Paco Rabanne
Paco Rabanne
2.6k votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Red mandarin orange arrives with almost jarring brightness, immediately bolstered by a peppery, peppermint spike that feels more aggressive than refreshing. Within moments, you're caught between a citrus-peppermint clarity and an underlying sweetness that refuses to stay subtle.
Cinnamon unfolds gradually, introducing warm spice that transforms the character entirely—the rose absolute emerges as a soft, barely-there floral shadow whilst amberketal deepens the base with woody-amber warmth. By the second hour, the fragrance feels considerably sweeter and more grounded, the opening's sharpness having mellowed into something almost luxurious, though the leather note keeps it from becoming purely gourmand.
What remains is primarily the interplay between amberketal and leather, with the cinnamon-rose heart now pale and distant. The fragrance becomes increasingly abstract and slightly skin-scent, leaning into that synthetic amber-leather marriage, though longevity issues mean there's precious little left to appreciate by the fourth hour.
Million opens with a sharp, almost aggressive brightness—red mandarin orange fractures across the opening like someone's just cracked the fruit open with their thumbnail, releasing that initial spray of oils. The peppermint arrives immediately after, not as a cooling menthol but as a peppery bite that sharpens the citrus into something almost aggressive. It's sweet, undeniably so, but it's the kind of sweetness that arrives on the back of spice rather than sugar.
As it settles, cinnamon emerges from beneath that citrus-peppermint clash, warm and slightly dusty, like walking into a spice market on a winter afternoon. The rose absolute here is understated—it doesn't bloom so much as provide a subtle floral cushion, keeping the spice from becoming entirely one-dimensional. Amberketal grounds everything with a woody-amber warmth that feels synthetic in the best possible way; it's the olfactory equivalent of amber-tinted lighting in a sophisticated hotel bar.
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