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80's bottled better than Drakkar Noir
Lapidus Pour Homme has an excellent everything. Great presentation, good bottle, only thing that might bother is the atomizer cap comes off easily but nothing that a good couple of drops of superglue cannot fix. Worth commenting the box doesn't come plastic sealed, but you can tell it is new and hasn't been used since the atomizer will need several initial sprays that don't pump out any liquid and then it will atomize normally. When i opened it and first sprayed i noticed the liquid had a bit of an oxidation aura, like when you smell new citrus oils and they come across a bit like oxide. But anyway, after a couple of days of regular wear, that goes away and the nuances start from being rather synthetic, poorly conceived and even weird or disgusting smelling (The aldehydic pineapple note...) to a more refined and natural product. Made in France and for less than 20 bucks and with this longevity, excellent as well, but it does need a bit of aging and more usage of the liquid to reach that beast mode performance.
Scent wise: Very complex, mantains nuances of pineapple, herbs and citrus in the opening, which kinda smells like a grape soda or stuff, then honey appears, also heavy animalic musk nuances in there, and its base consists of a mixture of amber, oakmoss, patchouli, musk, and smoke tones of tobacco (OG tobacco, like cigarrette, whether lit or a new cigs pack, not the hookah sweet tobacco of today...) and incense, like an esoteric store or stuff where they burn incense sticks on interiors and you smell the incense so clearly and strongly as it impregnates everything in the place with smoke. It is quite musky as well, and floral also, has a good nice rose note in there and some say it brings out an animalic jasmine note. Has a good backbone of wood as well in there, particularly cedar pops up to my nose. Mantains that freshness of aromatic notes like artemisia and juniper berries to a good part of the fragrance as well, and sprayed on clothing it will be a monster. If you ask me, seems to be as heavy smelling as back in the day and it is the fragrance i guess will be the closest to its original formulations, but surely a bit toned down in concentration, while mantaining a good performance. In the worst of the cases, the aged liquid after some 6 months of use will have a performance of around 8 to 10 hours and a monsterous projection for around the first half. If it goes better, i am pretty sure it will reach a longevity of around 12 or 14 hours easily and project more heavily so. Overall a great fragrance and a great price - value proposition. Highly recommended. Not for everybody though, and bear in mind the smell is not particularly luxurious or stuff.
Bottom line: 80's bottled. Put on a synthwave playlist and drive a Delorean or Lamborghini Countach at sunset and night with this on.
Top Notes 
Lavender
Pineapple
Basil
Bergamot
Juniper berry
Tarragon
Lemon
Heart Notes 
Honey
Orris root
Caraway
Jasmine
Lily of the valley
Pine
Rose
Petitgrain
Rosewood
Base Notes 
Musk
Tonka bean
Amber
Patchouli
Sandalwood
Tobacco
Oakmoss
Cedar
HugoMontez
Wusubi
Elysium
Stamatios
Bambuk
KimJong
Caisah
SmellGoodGuy
RobbieX
TheDunkPapa
