Rumba by Ted Lapidus Eau de Toilette Spray 100ml

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If you're a regular user, please take a break, explore our other interesting content, and come back later. The fruit notes (plum, peach, raspberry) lie lightly over the invisible floral notes (orange blossom, magnolia, tuberose, orchid, gardenia, jasmine, carnation, heliotrope, muguet) with a pleasant incense base (patchouli, oak moss, sandalwood, cedarwood, styrax, vanilla, tonka bean, amber, frankincense, beeswax).

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Michael Edwards classifies Rumba as a crisp fruity dry woods (leather) fragrance, but I smell a creamy, lactonic, peachy floral chypre with stylistic affinities to Calyx, Yvresse, and the current incarnation of Baghari.

The deeply resinous, mossy, animalic quality makes this a stand-out fragrance for special occasions. While the two converge most obviously in their juxtaposition of fruit and powdery clean musk, a conspicuous patchouli base note leaves Rumba feeling darker, heavier, and somehow more conventional than the relatively buoyant Kenzo.

Rumba By Ted Lapidus For Women - Eau De Toilette, 100ML Rumba By Ted Lapidus For Women - Eau De Toilette, 100ML

A hint of coconut in the fruity floral accord lends the composition an understated tropical exoticism. The plum and peach notes--more plum than peach, to my nose--continue throughout the life of the perfume. Having served its purpose, the Loads-a-Money jibe - and the stonking fashion that went with it - was thought to be overstated and embarrassing.Fortunately for him, because Rumba was a joint enterprise - and he was the junior partner - he can just shrug and say It wasn’t my fault guv, honest. I currently own the Ted Lapidus version but, I owned a full bottle of the Balenciaga release, back in the early 90's. But there are some interesting grace notes: incense and moss, cool acid blackcurrant, a fruit syrup of runny boiled sweets, leather, tuberose, plum and peach, a green/citrus note with a fizz like sherbert. Either way, the two scents' pyramids have plenty in common: bergamot, orange blossom, tuberose, plum, peach, oakmoss, amber, and musk. The base notes (woods, resins, musk, oakmoss patchouli et al) keep the fragrance deep and very sultry.

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Rumba opens on a high-impact candied bergamot top note, which in fact persists well into the development. With all the complexity of the heart and base notes, it's a pity one can't smell any richness in the composition as a whole.They are contrasted with the leather, floral, warm, and sensual base notes where musk and amber melt into the skin.

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And sure enough, this kind of florid schmaltz was soon replaced by Eau de Watery Scent and Save the Whale T-shirt.Smooth peach lactone and bouquet of sweet white flowers, among which I detect ylang-ylang, jasmine, and a dab of tuberose, soon join the lingering citrus. Vintage Rumba is precisely one of those eighties beasts, which developes and evolves under the consept floral leather. The opening fruity notes (plum and peach) are quickly followed by a leathery, smoky quality that envelops the white florals completely.