Rabanne · 2025

Phantom Elixir

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Rabanne asks $183 for 100 ml
100 ml$183

The houseFor men

VersionParfum Intense

Cool marine freshness over a dry, mineral oud, warming to vanilla bean.

Rabanne says

You’ll smell marine accord, mineral oud and vanilla bean.

More from Rabanne’s description

It also mentions Fresh marine accord, Vibrant mineral oud and Warm vanilla.

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Phantom Elixir’s scent picture, a draft: marine notes, oud, vanilla (vanillin), bergamot, patchouli, lemon drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Phantom Elixir, when you spray it: Marine notes, Bergamot, Lemon, Lavender, Sweet orange, Geranium, Mint, Anethole (anise)

As it settlesheart notes

Phantom Elixir, as it settles: Oud

What staysdry-down notes

Phantom Elixir, what stays: Vanilla (vanillin), Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Rabanne names

Mineral oudVanilla bean

What the label names

29 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.

7 citrus8 herbs & lavender6 florals3 woods2 sweet2 spices1 powder

Citrus7

LimoneneBergamot oilLemon oilBitter orange oilCitralTerpinolenealpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender8

PineneLavender oilSpearmint oilCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineolCarvone

Florals6

Geranium oilCitronellolAmyl salicylateGeranyl acetateGeraniol (rose)Rose ketones

Woods3

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)Ebanol

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices2

beta-CaryophylleneAnethole (anise)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)A light stabiliserBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholExt. violet 2Yellow 5Red 4Blue 1

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

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