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04/26/2021
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Beautiful, what must not be beautiful
Sometimes it's a thing with fragrances - those that, according to the classic standards of all cut-away perfume fans, can't really be fantastic at all, because they don't live up to everything that is generally appreciated; zeitgeist, complexity, creativity, individuality. Ted Lapidus Pour Homme is such a blatant case. Here we have a fragrance that is only 5 years old, but looks as if it was conjured out of a hat in the mid-80s. Angular bottle with 8-bit lines in the Max Headroom inspired RoboCop design, simply color matched the grey 87 bottle of the original. Done! And already this annoying bad habit of throwing light versions on the market as sports flankers doesn't seem inviting to me with the Pour Homme Sport either, to want to dive in more with it, sports fragrances tend to scare me off! Which makes me wonder what this "sport" has to do with the grey '87 Origial, please, as I can't detect any basic sport DNA at all. For me this is a completely new fragrance, with the bottle and name as a common feature. That's all!
By such standards, "Sport" must not be good at all. And yet it is, surprisingly, moreover: With Kouros and consorts he has nothing to do, not even with all the masculine fragrances of the 70 / 80s. It's amazingly citrusy, fresh, bright and positive - and wonderfully old-fashioned and straightforward. I don't detect any more complex scent progression, but there's an overbearing assertiveness to it, something that immediately settles into the nose. A little wild, but not too much, and quite long lasting. A nice spring and summer scent for just going shopping. It certainly puts a smile on my face every time I suck it in. It's this down-to-earth simplicity in Sport that wins me over and reminds me that fragrances don't have to be complex and expensively niche to win my heart. Sport certainly has it when it's appropriate. Sometimes just crispy fried potatoes and fried egg can be a real goumet meal
By such standards, "Sport" must not be good at all. And yet it is, surprisingly, moreover: With Kouros and consorts he has nothing to do, not even with all the masculine fragrances of the 70 / 80s. It's amazingly citrusy, fresh, bright and positive - and wonderfully old-fashioned and straightforward. I don't detect any more complex scent progression, but there's an overbearing assertiveness to it, something that immediately settles into the nose. A little wild, but not too much, and quite long lasting. A nice spring and summer scent for just going shopping. It certainly puts a smile on my face every time I suck it in. It's this down-to-earth simplicity in Sport that wins me over and reminds me that fragrances don't have to be complex and expensively niche to win my heart. Sport certainly has it when it's appropriate. Sometimes just crispy fried potatoes and fried egg can be a real goumet meal
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