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Capriccio Sospiro 2011

7.7 / 10 152 Ratings

A popular perfume by Sospiro for women and men, released in 2011. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Woody

Sweet

Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Neroli

Lime

Heart Notes

White blossoms

Coumarin

Cinnamon

Red fruits

Base Notes

Patchouli

Cashmeran

Musk

Ambergris

Sandalwood Vetiver

Vetiver

Oud

Ratings

Scent

7.7152 Ratings

Longevity

8.4123 Ratings

Sillage

7.9116 Ratings

Bottle

7.8123 Ratings

Value for money

6.817 Ratings

Submitted by Florblanca · last update on 12/17/2025.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/24/2015

5Scent

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

Very helpful Review

Expensive Narciso Rodriguez

Again kicks in Sospiro magic, one of Xerjoff brands, in bringing into the expensive perfume market what you find in the mainstream one. For me, it's hard to see this strategy without critics. I cannot understand, unless you are a collector of expensive bottles, the appeal of purchasing a beautiful and exotic presentation and receive a fragrance that i would be very surprised if it costed, in formula terms, 10% of what is charged. You know, it's like, in chocolate terms, paying for a Godiva (or other chocolates more expensive) package with a Hershey's content. what's the point, paying high just for pay? The final result is not bad, this is not the case, but what you receive is not consistent with what you expende. Structurally, this perfume is for me Narciso Rodriguez in the EDT concentration. Like Narciso, it has a radiant aura and conveys a creamy, cozy, exquisite aura, a mixture of patchouli, luminous ambars and musk that trade the silky roses here for white flowers as silk as the roses in a way that there isn't a huge difference at the final result. Like Narciso, it's a sufficiently unissex fragrance due the musky and woody (non dry) aura. I would like to believe that there is higher cost in the production of this one, but even from the creative point i cannot justify it for me. It's, basically, another exclusive/niche fragrance made for who doesn't want to wear what everyone can without noticing that it's being folled and paying high for what many can get at a more affordable price.

08/29/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

GothicHeart
133 Reviews

GothicHeart

2

Smells like mommy's magic...

I'm six or seven years old. My stunningly beautiful and young mother is ironing some clothes on a cold winter afternoon. She's using some new, groundbreaking ironing spray, whose great "innovation" is having a handle attached to its can. The windows become slowly steamy and our small kitchen is filled with an almost magical scent of warm and cuddly cleanliness. I raise my head from my toy soldiers and, nearly ecstatic, I sniff the air. My mother looks at me and smiles. "Smells good, huh kiddo?". For the next couple of ironings I wouldn't omit to spray some of this comforting elixir on me every time my mother would leave the room, so as to experience a little more of its magic, and my very first encounters with terms like sillage and longevity. Until I was caught red handed, and the can was put way out of my reach. In what feels like a thousand years ago, my petite, delicate mother used to live in the realms of Fidji, J'ai Ose and Tamango. But all these huge scents aside, a cheap ironing spray is the scent that reminds me of her the most. The scent of an ordinary family moment on a cold winter afternoon, some forty years ago. And this is exactly the reason that makes it so unique, beloved and unforgettable...

12/26/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

1

Nirmala-esque

When I requested a sample of Sospiro CAPRICCIO, I thought that it was a XerJoff perfume. Now I see that Sospiro is some sort of XerJoff franchise, with an independent face. Maybe the situation is similar to the LVMH umbrella covering both Christian Dior and Acqua di Parma, et al., with a single house perfumer overseeing the creative output. I wonder why XerJoff, which is relatively new, would not just want to issue this group of perfumes as a special series in its line-up, rather than establishing a whole separate house. Probably for the same reason that Acqua di Parma and Dior pretend to be independent, though François Demarchy signs all of the perfumes being launched by both houses these days. Ah, the twists and turns of the modern business of perfumery.

How does CAPRICCIO smell? Well, I should say that it smacks of Thierry ANGEL, especially since I recently revisited that perfume. The truth, however, is that it is much closer to Molinard NIRMALA, which would surely be identified by some as an ANGEL knock-off, were it issued today. Instead, it was launched in 1955, so in order for it to be a knock-off, the perfumer would have had to travel forward in time more than fifty years! CAPRICCIO, too, could easily be mistaken for an ANGEL knock-off, in fact much more easily, since it was launched after, not before that perfume.

Why are all of these would-be knockoffs better than ANGEL, according to my nose? Because they are actually wearable and, yes, CAPRICCIO is a case in point. Sweet patchouli flavored with fruits. The texture is somewhat chewy but pleasant and the overwhelming opening of ANGEL seems to have been edited away, that is, never put in in the first place!

Going against the grain, I tend to prefer the "knockoffs" to the original dark ANGEL, which is a classic case to my nose of more is more than more: it is simply too much! That said, I would recommend Molinard NIRMALA to anyone who takes a liking to Sospiro CAPRICCIO. You'll be able to buy yourself a new iphone or some other quintessentially twenty-first-century gadget with the change that you pocket by settling for such a backwards, twentieth-century perfume offered still today by a house with a 150 year history but which gets no respect for some inscrutable reason.

I suppose that it might have something to do with their country bumpkin marketing. I simply delete Molinard's emails, preferring to focus on the scent of their perfumes, which is often quite good.

12/17/2025

8Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

GharibMD
14 Reviews

GharibMD

1

sadly discontinued

I understand this has been sadly discontinued.
It is very nice: opens with the bright nerolis and within 30 minutes gets into a very clean musky base. I do not detect any oud accord but gets a mild hint of patchouli.
It is perfectly unisex and not offensive at all. Allrounder/versatile.
I would give it 8/10

05/31/2017

9.5Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

Elbchen
85 Reviews

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Elbchen

Top Review 15

You play the melody of my heart!

It has become quiet in the manor. The servants are just extinguishing the lights and I am waiting until I can sneak down the stairs.
It is forbidden, if I were caught, the consequences would be unimaginable.
And yet, it drives me out to you, I know you are waiting for me in the nearby park.
My long dress sweeps around my legs, I run down the uneven path as fast as I can, my hair coming loose from the braid that the maid has woven for me for the night.

A shadow crosses my path, laughing you catch me and whirl me around.
Your lips taste of red fruits, are they berries?
I feel a little dizzy, you slowly let me back down to the ground, your embrace loosens. The moon breaks through the cloud-covered night a little and I see your blue eyes, how can eyes be so deep blue and pure?
You take my hand and lead me to the little bench and I shiver a bit, not because I am cold but because my heart goes out of rhythm every time you are with me.
A sweet white floral scent lingers in the air, mixing with your breath and you give me a wooden box, the wood exudes a wonderful woody spicy scent.
When I open it, there lies a small locket in a sea of white flowers, it is black and white. I wish I could capture the colors so that I always have your blue eyes with me... now I also know where this beautiful scent comes from!

"Will you wait for me?"
I nod silently. A heavy feeling overcomes me, my throat closes up, I don’t want to think about you leaving me. Not to think about not seeing you for a long time... but you are a musician, the offer to play on the new Titanic for its maiden voyage was a unique opportunity for you. I heard you play at a grand society event, with every stroke of the violin you played your way into my heart. We made efforts for random encounters, we simply had to see each other. No one must find out, my father would probably imprison me for the rest of my life. Until one of the maids observed us and informed my father.
He scolded me terribly, I had never seen him so beside himself. Did I not know what was proper, what my station was, to whom I was beholden?
We were left only with the night and its secret hours. And I always heard your music in my heart when you were with me. The day after tomorrow you would board, you would travel without me to a great wonderful land full of opportunities and we hoped that you would find a position in a great orchestra there and bring me to you. That was all I wanted.
To be with you, to share life with you.

You never arrived in New York.
You never got to play in a great orchestra.
In the deep sea night you lie buried, your name was in the newspaper with the others who also lost their lives.
I did not know that a heart can truly break. Until that moment.
The musicians probably played until the end, until the sinking they were with the other people and held out. Did you hope for rescue? Were you alone, all alone in the cold sea when death reached for you?
The church service that my father forced me to attend hurts so terribly. I hold the locket tightly, it rests warm against my chest. My father wanted to take it from me, I was half mad with pain, but my mother understood. Understood everything, knew of my love for you. All that remained of you was the beautiful wooden box and the locket...
Never have the violins sounded more bittersweet in the church than on that day, the piano never sadder. And I was like deaf, I didn’t even have tears left to cry.

I never married. I remained faithful to you, all those years. I attended many concerts, music meant everything to me. But I could never hear my heart's melody again, it faded on the day of your death. A faint sense overtakes me when I open my wooden box, the flowers have long since dried, and yet a strong beautiful floral scent clings to it, which has mixed with the woody aroma.
I have bequeathed my fortune to a foundation, a foundation for young people who love music as much as you loved it. They can learn there how to make music for the hearts. How to touch people deep within.

"Poor aunt. She was always so alone. Shall we place the locket around her neck? It meant so much to her..."
"Yes, and we will place her little wooden box beside her. She has kept it all these years and it should be buried with her."

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25 short views on the fragrance

Basilisk2803

3 years ago

2

Blind bought and sold it 10 y. a.,&bought it again. Nothing weird about it! Delicate pleasant unisex, playing masculine to feminine and back

Pepper81

9 years ago

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

12

1

So far, I haven't smelled a more beautiful floral scent. Wonderfully delicate with amazing spices. A noble fragrance with unique beauty!

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Sweetsmell75

9 years ago

7.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

12

2

A spiced bouquet that comes across very delicately and transitions into a creamy finish. The scent is elegant! But Sweetsmell doesn't like it too floral ;)

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