Ted Lapidus Silk Way Eau de Parfum

2 Reviews

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   exactingTomatoe6

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   Ted Lapidus is one of my favorite perfume brands.I LOVE “White Soul Gold and Diamond” and “Rumba Passion” from this brand and like “White Soul”.so when I saw Silk Way highly discounted in a perfume site(6$ !!!) I didn’t hesitate to order it.I thought I’m going to love it as I love cinnamon and vanilla in fragrances
   My first test was a huge disappointment.all I could smell was a linear,boring whisper of musky woods.I couldn’t find anything feminine in it
   Recently I decided to give it another chance and I’m glad to say that I’m liking it. all the notes are blended so well,cedar,incense,ciTed Lapidus is one of my favorite perfume brands.I LOVE “White Soul Gold and Diamond” and “Rumba Passion” from this brand and like “White Soul”.so when I saw Silk Way highly discounted in a perfume site(6$ !!!) I didn’t hesitate to order it.I thought I’m going to love it as I love cinnamon and vanilla in fragrances
   My first test was a huge disappointment.all I could smell was a linear,boring whisper of musky woods.I couldn’t find anything feminine in it
   Recently I decided to give it another chance and I’m glad to say that I’m liking it. all the notes are blended so well,cedar,incense,cinnamon,vanilla,musk,non of them tries to overpower the othersnnamon,vanilla and musk,non of them tries to overpower the others.the overall scent is kind of dry yet soft;clean but in warm and cozy way,sophisticated yet modest and easy to wear
   I think it can make a great work place perfume.I also have a friend who wears this almost all time as her signature and it suits her calm,kind,humble and mature character a lot
   Longevity is moderate while there’s not much sillage.it’s not an attention seeker.it’s more like a skin scent.I don’t love it and won’t repurchase,but I like it and will happily use up the bottle I have

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   outlyingDoughnut5

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   I picked this up on sale at my local Marshalls at a price so great I almost had to buy it. But if someone sent me a decant of this and told me it was a Parfumerie Generale, in the right mood I’d have at least been tempted to pay crazy money for it.

   The gestalt is a pretty citric opening (I parsed it as mandarine orange) over a beautifully rich cedar/sandalwood base and a mid of creamy, slightly smoky incense. Over all of it is a lovely, soft vanilla. As the fragrance dries down, the vanilla and incense foreground a little more, the citrus receeds, and what you end up with is a softly vanillic cedar with a dry incense wafting through it. It’s really lovely. The bottle is quite pretty, and overall I found this a lovely fragrance in all but one respect, which for some might be a selling point: it’s very soft. It lasts, but very softly and has really subtle, intimate sillage.

   The actual notes per Fragrantica are: citruses, red peach and apple; middle notes are ceylon cinnamon, atlas cedar, jasmine and peony; base notes are amber, bourbon vanilla, incense and white musk. From the notes, you might think a smellalike for Light Blue, but it’s not.

   I didn’t get the peach or apple. A little citric, probably “mandarine” since it’s warmed, almost sweet, and subtle. I think some of the incense might parse into a very soft cinnamon note, and that it is so soft is an achievement. The wood is a beautiful, simultaneously salty and sweet sandalwood. The amber could be folded into the vanilla – it is a very soft, resinous vanilla and perhaps makes more sense as an amber. The incense is a smoky Avignon/CDG-y incense, not at all a nag champa. I’m not getting white musk per se, but there is a warm skin quality that might break into more intensity on some skins, nor am I getting any floral.

   EDIT: over time, I’ve become even more fond of this. It’s beautiful — soft, warm, rich.