Lapidus Pour Homme Sport

Let's start with the bottle, which prepares you perfectly for the scent inside. Cool, transparent glass and red/white upper casing. Fits in perfectly with my collection of contemporary bottles, a real looker on my shelf... Look closer. It's the original bottle, dummy, dressed up for 2015. This perfume is flat out weird. What? Feminine floral top notes, fresh accords swirling around somewhere, traditional masculine perfume elements of cedar patchouli and leather, foody accords of nutmeg and rosemary, some beastial animalic thing lurking beneath it all. Ahh, its Ted Lapidus all right. He's still there, right down at the bottom, with his hairy chest and gold medallion, staring back up at us metrosexual 2010s guys, laughing at us for thinking this was going to fit in with our aquatics and Bleu de whatever. And yet, I find this completely compelling, extremely interesting and wearable. It is so unique and demands my attention. If you can imagine it, this is Bvlgari Aqva Amara Extreme. Same orangey/floral/incense/aquatic/patchouli base but with much more mixed in. This is the kind of fragrance that makes me shake my head in disbelief that anyone would even dare to conceive of let alone market it. But I am so glad they did.

Masculine, unique, long lasting, and anything but your typical sport fragrance. In fact, I wouldn't call this a sport scent despite the name, although it does have a fresh aquatic undertone. However, it does have the original DNA of its father Ted Lapidus Pour Homme, a true masterpiece of masculine fragrances. Despite what others have said, there is definitely a slight Kouros vibe in this juice. In fact, I sometimes wear Kouros and the other day while wearing Lapidus Pour Homme Sport, a friend of mine commented, "Oh you're wearing Kouros again?" Albeit he's not one of a trained nose, but it does prove some people detect a little Kouros in this fragrance. If you over spray this it becomes even more like Kouros. Having that said, don't expect many comments from the ladies. This is a man's man juice. If wearing fragrances to get female attention is your thing, there are many other mainstream, safer and boring options out there that would work better. Yes, I'm looking at you Sauvage. All in all, I really like TLPHS because it ticks all the boxes I mainly look for in a fragrance... unique, masculine, long lasting and reasonably priced.

I want to know exactly what 'sport' they had in mind when formulating Lapidus Pour Homme Sport. There is this underline of animalic musk base, perhaps Synarome Animalis or Muscarome J5 that does link this flanker to the original and also recalls King Kouros. However, there is this smattering of herbs, Dihydromyrcenol (think Cool Water, kids), and sea-breeze aquatics that sheers out the funk. I am cracking up over Varanis Ridari's quip in his own review on Basenotes: "walking into a gym with this on will make people look at you like you're more interested in getting sweaty in the locker room than on the gym equipment itself, if you catch my drift." I do catch your drift, you sly devil, and I couldn't have said it any better. The collision of fresh and dirty makes it feel like a covert sex-capade. The salty herbs and sour aquatics seem to lend a "dripping sweat on clean skin" effect. I also want to note the big fat concord grape meets orange blossom accord that may read as a pink urinal puck, thus reminding me of drunken mischief in bar bathrooms after courting on the dance floor. Queue the song "Walk the Night" by Skatt Brothers.

Instant classic upon first sniff! It's a salty floral bomb surrounded by a small hint of that classic Lapidus PH vibe. It's faint, but there nonetheless. Other than that, this one is definitely different, although I woudn't put it in an alien universe somewhere out in outterspace, like what I originally expected with my blind purchase after reading the reviews here. Still though, I give Lapidus Sport very high marks for originality. I haven't found anything that smells close to it. And for geranium lovers, this is a utopian experience. This scent's really only achilles' heel is it's lack of power that the Lapidus line is typically known for. Why this house held back on this release, I'll never know. I love the packaging on Lapidus Sport! It looks great on my dresser, and I've been rotating it off and on my favorites shelf constantly. I have no plans to stop the habbit any time soon. The love factor just keeps growing with me since wearing Lapidus Sport on multiple occasions. I can guarantee you that this fragrance will eventually become a sought after gem. Buy now if you're a dude who loves florals! You won't regret it!

Lapidus Sport is one of my absolute main drivers. It ALWAYS sits on my favorites shelf and never leaves. It doesn’t resemble original Kouros as much as it does Kouros Sport, with the difference being that Lapidus Sport is much more unique. Is it more harsh and cheaper smelling than Kouros Sport? Yes. But extremely more unique, nonetheless. When I first smelled it back in 2016 (I think it was), the first thought that came to my mind was, “Instant legend”. I mean, I just love this thing. I’m very well aware that it’s not a “panty dropper”, but the thing is....this fragrance makes me happy. It really does. I rarely purchase back up bottles, but at the current price point, why wouldn’t I?? 10 years from now, I will be willing to hunt this down for several hundred dollars once it hits rare discontinued status. No one’s ever going to take it from me. Unique, unique, unique. 10/10