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Lady Million
The heart is the most underrated part of the Rabanne Lady Million Eau de Parfum Gift Set, and it is orange blossom and jasmine.
Orange blossom is creamy and honeyed, jasmine is broad and heady, and between them they give the fragrance the grown up quality that sits between its tart opening and its heavy base. That opening is raspberry, bitter orange and neroli, sharp and bright for the first few minutes and gone soon after. The base is honey, thick and waxy with a faintly animal edge, with patchouli for earth and amber for dry resin underneath it. Eight materials, which is a full composition by any standard, and every single one of them is doing something you can point to in the wear.
At eau de parfum strength it carries properly for the first hours and then stays on skin and clothing for a very long time afterwards. Two sprays is the sensible dose and anyone who goes further than that will hear about it from somebody. It is not a fragrance that can be worn absent mindedly.
Cold weather and evenings are where it belongs, and it suits an occasion rather than a trip to the shops. As a boxed present it is about as reliable as fragrance gifting gets for a woman who already wears perfume, since this is a scent most people have encountered and made their minds up about one way or the other. Anne Flipo, Béatrice Piquet and Dominique Ropion are the three perfumers credited with the composition.
Rabanne is a French house that came out of the fashion world, its founding designer having shown his first collection in 1966. The perfume division was created in 1968 by the Spanish group Puig, and by 1987 the whole company had passed across to it.
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