philosykos and Premier Figuier Extreme being the other two.Definitely a unisex scent.
edkart – :
I just realized this reminds of the hallways/ carpets/ pool area of hotels.
I have a hard time articulating what i smell here other than that. What pops into my head is bay, anise, orange, the ghost of tobacco and a touch of fig. It evokes nostalgia for vacation + hotel pool which actually almost makes me like this. Almost.
aloha777 – :
Highly underrated minty fig scent that makes me reminisce about my trips to Italy within a second upon sniffing. Very unisex, extremely elegant and classy – the perfect spring/early summer fragrance.
Strelok89 – :
This cologne-lke scent starts out with a lot of lemony citrus and green herbs, especially tarragon, accompanied by a creamy, almost coconut-like note that apparently is meant to be perceived as fig. The notes say there’s tea in the mix, but it’s not a major player, and is not the standard commercial prickly “green tea” accord, which I dislike. If there is tea, it’s more like a weak, brewed tea that has no real character of its own. To me, that’s preferable to the usual overwhelming “tea” base.
Many reviewers report smelling mint, but I do not detect mint. As the scent dries down, I smell some green notes, like freshly cut grass, along with the fresh, green culinary herbs and dried coconut-fig. The scent stays pretty much the same, with moderate sillage, much longer than one would expect of a typical cologne, lasting 6-8 hours on skin.
It’s subtle and natural-smelling, a fragrance that would make a good under-the-radar default scent for times when wearing noticeable perfume is not advisable. I like Io Capri a lot more than I expected to, and would enjoy wearing it from time to time.
ahill – :
This fragrance opens up with a faint semi-sweet fig leaf note hitting almost a gassy/effervescent aroma. The herbaceous aura in here it’s nothing like the pure and natural fig note present in Philosykos, and that’s it. A boring good lasting fragrance that isn’t worth a bottle in my opinion. There are much much better fig options in the market.
ak74 – :
To me Io smells like mint flavoured toothpaste, very fresh and cool.
mmbusko – :
Lotion washable of windows ?. To very apologize all come to like it.
enerbDwedep – :
Oh yes! Uplifting,fresh and herbaceous. Just like a walk through a field of mint. Longevity is good on this. I could actually smell it on my clothes the next day. Great summer pick-me-up for girls and guys.
Thanks scorpiosheep for the opportunity to try this!
deni-s – :
It sounded so promising, but from the moment I took it out of its package, I knew it was not meant to be. It all started when the decant I purchased leaked through the tape, through the plastic bag it was in, and all over the entire mail packet. The smell that wafted up at me was.. in a word.. awful. I am rarely nauseated by a scent and regularly wear very heavy perfumes. But this one just killed me. I like fig scents, but this is very cloyingly sweet. It’s akin to drinking a few too many fruity, sweet drinks, and then throwing up. It’s like the smell of that puke. Not quite fruity, not quite gourmand, not fresh.
To top it all off, this thing has monstrous lasting power and sillage. I could smell the bag that it had leaked in.. from my bed.. which was a good 10 ft away. I had to wash my hands three times to get it off my fingers. Needless to say, it has been expelled from my house.
Dulkgoonous – :
Finally a Carthusia fragrance that suits both men and women.
Io Capri is a beautiful, fresh, clean and exotic blend of mint, tea and wild fig. A touch of soap in this fragrance makes it so perfect for warm weather.
The mint in this fragrance smells nothing like toothpaste or sugared mints. It’s more herbaceous, like a mint leaf picked fresh from a plant and then ground into a cup of hot tea with a side plate of figs.
It’s a touch green, but nothing grassy or mossy. The rich tea note does tend to dominate, however the scent is rather soft, so it’s nothing like the monster Eau Parfumee au The Rouge by Bvlgari which reminds me of teacher’s staffrooms.
Io Capri is rather true to the Mediterranean weather; pleasant, wearable and never overbearing. If I were to travel on a cruise-ship tomorrow, this is what I’d choose to wear.
I particularly like this fragrance’s rather casual and laid-back approach. It makes me feel comfortable just being me. This fragrance doesn’t need to be masculine and/or feminine, sexy, loud or sharp to make a statement. It’s beautiful on its own.
xseed5 – :
Spearmint, milk candy and ripe fig. Warm and delicious.
vern07 – :
Nice and energetic warm scent. Very expressive fig and green leaves. Love it.
sirgisor – :
Io is so fresh and lush. Just filled with mushed figs. not very sweet but a green, minty fruitness. It is longlasting too. If you like figs than go for this one. Just perfect for airy summerdays
01aleksandr10 – :
Io smells of green fig. I feel a bit fresh mint too, and background smell herbs. Beautiful, joyful fragrance of summer day on Capri. It’s not typically femine, so, I think , if buy it, but it so pleases me.