Mētāl Paco Rabanne 1979 Parfum

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8.1 / 10 53 Ratings

A popular perfume by Paco Rabanne for women, released in 1979. The scent is floral-chypreartig. It was last marketed by Puig.

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Main accords

Floral

Chypre

Green

Fresh

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Basil

Green notes

Hyacinth

Lemon

Heart Notes

Ylang-ylang

Rose

Cyclamen

Iris

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Tuberose

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Ambergris

Musk

Oakmoss

Vetiver

Perfumer

Robert Gonnon

Ratings

Scent

8.153 Ratings

Longevity

7.643 Ratings

Sillage

6.742 Ratings

Bottle

8.445 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 11.01.2024.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/27/2014

10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

ScentFan
332 Reviews

ScentFan

3

Signature Business Scent

When I was out there swinging for the fences in the business world, often the only female in a room of males, I wore this fresh but seductively modern scent. Having since discovered the broader world of perfume, I still adore it. Metal to me is the kind of femininity that doesn't try to imitate men to be powerful. Why would it? If you can look at a misbehaving man with the stare his mother gives him, if you can chummy up over beers as if he were your brother, if you can flirt the guy across the table out of his personal agenda, why in the world would you want to act like a man? Of course, for longevity of success, it helps to also have a brain or two yourself. If you do, and you want to make waves instead of ripples, wear Metal. All's fair.

07/24/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

6

this is what something called alien should smell like

For all the specific floral notes I can make out in Metal (lily of the valley, hyacinth, narcissus?) this gorgeous fragrance doesn’t seem like a floral. Even with the connections to other green florals (Chamade, le Temps d’une Fete) and aldehydic florals (No 19) that I can detect, Metal stands in its own category. The only other scents truly akin to it are alike in their abstract construction, not in the similarity of their notes or categorization. Nahema comes to mind for the fact that its overall feel seems yards away from (and at a right angle to) its individual notes. But Metal doesn’t smell anything like Nahema. Qualities of oiliness, flintiness, astringency bend the floralcy in Metal totally out of shape. What we wind up with is not so much synergy as (pardon the metal analogy) amalgam.

I guess what I dig is that it doesn’t seem so much to bridge categories as create a new one. Flinty green metallics? Oily bittersweets? Venomous gourmand antagonists? However it comes about, Metal remains exciting to me each and every time I smell it, and whatever the fragrance family, this is one I would keep if (heaven forbid) I were obliged to keep only 5 scents.

01/31/2012

10
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 2
Scent

Lola82
362 Reviews

Lola82

Helpful Review 2

Cold Blade

P.R Metal is like a cold blade glading across flesh
almost give a sense of vircera Secerations Magnifiques
without the blood and iodine, There is nothing soft
about this, Clean and Antiseptic lines make you think
of a monochrome colored room free of clutter there is
nothing execpt a large screen white chair staring at
a man controling your emotions thoughts like Big Brother a clinical utopia a Minimalistic Aestheticism in a bottle, Bladerunner's Femme Fatale and replicant Rachael must have worn this when trying to seduce
Deckard only the most iciest femme fatales can pull
this off there's no cozy Ambers no spices or warm
resins an unique scent that does'nt follow any rules a class of it's self.