Phantom
Rhubarb is the oddity in Rabanne Phantom Parfum 100ml, and it is the material that makes the opening of this one memorable.
It is tart and green and slightly sour, a fruit that behaves like a vegetable, and it arrives with cardamom, bergamot and lemon, so the first ten minutes are sharp, aromatic and quite dry. There is nothing sweet about the start at all, which is unusual for a parfum concentration.
The middle brings the Phantom signature and widens it. Lavender is clean and cool, cedarwood adds a dry crispness beside it, patchouli supplies earth and a bitter depth, and geranium gives the heart a sharp floral edge that keeps everything bright. Four materials, each pulling in a slightly different direction, and the result is more interesting than the eau de toilette version of the name.
Then it warms properly. Vanilla smooths the composition, tolu balsam adds a sweet resin with a spiced edge to it, and Haitian vetiver brings the smoke, dry and rooty and faintly grassy, which stops the base from settling into simple sweetness. The drydown is long, dry and warm. At parfum strength expect real presence for the first hour or two, then a close, persistent warmth that sees out a day and leaves a trace on clothing for longer. Cold weather and evenings suit it best, though the sharp opening makes it wearable in mild weather too. It is a men's fragrance from 2023, and Anne Flipo, Dominique Ropion and Juliette Karagueuzoglou composed it.
Everything here goes back to a Paris fashion collection shown in 1966 by the designer Paco Rabanne. The perfume business that now dominates the company was created by Puig in 1968, and the Spanish group took ownership of the whole thing in 1987.
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