Goodness me. (Did you see what I did there?) Although the arrival of the Pacollection in 2019 generated little more than a titter of excitement, it seems the folks at Puig thought it fitting to expand the range with three new scents in 2021: Major Me, Dandy Me and Blossom Me. The set as a whole was reviewed in a recent episode of Love At First Scent. Here’s a link: Paco Rabanne Pacollection review showcase.
The titter remains nothing more than that. With their awkward names (Crazy Me still comes across as a particularly unfortunate case of something being lost in translation, to put it kindly) and their hesitant juices (the occasional glimmers of classic Rabanne innovation are obscured beneath a fearful desire to please as large a crowd as possible), these pieces of work struggle to be memorable. They do have a few things going for them. The bottle design is striking, if worrisomely impractical. The price-point is excellent. And the unashamed embrace of clever synthetics in the marketing blurbs is commendable. But the scents themselves are mostly lacklustre affairs, with little new to say.
My favourite, if that isn’t too strong a word, is still Genius Me, mainly because of its convincingly chilled opening of woods and citruses. But its drydown is thin and unremarkable, with little sign of the high IQ displayed at the start. I look forward to the next release only to discover what dubious, borderline-inappropriate name is selected for it. Same Old Me?
Persolaise
[Paco Rabanne Pacollection review based on samples obtained by me in 2022, apart from the full bottle of Genius Me, which was provided by the brand in 2019.]
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