1 Million Black

Rabanne presents 1 Million Black as the amber, fruity and gourmand interpretation of the franchise, built on a simple contrast: a tropical opening, a dense vanilla center, a dry wood base.

What the house states

The house describes a tropical freshness meeting the gourmand warmth of vanilla, with ebony wood giving the base its depth. It calls it darker than 1 Million Eau de Parfum, a woody spicy scent, and more vanilla-forward than 1 Million Parfum.

The materials

Pineapple, which the house describes as roasted, and blood orange open, joined by cardamom, spicy and fresh. The center rests on a trio of vanillas, vanilla, Madagascar vanilla and Bourbon vanilla, rounded by coconut and cut by clary sage with a green note.

The base pairs ebony, woody and round, with earthy patchouli and tonka bean, with its almond accents.

What the label declares

The printed list names four natural materials: bergamot peel oil, bitter orange peel oil, lemon peel oil and patchouli oil. Pineapple, coconut and ebony do not appear: they are accords, not raw materials.

It also lists vanillin, acetyl cedrene, a woody amber molecule of the tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes family, a UV filter and four colorants, CI 19140, CI 14700, CI 60730 and CI 42090.

The rest belongs to the allergen declaration: linalool, limonene, coumarin, citral, cinnamal, alpha-isomethyl ionone, benzyl salicylate and geranyl acetate. Neither lilial nor lyral.