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Cold mint over hot cinnamon is the trick that made this fragrance famous, and Rabanne 1 Million Eau de Toilette Gift Set puts it in a box without changing a thing about it.
The first spray is the citrus phase. Blood mandarin is sweeter and heavier than a standard mandarin, grapefruit brings the bitterness that keeps it from being juice, and mint gives a brief cool snap before the spice takes the stage. From there the composition hardly moves: cinnamon dominant, rose adding fullness underneath it, then leather, amber and Indian patchouli holding the base in place with a smooth, sweet, faintly earthy weight that is still on a shirt collar the next morning.
As a present, the appeal is that it arrives finished. The box is the wrapping, the fragrance inside is one of the best known men's scents of the last twenty years, and there is no need to explain what it is or why you chose it. Very few presents survive being opened in a room full of relatives quite as easily as this one does.
The eau de toilette strength makes it an everyday bottle rather than a special occasion one, which matters with a gift. Something that gets worn on a Tuesday is a better present than something saved carefully for an occasion that never actually arrives.
Rabanne works out of France. The designer whose name it carries, Paco Rabanne, put on his first show in 1966, and the fragrance side was developed by the Spanish group Puig from the founding of its perfume division in 1968, with the whole brand passing to Puig in 1987. It now goes by the surname alone. The fragrance is the work of Christophe Raynaud, Michel Girard and Olivier Pescheux.
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