Paco Rabanne launched Fame in July 2022, a year after Phantom, its robot-shaped men’s fragrance. Dora Baghriche, Marie Salamagne, Alberto Morillas and Fabrice Pellegrin signed its floral formula, which the house sums up in three materials: mango in the top, jasmine in the heart, and a creamy incense in the base, wrapped in sandalwood and vanilla. Elle Fanning is its face.
For Mona Mostafa of iFragrance, Fame is a decent but unsurprising release: a tangy mango, a warm and dense jasmine, a sandalwood and vanilla base that pleases the greatest number, in a bottle she finds unflattering.
What critics say
A fleeting mango
On June 20, 2023, Mona Mostafa devoted a review to Fame for iFragrance. The opening offers her a sour mango, as if freshly sliced, almost lemony, too fleeting for her taste, which gives way to a soapy, clean impression.
The jasmine she encounters does not strike her as fresh at all: warm, dense, bound to olibanum, it at times evokes orange blossom, which she doubts is in the formula. For her, it is the accord of jasmine and sandalwood that sums up the fragrance.
A bottle that leaves her cold
The bottle seems unflattering to her and ill-matched to the juice. Its metal scales remind her of the designer’s metallic sequin swimsuit of 1967; its black goggles first made her see an owl, and she is amused by the boots and earrings.
A familiar fragrance
Her verdict is measured: a decent, pleasant, crowd-pleasing release that she does not hate, but with nothing striking or surprising. In her eyes, it is mostly the whimsical look of the bottle that made its success; she advises trying it before buying a full size.
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