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Lady Million
Tartness is the first thing out of the bottle in the Rabanne Lady Million Eau de Parfum Gift Set, which surprises people who expect it to be sweet from the start.
Raspberry does that, sharp and a little jammy, with bitter orange adding peel and neroli cutting a clean floral line between the two. For the first few minutes it is genuinely bright, and anybody who has only smelled it on somebody else hours into an evening will not recognise this part of it at all. Then the heart opens into orange blossom, creamy and honeyed, and jasmine, broad and heady, and the fragrance begins to warm up. The base is honey proper, thick and waxy with a faint animal edge, carried on patchouli for earth and amber for dry resin. Eight materials, moving steadily from sharp to rich across the course of the wear, with no awkward join in the middle.
The eau de parfum concentration gives it both carry and endurance. It will be noticed for the first hour or two and will still be detectable much later, which is why a light hand is the right approach.
It is an evening and cold weather fragrance and it suits an occasion. Given as a set it arrives finished, with no wrapping or sizing to think about, which is most of what makes buying perfume for somebody else awkward in the first place. The perfumer credit runs Anne Flipo, Béatrice Piquet and Dominique Ropion, three names for a composition of eight materials.
The house began in Paris fashion, with its founding designer showing a first collection in 1966. Perfume followed in 1968 under the Spanish group Puig, which has owned the brand completely since 1987 and now trades it as Rabanne.
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