Fame in Love Refillable
If you are starting with Fame in Love rather than topping it up, Rabanne Fame in Love Refillable Eau de Parfum 80ml is the bottle to buy. It is the one the 200ml refills are made for, and the refill is noticeably cheaper per millilitre than a fresh bottle.
The scent itself is built on a contrast. Strawberry gives it the fruit, and it is the real version of the smell, tart and faintly green with the hull still attached rather than anything from a sweet shop. Green mandarin is bitter and bright beside it, and basil runs cool and herbal across the top, and basil is the material that keeps the whole opening from reading as a dessert rather than a perfume.
Then the smoke. Incense is the thread that links every Fame to every other, and here it sits under jasmine, which is rich and warm and a little heavy, and beside orris, a powdery, cool, root like material that gives the middle a dusty texture. Vanilla and patchouli close it, one mild and sweet, the other earthy and bitter.
Eighty millilitres is the practical size, the eau de parfum concentration gives it a day of wear and a strong first hour, and two sprays will do it. It is a feminine scent, suited to evenings, to cool weather and to spring, and it is easier to wear in daylight than the original. The perfumers were Clement Gavarry, Dora Baghriche and Fabrice Pellegrin, and 2025 is the year.
Rabanne has been a perfume house for longer than most people assume. The Spanish group Puig set up its fragrance division in the late sixties and bought the fashion business outright in 1987, and the name was shortened from Paco Rabanne more recently.
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