The top notes are dominated by a bed of Damask roses, which symbolize purity and love in many traditions. Many experts in perfumery describe it as honey-like with an undertone of cognac and spice. Oakmoss, Musk, Vetiver, Amber, and Sandalwood create your base notes. Yet they work so well throughout how the fragrance settles that you could mistake them for mid-notes. What's impressive is that none of these notes clash but instead find a beautiful harmony. Its immediate top notes consist of wild strawberries and red currant. The marshmallow and liquorice scent softens it up a bit and pairs well with the middle notes of jasmine and star anise. Finally, you meet the heart base notes of cedar and vanilla, which complete the fragrance.

Olympéa gives you the power to step into a room and make heads turn like the goddesses themselves blessed you. If vanilla has always been your go-to scent, you're going to love Olympéa Eau de Parfum. Olympéa places emphasis on salty vanilla and harmonizes with a dash of cashmere wood and ambergris. Rabanne went on to be one of the leading experimental designers within elite fashion in the 1960s, creating designs with uncharted and imaginative production methods using novel postwar industrial materials. The parent company of Paco Rabanne, who has been working with the brand since the 1960s and launched the perfume Calandre in Spain, France and the US in 1969, also paid tribute. Marc Puig, chairman and chief executive at the fashion company, also said: "A major personality in fashion, his was a daring, revolutionary and provocative vision, conveyed through a unique aesthetic.After swimming through an undercurrent of peach, coconut, and orange blossoms, these notes meet with a base of ambrette and sandalwood. This perfect marriage of fragrances makes Pure XS for Her feel weightless and, true to its name, pure. Pure XS for her is addicting, so wear this at your own risk! Paco Rabanne Ultrared takes us through a field of ripe strawberries and is reminiscent of the first flowers of spring. Paco Rabanne Ultrared is perfect for women with festive hearts and makes for a great day-to-day fragrance. This is a wonderfully light fragrance that's perfect for any time of the day. Paco Rabanne revolutionised fashion, with his mini-skirted metallic dresses: often one-offs, hand-made, he pioneered the recycling of materials in clothing, creating show-stopping outfits out of hammered metal, knitted fur, aluminium jersey, fibreglass and fluorescent leather – and epehemeral paper creations, too. Born in 1934 in the Basque Country, he escaped the Spanish Civil War by fleeing to France at the age of five alongside his mother, a head seamstress at Balenciaga. Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain a constant source of inspiration.

Lady Million's scent brings forth an image of classic, Hollywood, feminine beauty – a strong and gentle woman with a sweet smile who always appears put together. Lady Million initially welcomes you with the sweet embrace of raspberry and citrus with a slight hint of neroli. Perfumer Michel Hy developed Calandre, and it launched in 1969. Its notes include aldehydes, bergamot, green notes, geranium, orris root, jasmine, lily of the valley, rose, amber, oakmoss, musk, sandalwood and vetiver. (Michel Hy was a genius of the green chypre — he also worked on Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Yves Saint Laurent Y and Balmain Ivoire.) In French, the word “calandre” means “grille,” as in the grille on a car or a radiator. It also means “mangle,” a machine that irons linens when you feed them through its long rollers. With Calandre’s feel of freshness and molar-tingling metal, the name fits. The fruity and aquatic fusion also makes Olympéa Legend a wonderful scent for summertime. Many users imagine enjoying a piña colada while idling by the beach. The Lady Million Fabulous Eau de Parfum is the personification of charisma. This sweet and floral scent is addicting and will keep you, and everyone around you hooked. With this perfume, the Spanish designer made himself known in the world of selective perfumery. An elegant and sophisticated composition, just like its haute couture designs. A classic and formal scent, perfect for any time of day, paying a clear tribute to Rabanne's passion for the female gender.If those dresses were ‘unwearable’, though, his fragrances are anything but: Paco Rabanne‘s signature has always been to take the unconventional and create a classic. ‘I like my fragrances to be fresh first, then structured, full of vibrations and contrasts,’ says Paco Rabanne. Echoing that philosophy, the recent scents from this avant-garde designer name are incredibly widely worn. Both The Great actress Elle Fanning and US professional basketball player Jalen Green are brand ambassadors for Paco Rabanne perfumes. This is a testament to the mastery of balance that Paco Rabanne has with their fragrances. In many ways, playing with such contrasting notes is an exercise in pure ego, but this fusion of scents is sure to turn heads. Liberally applied, Calandre lasts hours on my skin, but it’s quiet after the first hour. I also have an old bottle of Eau de Calandre that’s brighter up top and thinner in the middle than the regular Calandre, but still wonderful. The bottle I’m sampling from for this review is probably from the 1980s, and isn’t labeled for its concentration. He initially studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and began his fashion career in the early 1960s with a collection of large plastic buttons and accessories he sold to the couture houses. '12 unwearable dresses'

However, Olympéa is also known for its duality. After the initial touch of vanilla, you'll find floral and aquatic notes shining through. One may think these contrasting scents would clash, but Olympéa manages to bring them together gracefully. Jose Manuel Albesa, president of the beauty and fashion division at Puig, said Rabanne had a "radical, rebellious spirit" that made "transgression magnetic".Alongside French designers Pierre Cardin and Andre Courreges, he helped upset the status quo of Paris fashion of the time, earning him the moniker of "enfant terrible". His mother had worked for Balenciaga’s original establishment in San Sebastian, perhaps why he described sewing as “slavery”. She fled with her mother, the boy, his brother and two sisters and they were among refugees camped near Guernica when the town was destroyed by German bombing in 1937. They later made it to France, where Balenciaga also moved, and Paco was brought up in Britanny. His ambition to be an architect took him to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1951. The move to fashion, opening a studio, was in 1965. Rabanne had paid for years of architectural studies – he specialised in reinforced concrete construction – by making abstract jewellery and novelty buttons of metal, leather, even coffee beans for the houses of Schiaparelli (he retained for life her Surrealist tastes), Dior, Balenciaga, Cardin and Givenchy. He also sketched for them and shoe designer Charles Jourdan, and, in the early 1960s, fabricated wild accessories for young ready-to-wear designers such as Emmanuelle Khanh. Baroness Helen Bachofen von Echt wore the dress to a party in New York where she danced with Frank Sinatra, according to the V&A museum.

There's a touch of patchouli in there, too! Lady Million generally gives you a sort of floral sweetness that isn't too strong or heavy. Instead, it balances its notes to provide a great fragrance. These flowery notes melt into the fruity top notes before introducing the base. As a result, the base feels much darker and blissfully intoxicating. There is a perfect blend of cognac, patchouli, and honey that reside here to give Lady Million Empire depth. He will remain an important source of inspiration for the Puig fashion and fragrance teams, who continuously work together to express Mr Paco Rabanne's radically modern codes." With its versatility, Lady Million Eau de Parfum is a great scent for everyday use. Shine like the diamond you are every day and leave people wondering who you are. Olympéa Eau de Parfum Spray Launched more recently, Paco Rabanne Olympéa and Invictus tap into Greek Mythology for their striking imagery (left), with equally eye-catching flacons. As Escentual‘s blog notes: ‘Olympéa is a fragrance not of this world, blending unexpected and powerful notes in a masterful way to convey the idea of a modern-day Aphrodite. Jasmine becomes aquatic, having never touched soil. The comforting creaminess of vanilla is salted to make mouths water. I thought I had an idea of what Olympéa might smell like before I sampled it for the first time, but I was completely side-swiped by its hypnotic notes. Put this one on your to-try list…’CALANDRE by Paco Rabanne is a women's “Eau de Parfum” that is included in the Floral family, launched in 1969 by the perfumer Michel Hy.