Fame Refillable
The sensible way into Fame is the refillable bottle, and Rabanne Fame Refillable Eau de Parfum 80ml is it. Buy the glass once, buy refills after that, and the running cost of wearing it falls a long way.
Eighty millilitres is a serious amount of eau de parfum, enough for a year or more at a couple of sprays a day, which is a reasonable commitment for a scent this distinctive. And it is distinctive. The idea is fruit over smoke, and it works because neither half gives way: mango is sunny and fleshy, almost buttery, with a faint sharpness at the edge, and incense underneath it is dry, cool and slightly peppery, like the smell of a candle that has just gone out.
Between them sit jasmine, rich and warm and a little heavy, and bergamot at the very top, bitter and bright, which buys the fruit a few minutes of lift before the sweetness arrives. The base is sandalwood and vanilla, the wood creamy with a faint sourness, the vanilla mild and dry rather than thick, and together they stop the smoke from turning cold.
Performance is good: a strong first hour, then a warm trail that keeps near the skin until bedtime. Women are the intended audience, and it suits evenings, autumn and winter, and it holds up in spring. The year on record is 2022, and the refills come in 200ml, which is where the saving is. Keep the glass, replace the contents, and the bottle itself becomes the thing you own rather than the thing you throw away.
Perfume is the main business of this house now. Puig, the Spanish group that set up its fragrance division in 1968, has owned the brand outright for decades, and Fame is one of the best known things it has launched under the name.
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