Phantom
Rabanne Phantom Eau de Toilette 100ml runs lemon into lavender into vanilla, with vetiver holding the ground underneath. The lemon is bright and short, the lavender aromatic and clean, and the vanilla warm without being thick, kept dry by the earthy, faintly smoky vetiver below it.
From lemon to lavender to vanilla and vetiver, the composition narrows as it goes. The top is fresh and citric, the heart aromatic with a fresh spicy edge, and the base woody and earthy beneath the vanilla, with a faint smokiness and a trace of fruit sweetness holding the two halves together. It is a short note list and the structure is easy to follow on the skin: a cold opening, an aromatic middle, then the vanilla and vetiver pair that accounts for most of the wear. Neither half overwhelms the other, and the sweetness never gets far enough ahead of the earthiness to turn the fragrance into a gourmand.
Phantom dates from 2021 and was composed by four perfumers working together: Anne Flipo, Dominique Ropion, Juliette Karagueuzoglou and Loc Dong. Rabanne has made fragrance since 1969, when Calandre, a metallic rose presented in a metal and glass bottle, followed Monsieur Rabanne's debut couture collection of 1966. The house still takes its fragrance identity from that work in metal.
Moderate longevity and moderate sillage make it a close-wearing scent rather than a room-filling one. It wears through spring, summer, autumn and winter: the lemon keeps it viable in heat and the vanilla and vetiver give it enough body for cold weather. That same balance makes it straightforward at work and easy on casual days, while the smoky, woody base gives it the depth to hold up on a night out.
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