Eau de Fleurs Capucine

I've been wearing this scent for about a week now. First this is a superb green scent!! There' aren't many reviews for Capucine so I'll try to write up a summary of what everyone said and touch up with my personal experience. The Capucine experience is definitely about showcasing the raw qualities of galbanum, a type of grass resin. The scent opens with loud, prickly galbanum that evokes smell of fresh cut grass and crushed vegetation. The clary sage and juniper berries added vegetal spiciness to the galbanum, rounding and smoothing out the bitterness that would otherwise be overwhelming. During the several days of wear I have not noticed any citrus notes, so either they are very well blended with the other top notes (making it a "tea note" like other reviewers described), or that they are weak. The fresh, energizing blast of green vegetation goes on about 1 hour before it dies down to a skin scent. This is the time that the white florals supposed to appear, but they don't (or at least I haven't detected them). The scent becomes a little more soapy from the rose-musk combo of Chloe's, but it's not recognizable unless I deliberately search from it after looking at the note pyramid. The pleasant grassy-musky skin scent then stays linear and finally disappear after 7, 8 hours on me. By hour 5 I'd be able to safely layer other scents on it. The overall experience is an understated, unisex but very elegant presence. I think it's a perfect scent for spring and summer, and would work extremely well on rainy days. So, Capucine is simple. Yet I cannot emphasize enough that despite the lack of complex concept and development, Capucine is far from being a "boring" scent. It belongs to very niche category of green scents which, instead of capturing the instant beauty of blooming flowers, attempts to deliver a full picture of the natural history of the plant. I find the smell almost like paying a humble tribute to the great outdoors. It is for this exact reason I adore this big olive bottle in my wardrobe.

A wonderful and classy scent with herbal and green rea notes. Smells natural throughout all the stages of this perfume, which makes me doubt any comparisons with Sisley freen scents - they smelled downright artificial in the drydown. My Capucine starts with bergamot, sage and yummy green tea. Then green tea steeps and becomes stronger, with a touch of juniper berries. Out the notes of the pyramid that's all I get - no flowers at all - nicht, nada. Oh, and the most pronounced note of green tea is not indicated somehow... This a beautiful well-balanced green and herbal scent that somehow makes me think of Yoga. Capucin has the same tranquility and closeness to nature as I associate with Yoga. I'm very relieved that Louise Turner had decided to create a green scent without the watery aquatic notes, that are falsely tied with freshness and greenness. So what we have is a very wearable naturalistic green scent that is perfect for daytime in spring and summer. I sprayed my wrist once at 3 pm, and at 10 pm I have faint grassy drydown, but a couple of hours ago the scent was still noticeable when I waived the hand gesturing. This one is very easy to love and wear, it's undemanding, but has character. A keeper.

Wow... What a floral green this is!!! I LOVE it! The bonus is that this is totally unisex on my skin. I could name countless popular green fragrances that I prefer this one over, even Chanel No.19. This is one of THE best green perfumes I've ever had the pleasure of owning. The longevity is amazing and the sillage is excellent. It's so fresh, floral and green all at once. Of all gender-benders, this is one of my favorites. My Un Jardin Sur Le Nil finally has a green perfume worthy of standing next to it in my collection.

Wow! This is so different than scents I normally choose. I have a small coffret of this brilliant perfume trifecta & love to revisit them every Spring. If you like Estée Lauder Private Collection or Mark Earth you will undoubtedly enjoy and appreciate this. It is grassy, pungent, soft, herbaceous, green, spicy & divine. You won't smell like anyone else around you wearing this. The dry down is the smell of your natural skin after spending a Spring day at the Park. Cheers!

initial blast - grass oil, love it 30 minutes - totaly disappeared (maybe i was immune to whatever note surfaced) 1 hour - a very gentle and very clean skin scent *swoon*. i'm starting to notice that the house of Chloe very expertly combines rose and musk to achieve this lovely scent 10 hours - intoxicating soft musk drydown, sits very close to the skin would wear this exquisite fragrance on an intimate date ;-)