Rabanne · 2008 · Olivier Pescheux

1 Million

VersionEau de Toilette

Rabanne says

You’ll smell blood mandarin, woody cinnamon and leathery amber.

More from Rabanne’s description

It also mentions genuine leather, sweet, juicy mandarin, peppermint, lively pink cinnamon, amber-leather, White wood, matte blonde leather, amber and sexy patchouli.

The house’s page

The drawn 1 Million bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

1 Million’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, cinnamon, leather glove, mint, patchouli, coumarin drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

1 Million, top notes: Mandarin, mint

Heartthe first hours

1 Million, heart: cinnamon, Leather glove

Dry-downhours later

1 Million, dry-down: Patchouli, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

11 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals1 sweet3 spices1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals3

HydroxycitronellalCitronellolGeraniol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Spices3

EugenolCinnamalIsoeugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not for the smell3

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcohol

Named by Rabanne, never on a label

Blood mandarinWoody cinnamonGenuine leather, not in Ingredients yetPeppermintSexy patchouli

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 11 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.