Angélique Encens (1933)
by Creed

the first non-millesime that i tried and im totally bowled over. creed doing and Incense and doing it wiht some finesse and class. intense, flowery, incense based scent which is quite sharp inits opening...a perfect rendition of Angelica for me...a note that i will ahev in mind as reference...for someone who hasnt sniffed Angelica(like me)..think of it as a white flower...from a distant family of jasmine..slighty heady a a tinge of bitterness..the combination of this and incense is just too sharp and interesting. quite modern in approach for the time it was released..matter of fact i cudnt have imagined it was released in 1933. the base is a musky, vanillic, ambery accord with hints of spices softening things up.

however, as pointed out by others...a 8.4 oz would be too much to take.

So if you are new to the world of perfume and you wonder what incense smells like in this case, imagine walking passed a new age store. That is how it smells like and it is wonderful and calming, but you do smell like an incense store. If you always liked the smell of incense when it is just laying in the room but not when you actually light it, then this is perfect for you.

I´m not sure if I would want to smell like a new age store often enough to buy a bottle but it is a really well done perfume and accomplishes what I think it wanted to do.

Again a very soothing perfume that could be perfect for the right person or activity.

Beautiful, smooth and calming. I wore this to bed calm my nerves and cure insomnia. I woke up a rested man. I need to get a candle of this if it's available.

Well, for me this was a disappointment. I love "churchy" incense scents; ones that are resinous, dry, and woody. They evoke a haunting, mysterious quality. The fact that this scent was revived for the occasion of Pope Benedict's visit to the USA led me to think AA might be something along the lines I've described above. But, as many have noted, this is a very sweet, musky, vanillan and floral scent. It has only a passing acquaintance with incense. Creed's Cypres-Musc is the sort of thing I had been expecting, and certainly Comme des Garcons' Incense line delivers the goods. This is another pot of incense, and not my style. Doesn't smell masculine to me at all. Thumbs down because what the promotion suggests, and what the product delivers, are two different things.

This review is under revision.

A classic, and deservedly so! Angelique Encens goes on very soapy, with an immediate and potent blast of sweetened angelica. This is followed by a vanilla note that sweetens the scent even further. Before it can become too syrupy-sweet, the incense of the title wells up to add a sobering dry foundation. A complex blend of spices (I smell mace, black pepper, and perhaps a touch of cumin) enters soon after, along with a gentle white flower note that nudges what started as a very "masculine" fragrance into the realm of unisex.

As the scent develops, the white flower note becomes dominant and begins to seem "perfumey" in a very old-fashioned way. Myself, I prefer my incense a bit less sweet and floral, as in Dzongkha and L'Homme Sage, but Angelique Encens reveals tremendous depth and complexity, with more than one happy surprise turn in its development. It endures quite well on the skin, with impressive sillage and projection right on through its sweet vanilla-ambery drydown. A wonderful scent, though not for me the "religious experience" some have described. I certainly don't need 8 ounces(!) of the stuff.