BlackSoul Imperial Ted Lapidus 2009 Eau de Toilette

BlackSoul Imperial (Eau de Toilette) by Ted Lapidus

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7.6 / 10 168 Ratings

A popular perfume by Ted Lapidus for men, released in 2009. The scent is spicy-woody. It was last marketed by Groupe Bogart.

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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Oriental

Leathery

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Coffee

Citrus fruits

Heart Notes

Saffron

Mint

Base Notes

Amber

Leather

Oud

Perfumer

Karine Dubreuil-Sereni

Ratings

Scent

7.6168 Ratings

Longevity

7.6135 Ratings

Sillage

7.2140 Ratings

Bottle

7.8135 Ratings

Value for money

8.450 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 19.04.2024.

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/11/2019

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Minigolf
312 Reviews

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Minigolf

Top Review 12

"Lapidus", that makes famous tasty smells in the tin....

... The idea for such an advertising slogan plays somewhere else, but what the hell. It's just a very practical tin can, which is the home of the bottle.
The finely dispersed mist develops on the skin into an even more "hot" fresh espresso. Then the saffron is added. It's like smelling a bag of coffee beans and the excellent "cake spice" at the same time, but not in the narrower sense of "gourmand". Rather very dark aromatic-spicy. Still quite "hot".
It immediately causes a "frost fur" on the skin to sink down and feels comfortable.
It stays that way for quite a while, although in the background there are more beautiful scent chords already attracting attention. First very subtly, then more and more wrap the "pre-scent" around it, wrap it up without suppressing it.
Warm amber and tart woods and the "inky" chord of birch tar (leather). Restrained, elegant, yet powerful, the overall fragrance of "BlackSoul Imperial" comes to the fore. It lasts a very long time without changing much (only a quiet "bubbling" inside the fragrance can be heard). The Sillage is good without being obtrusive.
For my nose, the perfume fits rather into the colder season, because it seems so "densely woven and warming". And dark. The kind of darkness that is mysterious, slightly "magical" but always benevolent.
In the meantime I already got to know several scents of Ted Lapidus and each one is well made in its own way and no copy of another scent brand. Slight similarities may well exist, but independence is always in the foreground. So is "BlackSoul Imperial".

10/19/2021

10
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

ThomC
20 Reviews

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ThomC

Very helpful Review 16

The Yogi Tea® in autumn

Most of the time, this goes wrong with a perfume, when everything is mixed in that is perceived to be possible. Some Arabs tailored to the Western audience like to be so, also some niche brands, as well as the bulk of the nice Rammsteiner, to give a popular example. In it, you'll find a mishmash of individual components that make the final product thick and immobile. Like pizza from a cab with a meter-thick cheese layer of analog Gouda: initially quite nice for the primitive calorie hunger - but bad for the gourmet conscience towards the last slice. Is this something you want more often? If you love a feeling of fullness, then yes. But with 'BlackSoul Imperial', this thick potpourri fits, so that this rather unknown French men's perfume rises to real greatness. And this fragrance is strong, that anticipated.

He gives himself almost sweet without crossing the line to the ladies. On the other hand, also emphatically masculine with woody hints that waft through warming and fit fantastically to the changing October trees of German forests. Yes, it has that autumnal vibe of a walk in the woods and especially that of a cup of warm yogi tea - the spicy one with cinnamon and milk. Plus star anise, and amber. Always insanely soft on the skin, never pungent. In the drydown, cocoa powder and vanilla. Remains, as always, Ted Lapidus-typically very independent. He oscillates between Europe and Arabia, trying to cite both fragrance traditions to 'synthesize' something new from them. And he succeeds. BTW: No, it does not smell synthetic. To the rear, however, it smells like Western-adapted psyeudo oud. And that skillfully done.

An extremely intense, broad fragrance, but then - and this is surprising - can not really hold long on the skin. After three, four hours is namely Sense. If you consider that he is just as u20€ Cheapie verballert, that is absolutely verschmerzbar. Thick gourmandige friends for the end of the year we both become anyway.

11/11/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

ShaunBaker
66 Reviews

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ShaunBaker

9

Ingenious and unique

There are so many scents that are so similar to each other that they can be confused. Ted Lapidus managed to create something independent here once again!
Black Soul Imperial is a fragrance that is exciting as soon as it is sprayed on and stays exciting, and not many people are able to do that. I can only agree with SenseDrive's headline, it is a stroke of genius from Lapidus. He already showed this with his "grey" Pour Homme, which I often apply as a spontaneous day scent, especially now in the colder season. So does BSI, this fragrance shows its full power especially in winter, especially since it would be inappropriate in summer.

The Start Powert alone is good for the nose, I can hardly make out coffee here, more like a kind of shoe polish as already described, or this mongoose bean sauce from the Chinese. Somehow Strange, but something completely different from everything you are used to. After this first impression has faded away a bit, the scent changes to powdery, which at first seems a bit gourmand, because you can assume something cinnamony, but it can also be saffron, which is combined with amber. Discreet tart notes in the background suggest leather and oud, but amber plays the main role here.
This makes the fragrance generally look quite powdery and gives the base a depth that lasts for a long time. Especially on textiles Black Soul Imperial is perceptible for a long time. Powdery-sweet and slightly tart, this is how the fragrance ends. The durability is ok, the Sillage is rather at arm?s length.
The imperial black soul is still available, which means for me: Bunkering, because (and now my standard saying) such a one won't come back!

11/21/2018

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Stinki
43 Reviews

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Stinki

Helpful Review 6

a better Royal Copenhagen

for me and an absolute powder scent. At the beginning bestialisch sweet and so durable, as I have experienced it with no EDT before, and I have tested some. A sprayer is enough and you fog in a whole room, actually. He starts minimal citric (orange/mandarin) and immediately goes into a resinoid incredibly dense and fat thing about which smells so strong, yes smells and does not smell that it is borderline. I hardly notice coffee, just a little bit of orange with a very dark sweet saffron and oud base. Absolutely too much for me, but then after about 1 - 2 hours a fragrance comes which is zero synthetic, not even the sweetness, which resembles something Rive Gauche, so beautiful French and reminds mainly of a better, less old-fashioned Royal Copenhagen. Very powdery and also valuable. But in my opinion it has zero freshness - it smells good, but for me it can only be worn at very strong minus degrees. Now it comes; I wanted to give it away due to lack of freshness and mixed it with Pino New Year's Eve for fun. Result: professional mixture. Absolutely coherent, neither kills the other. The result is a Fougere-like, slightly green, but very warm powder scent, which for me looks like from a perfumer's hand. Really very good - now I'll keep it.

05/15/2018

Rsi
11 Reviews

Rsi

Helpful Review 2

incredible underrated fragrance and surprisingly not well known in the fragrance community

Weirdest perfume i ve smelled for sure.I dont understand what im smelling and i definetely dont pickup any of the notes listed...All i smell is clothing softener with a bit of rive gauche some powder and some spices.The smell is definetely unique and very mysterious.its among the best perfumes i ve tried.Its like a very warm aristocratic scent suitable mostly for a rich gentleman.
This one is a hidden gem for sure,thank god,as not too many people are aware of this perfume.This one gained a spot on my top list.
Projection and longetivity are among the best i have in my collection.It projects for 2 meters for an hour and longetivity is 8 hours solid on my skin.
Overall its the first time a frag confuses me that much as i cant define what im smelling here maybe i need some time more with it but oh god its so mysterious and awsome ^^
25$ for such a GEM ? Really ???!!!
Score: 9/10
by Kostas Minimal