Creation by Ted Lapidus

The king of perfumes, I love it! ❤️😍. It has everything: scent, longevity, sillage, price, and it clings to clothes and skin. Every time I wear it, I relive my best teenage years 🤗. It will always have a privileged spot in my collection of over 500 fragrances 👍👏

It’s a treasure, a gem of classic vintage perfumery. At first, it confused me so much that I didn’t know how to appreciate it, as it smelled very different from what I was used to. It was a blind buy to expand my olfactory horizons, and wow, what a surprise: a huge hit! I’d repeat it a thousand times. I don’t recommend blind buys unless you enjoy that adrenaline of discovering something new 😅. Forget sweet or gourmand; Creation is the opposite: a polo with character, class, and elegance that makes a statement and lingers on the skin for hours. It opens green and sharp with clove (doesn’t smell like a cemetery), ambered, earthy from patchouli, mossy, and ambered. It’s perfectly balanced, smells refined, and is pure love. It transports me back in time, gives me calm, and makes me feel unique because I know no one else will be wearing it around. It sparks curiosity, though not everyone will like it. I enjoy it best in cold weather. It’s a hidden gem from Ted Lapidus, undervalued today due to the vanilla and gourmand trend 🍭🍦🍪. I like gourmands too, but this has stolen my heart. For its low price, it’s worth trying at least once 💛. Greetings from Chile.

A perfume that envelops you, smells vintage in the best sense, soapy on my skin, and made me feel very cozy. It’s one of those that hugs you in the cold with great presence without being overwhelming. It’s not expensive and you’ll always receive compliments, as it doesn’t smell like today; it seems everyone smells like dessert and vanilla, totally acceptable, I mean the current trend. Kilometric sillage and about 7 hours of longevity on skin. A beast of a perfume.

The top of the top, it’s my go-to perfume. I love this house’s scents, they’re unique, have great sillage, cling to clothes and skin, last all day, and the price is good, what more could you ask for? With Creation, the scent is magical, mysterious, strong, with lots of personality, and doesn’t resemble any other.

I bought it just out of curiosity; the first time I tried it, I hated it, haha, super powerful and different from everything I’d smelled until then. Today, while organizing my closet, I gave it a second chance; I don’t know if it’s the summer heat, but I loved it. I smell it very herbal and clean, the opening is a bomb, but as it dries… my goodness, how delicious. It’s exquisite and super unconventional; I think I’ll be wearing it non-stop this summer.

Delicious, my all-time favorite. A fragrance with great personality and class. Long-lasting, almost all day. Best applied about half an hour beforehand because the sillage is strong at first and then softens, though it still lasts a long time. Smells absolutely amazing with moss and clove notes. I’m obsessed. I wear it for special occasions. My husband loves it, but my nine-year-old son doesn’t—he says it smells burnt, haha.

The previous reviews are so accurate and beautiful that there’s not much left to say. Despite the reformulation, its heart remains the same. A bit less impactful and long-lasting than before, but in essence, it’s the same eighties perfume that brings me so many childhood memories. I love it.

I bought it blind based on the composition and reviews on Fragrantica and it didn’t disappoint. It has the elegance of a classic chypre with its moss, potent in the opening and present throughout the development; the earthy touch of patchouli and the floral blend of carnation and tuberose. I detect neroli almost from the start but can’t find the honey or blackcurrant. It’s ever-changing; the amber, iris root, and musk are there sometimes and not others. The intensity is good, the projection is sufficient, and the longevity I can’t fix yet since it’s the first time I’m using it; currently it’s hitting six hours and promises more.

I found this gem at a supermarket perfumerie… I saw it and thought it would be very risky given its notes, but compared to monsters like JOOP! and Eden, this isn’t “that” risky. I bought it blind and the result was more than satisfactory… surprising and contradictory, so changeable that it leaves me bewildered. I say this as a positive, because that’s what makes me fall for it. At the start, it’s oakmoss… astringent, almost aldehydic and metallic… very cold and typical of a good chypre, strict and hard, boosted by blackcurrant, very cold and bringing a vague halo of “Cacharel Pour Homme,” probably due to that 80s aura, strong and icy… then, after five minutes, the notes appear one by one, unfolding like a spring sun, very timid at first and then blending, becoming softer and warmer. A thick note of honey and a very gentle tuberose, nothing carnal or insolent. Although it’s very 80s, its intensity is notable but not unbearable. The carnation stays with the white flowers and honey, surrounded by a constant moss, but in this floral phase, a bit more friendly, not so sharp. This is the phase I like most, its mid/floral stage; its intense carnation and honey remind me of YSL’s “KOUROS,” with a certain aggressive but subtle touch… it’s like a much more diluted version of Kouros, more floral, with reduced intensity and added white flowers. It’s cheerful, sunny, and bold. Its dry-down is pink and musk… a timid rose, dried petals, surrounded by a musk that, along with warm amber, sandalwood, and patchouli, becomes slightly velvety but keeps an earthy aspect due to the moss. It reminds me a bit of “Anais Anais” by Cacharel. It needs to be studied… it has a very complex development, it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, especially for those used to current and generic scents… it’s changeable, surprising, its notes show up, disappear, and return modified… they play and deceive. I’ve already found similarities with other greats, but Creation is always original and lively… I see it on sunny days and in winter to add floral joy. It conveys an animated and happy style, brazen yet elegant like Givenchy’s “Amarige,” noticeable but classy like the lost “Gió” by Armani. It provokes images and situations. Exceptional longevity (for me, 8+ hours) and great projection, without being annoying (just three sprays; if applied excessively, it can be a floral bomb, be careful!). Pleasant halo receiver. It maintains the entire vintage and “classic perfumery” style in a pleasant and sumptuous way… A MARVEL. Greetings from Chile!!

A chypre is composed mainly of oakmoss, a highly allergenic and expensive substance that gives it a sap-like, wet wood, and deep forest aspect, lending the perfume a cold and slightly earthy facet. Chypres are condemned to disappear or to synthetic reformulations that destroy the delicate olfactory structure. Creation 2011 is a reinterpretation of the classic Ted Lapidus from 1984, a clear bet to revive the classics of traditional perfumery. As a good representative of the eighties, it is characterized by a complex and baroque aroma, loaded with opulent elements… with a superb trail and infinite longevity. However, at the level of current perfumery, this reinterpretation smells more wearable, cleaner, and less potent. I don’t remember hearing the classic, but I imagine its “resurrectionist” element typical of that era. Despite this, it remains very strong and requires a nose accustomed to aromas that escape what we today call “smelling good.” The opening is potent and green, slightly metallic (without aldehydes), but the union of blackcurrant, neroli, and iris recalls, in part, perfumes of these characteristics. After 15 minutes, it mutates into a green floral with jasmine, neroli, and carnation… it doesn’t just recall the flowers, but also the stems and leaves; at this point, the green florals on my skin acquire a mentholated and synthetic touch that disorients me, similar to some toothpastes. Finally, after three hours, the honey appears, heavily scented with the penetrating smell of propolis and a touch of dusty pollen. The best: its initial face, where all its old potential lies. This phase lasts 30 minutes and then the intensity drops. Longevity is 3 hours, but I’ll update as I use it more. Absolutely unisex.