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Million Gold
Hardly anybody has heard of cypriol, and it is exactly what makes Rabanne Million Gold Eau de Parfum worth smelling at all.
It is a root, dry and smoky and faintly leathery, and it does the work at the bottom of this composition alongside sandalwood, which brings a creamy smoothness to soften it. Together they keep the scent from being simply a spiced gold bottle, and they are what you can still smell hours in. The route there is spice and fruit. Cardamom opens it with a cool aromatic bite, mandarin orange gives sweetness, bergamot a clean bitterness, and violet an odd powdery, almost inky note that sets this apart from the rest of the Million men's line. The middle is busier still: rose, handled dry rather than jammy, pink berries adding a dry, prickling sweetness, cinnamon bark bringing genuine heat and a little bark dust with it, and cedarwood running through all of it with a sharpened pencil crispness.
That is ten materials doing distinct jobs, and the result is a full, spiced, smoky scent with enough shape to follow over an evening. Expect good projection in the first hour and a close, dry warmth after that, lasting a working day and more on a jacket. Autumn and winter suit it, evenings best, and it is aimed at men. The year given is 2024 and Quentin Bisch composed it.
The house was born in Paris with Paco Rabanne's 1966 collection, though its perfumes have always been a Spanish operation: Puig created the division in 1968, launched Calandre a year after, and in 1987 bought the brand outright. 1 Million is the men's range this belongs to, and it remains one of the company's two great men's names.
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