Phantom
A hundred millilitres is a great deal of a fragrance this simple, and Rabanne Phantom Eau de Toilette 100ml is sold in that size because people get through it.
What they are getting through is three materials. Lavender is the whole identity of the scent, used cool and clean with the faint camphorous snap the fresh material has, and it is what anybody will notice first and remember afterwards. Lemon brightens the opening with sharp rind and then withdraws within the first quarter of an hour. Vanilla lies underneath from start to finish, warm and smooth, softening the lavender into something comfortable rather than clinical. There is no fourth material and no hidden development, so what you smell at the start is what you have at the end, only quieter.
The fragrance dates from 2021, and at eau de toilette strength it is light, bright and undemanding in wear. Expect a working day out of it on most skin, with the first hour carrying and the rest sitting close, and expect two or three sprays to be about right.
It is a daytime scent for work, travel and ordinary weeks, and it is one of the easiest men's fragrances to wear at close quarters because there is nothing in it for anybody to object to. Warm weather suits it especially well. For a man who wants one bottle that covers everything, a large size of something this straightforward makes more sense than a small size of something complicated.
Anne Flipo, Dominique Ropion, Juliette Karagueuzoglou and Loc Dong are credited with it, which is four perfumers on a notably lean formula. Rabanne itself is a French house out of fashion, its founding collection shown in 1966, with perfume made under the name since 1968 by the Spanish group Puig, owner of the brand in full since 1987.
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