Fame
Rabanne Fame Parfum 30ml is the richest reading of Fame, and the note row is noticeably longer than the eau de parfum's: ten materials rather than six, with two of the additions changing the character completely.
The first is pink pepper, which joins mango and bergamot at the top. It is bright and slightly rosy with a fizzing, dry berry quality, and it sharpens an opening that would otherwise be all soft fruit. Mango is still the sweetness, fleshy and golden with a trace of sharpness from the skin, and bergamot keeps it clean and bitter at the edges.
The second addition is oakmoss, down in the base, and it is the reason this version feels more serious. Oakmoss is damp, green and inky, the smell of a forest floor after rain, and it pulls the sweetness downwards. Around it sit musk, which smooths everything into the skin, benzoin, a soft balsamic sweetness, and sandalwood, creamy with a faint sourness. The middle keeps the Fame signature intact: jasmine, warm and full, with incense drawing a lean smoke across it, and patchouli adding earth beneath.
At parfum strength and in a 30ml bottle this is a scent to use sparingly, one spray at a time, and it will outlast the day. It reads feminine, it belongs to the evening, and cold weather suits it. The oakmoss and the pepper between them make it the most grown up thing in the Fame range, and the version least likely to be mistaken for anything cheap.
The house began as the Paris fashion label of the designer Paco Rabanne, whose first collection was shown in 1966; the perfumes, which came a couple of years later, are now by far the larger business.
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