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Chypre Alpa

6.8 / 10 24 Ratings

A perfume by Alpa for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is chypreartig-sweet. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Chypre

Sweet

Powdery

Floral

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Vanilla

Floral notes Musk

Musk

Oakmoss

Tree moss

Chypre accord

Ratings

Scent

6.824 Ratings

Longevity

5.419 Ratings

Sillage

4.318 Ratings

Bottle

5.521 Ratings

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4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/31/2015

7.5Scent 6Longevity 4Sillage

Gold
726 Reviews

Gold

1

Nostalgic Cologne from Prague

If you expect a rich, smooth, polished creation, Alpa's "Chypre" will disappoint you. When perfumistas hear the word "chypre", the hope is that it will be one of those masterpieces in the style of "Mitsouko" or "Paloma Picasso". "Chypre" by Alpa has been in production for ages and is a classic, modest Cologne from the Czech Republic. It survived socialism and is still available at a very moderate price.
I smell some bergamot, a touch of oakmoss and after a while, a certain woodiness combined with a sweet touch of vanilla and musk becomes obvious. It stays on the skin for about three hours. I don't know whether it was "re-orchestrated", but if it was, this has been done with respect to its classical roots. No grand chypre, but a decent Cologne with a very nostalgic touch.

01/18/2026

Alperten
9 Reviews

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Alperten

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This is how I imagine the scent of the 50s

Well, I find the fragrance quite good overall. However, it is admittedly very old-fashioned and linear.

When I let one of my family members smell it, they said it smelled like an old cologne from Eastern Europe. - Fair point, I would say.

For me, the scent simply has this old-fashioned, somewhat animalistic musk with light chypre and citrus accords.

To my nose, it is very linear and artificial and "rough."

It certainly belongs to that extinct type of incredibly powdery (musk-powdery and not iris-powdery!), yet very masculine fragrances.

I was lucky enough to test it in the real world. Otherwise, it is definitely worth a purchase, provided you want a very old-fashioned, rough musk-chypre men's scent.

Best regards

10/03/2018

7.5Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

FvSpee
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FvSpee

Top Review 20

An Ordinary Chypre

As the penultimate fragrance in my little "Czech series," Chypre - once again from Alpa - comes next. Chypre is a cologne, and measured by that standard, the sillage and especially the longevity of about four hours (with generous application) is quite remarkable.

This cologne opens with a bang, featuring a typically cologne-like explosive burst of atypical floral-sweet and soapy-synthetic notes. Following a creamy yet occasionally somewhat animalistic intermediate phase, which I perceive as cool (even though floral-sweet and cool seem hard to combine), a very nice, gentle, calm, moderately warm dry down begins around the third hour, in which I can identify moss (and perhaps other green notes) and vanilla as clearly as in hardly any other fragrance I have ever tested - which blends excellently here; musk is also said to be present, which I find plausible.

In the late phase of the fragrance, I can easily imagine Chypre on a gentleman's pocket square or on his cheeks (perhaps a gentleman with a certain fondness for the interwar period) (I borrowed this image again from the "Pomadeshop" website, through which those who do not often travel to or through Bohemia like I do can obtain these fragrances). However, this is less the case at the outset - the bouquet of this fragrance strikes me as incredibly fascinating, to say the least, or even provocative or exciting, yet at the same time somewhat intrusive and, well, let's say it, vulgar and cheap. Perhaps this impression can be moderated by further tests with now lower dosages (which will likely also affect the longevity).

This somewhat ambivalent finding is responsible for the "compromise rating" of 7.5 that I have given - although I find this "Chypre" in a certain way extremely attractive - and also for the title of the review. It is inspired by the third part of the so-called "noetic trilogy" presented in the early thirties (thus fitting for the fragrance) by the unfortunately not very well-known, excellent Czech writer Karel Capek. This third part is titled "An Ordinary Life" (obycejny zivot). It depicts from the first-person perspective of posthumous papers the life of a middle-class Bohemian railway official, behind whose respectable and decent facade lies (alongside other, morally far more problematic abysses) a dark attraction to the type of ordinary, even repulsive woman (which is occasionally acted upon). I could not avoid thinking of such a dubious woman when experiencing the opening of this fragrance.

The bottle pleases me, as is almost always the case with this brand: I think there is no attempt at "vintage" here; retro is simply lived. The label looks like it has fallen out of time at least eight decades ago; I find it beautiful and fitting for the fragrance. Unfortunately, it lacks a splash (or spray) mechanism, which is a pity. Because one should probably not use "Chypre" purely for washing hands and face. While the large opening suggests this, the fatal consequences of an overdose should indeed be avoided.

Updated on 10/03/2018

12/18/2013

8Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Schmörkes
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Schmörkes

Very helpful Review 7

A Relic from a Bygone Era

The company Alpa, a traditional manufacturer from the Czech Republic, offers a whole range of beautifully outdated aftershaves and colognes. The opportunity was ripe to use a trip to Prague as a starting point for a little time travel in terms of old man scents:

It's difficult to describe a fragrance for which there is no comparison; after application, a bitter sweetness spreads, no, a honeybee dipped in a powder box with floral advances indulges its musk fetish.

I am truly unfamiliar with such a composition. But not unappealing.
The downside is that the cologne has a certain longevity, I estimate about 4 hours, but it quickly becomes very close to the skin.

The Pomade Shop places the Chypre in the era of the 1920s or 1930s of the last century. Although I cannot verify this, it is certainly a long-forgotten type of fragrance.
A clear recommendation for the curious and nostalgic, available in CZ for about 40-50 K? on the bay it should be around 5-6€ plus shipping.

I give the Chypre 80% for its originality; I cannot fault it for the lack of sillage or longevity, as it is marketed only as a cologne. The 100ml glass bottle is appropriate for the time and the content, a thick standard glass bottle with a paper label, that's really all it needs...