{"product_id":"rabanne-invictus-victory-elixir-parfum-intense-gift-set","title":"Invictus Victory Elixir Parfum Intense Gift Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree materials, no second act, and no pretence of one: the Rabanne Invictus Victory Elixir Parfum Intense Gift Set is built on tonka bean, incense and opulent wood, and that is the whole of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe box holds the 100ml Eau de Parfum, a 150ml deodorant spray and a 10ml spray. Short compositions are not automatically poor ones, and this is a case in point. Tonka bean does the sweetening, warm and powdery with a faintly bitter edge underneath, the smell of a baking tin rather than of what came out of it. Incense sits over the top with its dry resinous smoke, the material that keeps this from being simply a sweet men's scent, and the opulent wood of the base gives the pair somewhere solid to stand. What you smell in the first ten minutes is more or less what you get for the rest of the wear, so there is no evolution to wait for and no surprise coming. That simplicity makes it an unusually safe present. Nobody has to learn how to wear it, it does the same thing from the first spray to the last, and the parfum intense strength means it holds its position for hours rather than needing a top up at six o'clock. Two sprays is plenty, and on a coat it will still be there the next time the coat comes off the hook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a men's set and a cold weather one, better at night than in daylight, and better in December than in June. The person to give it to is somebody who already enjoys smoke in a fragrance and would be bored by another citrus. Anyone who wants a scent that changes shape over four hours should be given something else entirely, because this one has made up its mind before you leave the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name belongs to Paco Rabanne, the designer who began showing in Paris in 1966, though perfume has been Spanish business since the Puig group created the division in 1968 and then bought the company in 1987. Invictus is the men's range the firm leans on hardest, and this set sits at its concentrated end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rabanne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55584022135111,"sku":"ENG222700","price":143.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/eng222700.webp?v=1794496577","url":"https:\/\/thescentvault.ie\/sv\/products\/rabanne-invictus-victory-elixir-parfum-intense-gift-set","provider":"The Scent Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}