Fame
Rabanne Fame Eau de Parfum 30ml is the handbag size, and for a scent with this much smoke in it that is a more sensible purchase than it looks. A fragrance you can top up at six in the evening behaves very differently from one you sprayed at seven in the morning.
Incense is the material that gives it character. It is dry and cool rather than sweet, closer to ash at a distance than to a bonfire in front of you, and it sits right in the middle of the composition where you would normally expect something soft and floral. Jasmine is there too, thick and a little heavy, but the smoke is what you notice. Over the top, mango carries the sweetness, juicy and tropical without tipping into jam, and bergamot keeps the first minutes clean and faintly bitter. Underneath, sandalwood is soft and creamy with a faint sourness to it, and vanilla gives a mild, dry sweetness that rounds the base off rather than sugaring it.
Thirty millilitres is enough for a few weeks of regular wear or a long time of occasional use, and it travels. The concentration means it lasts well and carries further than most people expect, so one spray at the neck is a reasonable dose. It leans feminine and it is at its best in the evening and in cool weather. Dora Baghriche, Marie Salamagne, Alberto Morillas and Fabrice Pellegrin composed it, and it dates from 2022.
Rabanne grew out of a Paris fashion house opened in the sixties by the designer whose name it carried until recently. Its perfumes have been developed by Puig of Barcelona since the late sixties, and Fame is now one of the best known names in its women's range.
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