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Million Gold Elixir
Resin is the difference, and Rabanne Million Gold Elixir Parfum takes the spiced Million Gold idea and sets it in benzoin and labdanum, which changes the weight of the whole thing.
Benzoin is sweet and balsamic, closer to burnt sugar than to flowers, and labdanum is darker, sticky and faintly animal, the material that gives old fashioned perfumery its leathery depth. They sit in the middle with vanilla, which is handled dark rather than milky, and cedarwood, which keeps the sweetness in line with its dry crispness. Above that, the opening is bright and aromatic: mandarin orange for sweetness, bergamot for a clean bitterness, violet leaf for a green, slightly metallic snap, and cardamom for its cool spice. The base is the serious part. Sandalwood is creamy, patchouli earthy and bitter, and cypriol brings the smoke, a dry leathery root that gives this its character and keeps the resins from turning into syrup.
As a parfum the oil load is high, and in wear that means weight rather than noise. It projects moderately for an hour and then holds close to the skin for most of a day, with the resins still legible the next morning on a shirt. Cold weather, evenings, and anyone who finds the eau de parfum version too bright will want this one instead. It is a men's fragrance, dated 2025, and composed by Christophe Raynaud and Quentin Bisch.
The company trades as Rabanne now, the Paco having been dropped. It was founded as a Paris fashion label by the designer of that name, whose debut collection came in 1966, and its scents have been made by the Spanish group Puig since 1968, with full ownership passing to Puig in 1987.
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