PACO RABANNE
MILLION GOLD FOR HER PURE JASMINE

2025

mandarin
ylang-ylang
jasmine

‘It’s pure gold, honey. Be the Mother of Gold, a title beyond status, for queens ruling the world with gold. Million Gold for Her Pure Jasmine, a motherlode of fragrant gold, blends oversized gold jasmine, lit by fresh mandarin and solar ylang ylang. Million Gold For Her Pure Jasmine is Rabanne’s fragrant crown jewel.’ – Rabanne

As someone who really doesn’t like 1 Million (with the exception of 1 Million Parfum) or Lady Million I braced myself for this one. I’d smelled both th Million Gold only briefly, but they didn’t seem to appeal to me much more. Now, jasmine being one of my favorite notes, I hoped this would be more up my alley, but especially the first hours are among the worst fragrance I’ve smelled this year.

Pure Jasmine opens plasticy, but fresher than a lot of the aforementioned Paco Rabanne’s. Still somewhat sweet, but not the candy bubblegum sweetness straight away; it’s almost aquatic, sharp.

What follows is an unwearable, sour, bitter, bugspray vibe. It’s as if someone took some flower (stems mostly) and some fruit and condensed it into a highly-concentrated, almost toxic-smelling powder.

To be fair, I sort of (tried to) forget I wore this fragrance, but after some hours, there was a much nicer, fainter, soft jasmine scent that wasn’t half bad. But it was too little, too late. Overall, this is a strong dislike for me.