Phantom is a straight up abomination to the world of perfume, a disgustingly synthetic mess. You’ve got this overdose of sneeze-inducing lavender combined with a very earthy apple and vanilla. There’s a head-pounding lemon in there too just to make you more nauseous. I don’t even know why I’m taking the time to review this fragrance but words cannot describe how much I dislike it. This fragrance is probably the laziest, dullest and simply the worst excuse for a scent I’ve ever come across. As usual with Paco Rabanne the quality of ingredients is abysmal and the blending is atrocious. This truly is a disgusting fragrance made for 13 year old boys who are enamoured by a tacky robot bottle.
Hah! Very Clever. Put pressurised sewage in that bottle and I’d still buy it.
I think the worst thing you can do is take two renowned, master perfumers and two relatively unknown (to me) ones and then put them in a room together, oh and as if that wasn't absurd enough then don't forget to add the element of a fifth perfumer, an Artificially intelligent computer. The resulting mess is exactly what you'd expect, and the definition of the term 'Too many cooks,(and a robot) spoil the broth." Phantom is awful, and that's not hyperbole and extra dramatics or jumping on a bandwagon because anyone who cares about perfume smells this a sighs a little dissatisfied sigh, which denotes a little part of you dying inside, and it's the hope that all this technology and quirk could somehow usher in a new age of amazing, innovative, perfumery, and there's no reason why it still can't....it just definitely doesn't here. I'm not even going to bother describing it, I think Phantom is so dull and inconsequential, it really doesn't deserve to be spoken about. I had high expectations too because the bottle is actually pretty cool, yes I'm a little boy for saying that, but it's a funky robot for F's sake!!!!
