1 Million Gift Set
Giving fragrance is risky unless the recipient already wears it, which is why the Rabanne 1 Million Gift Set tends to go to men who do.
The scent inside is unmistakable. Blood mandarin starts it, round and dark where most citrus openings are thin, with grapefruit adding bitterness and mint a cold, green lift. It is an emphatic opening and it makes an immediate impression.
In the heart, rose is softened and sweetened, used as a warm floral rather than a delicate one, and cinnamon gives it a dry spiced heat. The two sit comfortably between the citrus above and the weight below, and the cinnamon in particular is what stops the fragrance reading as simply sweet.
The drydown is the part everyone knows. Leather is supple and sweet rather than smoky, Indian patchouli brings an earthy, slightly damp darkness, and amber lends a resinous warmth that makes the whole thing feel polished and expensive. Eight materials, and the gap between the opening and the base is where the quality shows.
Composed by Christophe Raynaud, Michel Girard and Olivier Pescheux, it is a fragrance with genuine carrying power, so whoever receives it should go lightly. Winter and evenings suit it, and it has a confidence that works better on a night out than in a meeting. As a boxed present it is about as safe a choice as men's fragrance offers, and it is as likely to please a twenty year old as a man of fifty.
The house takes its name from Paco Rabanne, the designer who showed his first collection in 1966. Its perfumes grew up with the Spanish group Puig, which acquired the brand outright in 1987, and it now trades under the single name Rabanne.
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