Al Nashama Caprice

This review is pretty much the same as my review for Riiffs Fareed as they are so similar in quality and scent profile, I'd struggle to choose between them! I'm astounded that a fragrance at this price not only competes with a classic like the now discontinued LNDH Bleu electrique but surpasses it. Many inspirational scents fall short but occasionally something comes along that is astounding. For around £30 GBP you get a classic that performs way beyond it has any right to! It projects at way over arms length for a good few hours and remaining easily noticeable, but slightly closer for the same again. The sillage is very good and people will take notice without any respiratory issues. Again, it's a classic for a reason. Timeless and distinguished. As per the original it's a male dominant scent, hence the name of the YSL offering. But hey, these days you can pretty much wear what ever floats your boat! Wear in almost any situation and whatever season it happens to be. This product will do it all. Probably for the more level headed, civilised type of individual but if you enjoy quality and class why not give it a go, whatever your age! The fresh, blue tinge to this may well draw in a younger crowd. The actual scent is so incredibly well blended that it truly belies it's price. The notes listed are all fairly distinguishable singularly and combine beautifully as a whole. This juice is just a little bit more lively all around over the original, hence why it offers offers the much welcomed increase in performance. Someone seems to have asked themselves how they could keep the essence of the original but improve it in just about every area.....they succeeded spectacularly. Now, you'd think it's lucky to find one decent clone of a classic but stone me, I managed to stumble across two together! If you like the sound of this but would prefer something without the added notes of Lavender and mint then you really need to try Fareed by Riiffs. It has all of the quality and performance of this Lattafa offering but sticks more closely to the original NLDH, another true classic that absolutely oozes refinement in my view. Either are just excellent, offering strength and performance quite a bit better than the perfumes they copy without losing the identity of the originals. Honestly, I'm more a fan of classic Barbershop, Fougere and chypre style of fragrance but these are an excellent alternative when I fancy something different.

Oh man, I knew it was a very high value hidden gem when I wore it half a year after maturation. I hoped that people would not talk about it because it was so freaking special! Even though this is completely irrational because there are almost 8 billion people on earth but I still wanted to be the only one smelling like this. For the ones disliking it on the first spray: please let it mature first. This fragrance especially needed a very long time to develop, and trust me, it has so much potential to become one of your all time favourites. Fast forward 6 months of maturation, I gave it another try because I had nothing else I wanted to wear that day. Second spray in I got this deep, iris-like, lipsticky goodness with the main DNA of LNDL. And first time in my whole journey I really audibly said: whoa! Because this fragrance just does something with your senses and emotions. Just feeling wise it navigates between somewhere you don't really like and somewhere you just love and adore. At the same time it is so artsy that you appreciate the perfumers work behind it and wonder how heshe did it. Al Nashama Caprice just makes you caving for more. That feeling I described resonated with other people when I went outside. I was standing on a red light. People were turning heads, two girls took deep breaths and I knew I wasn't the only one who liked it. This went on for the rest of the night, people were taking deep breaths left and right, but the situation standing at the red light I remember the best. I have to say, that until today I did not wear it often. Not because I don't like it but because I wanted it to be a special scent for me (I get bored easily when wearing the same fragrance too often). So there you have it, now it's quite popular anyway. Now I have said what I would have said if I didn't want to gatekeep this fragrance. Until today I wonder how the OG would have smelled like and why the f**** YSL discontinued that one.

I heard about this fragrance as I was on a buying frenzy and I also noted the discontinued LNDLBE original that I hadn't had the pleasure of experiencing. I've had this Al Nashama Caprice for about 5 months and wondered what all of the stories were about as I didn't get the hype about it and having not smelled the original I didn't have a comparison. It was on the shelf with its cheap plastic cover along with others and I had the odd spray every now and again to see if anything dynamic happened and although I enjoyed the fragrance it really didn't light any fires to my nose. Anyway, in a quiet evening in my house I decided to try it on my hand along with others on other areas. Nothing particularly amazing happened on that hand so I thought it hadn't changed and because i had others on me I kept going back to them to enjoy the sniffs. Then an hour or so later I poured myself a drink and I wondered what the scent on my left hand was as it was one that was really good. I had forgotten the scent I sprayed as I had around 8 on me at the time in different areas, but I realised it was this one. Al Nashama Caprice. It is absolutely fantastic. It took some time apparently but now I know why people rate it so highly. It is very very much on the drydown. I guess all things come to those who wait after all. There is no better dupe than a dupe that brings a discontinued fragrance back to life.

I've had this stuff for the better part of 7-8 months, I gave it a pretty good review back then, but to me it seemed as though something was lacking in it. It had that LNDLH dna pretty good, enough to where it felt like a slightly better perfoming version than I remember my sample of LNDLH having. I also got big comparisons to Khamrah with an added freshness to it, and so it just felt redundant in my little collection. Probably sprayed it all of 20 times, worn it a couple of times out. Zoom forward to now. I HATE sounding cliche, and maybe I'm just being fooled by nose, but I came back to this sniffing around in my collection as I and I'm sure most of us do, and I remembered that it had been a while since sampling this, and oh man, the performance side is still pretty average, not huge, but it'll get you through a workday, but the scent is SO MUCH BETTER. I hate saying that, because most of the clones I've bought, have been mistakes, never getting much better if it all with maturation. This finally seems like it doesn't smell like Khamrah to me at all, and it has to me the LNDLH dna all over it, but as weird as it sounds, with like a touch of the OG Le Male.

One of the only times the Dumb Lattafa Twist® actually paid off. Based on the legendary Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit de l'Homme Bleu Electriqué, but with and amber twist and a hint of cinnamon. This one was earth shattering in the fragcom when first released, carried a ridiculous score in here of 4.60+ for the first 5 months it was out. Two years later, the smoke has cleared and it sits at a 4.23 which I think is a little low for what you get. So what do you get? You get what I like to think of as a modernized take on La Nuit de l'Homme with some hints of Bleu Electriqué. The classic DNA is there and everything is bolstered and stronger, an added cinnamon note in the middle (not listed in here but I'm other sites and I definitely smell it) and a very nice amber base. I do not get any mint. This is sweeter and more powdery than the original. The blending is very good (especially considering this is Lattafa), and the performance is great. I own some vintage 2011 La Nuit, Bleu Electriqué, La Nuit EDP, Frozen Cologne, and I used to have Le Parfum. They all bore me, but I still enjoy Al Nashama Caprice.