1 Million
A set beats a card, and Rabanne 1 Million Eau de Toilette Gift Set is the sort of present that gets used rather than stored in a drawer.
What is in the bottle is a spiced, sweet, deliberately conspicuous fragrance. The first minutes are citrus heavy: blood mandarin thick and red, grapefruit bitter against it, mint cool over the top. That cools nothing for long. Cinnamon arrives with heat and stays, rose sits beneath it giving the middle some density, and then leather, amber and Indian patchouli take over, the leather smooth, the amber sweet and persistent, the patchouli earthy enough to stop it becoming cloying.
Buying this as a gift works best when you know the person is not shy about scent. It carries, and it carries for hours, so it is wrong for someone who prefers to go unnoticed and right for someone who enjoys the opposite. The cinnamon in particular is not a background material here, and anybody who dislikes spice will know it straight away.
Presented in a box, it needs no further wrapping, and the eau de toilette concentration makes it an everyday proposition rather than a bottle saved for anniversaries. Autumn and winter nights are where it makes the most sense, and a cold evening suits the spice better than a warm afternoon does.
The brand is French. Paco Rabanne, the designer, held his first show in 1966, while the perfumery was built up by the Spanish group Puig from the creation of its fragrance division in 1968, with full ownership of the house passing to Puig in 1987. The surname alone is what appears on the packaging today, and the three perfumers on it were Christophe Raynaud, Michel Girard and Olivier Pescheux.
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