Angel (1992)
by Thierry Mugler

Angel: The Great Divider. Lionized and demonized, lauded and despised, it rarely fails to make some kind of impression. And how could it? Even if its gourmand woody-oriental structure is by now (overly?) familiar, it is still too unapologetically brash to ignore. It’s also wound up being oddly inimitable. Its imitators nearly always strike me as smelling exactly like Angel, or smelling like Angel gone horribly wrong. It remains a singular phenomenon, a Hanging Rock in the landscape of fragrance. Myself, I rather like it, especially compared to the abominable A*Men, which I number among the “gone horribly wrong” contingent. I’d much sooner wear Angel itself, which I find no less “masculine” than something like Pi, Rochas Man, or Le Mâle.

“Angel” is the scent of powdered sugar, the inside of an aluminum orange soda can, patchouli, and raving rabid homicidal bee froth. It is the fragrance the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would wear if the Four Horsemen were War, Pestilence, Death, and Tooth Decay. It is the scent of a terrible emergency, and no one should ever smell it.


I need to borrow several thumbs down to fully rate this.

This is the finest fragrance ever made. I have been waiting to review it for a year now, thinking I'd somehow find words to describe the finest fragrance ever made, but I can't. So this is my review. It's the finest fragrance ever made. And it isn't sweet. Not to me. It's dry and crazy. And really unique. And it changes all day, and it lasts. And everyone loves it on me. It's the best fragrance ever made. It was given to me as a gift - how do you like that? Who figured a person could randomly give a surprize gift of perfume, something so subjective. Yet here's my review. I am a perfume junkie, it's what I hoard, it's what I love - and this - It's the best.

I loved it for the past few years...lately I find it cloying whenever I put it on..and am looking for a replacement. I still like my L by Lolita Lempicka and used to wear Coco, Opium Obsession - I like the oriental end of the spectrum....I wish Fendi hadn't discontinued Theorema!

This is a fierce cold weather perfume. Strong patchouli, chocolate and vanilla that wears like an edible massage oil. It's great on my woman, and when I come home late from work and smell this, I get really, how should I say, hungry. There is nothing coy or shy about this scent. While this may have been worn by everyone when this came out, I just don't smell it around anymore.

Too much chocolate. To sweet. On the dry down you expect to have a little peace but pachuli with chocolate makes a syntetic note that not disturbing but not charming either. But do not listen to me as a am not a gurme scent lover. The only high calorie scent i can enjoy rarely is L from lolita lempcika.