Paco Rabanne 1 Million Parfum

Good opening, then a strong Meh

Parfum opens as very nice bubblegummy scent. Unfortunately, this lasts only a few minutes as the fragrance evolves into something else.

In general, I'm not a fan. This scent feels heavy-handed, and it inherits the signature obnoxious sourness from the base 1 Million. It smells like a sour plum. Coconut is easy to find if you look for it. As to the "solar notes" (sic), it's probably the power of suggestion, but the scent is sparkly in a blinding way, as if you looked at the sun. It's also very aromatic/ambery, to the point of being piercing. And it is kind of musky, but not in a pleasant way, too much contrast between the musky and the aromatic and the sour. I don't like the construction of this scent, it feels like they threw some random ingredients at the wall and took what stuck. it diverges in its duality, one part dark and heavy, the other light and bright.

To say this smells white floral is a bit of a stretch, because it's rather thick and heavy for a white floral fragrance. In my opinion, this smells like a salty version of Stronger With You. Both scents are sour, sweet, and somewhat thick and dull. I would be curious to compare this with Stronger With You Leather.

It is also similar to Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal. The main differences are that Scandal is overtly nutty, much thicker, less sour.

Sillage is strong initially, it borders on overpowered ankle perfume. The perfume holds quite well and after a few hours smells better. Like the base version, the sourness goes away, and the fragrance becomes similar to D&G The One For Men, or probably even more to Davidoff Cool Water Intense - a sweet, ambery coconut.

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