Where to buy Paco Rabanne Fame in the UK
Fame comes in three strengths and four sizes. The intense is currently cheaper than the standard eau de parfum at 80 ml, and the refill halves the price per millilitre.
Paco Rabanne sells Fame in three strengths, and as we write this the stronger one costs less. The 80 ml eau de parfum intense is £71.99. The 80 ml standard eau de parfum is £73.99.
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That is not a permanent state of affairs. It is what happens when eleven bottles share a name and each one is discounted on its own schedule by whichever shop wants to move it.
What the standard eau de parfum costs
Seven UK retailers stock the 30 ml, which makes it the most competitive size in the range and the best place to see what Fame is really worth on a given day.
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£40.00 today. We have recorded it at £35.00, so this is not the best day we have seen. The 50 ml tells the same story: £62.99 now against £55.00 at its lowest.
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Our record is only a few days deep, so treat that as a hint rather than a verdict. It is still a better baseline than a crossed-out RRP.
The 30 ml is the worst value in the range
£40.00 for 30 ml is £1.33 a millilitre. £73.99 for 80 ml is 92p. You are paying 44% more per millilitre for the small bottle, which is the usual pattern and worth checking every time.
We wrote about how far that goes across the catalogue in the small bottle is usually the expensive one.
The refill is the cheapest way in
If you already own a Fame bottle, the 200 ml refill is where the money is. The eau de parfum refill is £128.00, which is 64p a millilitre against 92p for the 80 ml bottle. The parfum refill is better still at 53p, next to £1.23 for the 80 ml parfum.
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Fewer shops stock refills than bottles, so the comparison is thinner and the price moves less. It is still the largest single saving available on this fragrance, and it is easy to miss, because retailers list refills well away from the bottles they refill.
Which strength
Fame eau de parfum is the original and the one most reviews are about. The intense is heavier and sweeter. The parfum is the most concentrated and the most expensive per millilitre at every size.
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There is no ladder to climb here. Pick the one you like the smell of, then compare only that one across shops. Comparing an intense listing against a standard eau de parfum listing tells you nothing except that they are different products.
What to do
Decide the strength first, then the size, then compare. That order matters, because getting it backwards is how people end up with 30 ml of the wrong concentration at the highest unit price in the range.
Set an alert if today's number sits well above the recorded low. Waiting on a designer fragrance stocked at seven shops costs nothing, and the gap between UK retailers on one ordinary morning is usually wider than any sale.
Every figure here comes from our own reads of the retailers' product pages and updates as those prices move.