Capture

Capture to me is the captain of the Black Bay collection - a trilogy of spicy, boozy and seaweedy/woody scents telling tales of swashbuckling, plunder and treasure islands, created by Antonio Visconti for Royal Crown. Luckily here are no immediate in your face spicy and salty marine notes to greet you; instead we seem to have thrown anchor at a tropical island for replenishing as the composition opens creamy with honey infused vanilla and a tuberose/jasmine bouquet freshened by lime and a rather intriguing warm woody base of sandalwood and ebony with mild algal greenness. It smells as if the hold of our ship had been loaded with exotic florals bunched together and put over barrels of rare spices and resins. In fact I am getting a strange feeling the crew is too well behaved to really be pirates; no rowdy and violent drinking games anywhere. Perhaps they're really posh tradesmen instead of smugglers or brigands. Maybe we're on board of Umberto Eco's abandoned Daphne ready to be explored by the shipwrecked Roberto della Griva? Or, better yet, we could be guests of the returning Edmond Dantes, Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, who'd amass immense riches and distinguish himself through an enigmatic air of mystery and elusiveness, romance and discerning taste! Whereas its cousins Flying Dutch (in particular) and Adventure are rougher featuring more raw boozy notes, aggressive spices (cumin) and sharper high tide marine accords, Capture feels like a holiday after the plunder got divided. Sensual, tropical, warm and relaxed - like a perfect cocktail and never too sweet or even boring. Very good longevity of 10 hours (swiped) and great projection.

Earthy sweetness with more woody notes. I could sense the seaweed somehow hazy but quite clear with teak wood and a slight aquatic too. Sandalwood and cedar are the leaders but the styrax is on top with the slight twist of ebony tree. It's not really impressive as much as the bottle's shape! it's just slightly a gourmand essence when it settles abit as i begin to smell melted milk chocolate. I really don't see this bottle fits this juice!