Jour d'Étè
by Roberto Capucci

One of a trio of Capuccis packed in trapezoidal ceramic bottles: Corps Fou, Sang Royal, and this 'beauty.' They date from some time in the 1980s and represent the Hades to R de Capucci's Olympus Mons. Summer day? A sweet powdery citrus of almost nauseating quality, this smells of shabby old prostitute rather than a gentleman in white. Well, I’ll settle for “tacky drugstore frag”. Come to think of it, this is a travesty of Capucci pour homme, an extremely well made floral citrus. Jour d'Été is “Divine” (as in John Waters, not Yvonne Mouchel) impersonating Faye Dunaway.

11th March, 2007.