Paco Rabanne Olympéa Absolu Intense Eau de Parfum 50 ml

Three materials is all Rabanne Olympea Absolu Eau de Parfum holds, and it is far better for knowing it. This is a short composition and makes no attempt to look like anything else. Apricot leads. It is a soft, slightly fuzzy fruit sweetness, more golden than sharp and more orchard than tropical, and it sets the warm tone of everything that follows. Jasmine sits directly beneath it, full and white and a touch heady, doing the work that would normally be spread across four or five flowers. Then vanilla, thick and plain and sweet, holding both of them down and taking over entirely by the second hour. There is no long evolution here. What you smell in the first ten minutes is close to what you smell three hours later, only softer and nearer the skin. Some people prefer that, because it means you always know what you are wearing and there are no unpleasant surprises halfway through a dinner. Others want a fragrance that moves, and they should know before buying that this one does not. Caroline Dumur and Paul Guerlain are credited with the formula. Absolu in a fragrance name signals a concentrated reading, and that is how it behaves: dense, sweet, long lasting, and better applied sparingly than generously. It suits cold evenings and anybody who likes fruit and vanilla without complication, and it is far too rich for a hot afternoon. The house is French, born out of the couture collections Paco Rabanne began showing in 1966. Its perfumes come from Puig of Barcelona, responsible for the fragrances since 1968 and for the brand as a whole since 1987, and the label now reads simply Rabanne.

OLYMPÉA ABSOLU PARFUM INTENSE EDP STEAM