Lady Million Paco Rabanne (2010) Eau de Parfum

Lady Million (Eau de Parfum) by Paco Rabanne

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Lady Million (Eau de Parfum) is a perfume by Paco Rabanne for women and was released in 2010. The scent is sweet-floral. It is being marketed by Puig.

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Perfumers

Anne Flipo, Béatrice Piquet, Dominique Ropion, Laurent Le Guernec

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Raspberry, Neroli, Bitter orange
Heart Notes	Orange blossom, Jasmine sambac
Base Notes	Honey, Patchouli

Ratings

Scent

5.9 (363 Ratings)

Longevity

7.1 (247 Ratings)

Sillage

6.9 (227 Ratings)

Bottle

5.5 (260 Ratings)

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08/29/2018

8.0/10

9.0/10

8.5/10

Puderduft18

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Puderduft18

Greatly helpful Review 24

Sometimes the first impression is misleading...

I first met Lady Million at my hairdresser's in the salon. It is what the film "Manta, Manta" ridiculed: a sweet mouse that really fulfills all clichés. Blond, slim, always perfectly made up and styled, always sweet smiling and sweet smelling and her favourite colour seems to be pink. She wears all the sweet mainstream scents, I can't tell the difference. But anyone who thinks he's dealing with a ....na, let's call it a "naive" little follower is wrong! Because who would think that this stylish girl would help socially disadvantaged children with their homework in her spare time? Volunteer, mind you! That she collects voluntary food donations for the animal shelter in the area and with her tip, what she earns in her job, rather gives the four-legged friends food than give herself an expensive outfit? I recently met her in a rustic hiking look in the woods, where she took a long walk with a few of her fluffy protégés. Honestly, I felt caught! What's the matter with you? Because one often judges prematurely without really dealing with a thing or a person!

And that's exactly what happens (to me) sometimes with some scents! A spray, a short sniff and the opinion is already certain. Otherwise, I can't explain why a perfume like this doesn't even score 6 points in the standings. Yes, there are so many who smell similar or at least go in the same direction. Yes, it's a heavy and very sweet scent. But at the same time it is also a sensual fragrance, if you know the right dosage! My hairdresser doesn't seem to know her, because I really have trouble not falling into snap-breathing when she sneaks around me and does my hair.
Some time ago I got myself a sample of the controversial scent and was very curious how it would look on my skin. Admittedly, Lady Million is a firecracker! The silage is gigantic like with Alien! I guess he's out for office fragrance. After a short raspberry-fruity prelude I immediately smelled Jasmin-Sambac on my skin. Woe betide him who exaggerates with spraying. :-) The bitter orange note, which occasionally flashes through, slows down the sweetness a little and appears slightly bitter. Orange blossom comes through a little later with me, but the jasmine clearly dominates. I don't perceive honey, however hard I try to sniff it out. After two hours the sweetness has settled down, Lady Million now I like more and more! However, I only sprayed once and yet everyone who enters the room perceives it well. It will certainly not become a favorite fragrance of mine, I have far too many other favorites in my collection for that! But for going out he is always a faithful and very beautiful companion, which I will certainly buy in the small version. In winter it is twice as beautiful to wear as in other seasons. The shelf life was 9 hours!

A big thank you to my dear Basti, who never gets tired of telling me about classic fragrances again and again! Your tip was good again. ;-))

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07/23/2018

9.0/10

8.0/10

9.5/10

Brilan

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Brilan

Very helpful Review 8

Found it...?

I'm still looking for a replacement for "my perfume parure made for me by Guerlain", which unfortunately is no longer produced and of which I only have a few left, and I got stuck with Lady Million. I wouldn't say that it is the fragrance that is supposed to replace Parure, but it is a little closer than many other fragrances before it. I will probably not find an equivalent replacement, but at least I bought the 50 ml bottle after 30 ml and ordered the deodorant. Unfortunately, the bottle is very unwieldy. The raspberry takes a back seat to Neroli and the bitter orange. At the end I do not hear the honey so strongly, but Patschouli quite strong. The durability is also order. Maybe I can still find it, the substitute for the fragrance that was inseparably connected to me. The lady likes it once in a while

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07/11/2018

9.0/10

10.0/10

Systm

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Systm

Partially unfair evaluation and assessment

Also I, as a male person, would like to release my mustard to this fragrance.

I had known the Lady Million fragrance for some time thanks to female friends (18-29 years old) and had actually only heard good about it, so last Christmas I bought it for both my mother and sister and both were very pleased with this gift. Of course I was also allowed to have a look at the scent (bottle) and spray it on my hand to test it. Already the first impression was "wow", the bottle, based on the shape of a diamond or the like with the golden cap and the engraved writing, looked very high quality and beautiful. Even when I was holding the bottle in my hand, I was able to perceive a beautiful, attractive, seductive, feminine fragrance and was naturally curious to see how it would smell on my hand. A sprayer on my hand, just waited and wow!!! it smells really very tasty, noble, high quality and modern. The scent has a sweetness but as a male person I don't find it disturbing or annoying! Above all, I really like the interplay of fruits and flowers! Also earlier, before I wrote this comment here, I smelled the scent again to be sure. From some of my female friends this scent is the favourite here, also my sister and my mother love the scent and call it one of their favourite scents and rightly so, I think.

Why here some write, the smell would be shit, bad, disgusting and to vomit, I can neither understand nor understand but now well, tastes are different. If the scent here is supposed to smell "bad", then I seriously wonder what these people think is "good"? I think it's a real pity that there are so many people who are just "followers" and who deliberately judge scents or other things as bad, label them as bad etc. without knowing or smelling them seriously. Fame is no reason to consider a scent, person or anything else as bad or negative.

Personally I think the fragrance here deserves a much better and higher rating and not because of fame or bling bling (gold) but just because of this great fragrance and this great interplay of fruits (berries) and flowers! Otherwise I can only join the comment of 'Basti87'.

btw: I already smelled female perfumes, they were really bad and bad in a negative sense, Lady Million doesn't fit into this drawer and I would never wear this shoe for Lady Million! And that's what I say or write as a man who is very picky and a little perfectionist.

The evaluation and evaluation of the fragrance is m.M.n. quite unfair!

The fragrance is something for every girl or woman, no matter how old, but it fits more into the collection of younger, but still WOMEN is never too old for this great fragrance.

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03/03/2015

ColinM

Negligible!

Lady Million is to me a fruity-floral scent with all the worst mainstream features in place: plastic, boring, cheap. Dark-dusty synthetic patchouli on the base, aldehydes, something green, and the fruity-floral accord, so metallic and generic it can be anything (jasmine and gardenia, fine: you could have told me it contained rose and ylang, I’d have believed it too). Besides being boring and conventional, it’s also particularly tacky and cheap, with an everlasting and static (non) evolution for hours. I don’t get how this requested 4 noses.

4,5-5/10

03/13/2014

5.0/10

7.5/10

8.0/10

Karinoula

Helpful Review 5

honey for the summer

This a very nice sweet perfume and appropriate for summer and spring. The sweet (honey) is very well mixed with the african orange flower while the patchoulli and woody notes are soft and aromatic. It reminds me a lot of "elie saab" perfume. The bottle is quite unusual but I don't like it much. Overall is a pretty perfume and like all Paco's fumes it is very high class and sexy. Finally it is very long lasting and it makes me feel happy and optimistic.

01/28/2014

10.0/10

8.0/10

Athenaida

Popular Teen

So this is so very popular and I wanted to try it.
I'm wearing it, have a sample.I can smell orange blossoms and too much gardenia.
An easy to wear fragrance for pr.
Yes, I must confess I was waiting to be a luxury one but it is elegant.
Reminds me how it smells when I get in to a perfume shop.I found it warm, sweet, fruity a gourmand one and sexy.Can also be a teen fume why not?

09/12/2012

7.5/10

6.0/10

LadyRogue

A Spicy/Floral/Gourmand

Lady Million is not really a "Lady"...she is a clever and impish seductress that gets what she wants by employing her seductive weapons (notes) in a deadly (effective) manner.

Addictive honey mingled with raspberry is the first delicious whiff that hits my nose when I spray this...hmmm...it's sweet but not cloying. Orange flower is next...then a hint of strong jasmine follows and deepens this sweet but not too sweet gourmand/floral. Next, amber, patchouli and Amalfi lemon as a grand finale.

The lemon makes it spicy, the honey makes it sweet and the flowers float somewhere in between. I think the secret to making this one of the most loved perfumes in recent years is the balance. It is a very well balanced perfume that is not too much of one thing yet holds your interest by never being linear.
It's not what I would call an *elegant* scent, nor a *classy* scent...no, it's rather a *dirty* sexy scent that has (on me) a very slight unisex vibe in the drydown. But somehow that works.

Indeed, this is one of the most popular perfumes of late, so, should you buy it and smell like so many others? Well, this line of thinking doesn't stop e.g. the Lempicka fans! (another line of perfumes that sells en masse) So, it shouldn't stop you. A perfume still interacts with everyones chemistry a bit different, on me you can hardly detect the raspberry note ones the first whiff settles, it all becomes honey, jasmine, patchouli and a slight lemon note and it gives me wafts of these notes in turns for the whole time it's on my skin.

It's not my *most* favourite scent, but I do like wearing it on occasion.
Especially when I am bored of sophisticated florals. Suffer from an oriental overdose. Am slightly nauseous from patisserie gourmands and feel like a pool girl after over-exposure to aquatics. So, yes, that's the moment Lady Million is a welcome change.

The bottle is a hate or love design. Some might call it clumsy while others dislike the plastic gold cap that shows smudges. *she said as she wiped her fingerprints off the cap* ; ) But I guess we can all agree that as far as product identity goes, this bottle cannot be easily overlooked or mistaken.

Silage is: "you just hit the million $ jackpot....of well balanced yumminess" -- longevity is: "I start out sweet, but change to fresh and I don't get tired of repeating this for a good 5+ hours."
Test on skin before purchase and see how the notes decide to pop-up, I have heard of headaches when over-sprayed so be careful with the trigger finger!

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04/09/2012

5.0/10

Missk

A bit of a let-down

I have never, I repeat, never tried 1 Million by Paco Rabanne. I had no preconceived notion of what Lady Million was supposed to smell like, and for that reason alone I am neither disappointed nor moved by this particular fragrance.

Lady Million is average yet pleasant. It's sweet but nicely so, like a honey scented shampoo rather than anything particularly sugary.

It's not really a fruity floral, although the clean-like notes of lemon and raspberry are quite dominant. It's very honeyed, syrupy almost, but not a gourmand.

Lady Million has stirred up many mixed feelings in me. While there are moments when I think it's a plain yet elegant scent, there are times when I find it a little cheap and uninspiring. I feel it's designed to attract young women in their 20's.

All in all, it's a mixture of high-end shampoo, drizzly honey and a subtle hint of dirty, earthy patchouli. Odd, but a sure crowd pleaser. I wouldn't be shocked to see this fragrance flying off the shelves this Christmas.

The lasting power is so-so and let's just say that the bottle design makes this a rather difficult object to hold in the palm of your hand let alone spray in a hurry.

01/29/2012

5.0/10

2.0/10

Sherapop

Helpful Review 5

Aromachemical Soup

LADY MILLION offers a case study for a couple of hypotheses which I have been mulling over of late. First: do too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the soup? Dominique Ropion, Anne Flipo and Beatrice Piquet: sounds like a dream team, but then how in the world did they manage together to produce LADY MILLION? I ask most sincerely.

The other question relates to the importance of quality ingredients in producing a first-rate perfume. Maybe if this would-have-been Dream Team had used real honey, raspberries, patchouli, jasmine, gardenia, and neroli, then LADY MILLION would have smelled like it was worth a million--or even a hundred--bucks. Instead what I'm sniffin' is artificial flavors + artificial flavors + artificial flavors, leading to a final "perfume" product of aromachemical soup!

In a word: Yuck.

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01/08/2012

2.0/10

Njdeb

Generic

There was a time back in the 80's when I began to really lose interest in perfume because they all started to smell the same. This perfume smells like you took all those nondescript scents and mixed them together. You might as well just put it in a plain glass bottle and call it "Perfume." It's not even modern - just a generic scent, and a dated one at that.