Dream Angels Heavenly (2000)
by Victoria's Secret

Everyone is right when they say this is a common scent...I thought that EXACT thing when I smelled it on a co-worker of mine in 2003 and 2004. I thought she was common and her scent was common. Some average floral. Maybe that was the best she could find.
But after working alongside her day after day, and month after month, I began to gain a lot more respect for both her and her fragrance. They were both nice, focused, and not distracting to be around. The scent gave her a clean, polished air.

About a year later, a day came when I just had to ask her what perfume she wore, and she told me in a very no-nonsense way "Victoria's Secret" (that figures I thought to myself)...how pedestrian.

But, off I went to a huge VS in midtown Manhattan to further investigate. I sniffed out her Heavenly from across the sidewalk, and purchased a bottle, as if it would transform me into that polished professional, like it appeared to have done to her.

So, all that came from this little scent. Now I have this long relationship with Dream Angels Heavenly, and I love it.

To me, this is a clean, professional, cheap but very well-done fragrance.
It gets the job done well.

26th June, 2011. (Last Edited: 9th September, 2011.)

I have a mini bottle and tried it just to figure out what all the hoopla was about. It opens with a very harsh cleaning product smell. I didn't wash it off because I was hoping some great reward was waiting for me at drydown.

It dried down to a banal, slightly floral, slightly powdery scent. Not offensive, but not alluring either. Perhaps my chemistry is very different from average and the scent is wonderful on others. I will not buy a full sized bottle unless someone specifically asks for it as a gift.

23rd May, 2011.

Like others have said, pleasant and inoffensive, nothing spectacular. Perfect for work. In a way, it's almost the same as wearing Demeter Soap or Laundromat - it's perfectly nice, nothing memorable.

14th March, 2011.

I think the answer to Heavenly's popularity is simple: It's very wearable. It doesn't change much from person to person and it's quiet and inoffensive.

To me Heavenly is perfect for office wear, when you don't want to be knocking out everyone around you or announcing your presence. I personally like to wear it at home for casual use. I am home with small children most of the time, so this perfume is nice for a little lift without being too much.

All that being said, is this a great perfume? No, not in the sense of being like a fine wine. However, based on sheer popularity, it could someday be regarded as such, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that either. I can appreciate a boxed wine just as much as I can appreciate Moet -- they both have their place and time.

5th February, 2011.

The opening has a Soapy Plasticy Begining at first but it dries to a
semi sweet Vanilla But it has a bitter
base of Quince an innocent sweetness of freesia and intoxicating orchid.
and the drydown turnes powdery of Iris Violet and musk.
I can also pick up a note of incense
in this too it's clean fun flirty
& sexy!

16th August, 2010.

I bought a bottle of this whilst on a visit to California,
simply because we don't have a VS shop over here and this is
the scent I liked most in the shop. It''s not a great work of art
but it is easy on the nose and reminds me of my holiday in San
Francisco.

24th May, 2010.