Rabanne · 2015 · Loc Dong, Anne Flipo and Dominique Ropion

Olympéa

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Green tangerine and watery jasmine over ginger lily, settling into salty vanilla, ambergris and sandalwood.

Rabanne says

You’ll smell jasmine, ginger flower and vanilla.

More from Rabanne’s description

It also mentions Green tangerine, Water jasmine, Salted vanilla, Ambergris, Kashmiri wood, Aquatic accord, Sandalwood, Mandarin and Ginger lily.

The house’s page

The drawn Olympéa bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Olympéa’s scent picture, a draft: jasmine, ginger, vanilla, mandarin, ambergris, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Olympéa, top notes: Jasmine, Mandarin

Heartas it settles

Olympéa, heart: Ginger

Dry-downwhat stays

Olympéa, dry-down: Vanilla, Ambergris, Sandalwood, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

11 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.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

11 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

Sunset HourGoldfield & Banks · shares jasmine, ginger, vanilla, mandarin and 1 moreabout $195 for 100 ml · about the same as Olympéa’s $153
BambooGucci · shares jasmine, vanilla, ambergris and sandalwood$138 for 75 ml · about the same as Olympéa’s $153
Instant CrushMancera · shares jasmine, ginger, vanilla and sandalwoodabout $174 for 120 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.