Reviews of Innocent (1998)
by Thierry Mugler

Finally-an Angel-ish scent that I like and can wear. Angel Innocent lacks the immediate body odour accord that I get from Angel. Maybe that's why it's innocent; meaning pre-pubertal, before the exocrine sweat glands start to work their magic!. Anyway, yes it is sweet, but I like sweet. And I still get a hint of patchouli, but not the Angel 100x dose. Very nice, not as unusual as Angel, but quite wearable.

I'm a fan of Angel but could not wear it (the patchouli took over after 5 minutes), but this was a great alternative for me. It's sweeter than most perfumes I wear & somehow the honey-almond-candy works on my skin. A little goes a long way!

Absolutely love this fragrance... smells of sugars and almonds and honey on me. The only complaint I have is that I have to reapply if often; it does not have great staying power. It is my "comfort" perfume.

Angel + Fruits + Cotton Candy...
= Angel Innocent!

VERY nice on the skin, so so when first applied but just give it a try and itll do wonders!

As a massive fan of Mugler i bought this to complete my collection. It's simply just a fruity version of Angel, making it alot easier to wear. I still don't think it is that different to Angel. Still I like it a lot. Thierry Mugler + Dominique Ropion = Good combo!

this scent really smells very happy. reminds me of carnivals sweet and younger days of my life carefree and full of dreams. I think it's because of the honey.
This is a quiet but strong scent do not be mislead.

Whereas Angel knocks your socks off (in a good or a bad way), this one is very inoffensive and much softer, but still definitely the "big bowl o'fruit n' custard". It's an alternative for Angel lovers who want a softer version for the office or wherever. Not my cup of tea (or bowl of fruit).

I absolute love this frag, it starts out sweet and fresh and the dry down is much lighter then Angel. The dewberry gives it a sweet and fruity touch on me and I love it for it, when the basenotes take over there is only a hint left of the earlier notes and the sweetness changes into something more subtle and harder to notice. I do need to respray during the day though.

The only reason this one's getting a neutral rating from this nose is I'm in awe of the originality of this scent. Other than that, I say thumbs down...smells like a cup of earl grey tea with lemon mixed with the 1970's formulation of Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo. Yuk.

Orange sponge cake mixed to Angel without patchouli. The loss of patchouli makes it indeed a bit boring but it wins in wear-ability. The box of Innocent describes it as "airy", though it's a gourmand there really is something clean and fresh to it.
on a plain, I think many people will rather prefer sitting next to someone who wears Innocent than next to an Angel-addict.

In trying this one on for the first time today, all I can say is that I am disappointed. As someone who actually can wear very "manly" fragrances and very spicy ones as well, Angel Innocent has literally evaporated from my skin within an 1.5 hours. All that is left is a cornstarch type powder smell.

Pleasantly bland. It has a kind of kittenish sexiness to it, which might be great on a 16-year-old, and dries down to an innocuous, undifferentiated (to my nose) powdery note reminiscent of (but less distinctive than) Blue Grass. Though the original Angel was not a masterpiece, it was groundbreaking in its time as a "gourmet" fragrance evoking mango and chocolate. This is just "bleh."

Angel and I have never gotten along very well, despite my best efforts and sincere wishes, and so when Angel Innocent launched I had high hopes. Conspicuously absent of the patchouli - which I was confident was the one note that caused Angel to stink to high heaven on me - Angel Innocent seemed an answer to my prayers, a confectionary nougat that I could wear with abandon and relish for its simple, sweet, dental carrie-causing gourmand deliciousness. Well - wrong. What Angel Innocent really turned me on to was the evils of dewberry, one of the few things it shares with its angelic predecessor. Now, I spent most of my developmental years in the Eighties, and did as much of the Elle mag-Benetton-Body Shop routine as the next chick; I know from the yuck of The Body Shop's Dewberry Oil, as it characteristically scented many of those years and not at all in a good way. Yet, when it turned up in Angel, I wasn't aware of it; all the blame there went to the patchouli (and still does, in large measure.) It wasn't until I got to Angel Innocent that I began to detect something of a pattern; the nature of the "off"-ness was different from Angel's, but not completely so. Angel Innocent is more about sugared almonds, brown sugar divinity and nougat, less about the honey sticks, vanilla fondant and caramel-filled chocolate bon-bons that live in Angel's particular region of candyland. Angel Innocent is grounded by musk and amber, not patch; it runs more powdery than Angel does. It's even got some bergamot in there, so that the topnotes don't drizzle around you the way they do in Angel. But innocent though it may be, it still smells as horribly rotten on me as Angel does. Just in a different way. Bad, bad dewberry. How I wish it would go back to the 80s and stay where it belongs!

Just like Angel for a tiny bit, then it bisects and, while keeping a somewhat spicy tobaccoish base, not unlike D&G pour Homme's, starts speaking the tongue of synthetic food flavors - namely, fake apple and fake raspberry (very much like car deodorizer...). This has to be the epitome of the post-gourmet fragrance, in that it pushes the 'real' edible thing one further level away: it evokes an imitation of a real thing.