Rabanne

Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir

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A salty, mineral opening over aromatic cypress, drying down to a sweet vanilla.

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The drawn Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir’s scent picture, a draft: salted mineral, cypress, vanilla (vanillin), bergamot, virginia cedar, lavender drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir, when you spray it: Salted mineral, Bergamot, Lavender

As it settlesheart notes

Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir, as it settles: Cypress, Cinnamon, Geraniol (rose)

What staysdry-down notes

Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir, what stays: Vanilla (vanillin), Virginia cedar, Peru balsam, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

What the label names

24 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

5 citrus6 herbs & lavender4 florals2 woods2 sweet2 amber & resins3 spices

5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Vanille CamouflageDries Van Noten · shares cypress and vanillaabout $371 for 100 ml · about twice Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir’s $176
PegasusParfums de Marly · shares cypress and vanilla$400 for 125 ml · about twice Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir’s $176
QueeningMind Games · shares cypress and vanilla$395 for 100 ml · about twice Invictus Elixir Parfum Elixir’s $176
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.