Bronze Goddess Capri

Today I tested this at Belk after much anticipation. A note about the Bronze Goddess line: Capri is an eau fraiche skinscent like the others from this line, therefore a light scent...that's a great thing for hot summer days though. Also, it's only available once annually in the spring. The Estee Lauder SA told me that once its sold out, no more are produced until the following spring. Review of Capri: Capri is heavy on patchouli in comparison to the coconut-y-suntan lotion-y original Bronze Goddess version available this year. I really like it, but it wasn't what I expected. I find this heavy for summer and believe it would be a great transitional scent for late summer/early fall. This scent is well blended and I smell none of the individual notes, other than patchouli of course. Capri is warm and sensual yet light and refreshing. Verdict: I prefer the scent of the original Bronze Goddess for summer days, but may purchase this for a summer evening or late summer/early fall scent. I LOVE the bottle designs from this line. Rating: 4.5/5 STARS Update: I couldn't wait considering this sells out quickly and then becomes hard-to-find and Estee Lauder also has a free skin care gift with a $35 purchase going on right now,so I bought it from Belk yesterday!

Saw the pretty bottle at the Estee Lauder counter and couldn't resist spraying. My first reaction was of juicy tropical fruit, very refreshing. I expected it to fade away quickly and that the fruitiness would dry down into something that would resemble a tropical cocktail after the ice melts, but this did not happen! When I sniffed my arm a little later, imagine my amazement to smell a soft, creamy vanilla with a good dose of musk. I smell jasmine very easily as well. It's so warm, and with the trail of fruit left behind, it very much made me feel like I was on a beach vacation. I went back to Estee Lauder a couple hours later to purchase a bottle. If you don't like coconut but want a beautiful, tropical perfume for the summer that is not made by Jennifer Lopez or Victoria's Secret, I highly recommend trying this one out. It's basically a tropical vanilla.

I tried it a few hours ago and it was love at first smell! Steps out from the croud. A very, very unique summer's frangrance. Although I'm a huge fan of fresh perfumes like pleasures, I liked it so much, I can still smell it on my wrist. Has a warm scent but it isn't heavy or unpleasant. Very french riviera and sailing boat mood. It reminds me a little of Alchimie Rochas but Capri is much more lighter. I was searching for a cucumber or melon kind of perfume for this summer but although Capri is completely different, I'm definitely going to buy it. So very chic, I love it!

Capri is the only Bronze Goddess I have tried in the range. I can only find it now on Ebay and am constantly on the lookout for it! I always get compliments when I wear it and it seems to suit my skin so well... I absolutely LOVE it!! Anyone who has a bottle for sale, please let me know!!

Update: To add to my previous review below, I wore this again with slightly cooler weather recently, and the amber really stood out for me. Still a soft and subtle amber. I love Capri even more each time I wear it!

most delicious perfume i ve ever smell.vanilla reminds me cacao note like amor the cacao csf.really unique and a bit hard to wear.not so heavy for orange.absolutely all seasons.

I sprayed this all over myself today, and I smell gorgeous and phenomenal. I am a sex goddess.

I found new bottles at the Company Store at an outlet mall

Capri in a bottle? yes. yes. yes.

I sampled it this weekend at Nordstroms-I have Bronze Goddess from 2010 which is a great suntan lotion scent but this bears no resemlence to BG 2010 or 2011. This has citrus, lily of the valley and peony? I would have never guessed. Right away, I get sweet vanilla, jasmine and patchouili. I also thought it smelled rather familiar. this scent is rather linear and remains the same pretty much throughout. It turned into skin scent after about hour and the half, and if I pressed my nose to the skin, I could still smell it fainly, 5 hours after that. For ear frache this is pretty good. I have to say that after 2 hours I finally realized that its smells like softer and lighter version of Pleasures Delight. To my nose, it has a hint of powder also. When I was young, my mom had this powder from Lancome and this is what it reminded me off. My verdict-nice, I like it. I am still trying to decide if I want to buy a bottle since I like it but not madly in love with it. Incidentally, I don't know why its called Capri-I was imagining something with more citrus and more floral smelling with the name like that. I don't think the name really suits it but that's just me

Wow, what a strange fragrance. If you were to mix together the scent of baby wipes, sunscreen and vanilla, you'd get the base of Bronze Goddess Capri. I normally despise fragrances that smell anything like baby wipes or baby powder. Strangely enough, I find this intriguing. In Capri I smell the juicy mandarin orange combined with a smooth vanilla accord, which for some reason takes on that unexpected baby lotion scent. When I put my nose up to my skin, I am first drawn in by the soft, warm vanilla. A second later, the baby wipe scent makes itself known. Then I get the sharp, green, piercing scent of the patchouli and cassis entering the mix. One moment this smells like baby wipes and I can't help but be slightly repulsed. Then at other times I get the gorgeous warm vanilla mixed with the animalic, sensuous vibe of sun-warmed skin. I really like the discord between the creamy vanilla and the sharp patchouli. Last year's Bronze Goddess Soleil was a major snore, and the strangeness of Capri is a definite improvement. I still prefer the suntan oil/hot sand vibe of the original Bronze Goddess, but I am much more fascinated by Capri than I expected.

I think my skin must really like amber! On me it smells full of amber-y goodness, like your skin on a hot day, rather than something designed to cool you down or refresh you. It smells like summer, rather than something designed to refresh on a summer's day. I really like it, it's a sweet light oriental I can use in summer time, but maybe not on a REALLY hot day.

I have a well-preserved bottle of this and, even though I hardly wear it, I can't seem to let go of it either. It is the epitome of summer to me but without the dreaded coconut (I'm not a big coconut fan) or lemon which so many summer frags seem to have. Performance is excellent, sillage is medium.

Tested it today and i gotta say i really like it although its nothing like the previous bronze goddess range. Its definately got better lasting power then soleil anyway. A fair bit heavier then the previous ones too. You can really smell the vanilla in it i am getting this for sure

I do like this product, but I plan to return it, as EL has recently restarting testing certain products on animals in order to enter the chinese market... edit - China no longer requires animal testing, apparently, & I'll be using this one up.

Sadly, I have to agree with Pa.princess. I was very much looking forward to this release, since I own and LOVE all the other ones from this line. Since I live in Europe I had to buy it blind from the internet. Once it arrived I put it on immediately and hated it, I was still hoping it would get better once it dried down..it didn't. Can't describe it any other way. It is nothing like bronze goddess eau fraiche or soleil. I don't even feel like it's particularly a summer scent. To me, this smells just like Givenchy's Amarige Mariage, which I don't like. I will stick with the original Bronze Goddess..

I've always been a fan of Bronze Goddess. It's rich coconut smell just takes you away. However, Capri is just plain awful. I feel like I rubbed myself against a diaper. Horrible. If I wanted to smell like this I would just wear talcum powder. Seriously, it smells like a nursery. Worst part, it stays on strong for hours. I had the nerve to spray it once on my arm before a 4 hour flight and I regretted it the entire trip.

I am shocked at the positive reviews here. I was in a department store buying skincare and saw this on the shelf across the room. When I had a chance, I sampled it. Maybe the bottle had turned, or maybe I didn't allow it to burn down, but this wasn't good at all. Very pungent and sour and dated. The bottle looks like a coconut vacation happy fragrance. That is not what I got.

Sprinkling yourself with baby powder and eating a vanilla ice cream sandwich while staring at a sea of liquified amber... weird image right? That is what Bronze Goddess Capri smells like to me. This fragrance evokes no sense of summer at all. Perhaps if I imagine I'm doing these activities while seated in an inflatable pool raft, it'll feel more summery.

Once the citrus dies down this smells a bit like baby lotion (something that I don't personally mind). I kind of got talked into buying this by the sales assistant - I was buying some moisturiser and they had a free gift if you bought two products. She said they only had 2 left and they're a limited edition. I like it but I don't love it.