Paco (1996)
by Paco Rabanne

Paco really smells like you were born, raised and spent your entire life on a citrus fruit platation to start with.Now as if that wasn't enough it very soon it get down to become real letdown where sythetic and metalic fight for primacy.
The best thing about Paco by Paco Rabanne is that it doesn't last too long.

This is why even when you find it in an outlet store or a duty free shop
at a throw - away price you wouldn't even take it for loose change !

I ordered a sample of Paco Rabanne Pour Homme and received this by mistake. Imagine my surprise. I expected rich fougere, and found synthetic citrus. It sort of reminded me of Live Jazz, with anything remotely interesting taken out of it. My first thumbs down.

I agree with Andrew, it's a good high school scent. It is very similar to CK One and even more so to Chrome so if you like either of those two, like I do, then your going to enjoy this one. I also agree it is an excellent casual cologne, so, if you are looking for something more eccentric or something that develops into some kind of "fragrance story" then you should pass on this one.

I have decided to update my review of this after wearing this fragrance for over a month. It is in fact NOT a clone of CK One, but it def has a CK One in there. There is a bit of a 'fried food' smell, a la Paco Rabanne XS, very similar to Carolina Herrera scents. Below is a chunk of my previous review.
Russlan and MonkeyManMatt are exactly on the money. Interesting to see that both paco and Chrome came out the same year, 2 years after Ck one. Also notice that both Chrome and paco are NOT unisex. <br>So in my humble opinion, paco is better than Ck one and I can't decide if it is better than Chrome. I would buy a bottle since it is quite inexpensive right now (if you can find it) but I already have Chrome. Thumbs up because it is a good scent overall...just like Ck one and Chrome are good. Quite possibly the most excellent casual fragrance(s) ever made. <br>

take a smell of eau de calandre-great outstanding perfume of the 70ties ! paco is nothing special-a simple,fresh and light eau de toilette-not less not more-you may use it in the lavatory a room spray or to make disappear a bad smell but this definitely not a fragrance.The bottle is a nice design but that´s all-paco rabanne the great couturier who has been so progressive and interesting and unique launches such a bad stuff-can someone explain it to me???oh yeah let´s make money and sell the people cheap stuff-what do you think we are?idiots? a vulgar water with flavour-not less not more!

First, i used to like this- the interaction with testers of this perfume was at least satisfactory. But it's just like its follower, Paco Energy, far too powdery up to the point of not recognizing any particular notes. Yet, when i was younger, when it first appered and well into 1998-1999, it was fashionable and even elegant to wear this, adding to its wearer a both casual, sporty allure but also a touch of goth( tough by that time the term goth was neither popular nor so fashionable), at least according to conventional wisdom. The grapefruit note is just like in Paco Energy misplaced, synthetic and not bringing in crisp, clean freshness, nor pungent or mellow acidity but just a sickening sweetness. Maybe a cheap copy not only of several Ck unisex scents as scented before( tough crafted around the same unisex, postmodern casual pattern ,only worse) but also of Eau d'Orange Verte by Hermes, because even if Paco does not have the same quality, even Eau d'Orange Verte starts of nice( but better than Paco) truly refined, but ends up in a stuffy, vile sweetness of rather synthetic rather than natural, raw, puristc quality.