Paco Rabanne perfumes and colognes

Paco Rabanne is a French fashion house founded in 1966. Francisco "Paco" Rabaneda Cuervo, the Spanish-born fashion designer more widely known as Paco Rabanne, fled Spain with his family during the Spanish Civil War. Growing up in Paris, he is an architect by training, but he started his fashion career designing jewelry for other houses before trying his hand at clothing design. He quickly became known for his eclectic fashions featuring unconventional materials such as metal and paper.

The house's first perfume is the now-legendary women's scent Calandre, introduced in 1969. A series of innovative fragrances in distinctive bottles for both men and women have followed. Paco Rabanne fashions and fragrances are produced in conjunction with Puig.

Designer Paco Rabanne has 50 perfumes in our fragrance base. The earliest edition was created in 1969 and the newest is from 2013. Paco Rabanne fragrances were made in collaboration with perfumers Olivier Cresp, Emilie (Bevierre) Coppermann, Mark Buxton, Fabrice Pellegrin, Michel Hy, Robert Gonnon, Veronique Nyberg, Anne Flipo, Olivier Polge, Dominique Ropion, Jean Guichard, Rosendo Mateu, Jean Martel, Jacques Cavallier, Pierre Wargnye, Gerard Anthony, Christophe Raynaud, Olivier Pescheux, Michel Girard, Beatrice Piquet and Bruno Jovanovic.

Invictus Paco Rabanne for men

Paco Rabanne launches Invictus, its new fragrance for men, which represents fresh and sporty creation in relation to the other perfumes of the house. The fragrance comes out in July 2013. Invictus, which is Latin for "invincible," represents power, dynamism and energy.

The fragrance opens with fresh grapefruit and a marine accord that lead to the heart of aromatic bay leaf and Hedione jasmine and a woody base of guaiac wood, patchouli, oak moss and ambergris.

The bottle is designed in the form of a trophy. The fragrance is available as 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette with an accompanying collection. Invictus was created byVeronique Nyberg, Anne Flipo, Olivier Polge and Dominique Ropion.

Black XS L'Exces for Him Paco Rabanne for men

Black XS L'Exces for Him by Paco Rabanne is a Woody Aromatic fragrance for men. This is a new fragrance. Black XS L'Exces for Him was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Fabrice Pellegrin. Top notes are lavender and amalfi lemon; middle notes are cypriol oil or nagarmotha and sea notes; base notes are patchouli and amber.

Main Accords: Aromatic, citrus, earthy, woody and amber

Personal review: Just bought it today. It really is an amazing fragrance, can be conveniently worn in summer and spring. Sweet enough to wear in autumn too but too fresh for winter, though it's never sharp. It's deliciously smooth! I smell something between lime and pineapple as well as a bit of strawberry with a fresh sea vibe in it. It's chill, young yet sophisticated. It lasts more than 6 hours on my skin and more than 8 hours on my clothes but the sillage is only great for 1 or 2 hours, then it gets weaker- perhaps it's because the scent is a great balance between sweetness and freshness and that's the way it should be.

Scent: 5/5
Longevity: 4/5
Sillage: 3/5

-Overall: 4/5!

A 'must have'.