Capeline

I love this fragrance with passion!! It’s the most luxurious, sophisticated, smooth, creamy blend of white lily, ylang ylang with sweet, marine accords, vanilla and clean musk. Smells so rich, it’s divine in my opinion. Smells so intoxicating, upscale and expensive and I want to bathe in it, that’s how much I love Capeline... This is the fragrance to take with you on your Euro summer vacation. Or any exotic destination to be quite honest. It might challenge the number one spot for the best ylang ylang fragrance in collection and dethrone Ylang Ylang Nosy Be! I have to wear them side by side to decide whether it’s the case. But with Ylang Ylang Nosy Be I have a love affair for years...Capeline is the new fling! I own a few of lily, ylang ylang, tropical leaning perfumes, designer and niche, but feel like I don’t have anything so alluring and gorgeous as Capeline. It’s an elegant floral fragrance, very attractive and feminine. It was instant love for me and couldn’t leave YSL counter without a bottle! It’s also very pricey but I regret nothing...Will update about the way it performs in a couple of days. Update August 2024: the performance is great on Capeline. It’s not a beast mode scent, but it’s an intense one. Got me several compliments. As far as the intensity of ylang ylang goes, after testing it side by side with Ylang Ylang Nosy Be, Ylang Ylang Nosy Be wins by far. Capeline is beautiful and has a prominent ylang ylang note, but it’s more lily forward than ylang ylang. Therefore, Perris Monte Carlo’s perfume is still my number one scent in my collection that I feel it highlights the best the note of ylang ylang!

This is a very interesting mature white floral scent that carries an aquatic body with it. There are absolutely no indoles in this one, whoever says this smells pissy aka rotten lilies is most likely prejudiced or has the nose of a Belgian Malinois. The opening does not even smell like lilies, as the citrus, ylang and sea water take over the scene rather strongly. I was disappointed after spraying it on the paper, as I am a lover of lily, indoles and ceremonial fragrances. The opening is fresh marine and slightly floral with some sweetness. I was surprised some hours later when i arrived home to discover the paper strip evolved dramatically now that the citrus notes were gone and the lilies stood out better covered in a breeze of fresh ocean water. The white musk and vanilla compliment it and offer a very gentle suave warm-skin like drydown. I see this as purely unisex, a fresh-white-flowers-with-shadow-and-intimacy type of perfume.

I picked this up at Neiman's in Palo Alto at the weekend as a blind buy. First off, the steely grey juice is stunning. At first spray I was overwhelmed with the kind of satisfaction one can only feel when winning the blind buy Russian Roulette. This fragrance is European sophistication in a bottle. It evokes visions of a simple linen dress and wide-brimmed hat while sitting on a beach chair or a yacht off the Amalfi Coast. It is a very "old money" vibe. It doesn't have remarkable projection or tenacity, behaving more as a skin scent. (I think that's where everything is going these days with all the new restrictions.) Regardless, this is a must buy if you like smelling like you were born into extreme wealth.

The creamiest prettiest sweet Vanilla Lily. I can smell Ylang in here too even tho it’s not listed. It is not a fresh lily like Baiser Vole by Cartier. Slightly reminds me of Lys Soleia by Guerlains Aqua Allegoria but this one is so much more airier and just so feminine and not as banana sweet like Soleia but more Lily. Also has a vibe of Vert Malachite but I love this one so much more. Hopefully my comparison will give you an idea which direction this fragrance is leaning to. It’s so addicting, I keep smelling myself when I wear it. Gorgeous feminine addition to YSL privet line. They were lacking on feminine scents, I’m super happy to see 2 gorgeous feminine scents added.

I initially stopped in Neiman’s to test Caban from this line because I had heard so many great things about it. After testing it I wasn’t immediately wowed as much as I expected. HOWEVER, The SA mentioned that this was the newest addition to the line and upon testing it, it immediately captivated me. There is something very ethereal and comforting about this scent. It is very creamy, fresh, feminine, and vanilla forward. I get a bit of a violet vibe although it is not in the description. This is a very modern, classic, everyday scent. I cannot stop sniffing my wrist!