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Ted Lapidus Lovely Fantasme ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 24 February 2009 15 Comments

Ted Lapidus Lovely Fantasme fragranceTed Lapidus has launched Lovely Fantasme. The new fragrance for women is a reinterpretation of 1992's Ted Lapidus Fantasme and is "an invitation to temptation...a romantic fantasy that knows just where it wants to take you".

Lovely Fantasme features notes of mandarin, apple, peony, tea rose, lily of the valley, violet flower, white musk & sweet amber.

Ted Lapidus Lovely Fantasme is available in 30 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette. (via escentual)

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: ted lapidus

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  1. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 10:46 am

    Wow, that's a name that brings me back in time…

    When I first became interested in perfumes, Creation was one of frags just being released. (I loved Creation)

    I just haven't heard much from Ted Lapidus since…And with his passing, was not expecting to hear from that company again.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 11:15 am

    Lapidus actually retired years ago (sorry, don't know exactly when, but long before he died) & the line is still going…don't know how the fragrances do though, or how widely known the name is in the US.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 11:21 am

    Salvador Dali's been dead for quite a while, and the licensee (Parlux?) in the name of his estate just keeps churning out scents, too, so there's nothing to stop Ted Lapidus. (Or Geoffrey Beene, or Perry Ellis….)

    I always hated the Fantasme bottle. Don't know that I even ever smelled it: sometimes an ugly bottle is enough to keep me from trying a scent, ridiculous though that is. But Creation was a wonderfully good scent, wasn't it?

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  4. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 12:24 pm

    LOL — quite so. And we can add YSL & Calvin Klein, right? And many others.

    Honestly, I've never smelled a single TL scent.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Mr. Klein will be shocked to discover that he's dead.

    Creation was gorgeous: a really old-school mid-eighties fruity floral, sort of like Diva without the chypre, plus all the top notes of Gem, plus Beautiful without the tuberose, kinda dirtied up at the finish, very French…well, you get the idea.

    I don't think the Lapidus scents were ever in really wide distribution in the US, but they showed up in a lot of department stores in Canada in the eighties, for some reason. (Lapidus pour Homme was EVERYWHERE.) I haven't seen any of them in years.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Oh dear! What a terrible mistake — a brain freeze, to be sure. Luckily I think we can be pretty certain that CK does not read Now Smell This.

    Creation sounds lovely. It is very odd how some brands never catch on in other countries, or don't manage to maintain their hold. It seems so odd to me that you can hardly find Paco Rabanne fragrances in the US, just to name one.

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  7. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 4:41 pm

    There must be dozens upon dozens of perfume companies and countless hundreds of scents that never make it into North America, don't you think? I mean, you've probably never heard of Ulrich de Varens, but he's a French perfumer who's launched at least thirty scents in the last quarter century, some of which made it to Canada, at least for a while–a line called RectoVerso which had women's scents named Lollipop Toffee and Mystery Secret, among others, and men's scents such as Tea Tobacco (very nice, that one, but too close to Yves Rocher's TelQuel for me to buy).

    Somewhere out there in the vast world is a scent that you would love instantly and buy on the spot, maybe one of your Holy Grails, but you'll never get to smell it. Same thing with books, I suppose; how many great books are out there that will never be published in North America (and never translated into a language you know either)?

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  8. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Imagination perfumery.com has Creation, Fantasme original, & Lapidus Woman very cheaply! Ask for David 🙂

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  9. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 5:12 pm

    I do know Ulric de Varens, and have tried a surprising number of them, primarily because Jean Claude Ellena made a bunch of those Rectoverso scents. And they made the Lily Prune line — the Sublime Vanilla was also by JCE, and for awhile you could find it at TJ Maxx so I assume some “regular” store in the US carried it.

    The books, oh, the books! The avalanche of new books is worse than the avalanche of new perfumes. I've stopped reading all the book reviews I used to follow, I can't take the pressure anymore. I'll live with the books I've already got.

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  10. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Thanks, but not so curious that I'd buy unsniffed!

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  11. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 5:19 pm

    Going to rephrase that…have really only tried 6-7. And it's a huge line, so only a drop in the bucket…

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  12. Anonymous says:
    24 February 2009 at 5:32 pm

    Yeah That was my original point. (TL everywhere in Canada in the eighties and now nowhere to be seen)

    I Guess Chanel is still going strong even though she's gone too.

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  13. Anonymous says:
    25 February 2009 at 10:35 am

    Chanel has really done an amazing job of keeping the “cult of Coco Chanel” alive — much more so than most designer brands.

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  14. Anonymous says:
    25 February 2009 at 12:15 pm

    I'm reading one of her books at present, apparently, she was a master at cultivating interest and creating mystique around herself.

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  15. Anonymous says:
    25 February 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Yes, and Chanel's PR has done an excellent job of keeping that up — much more so than most.

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