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A Girl in Capri
Four materials, and no attempt at complication: Lanvin A Girl in Capri Eau de Toilette is a lemon scent with a soft finish, and it is best bought with that in mind.
Lemon leads and leads obviously. It is the bright, juicy, slightly tart kind rather than a lemon peel bitterness, and bergamot sits with it to add a greener, more rounded citrus edge. For the first fifteen minutes that is the entire fragrance, and it is genuinely cheerful. What happens next is that the citrus thins, as citrus always does, and the base comes up to meet it: white musk, clean and cottony and a little soapy, and amber, which brings a resinous, faintly powdery warmth and is the only thing here with any weight.
That is the whole composition, so treat it as a short one. There is nothing to wait for and no dark turn in the afternoon, which for a summer fragrance is less a failing than a design decision. Sophie Labbé composed it and it was released in 2019.
In wear it is light and it will not last a working day. Three or four hours is realistic, and a toilette this citrus led is meant to be reapplied, so a small bottle in a bag is the sensible approach. It is at its best in hot weather, on holiday, in the daytime, and on anyone who wants to smell clean and uncomplicated rather than interesting. It reads young and feminine, and it would suit a first fragrance for somebody who finds sweet perfume cloying.
Lanvin began in 1889 when Jeanne Lanvin, a milliner, opened a hat shop in Paris and then moved into dressmaking through the 1890s. Since 1964 the perfumes have come from a company of their own rather than from the couture business, and that couture business has belonged to the Chinese owned Lanvin Group since 2018. Arpege, from 1927, remains the name the perfumery is known by.
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