Fame
If Fame is already your scent, Rabanne Fame Eau de Parfum 150ml is the bottle to buy: it is the largest size of the standard eau de parfum, the price per millilitre is the best of the lot, and nobody buys this much of a fragrance they are unsure about.
What you get is a fruit and smoke scent with a white flower sitting between the two. Jasmine is the material doing the most work in the middle, rich and slightly indolic, the kind of jasmine that smells of a hedge of it on a warm night rather than of soap, and incense cuts under it with a thin, bitter smoke that keeps the flower from turning sweet or old fashioned. Above them, mango is sunny and fleshy, pitched just short of jam, with bergamot adding a clean bitter edge to the first few minutes. Sandalwood and vanilla close it out, the wood creamy, the vanilla soft and quietly sweet rather than sugared.
At eau de parfum strength this lasts a full day and projects properly for the first hour or two, so in a bottle this size the only real risk is overspraying out of habit. Two is plenty. It is a feminine scent, best after dark and in cooler months, though the fruit keeps it wearable in spring. The composition is credited to Dora Baghriche, Marie Salamagne, Alberto Morillas and Fabrice Pellegrin, and the year on record is 2022. Four perfumers on one brief is unusual, and it shows in how carefully the smoke and the fruit are balanced.
The house itself was founded on the clothes of the designer Paco Rabanne, who opened in Paris in the sixties; the fragrance business came later, through the Spanish group Puig, and has long since outgrown everything else the name does.
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