Paco Rabanne
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Greengage plum hits with almost bruised intensity, its winey sweetness amplified by sharp grapefruit that feels more like fruit cordial than citrus freshness. The ozonic notes attempt to provide breathing room but mostly just add a synthetic sheen, like smelling expensive fruit through cling film.
Hazelnut emerges as the unexpected hero, its roasted nuttiness binding with honey to create an ambered, praline-like core that the cedarwood keeps from total gourmandise. Jasmine weaves through peripherally, softening the woods into that cashmere texture whilst the composition shifts from aggressively fruity to warmly enveloping.
Vetiver's earthy grassiness finally breaks through the sweetness, joined by oakmoss and patchouli in a classic masculine base that feels almost traditional after the pyrotechnics above. What remains is a woody-sweet skin scent with a musky undertow, the fruit long departed but its ghost still lingering in the honeyed warmth.
Million Lucky rewrites the Paco Rabanne playbook with a saturated fruity-woody hybrid that feels like stumbling into a Parisian patisserie through a cloud of cologne. The greengage plum opening—tart, almost fermented—crashes into grapefruit with an intensity that borders on syrupy, creating this aggressively juicy salvo that announces itself before you've even sprayed. What makes this interesting is how Gracia-Cetto threads hazelnut and honey through cedarwood, building a praline-textured heart that should feel cloying but somehow maintains its swagger through that ozonic top layer cutting through the sweetness like a blade.
This is unabashedly loud, the kind of scent worn by someone who treats Friday nights as a competitive sport. The cashmere wood smooths the rougher cedar angles whilst jasmine adds an almost imperceptible floralcy—more of a soft-focus filter than an actual floral presence. By the time the vetiver and oakmoss settle in, you're left with something that reads masculine despite its fruity intensity, the patchouli grounding what could have been a candied disaster into something wearable, if not subtle.
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