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Paco Rabanne Pour Homme
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Paco Rabanne Pour Homme by Rabanne is an aromatic fougère fragrance for men. Launched in 1973, the nose behind this creation is Jean Martel. The top notes are rosemary, sage, and Brazilian rosewood; the heart notes, lavender, geranium, and tonka bean; and the base notes, oakmoss, honey, musk, amber, and tobacco.
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What a delight; these were truly good. Now they release generic products that resemble Invictus: a masculine, classic, barbershop-style aroma. This one is soapy, elegant, and has good longevity despite the reformulations. These were truly excellent commercial perfumes.
Paco Rabanne passed away a few days ago, and many people recalled this fragrance (amidst the waste of Invictus and One Million). That speaks to its enduring relevance. It was the first green scent to break conventions in the 70s, cutting through the previous cypress-heavy styles. Although reformulated, it respects its past. Without a doubt, a historical gem that deserves to be tried.
What a marvel. A proper fougere with absolute cleanliness. To me, it smells of pure soap with magnificent green nuances. For those accustomed to sweet scents like Invictus or Le Male, it may seem old-fashioned, but it smells like a MAN: a mature, transparent type who knows what he wants. Thank you, Mr Rabanne. I bought it to honour his memory. KEEP AWAY CHILDREN.
I admit I’m not a fan of Paco, especially the hype surrounding One Million or Invictus. I remember this masculine fougere well: it has personality, relevance, and the longevity of its time. An excellent perfume that, as its name suggests, pays homage to its creator.
I absolutely love it; it’s a delight. All the notes blend magically to create a masterpiece with lasting power. Best regards.
What magic and originality. Total beauty; I’m not a fan of this family, but that talc in HD is perfection. The green notes get muddied with moss, creating a leather-like sensation. It’s a masterpiece, five out of ten, something you’d take to a deserted island. Old bottle, amber and dense liquid. I doubt the current version smells like this; I wish it did.
The definitive perfume for old people; if you’re over 50, it hits you like a slap.
It was my fragrance of youth (ages 21 to 25) thanks to its herbal and well-groomed scent. I never thought I was too old to wear it until marketing and this website convinced me otherwise. I used it until before the pandemic; when I got locked down and tested positive, the smell gave me nausea and a headache. Now I remember it as a beautiful green classic, but I would never wear it again, no matter what.
Incredible, it smells delicious, elegant and imposing. It would be madness if it had better performance.
Before Polo, this was the quintessential scent of my town, synonymous with good taste. But like everything mass-produced, the lack of personality eventually wore us down; everyone smelled the same. Now it’s my cold-weather office signature: it lasts eight hours on skin and is eternal on shirts. It adds formality, so I keep it for work, not for going out. The aroma is linear, with no notable evolution, and although it sounds like a 70s film, it’s a classic that deserves its place. A curious contrast with its current siblings.
I had good memories of this fragrance, but now it repulses me. It smells clean, but it reaches a point where it becomes overwhelming. To me, it does not smell ‘old’, but rather that the fragrance has aged poorly; even unpleasant notes are noticeable. It seems that, out of necessity to reformulate, they have overdone the rosemary and synthetic notes. Very regretful of this purchase, I do not recommend Paco Rabanne Pour Homme.
Reminded me of the colognes my grandfather used to wear years ago. A very strong scent, not for everyone.
Although it has been mishandled with reformulations, one must say that if a fragrance has been with us for 50 years, it is for a reason. Its scent remains unique. Paco Rabanne Pour Homme is elegance and distinction in a bottle. It does not matter your age to wear it; it simply asks that you have the personality to match it. Suitable for day and night. Ideal for spring, autumn and winter. I would not rule it out for mild summer evenings either. Totally timeless, for me it is a work of art, living history of perfumery. One of the three or four jewels of all time that fortunately still remain.
Hello, friends! I just bought a bottle of Paco Rabanne Pour Homme with a 2023 batch, but it says ‘Made in France’, so I’m not sure if I should subtract 10 years and assume it’s from 2013 perhaps… Does anyone know when production moved to Barcelona? I would like to know if it is a current version or not. Many thanks in advance.
Green, masculine, and packed with lavender. I used to wear it when I was a beardless youth and wanted to catch attention. A classic to which I hold affection and respect. It performs decently and is quite versatile. In the end, this is for a mature man… although if you like the scent, go for it. Rating: 7.0/10.
A very masculine scent reminiscent of Yves Saint Laurent’s Kouros, but much more wearable. The performance is moderate, around 4 to 5 hours, but it is a clean scent that I find pleasant. It reflects elegance and maturity. Perhaps it may not suit everyone’s taste these days, but this classic deserves respect.
That aromatic fougère that stole my heart and more than one sigh. Why do I speak in the past? Because it still does. I spent my childhood surrounded by these scents: my uncle with Old Spice, my grandfather with these classics and cypress, and me putting on a few drops after a haircut or visiting his surgery. With my grandfather’s image in mind, these scents have always signified to me how a man should smell: one who knows how to conduct himself and is, from head to toe, a GENTLEMAN. For years I didn’t wear perfume due to lack of funds, but at 25 I decided to invest in something. They showed me sweet things and I didn’t like them; I wanted those scents of my childhood and to smell like a gentleman. Fresh, herbal, aromatic, with plenty of lavender and oak moss. What a beauty. Since I bought it, my collection has grown, but I will never let a bottle of this exquisite quality run out. I don’t use it as much now because it reminds me of an ex-partner with whom I used a lot of it. I hope time and memory will quell it so I can start wearing it regularly again and delight myself. If you’ve read this far, thank you for your time and patience in listening to a bit of my story. A hug, from a fellow aromatic fougère lover.
Top-tier fragrance.
Ideal for the air-conditioned office, period.
100% masculine, with those moss and wood notes that drove men from the 70s and 80s mad with their wild nature. Upon spraying, the rosemary and fern hit you hard, like Mike Tyson in his prime. Then, once you recover, the heavy lavender and tarragon keep you alert with that anise twist that smells like the old-school gym. The oak and amber close it off with sobriety and last a very long time. If you wear it indoors, leave the window open.
A perfume for an older gentleman. It has very good performance. With very marked moss notes, very cloying. Do not buy blindly. For my taste, it is not interesting 👎🏻
Before 2010, did rosewood have such preponderance in its composition? Because I do not remember that intensity in a bottle my father owned, which I now note is present and extremely uncomfortable in a fragrance that once seemed so masculine to me. 1/1/25 I am pleased to inform you that that scent of freshly showered woman’s skin has vanished; I will never know if it was due to the rosewood or the musk. But now it does not matter! I had left the bottle in its box unused for nearly five months until I decided to give it another chance, and now it truly smells like the masculine scent of that bottle my father had in his collection. I am delighted to be able to perceive that aromatic idea of a man in a striped Italian suit enjoying a tiramisu at some traditional restaurant.
Good scent, decent performance, though it smells a bit like an old man.
A very masculine fragrance; it has undergone some reformulations that have distanced it slightly from the original composition, but it remains a fougère in every rule. Paco Rabanne Pour Homme is not for everyone; if you wish to smell like a true gentleman, detest the traditional, or simply wish to take a journey into the past, then I do recommend it to you.
It has been a good while since I first smelled it. It was summer and early autumn 2020, the world was wrapped up in a deadly virus threatening everyone, and I was there, smelling things I shouldn’t have been smelling. I used it a lot during the pandemic; I would lift the bottom part of my face mask to perceive that projective scent, of aromatic herbs, lavender, oakmoss, and bee honey. Now I can break it down as I have gained experience formulating my own fragrances. I still maintain that Paco Pour Homme is one of the best commercial fragrances in history, up there with Egoiste, Bel Ami, and Salvador from the 90s. At first spray (medium formula), I perceive rosemary and helichryse well marked. The rosewood is noticeable, very powdery, like smelling wood shavings or dry sawdust. As it develops, the slight sweetness of the honey becomes apparent, which depending on the formulation, will feel more fruity/animalic (Natural) or more artificial, flat, and slightly sweet and liqueur-like. That is a virtue that only old-school perfumes possessed, using natural and even primitive resources to achieve nuances that today would be achieved first and foremost through aroma-chemicals, as this Paco or the Givenchy Gentleman did, which had notes of liqueur and fruit thanks to the natural honey they contained, or Polo, which used chamomile to achieve fruity nuances without using aroma-chemicals, a talent that, in my opinion, has been lost. Anyway: Geranium is also felt in the middle, leading to its generous base: Coumarin functioning as a slight note of dry tobacco, like leaves or an unlit habano, a slight amber to soften it, white musk (Regardless of the formulation, slightly animalic and with a tone of a man’s freshly shaven skin), slightly liqueur-like honey, and oakmoss. I also highlight a note of aromatic cloves in the heart and a natural moss even in its most recent formulas. (Declared as Extract of Evernia Prunastri on the box). Like the old perfumes of that time, it goes excellently with clothing inspired by the era (Flannel/jeans/boots or a classic three-piece suit with a wide peak lapel) and its scent is not ruined but greatly improved by the beautiful influence of tobacco smoke. As a final line: This perfume was conceived in a historical period totally alien to the current one, by a nose with formidable taste and substantial knowledge of the art, something few noses today could boast. In this virtual insanity, as the Jamiroquai song would say, we have become blind to purely human senses. Technique has blinded noses to their own humanity and naturalness. Now it matters the number of ingredients, the obscene variety of nuances, and how it can be sold. Its humanity has been relegated to a secondary place. As musical accompaniment: Roberto Carlos, recordings from the 70s and early 80s, like ‘Yo te recuerdo’. The Love’s Theme from Barry White’s LUO, the Eagles’ Hotel California album, Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book like Superstition, or Innervisions, like Higher Ground. The Bee Gees (although they are better for Polo and Azzaro) and the master Rocío Dúrcal interpreting Juan Gabriel, as in the beautiful ‘Fue un placer conocerte’. Blessings to all and all!
To me, Paco Rabanne Pour Homme is the undisputed king of characterful barber-shop fougères. Its scent evokes those neighbourhood barbershops of the 1980s, a man freshly shaven, in a white shirt with a manly presence. It is a classic, robust fragrance that smells of Mediterranean herbaceous gardens and transports us on an aromatic journey into the past. Those of us with a certain age will inevitably feel a wave of memories, because in the 80s and early 90s, it was one of the four or five essential fragrances for any man, alongside Loewe Clásica, Cacharel Pour L’Homme and the iconic Fahrenheit by Dior. Later came perfumes like Le Male by Jean Paul Gaultier or the first Acqua di Giò, marking a shift towards sweeter notes. Since then, men’s perfumery has evolved towards unisex, with many fragrances that could perfectly be worn by a woman today. Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, however, remains a fragrance with a markedly masculine character, one of those you ‘wear from the feet’. And although some may find it outdated, saying this perfume is ‘for old people’ is not understanding its essence. With all due respect, perhaps those who criticise it prefer much softer or androgynous scents, which is also valid, but that is no reason to belittle a classic jewel like this.
Well, where do I start? This fragrance was a gift from my father, who is now 80 years old. I am 35, and while I value the gesture greatly, the truth is I only used it once: specifically to visit him. The scent simply does not suit me. That distinct oakmoss profile, so typical of classic 1970s perfumes, does not align with my personal tastes or the style of fragrances I usually wear. I cannot imagine a situation where I would feel comfortable wearing it. That said, I acknowledge it has its elegance: it is fresh, masculine, and definitely classic. For a man over 60, it seems entirely appropriate and even nostalgic. But for my daily life or even formal events, I cannot see myself reaching for it. In summary, it is the only one in my collection that I probably will not use again, which I find a bit sad as I dislike having unused fragrances. But in the end, the gift is appreciated and the sentimental value it carries is significant. My final rating is 5.1 / 10.
The Panamanian government has just cancelled the sanitary registration and sale of this fragrance in the country due to a prohibited ingredient under EU regulations. Resolution No. 147 of 24 June 2025. The European Union has alerted us to the presence of the compound 2-(4-tert-butylbenzyl) propionaldehyde (BMHCA) in the formulation. This substance is banned in cosmetics as it is classified as a possible carcinogen, mutagen, or toxic for reproduction. According to the European Commission, BMHCA as a pure compound has been irritating to the skin and eyes of rabbits. I am sharing this information without intending to alarm anyone. I am a fragrance seller in my beautiful Panama and we have already been notified. This fragrance was launched in 1973 and it has only just been discovered that it contains this… how curious. Greetings and blessings to the lovely aromas community.
I am absolutely flabbergasted that Tom Ford would take this idea, slap a cheeky name like ‘Beau de Jour’ on it, and sell it for seven times the price. The Tom Ford description calls it a monolith, elegant, and a true fougère. Here, they claim it smells like an old man, outdated, and prehistoric. In a few years, they’ll say the same about Santal 33, because if smelling lavender is for old people, I don’t even need to mention smelling like an antique shop or a hotel reception. To summarise: it smells of lavender, of cleanliness (it shares the same DNA as classic toiletries and grooming products), of the traditional shaving foam from La Toja, of the ‘Moss’ soap bar you had as a child, of long ago and not so long ago. I wish I could walk into a hairdresser’s or any shop today and smell like this; right now, everything smells of red fruit air fresheners or the ‘clean laundry’ spray from the supermarket. It is not an outdated scent, it is a traditional one reflecting cleanliness and simplicity, which, judging by all the advertising throughout the fragrance’s history, is exactly what they were trying to convey. As the positive reviews say, it is a simple, clean white shirt. I don’t know if it smells like an old man, but I wish the tube train during rush hour smelled like this and not like the end of the world.
Indeed, Borbúa’s Parfum: I broke out in a rash when I sprayed it on my skin a few times. That is why I only use it on jackets or waistcoats. As an ambient scent, it lasts two hours, perhaps more. Despite that, it is a masculine and elegant aroma that doesn’t overwhelm in summer. Greetings!
I had it and it smells very rich. The opening felt a bit old, but it fades quickly and the dry-down is elegant and masculine. It was my first renowned perfume. I remember it with fondness; it cost me a lot of money back then. Now that I have a collection and a taste for both classics and moderns, I would use it again with pleasure.
PERFUMACO!!
Well-marked vintage aroma, aromatic, fresh and soapy, with that classic air of firm masculinity. From the start, it conveys cleanliness, structure, and sobriety, with that green touch of traditional fougères. It is green and clean, but today it isn’t for everyone. Its style is difficult for those not accustomed to classics or the barbershop cut. That is why I recommend trying it first, as it doesn’t seek to please everyone, but to maintain its timeless essence. Nevertheless, it is a worthy fragrance that retains presence over the years. Personally, I like it, though for now I wouldn’t wear it. A classic that deserves respect.
I don’t want to add more to the many correct reviews. I always refused to use it because I associated it with people I loved. Today, 7th November 2025, I bought the 100ml bottle. It all starts in the autumn of ’78, in a Napoleonic shop with Umberto Tozzi’s ‘Tu’ playing. I owe a lot to that person. So many memories that I thought it wasn’t for me, that I couldn’t reach that role. Now, yes, it’s never too late. I recall memories and enjoy the marvel of this perfume. The original vintage ones are living history, made differently in better years. I am happy. And yes, it can be worn at night.
In my adolescence, I was already ‘OLD FASHION’ and was new. It seems incredible, but that fragrance was the target of ridicule among boys who didn’t use perfume. I was privileged with Monsieur Balmain, without lavender. They called the Paco Rabanne ‘chauffeur’. I am 64 and still haven’t made peace with it. I only perceive a strange rosemary, lavender I never tolerated, and moss, not oakmoss nor of good quality. However, it has a hidden charm, you have to look for it. I rate it as HARSH. It wasn’t cheap, but it was very popular and mass-produced in the 70s, without the current prosperity. Paco Rabanne made a lot of money, especially in Latin America. Try before buying.
It is the quintessential barber soap. Compact lavender, mosses, and musks. It is the most standard and balanced, ideal for trying out clean vintage styles. For my age, I don’t see the break it could have had. Today it feels a bit lost against cheaper options like Lapidus Pour Homme or Puig Quorum, and less so than the legendary Kouros. If you aren’t a fan of the masculine powerhouse but want something clean and retro for your collection, this is the most standard option and will save you hours watching tutorials to understand this world.
Pure classic barber shop that I keep alongside my Kouros and Boss Number One. If you like perfumery and were born before the 90s, you must have it. It transports you to very good times.
Love at first sniff, what a well-made scent. Unfortunately, it gave me an allergic reaction and I had to sell it full, but it is one of the best smells. Elegant, rustic, soapy, clean, and natural. Everything that is right. If it weren’t for the allergy, I would use it regularly; I don’t resign myself and will try it again. I see it more for the 30s or 35s, it’s vintage and leaves a brutal trail. The best I’ve smelled of that balanced style. Quality-price and aroma 10/10, leaving the allergy aside.
Bought it in 2025 for around €26 for 100ml. It’s a classic masculine scent, perhaps difficult for some, but it still appeals. Clear notes of oakmoss, lavender, amber, and rosemary. It isn’t as harsh as YSL’s Kouros. I recommend it for those over 40 or for dressing up, not for casual wear. On my dry skin, it lasts 7 hours; on clothes, almost two days. It’s elegant and doesn’t overpower, though it is noticeable at first. Ideal for those who enjoy classics without the fuss. Try it before buying blindly.
Smells like luxury soap, clean and green, with class. I wear it with a suit and handkerchief; people always turn around to ask who’s wearing it. It is pure elegance and sobriety. Hard to find these days, but I celebrate that it still exists. A genuine bomb for distinguished gentlemen.