Olympéa Solar

SWEET, CREAMY & SOLAR Tiare Flower with Powdery Orange-Blossom. Perhaps Paco Rabanne's answer to the Alien Goddess craze, this beauty doesn't bear much in common with the original Olympea. Opens with a burst of citrus & orange-blossom with sweet, powdery & tropical facets, that deepens into a floral heart of tiare supported by solar notes & oakmoss, with buttery, beachy & sweet nuances, all resting on a ylang-benzoin base. Aldehydes & oakmoss here are less prominent than the notes would suggest, and overall I get a sweet, beachy tiare-flower & powdery orange-blossom scent over a sweet balsamic benzoin base. Reminders for me of Alien Goddess Mugler, Dolce Garden Dolce&Gabbana and Hypnotic Poison Dior. Overall: Well above average performance, and although it has a beachy vibe, this is warm enough for year-round wear. Enjoy! Contrast to Alien Goddess Mugler: These are different, but there are some similarities with beachy sweetness. AG has a more forward jasmine, while OS has a more forward tiare. Both are quite sweet, with well above average performance. Contrast to Dolce Garden Dolce&Gabbana: These are different, but they're both signed by Violaine Collas, and there are some similarities, especially in the openings, although I had hoped they would be a little more similar. Both have a sweet, tropical opening, but Olympea Solar dries down similar to Alien Goddess & Hypnotic Poison Dior, while Dolce Garden dries down similar to Dior Addict EDP. Both are sweet, but OS is sweeter, while DG has a more forward milky quality. Contrast to Hypnotic Poison Dior: These are different, but there are some similarities, especially in the drydowns. OS has a more forward tiare and beachy quality not found in HP. While HP has a more forward almond. As it dries down, OS becomes more similar to HP although it retains the beachy quality throughout. Both have well above average performance. Update 06/29/25: I'm really enjoying this today. Love the white-flora blend with orange-blossom. tiare & ylang - I get a little gardenia with it maybe. Such a warm, sunny, creamy, sweet & solar scent. This is a great scent for year round, although I think I would be most likely to wear this is summer. Love it still.

I’ve owned this one for awhile and didn’t realize I never reviewed it! To me, this is a flowery orange creamsicle vanilla bomb. I’ve tried a few orange flower scents, this is the most gourmand and vanilla heavy. Yet there’s no vanilla! Sometimes tiare turns super sugary on my skin-the tiare in Holidays by Mancera turns to white chocolate on me, my spouse says it makes the whole house smell like white chocolate somehow, so maybe it’s a chemistry thing. Olympea Solar is also the most gourmand out of the Olympeas I’ve personally tested. I get more gourmand than solar/beach but I think I’m a bit desensitized to solar/beachy scents sometimes as I live in a sandy desert in sunny Southern California, and my skin always radiated sun/summer smells even as a kid. Solar is the only other Olympea I really love besides the original, though there’s still many I haven’t tested, but it has nothing to do with the original scent-wise. The orange freshness keeps this from turning cloying in the heat, despite being incredibly sweet. I sometimes forget how sweet this one is until I spray it again. It isn’t a beast mode scent but it performs roughly as well as the OG Olympea, where as some of the other flankers I’ve sampled have poor performance. I’m not usually a huge orange scent fan but this is very good. Every time I think this perfume is too boring for me, I smell it and my eyes transform into hearts all over again. I had this on my wish list for years but didn’t want to blind buy as I was disappointed with other Olympea flankers I’ve tried. This should be its own standalone scent. It’s honestly one of the best Paco Rabannes I’ve smelled. Absolute love.

So happy to finally get my hands on Olympea Solar! 💕 It's a beautiful sweet vanilla with a soft creaminess to it. Solar is super inoffensive & doesn't have that *obvious sexy vibe* that the og Olympea has. My nose wouldn't recognize these as flankers but wow 😍 I love it! If you enjoy gourmand vanilla I can't imagine you disliking this. The citrus orange peel vanishes at dry down on me. It's like a much more Creamy version of Voce Viva Intensa. I thought maybe the same vanilla from Alien goddess Intense but now I'm smelling both and it's not the same as AGI to my nose. truly the best blind buy I've had in quite awhile! ALLURING is the word that comes to mind for sure & classically beautiful woman as well. I really don't think anyone could dislike this scent. As long as you aren't expecting it to smell like Olympea & you enjoy somewhat gourmand Creamy vanilla then it's a great blind buy IMHO. I only wish this was easier to access here in the States. I'd love to find the matching lotion and whatever else they offer in this scent. Oh and I don't see this as a strictly summer time vanilla at all! I feel this could totally be all year round 💖 Edit, I was looking at the suggested similar perfumes and just wanna say on my skin & to my nose I'm NOT getting coconut or beachy. Just beautiful Creamy 😍 good longevity over 8+ hours & just gets more custard like the longer it sits on my skin it's like a 'subtle sexy' vanilla ice cream 🍦 with a tiny drop of oakmoss under it 💗 I'm living for this scent. Easily the best of 2022 so far and by far! Ice cream 🍦 💖 🍦 💖🥳🏆 🥇

As others have mentioned, this is quite different from the original Olympea. And I love it! It's one of my favorites from this line, along with the Intense version. This is not salty and doesn't have the intense clean florals of the EDP. It's a dreamy summer scent with warm, beachy florals, zesty citrus and a vanillic, mouthwatering benzoin base. The orange and mandarine notes are so refreshing, juicy and lively with a tiny hint of bitter zest, and together with all the creaminess of the florals and benzoin they smell almost like a creamsicle. The florals blend into one big solar accord, I can't say that tiare, ylang or any specific white flower stands out from the others. On another site I found an additional note of fir balsam, which I don't even see on the official PR website, but I still wanted to mention it, because I really smell a tiny hint of something dark green, foresty in the background, that gives the scent even more of a Mediterranean holiday vibe. It's such a feel-good fragrance to me. There are many perfumes in the same category, sweet tropical florals with gourmand accents are nothing new, but I really don't think that this smells just like Dolce Garden (another great one, but more edible) or Alien Goddess (coconut suntan lotion) or anything else I know of. The way the orange notes are blended with the rest makes it stand out to me. Delicious!

Perfume sumamente tropical. Perfecto para verano, pero versátil para las demás temporadas. Cálido y con algo de profundidad. Sale con flores blancas y cremosas, aunado a un ylang ylang más cremoso aún. Es un poco cítrico por la piel de naranja y la deliciosa mandarina, al parecer incitadas o cristalizadas, y se funden tan hermosamente con las flores. El benjuí le da un fondo resinoso dulce como de vainilla. Me encantan los perfumes que tienen benjuí. Ojo con esta nota pues creo que es el que lo hace diferente y lo eleva por encima de otros perfumes veraniegos tipo bloqueador solar. Lo ácido de la piel de naranja y la mandarina desaparecen, pero en mí queda ese olor dulce de la fruta, y un ligero ligero olor a plátano tal vez por el ylang ylang que da a veces esa impresión. En comparación con otros perfumes del tipo como Alien Goddess, Coco Vanille, Sun di Giogia, estos son muy punzantes, y con falta de cremosidad y dulzor. Y ese benjuí le da una dulzura tan rica y especial. Olympea solar sin embargo no tiene coco como los demás. Pero si notas solares que lo hacen algo chispeante. Así que si tú eres de los que aman los dulces pero te hostigan en verano, esta es una excelente opción. En lo personal no me dura tanto esta fragancia, ni proyecta tanto, pero he leído que a la mayoría le dura y proyecta bien.