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Ultraviolet Man Summer Pop Rabanne 2007

8.8 / 10 6 Ratings

A limited perfume by Rabanne for men, released in 2007. The scent is green-aquatic. It was last marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Green

Aquatic

Fresh

Citrus

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green notes

Green pepper

Marine notes

Heart Notes

Cedar

Grapefruit

Base Notes

Amber

Oakmoss

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Scent

8.86 Ratings

Longevity

7.16 Ratings

Sillage

6.46 Ratings

Bottle

6.516 Ratings

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02/07/2016

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Pepper81
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Refreshment from the Grapefruit Bottle

I had the great luck to snag a sample of this very rare fragrance, and I thank the kind donor very much for it :)
Since I am known to be fond of men's fragrances and I really like the regular Ultraviolet and Ultrared, it was a great pleasure for me to be able to test this one as well.

Freshly showered, I grabbed the sample and generously sprayed it on my arm. Immediately, a freshness explosion envelops me, shaking me awake despite the shower beforehand. If it weren't so gray outside today, one might think it's midsummer; at least this scent evokes that season in me!

I feel like I am in Spain with beautiful weather at 25°C + in my finca. I am currently preparing an ice-cold refreshment drink with lemons, grapefruit, and lots of ice. I enjoy this in my garden right in front of the pool, surrounded by beautiful trees in lush green. Every little breeze carries the scent of the trees to my nose, mixed with the cool freshness of my drink and a hint of sunscreen from my skin, which is incredibly beautiful! This is what I call pure vacation!

This is what the fragrance conveys to me, at least for the first hour. Over time, this freshness settles a bit, and something slightly light creamy comes into play-not sweet, not sticky, but like a creamy sorbet, lightly fresh yet also slightly warming.

It's wonderful how this scent transports me into a vacation dream! It's a pity that it is no longer so easily available or perhaps not available at all :( Such a shame. This could have been my summer fragrance for 2016.

The sillage and longevity are absolutely fine for a fresh summer fragrance; it doesn't need to be overwhelming but simply refreshing and lightly enveloping.

09/06/2013

Siebter
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Ultraviolator

So first of all: Ultraviolet Man Summer Pop by Paco Rabanne was released five years ago, it was the second attempt to launch a summer edition of the original after Ultraviolet Man Colours of Summer the year before, and already in the following year, they refrained from further summer variants. Here in the forum, only three people, including myself, own it. For the further course of this article, it is important to keep this fact in mind repeatedly. So just to be sure: we are talking about a long-discontinued summer flanker, you will hardly find it in a perfumery, acquiring it would involve significant effort, international transfers would have to be made, and you might have to wait in shady corners in the drizzle for men from whom you previously received curt commands over the phone. I personally would rather not disclose what means I had to use to get my hands on the bottle with its daring pop art design.

D/C scents are cool, but how cool is Summer Pop? There is no question that it is extremely cool to be able to stand in front of the mirror in the morning, knowing that you are spraying a Gucci scent from the Tom Ford era that has not been produced for years onto your skin. So cool that it hardly matters that you can't even begin to explain the resulting coolness factor to someone who doesn't happen to hang out on Parfumo all the time. You probably realize, however, that Summer Pop does not offer this coolness factor, right? Do you expect anything from a long-gone fragrance from a well-known mainstream designer?

Look, this article is going to take a while, careful reading will definitely take ten minutes, you will need five minutes to categorize it into your value system, and another five minutes will go by as you ponder a nice response to the article, for which, however, you will come up with nothing. Man, that's already twenty minutes! Just think of all the things you could do in that time! You could vacuum and meditate on the gentle clicking and clacking that occurs when small stones hiss up the metal tube of the vacuum cleaner. You could open the window, lean out, and get a feel for the weather instead of relying on the weather report and then ending up wearing the wrong thing. You could shave again, it's about time. Elections are coming up, and in the light of day, you have no clue where to cast your vote - take care of it! Twenty minutes for a conversation with God, some people have had their lives completely changed by such things, and certainly not for the worse! So think it over, okay?

No, not okay. After all, *I* am also investing time in this article, and to be honest: it is quite unsatisfying to write into the void about a fragrance that you will never see or smell anyway. I could just as well write: "Summer Pop smells like Jubilation XXV and A*Men Pure Malt, only much better." Or I could paint detailed pictures that would make you feel like you can smell the fragrance, quickly woodying the flashy pink grapefruit, laying it on a warm plastic cushion, and later unexpectedly ambient but who gives a fuck about the difference? Seriously, can you imagine the energy it takes to overcome this dilemma? I hardly think so.

I just quickly checked: the other two owners of Ultraviolet Man Summer Pop are a Brit and a Canadian who lives in Indonesia and works there as an English teacher, it is hardly to be expected that either of them knows enough German to comment on this article affirmatively or negatively. I mean hey: a very central meta and feedback level just crumbled away, do you understand? Where is the substance supposed to come from now? Every attempt at discussing a possibly interesting fragrance is stifled in its infancy! In any case, I certainly have no desire to translate this article on a whim, writing it is already extraordinarily tedious for the reasons mentioned.

Further ethical dilemmas arise from the fact that Ultraviolet Man Summer Pop is a really good fragrance. It truly deserves to be memorialized, regardless of whether it can still be purchased or not. Does the ephemeral suddenly have no value anymore? Should only what everyone can grab at any time be illuminated? Isn't it also the joy of paying homage to a fragrance that makes us read an article? The answers: yes, no, and yes. Even that which has mostly turned to ash should find its place here on Parfumo, and I fundamentally see myself as a passionate supporter of this mission.

It is probably also the feeling of the responsibility that derives from this which overwhelms me. At this moment, I still have 2415 characters available, and that is definitely not enough to describe Ultraviolet Man Summer Pop appropriately. Earlier, I briefly mentioned this woody grapefruit, but the thing is: after a few minutes, this grapefruit disintegrates into airy and super-dry powder and then sinks down onto this oddly attractive plastic flower bed, where it comfortably slumbers for eight to ten hours, and to convey all this to you, I would have to elaborate quite a bit, anything else would just be a vague approximation when what is needed are scent descriptions drawn with a scalpel. Sorry, I capitulate.

And you, how do you feel now? Have you thought about what I wrote earlier? Apparently, you have chosen against the open window, against the clacking in the metal tube, and against the conversation with God. I forgot to mention earlier that you could also use twenty free minutes to hug your partner. Everyone appreciates that. Of course not twenty minutes straight! Five minutes is more than enough. Honestly: I don't think you thought about it, otherwise, you wouldn't still be here. You would have gotten up to open the window, you would have gone next door to hug your partner, four times in a row for five minutes. Instead, you are reading this article.

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2 short views on the fragrance

FuzziKSA

1 year ago

1

The most unique unusual scent, can't stop smelling myself. Green aquatic and a game changer. Back when Paco Rabanne used to make great ones. Must buy.