Phantom
There is no mystery in the Rabanne Phantom Eau de Toilette Gift Set, and that is a perfectly reasonable thing to want from a gift.
What we hold for it is three materials. Lavender runs the show, used in its cool and clean register with a slight medicinal snap, and it gives the fragrance its shape. Lemon brightens the start with rind, briefly and then not at all. Vanilla warms the bottom and takes the hardness out of the lavender, which is among the oldest tricks in men's perfumery and still one of the more effective ones. There is no fourth material hiding behind those three, and this copy is not going to pretend there is. Short compositions tend to be easy to wear, and this one is: it does not change character halfway through the day or turn into something unexpected by the end of it.
The eau de toilette concentration keeps it light and daytime friendly. It is comfortable in warm weather, unobjectionable in an office and unobtrusive in a car or a meeting room, which between them cover most of the places a working man actually wears fragrance during the week.
Sets are bought for the look of the thing as much as the contents, and this one presents well without needing paper and ribbon. It also suits a man who is not especially interested in fragrance, since nothing about it requires study or a second thought. Credit for the composition goes to Anne Flipo, Dominique Ropion, Juliette Karagueuzoglou and Loc Dong.
Rabanne is a French house with its roots in fashion, the first collection shown in 1966. Puig of Spain established the fragrance side in 1968 and has owned the brand in its entirety since 1987.
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