Carthusia Io Capri

Today is the perfect day for Io de Capri in LA- It rained all evening and into the morning and it’s not going to crack 60? (I know, cry me a river..) The reason it’s so perfect is not just that it’s a perfectly blended mix of citrus, tea and fig, but that it’s such a happy little thing.

All scents evoke some sort of feeling: some are contemplative, nostalgic, or even sad. Some are light-hearted or even giddy. Io Capri makes me think of a perfect vacation, sitting in a shaded hammock on a warm day, sipping a cool iced tea and deamily gazing out at the Tyrrhenian sea. An afternoon without worries about jobs, fiscal cliffs or even what to get for dinner. No iPhone to distract you; even your magazine lay discarded as too much distraction. You might even drift off into a nap, or you might just lay there and listen to the gentle surf and the sound of your own rhythmic breathing. It’s so lovely and peaceful that just lay and baste in the sense of peace that is so rare to us all these days. Much like a perfect sense of peace, it’s not a terribly long lasting scent. I get about three hours before it becomes a very nice tea scent with a hint of fig.

Since that experience happens so less often in real life that one would hope, $75 for 50ML seems like a bargain. Io Capri is available at Luckyscent, where I asked for my sample and at various other internet sources.