Fame
Buy the bottle once and the refills afterwards and the cost of wearing a fragrance drops sharply, which is where Rabanne Fame Parfum Refillable 80ml comes in: it is the bottle end of that arrangement, and the 200ml refills are made to fit it.
Inside is the parfum concentration of Fame, which has a longer note row than the familiar eau de parfum: ten materials in all. Mango and bergamot open it as they always do, the fruit soft and golden, the citrus bitter and clean, but pink pepper joins them here with a dry, sparkling, faintly rosy bite that makes the first minutes less sweet and more interesting.
The heart is pure Fame. Jasmine is warm, full and faintly animal, incense threads a cool smoke through it, and patchouli adds bitter earth underneath, so that the flower never becomes pretty. The base is the part that separates this from the lighter version: oakmoss is green and inky and smells of wet bark, benzoin is a soft balsamic sweetness, sandalwood is creamy with a sour edge, and musk smooths everything down into the skin.
At parfum strength the performance is considerable. One spray will see out an evening and two will see out a day, so eighty millilitres lasts far longer than the same volume of a lighter scent. It is feminine, built for the evening, and cold weather brings out the smoke and the moss. Two sprays in July would be a mistake. Refilling rather than replacing also cuts the packaging down to a bottle you keep, which is the point of the format. Rabanne, owned outright by the Spanish group Puig since 1987, now rests on a handful of pillars: Fame, Lady Million and Olympea for women, 1 Million and Invictus for men.
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