Phantom Paco Rabanne 2021

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5.6 / 10 676 Ratings

A perfume by Paco Rabanne for men, released in 2021. The scent is sweet-synthetic. It is being marketed by Puig.

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Main accords

Sweet

Synthetic

Fruity

Fresh

Citrus

Fragrance Notes

Fruity notes

Rhubarb

Vanilla absolute

Clary sage

Italian lemon zest

Provençal lavender absolute

Indonesian patchouli

Haitian vetiver

Perfumers

Anne Flipo, Dominique Ropion, Juliette Karagueuzoglou, Loc Dong

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Ratings

Scent

5.6676 Ratings

Longevity

6.8580 Ratings

Sillage

6.8580 Ratings

Bottle

5.9617 Ratings

Value for money

5.7483 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 20.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The faces of the advertising campaign are models David Trulík and Kristina Grikaite, filmed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet.

Reviews

20 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/02/2021

6
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 5
Scent

Taurus
310 Reviews

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Taurus

Top Review 61

We are the robots

Yes tvoi sluga
Yes tvoi rabotnik

We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

We call ourselves phantom
And work without electricity

We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

We spray with mechanics
Smell full of synthetics

We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

We are programmed for youth
sweet-muffled scent is executed

We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

The Toy bottle is full of the joke
Anyway - we are made for kids

We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

The durability is forever
Here, synthetics show what they can do

We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

Four perfumers are to blame here
Only anti-cult
was created in the process
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

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Freely adapted from the song lyrics: Die Roboter by Kraftwerk (Original Lyrics by Ralf Hütter / Florian Schneider-Esleben / Karl Bartos)

09/12/2021

4
Pricing 1
Bottle 5
Sillage 8
Longevity 4.5
Scent

Chnokfir
34 Reviews

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Chnokfir

Top Review 27

No "Domo arigato misuta Robotto"

There's no other way to say it, I was olfactorically influenced by Italian fragrance classics. One of them was clearly "Paco Rabanne pour Homme" - a fragrance as old as I am, classic, green, spicy, a little barbershop, just wonderful. Since then I am happy about every new release from that house. The fresher "Paco Rabanne pour Homme Eau" then also became my signature scent for a few years until it was discontinued. But the more plastic was used in the individual bottles since the millennium, the less I could do with the respective fragrances. But I was sure, Phantom must also be tested, each gets its fair chance.

The specially for this fragrance set up display was then also hard to miss at Douglas. On it some silver boxes with the big name and the somewhat smaller robot on it. So far, so simple, everything still acceptable. Next to it, two saleswomen are frantically discussing, one is playing around with a bottle, or rather, with its individual parts. Apparently this toy robot from the Far East wouldn't even survive the first hour of excited play after being unpacked under a Christmas tree. Broken off, sharp-edged and pointed individual parts, a colleague rushes over with a new tester. I finger the new tester: Yes, seems to be a thin-walled plastic construction of the kind that likes to break quickly once. Although the atomizer makes a pretty good impression, I wonder if this is supposed to be a refill that will last for a long time? Who has a soft spot for Japanese science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s with the associated films and toys, which will hardly come past this bottle and place it in the showcase.

Two sprays on the back of the hand and I immediately ask myself the question, whether I would not like to undergo better equal ritual ablutions. A few minutes later on the open street, my wife wants to drag me by force into the next department store, to perform this procedure on me in person in the customer toilet.

With the first gush overcomes one a rich load of sweet fruitiness, which within minutes turns into a fruity sweetness and is accompanied by a slight metallic note of lavender. All half bad if it weren't for a chord, nay, a crescendo of sticky sweet chords that build to a fortissimo forte of patchouli, vanilla and probably tonka. Wouldn't be so bad, perhaps, if this weren't all at once, so intense, so synthetically vehement in its expression and, above all, already so familiar through so many other designer fragrances in this or similar combinations. No, this fragrance offers truly nothing new, even in the combination of its individual notes.

A "phantom" should be this fragrance, so a mirage, a ghost. Consequently, rather a light appearance. But for this, this fragrance with the initial chord is much too intense, too loud, too dominant. However, as the fruits quickly hide behind patchouli and vanilla, the initial chord swells reasonably quickly, the familiar, slightly oriental sweetness remains. It is less of a nuisance to one's own nose, probably for reasons of self-protection a certain habituation sets in. For the environment, however, it remains longer clearly beyond the arm's length just as clearly sweet perceptible. I attest the fragrance an impressively above-average durability of over 12 hours nowadays and even the next morning you can still sniff out sweet remnants on the skin.

No, I don't like the scent. Too sweet, too synthetic, too bold, too annoying. But it seems to be for some years exactly what so many distinguished young men are looking for in so many designer fragrances. So if you feel at home with "Invictus" and "1 Million" and its numerous flankers and friends, you should definitely also try "Phantom".

A "Domo arigato misuta Robotto" does not want to come over my lips with this perfume, neither for the fragrance, nor for the bottle. But probably the machines have already taken over the world, but to me old man went completely past that again. Must soon necessarily "Matrix 4" look, red or blue pill ...

09/27/2021

MrAugenringe
3 Reviews

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MrAugenringe

Less helpful Review 20

Nothing for adults

Loud, sweet fruity synthetic bomb in toy garb. I don't like the scent. I find it embarrassing. Just like I find pimped out junk cars, iced-out-chains or shooting off with friends on Friday with the cheapest whiskey and an Aldi Cola embarrassing. But there was a time when you didn't have style and you didn't understand adults. If the adults at the table an evening philosophized about wine and you thought "but it does not matter if there is a slight apple note in the finish, the main thing that bangs".

What I want to say is that this fragrance for exactly these, from today's perspective embarrassing teenagers, fits perfectly. The fragrance, the bottle and the advertising are designed for this audience.

Longevity and sillage are strong. I can smell the Phantom an arm's length away for 8-10 hours.
Unfortunately, I don't have a teenage nose, so I can't say how "well" the scent will be received by or smell for this target audience.

Finally, I would like to appeal to all gourmets, connoisseurs and fragrance experts over 20 to see the fragrance for what it is. A cheap whiskey-Aldi-Cola mixture that just pops and for teenagers to 20 is quite sufficient.

08/18/2021

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Ssmu
3 Reviews

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Ssmu

Top Review 8

How do I stand out as a teen at a party?

Seeth this review in combination with party please not in the context of the pandemic, but for what the fragrance is quite suitable.
The fragrance I see on a boy around 16, who perhaps, if it is allowed again, goes to party and wants to stand out with his fragrance and does not want to wear a standard like 1 million.

The opening I actually find relatively good, although it is very indefinable and extremely synthetic. However, the fragrance has quite an interesting, sour twist that actually pulls through to the end. Over the course dissolves the hopeless mess more and more, until I get at the end a mixture of vanilla, some vetiver, a pinch of sage, which is still combined with a until then lighter acidity.

Right much more gibts it in my opinion to the fragrance not to say. The fragrance is - as is often the case with Paco Rabbane - not particularly subtle, which is therefore generally not so my taste. But do not see the fragrance in general, but for what it is intended. A party fragrance for teenagers who want to stand out. In this context, you can still touch on the theme of the bottle. The bottle fits somehow into the room of a teenager who is at the beginning of his Sturm-und-Drang time. Since I can not really imagine, for example, a Xerjoff or Tiziana Terenzi flacon (apart from the price).

All in all, a new Paco Rabbane fragrance, which you can test at least times on occasion on a strip - but not must. But beware, he has a synthetic, of which I get at least times again a headache similar to Eros etc..

08/30/2021

3
Pricing 4.5
Scent

Baffleme
4 Reviews

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Baffleme

Less helpful Review 8

Smells too much like Axe Dark Temptation

I have never been so disappointed by a perfume. It smells 1:1 after the sweet-smelling 2-3€ Axe deodorants, which one has sprayed through the locker room after sports in the sixth grade. Back in the day (so about 2013), Axe deodorant smelled like that. So it may be that Axe deodorants smell a little different now. But if an Axe deodorant from 2010-2013 smells exactly like an 80€ perfume.... Then that doesn't bode well. However, the decayed heart note smells less like Axe Dark Temptation after an hour and the fragrance smells a bit higher quality. However, it's all still way too synthetic for me. I almost get a stomach ache from the scent after almost 6 hours. After a while, the vanilla notes and fruity notes come out more. A light gourmand scent emerges. The fragrance is now wearable. But if you have to wait several hours before a scent becomes pleasant.... Well then you do not have to do that to yourself.

Update:
I must say I have him initially but too exaggerated bad talked and had to adjust the review then something. There are many scents that are much worse. He is still worth it times to be tested. If you do not have these associations with Axe and can cope with strongly synthetic fragrances, you will find him possibly even quite nice.

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