Reviews of A*Men / Angel Men (1996)
by Thierry Mugler

For me A*Men is a comic world Villain while the B*Men is raised to save Mugler's comic world as a Superhero... The severe and intense -ve affect of A*Men could only be revived by B*Men and nothing else...

For me A*Men is a "hate" symbol and to love it you have to get B*Men.

A*Men is simply a junk drink of caramel, coffee and chocolate... while B*Men no doubt has a burning sugar aroma and coffee touch but with bearable amount and manly affect that is blended well with spicy and woody notes.

I tested both deeply on each hand with generous amount... as a result and matter of fact, I was trying to keep my hand away from my nose where I have sprayed A*Men while Ireally admired sniffing the forearm where I have splashed B*Men.
No doubt A*Men is better in power and silage but only if you want to feel like a COSTA AD of COFFEE in VANILLA & CARAMEL flavor... yakhhhhhhhhh....!!!

Far too sweet for me. I'm also not sure why they didn't go for a smooth velvet-like chocolate note in this rather than the cheap smelling powdered chocolate I get from this. Might just be my nose.
Yeah, it's clever but it's not pleasant to me. My Dad sometimes wears this, which I found hysterical, but it smells better on him than on me, so maybe it's a skin thing. I don't mind the tar note on it's own, but mixed with the coffee and chocolate, it gets a bit acrid.

The bottle is cool, but pretty ugly. Two sprays lasts forever and everyone knows you're wearing it. Too rich for my blood.

I have no idea who would want to smell like this. As much as I like the smell of chicken soup, I do not wish to smell like a bowl of it. Maybe I just don't "get" gourmands.

Aromatherapy? Aromatorture. Not part of the "cult." This is for me gourmand minus much real comfort with a clear option for the presentational. Here's the chocolate, here's the coffee, maybe some mint and the old standby of lavander to lift your spirits? Did you catch the patchouli? Like coming down from a sugar high, ultimately "brooding," depressing.

Ummm....no. This is just wrong for a straight man. Much too sweet and feminine--nauseatingly so, actually. Prefer the more masculine B*Men.

As masculine as M7, as mature as Curve, as elegant as Axe, as subtle as Platinum Egoiste, as natural as Versace Dreamer. H*ll! Layer it with Le Male for a chemical meltdown. So intricately nuanced only praetorian noses can appreciate its delicacies. The Lolitas will flock to you, skip Rochas Man and go for broke! Oh Yumsters! Yumsters! Yumsters!

It's like being a muscle bound steroid grotesque. You will be noticed and some percentage of the population will find you irresistible. Given that, I see no need to caution against over spraying.

Oh Dear!..when i tested this i couldn't wait to get home and scrub...(yes scrub) it off.. and even then i could still smell the putrid stuff! It's hideously cheap smelling...sickly sweet ,like an old chocolate pudding left in the oven for 20 hours and you can't wait to open a window. It's as unsubtle as a lime green neon sign displaying the word 'unsubtle' in ten foot high letters. It's true...you love it or hate it. I HATE it!

Can't stand this stuff, got a sample. Smells like you left the coffee pot on over night. Burnt coffee with some vanilla and chocolate thrown in. Overpowering and sickening sweetness.

Rare is the fragrance so repellent I can't wait to scrub it off my wrist. A Men is actually the first to have that distinction. Cat piss on cotton candy isn't a bad description but I was thinking more like frankincense mixed with baby powder. Sweet, with a strong incense note and a very unpleasant artificial something that smells like burning rubber. If I smelled this on a woman with whom I was in the throes of passion I could overlook it but on any other occasion, disgusting.

An clumsily constructed sugarfest, that offers the whole spectrum of confection from toasted vanilla, to cheap vanilla. Initially my wrist felt as if a vat of caramel had been dispensed on my arm, and this incredibly dense wall of all things sweet took hours to recede. It both astonishes and saddens me that this unwieldy, cloying mess should be lauded so often.

Retch. I feel like the Agent Smith in The Matrix: "It's the smell.... I feel saturated by it. I can taste its stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it!" I think the only thing I find more revolting is L'Eau D'Issey pour Homme.

I love gourmand scents. My winter daily wear scent is Rochas Man/Bond New Haarlem (they are just about interchangeable with a very slight nod to New Haarlem). To me, a fragrance should be suggestive--it should toy with those around you. If you find someone sniffing around looking for where that scent is coming from, you've hit the mark of everything a fragrance should be.

This stuff knocks everyone over the head and shanghais them to a bad place. There would be no question where the stink is coming from. To me, it doesn't improve all that much on die-down either. To those that said that after a week it grows on you... upon meeting someone new, who is going to take a week to sort out their nose. More likely snort out their nose....

I am kind of sorry I read all the reviews and bought the bottle because I was hoping to have an optional variation on a nice gourmand scent. Fortunately, I got a small bottle.

-T

This one is enjoyable, until it's not. For me, that transition took place after about 5 minutes. It's not due to any development in the notes, either, as this seems to be the definition of linear to me. Because of it's commendable longevity, that meant another 11+ hours of.....not quite disgust (i.e. Givenchy Pi), not quite nausea, just annoyance. I wouldn't say that this is overly sweet, although it borders upon that, but I get that same "get this over with" feeling that I do with an overly sweet product. I view it as a novelty. Not like a rubic's cube, that can still be brought out 10 years later and be entertaining for 10 minutes. More like a pet rock. Seen it, done it, over it. I'll give this one to my son. (I do like the kid, don't get me wrong, maybe his girlfriend will like it, who knows?)

This was way too rich and sweet. I ended up smelling like a cheap box of chocolates :(

To my nose this is not good, not good at all. Smells like a cat peed on cotton candy. This definitely is a love it or hate it cologne. I hate it.

To make the long story short .... THUMBS DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

I am not into sweet/sour(citrus) type of smell in general. A* Man struck me with a smell of pure sugar, a little burnt. It's so intense, thick, and "food" type of smell just not my cup of tea. I can't think of an occasion people wear this fragrance: certainly not at work, you don't want to offend people; not dine out since it may interfere with the smell of the food there. .....

Just say no.

you love it or hate it. i'm the 2nd one... for me, and what's more importand on me, it's just smell like mix of many different sweets, - candys, chocolate, cocoa etc

This one was okay when I put it on, but it was really starting to get to me by the end of the day. Too sweet/tobacco/chocolate/caramel-ly for me. I can see why it would appeal to others - not my thing though.

This is one of the worst fragrances i have ever tried. NO !! Wait !! This is the worst fragrance i have ever tried...
I tested it with my girlfriend on my right wrist.. Couple of minutes later, while my arm was at her shoulder, she said that she can't stand the smell so she moved to the left side of me.
I went to mall's bathroom, washed for like 10 minutes to get rid of the smell. But that is almost impossible, you need to take at least 2 showers,1 is not enough :) That was what i did when i came home.

As bbBD pointed in his review, this is a gourmand scent and must be served in restaurants not in fragrance stores. :) There is coffee, and burnt sugar very very overwhelming, then comes vanilla, wait this is not the end .... OMG! Did i just smell caramel also ???? The most overwheling and heavy notes in the fragrance industry have been used in this scent. If you do NOT want to walk like a food cart, stay out of this fragrance. It is a shame that i can only give one thumbs down for it. At least it deserves 5 of them.

My rating: 1/10

Sorry you A*Men lovers... for me it's a confusing, unwearable EdT.
So strong that I can't find the right amount to use - not use.
Althougt women fall for it on me - my inside also falls: ruins my liever, my stomach, my lungs...
The "oriental" spicy side turns on and on and me too...
With all respect for those who love it - I can't stand it, from begining to end.
Perhaps... could you - TM, I love your Cologne... - could you make it more wearable? Forget. It's my own chemestry, I'm sure.

it's the most reviewed fragrance on the site.
but to me, it smells like someone peed on a chocolate bar. in my opinion.

as stated in official review, that is a love or hate fragrance. To be honest hate is not enough about my feelings. Get some sugar, turn on your owen, burn the sugar add some caramel than pour it on your self. That is A*Men

Let me preface this review with saying, I really tried to like this cologne. Unfortunately you need to "work to get the payoff" in a manner of speaking. Before you can walk through the well watered plains of Jordan, Its awful that one must bury their face into Granma's chest heavily laden with scents that are strong enough to wake the dead. People around you must suffer through that just to reach that moment of bliss. Mugler, if would get rid of grandma, I'd go out and buy a bottle today. I am a huge fan of Chocolate, Tonka, Bergamot, and Coffee, but grandma should stay at home and read a book for this one.

After abundant word of mouth I decided to try it on my skin, leaving both me and my girl friend gagging for breath. Even after a long shower I could feel its sickly sweet stench crawling towards my nostrils. A week later and after several "how could you have not liked it" comments, I tried it again at a perfume outlet with similar results. This monstrosity should have been restricted by the Geneva conventions

this fragrance has to be the worst, honestly, the WORST i have ever tried.
I was thoughtless enough to try this one on my arm in the middle of the day without a chance to wash it off for hours.
It smells chemical, it smells sweet, it makes me nauseatous and gives me a giant headache, and, to finish it off i get thast typical urinal stone smell from time to time.
EOW!!!

There are some fragrances that delight and tease the olfactory senses, and then there are obnoxious, stomach-churning concoctions such as this fragrance. Whoever the mad scientist that created this is, he/she should have served some prison time.

This is one of the extremely few fragrances that I have ever smelled that initiated a nearly automatic gag reflex upon the first whiff. The biggest mistake was spraying it on myself. I happened to see two guys at Sephora talking to the SA. They both raved about this scent and she gave them a few samples of it. I was on my way out, but slowed down and she gave me 3 or 4 sample cards of it, too. As I was walking to my car, naive as I was, I gave one of the samples two good sprays on my forearm. I had to smell this sickly sweet, putrid odor until I got home, and then, even after a shower and nearly rubbing the skin off of my arm, I could still smell it. It smells like a terrorist blew up a candyshop and a Starbucks and this is the stuff raining down upon the poor innocent bystanders. Horrible stuff.

This is an extreme fragrance, perhaps one of the most provocative of them all. Coffee, chocolate,candy, tobacco .. all that and more. It will bother me to have someone around smelling like that.
This is not something to wear this is something you want to eat.

Over-baked chocolate cake with a cheap cup of coffee.

Way too effeminate for me to consider: I cannot believe that this is a men's fragrance. It is quite a stretch. In fact I think it smells exactly like Chopard Wish, plus coffee. Even 90% of the notes, and how they are combined, are identical in both frags.

The only slightly masculine notes in this are tonka mean and benzoin. I hate the smell of caramel and coffee notes in frags, especially together. This is sickening really.

Over rated!!!! This cologne is like a cake with icing to be plastered on your body! Clearly too sweet. Clearly too simple. Get the taste of sweet desserts, mix generously, and you have this. Totally without sophistication. Sorry. any frangrance with only a two to one postive to negative ratio is dangerous. This fragrance is a waste of money and time. That is, unless you are starting Kindergarten......you will be quite popular ith both girls and boys!!!!

This is the flagship of unisex...neither feminine nor masculine. It's Pat...in a bottle.

Not sure what the hype is about this one. I guess I'm one of the many who just don't like it. There is too much going on with it and my wife surely didn't like it on me.
Longevity and sillage is a plus, but since I didn't like the scent of the fragrance itself I obviously can't approve.
Thumbs down.

Reminded me of L'Artisan's Jour de Fete...in a bad way. This is another one of those gourmands that has an unfortunate sticky/unwashed character. Makes me think of dried chocolate ice cream smeared on the face of a small child at a birthday party. In my home, this one is called "Eau de Give That Kid a Bath". Dire.

I really, really wanted to like this one. The thought of a men's fragrance that smells like coffee, chocolate, caramel, etc was very enticing. I picked up a small sample spray bottle and brought it home for testing.

The opening spray is a synthetic nightmare! I can smell the chocolate, caramel, coffee, tar note.....or rather, I can smell the fake chemical versions of them.

I was hoping the dry-down would reveal something much more natural, and indeed it does (to some extent), however it takes 2 hours for that to happen. And even then, it still smells a bit too synthetic to pass as anything even remotely natural or edible.

Only one small spray of this stuff lasted hours and hours, with strong sillage. Even after scrubbing my arm with soap, I could still detect the scent of this fragrance. I couldn't imagine sharing a room with someone wearing more than 2 or 3 full sprays of this. And furthermore, what would you use to wash it off, turpentine?

Bottom line: The idea behind this fragrance is genius. The execution is quite bad.

Cloying to the extreme, and lasts two days on my skin. Trying this on was akin to torture.

This must be the worst fragrance I have ever had the misfortune of smelling and men wear it as if they came off an assembly line. To be stuck on a crowded subway near someone who has on this loud, cloying, nauseating fragrance is an experience that makes the eyes tear. The womens version is almost as bad. Rochas Man, with similar notes, was made SO much better and doesn't make the eyes burn or make you wish to run for fresh air as does Angel. I hear people say "oh it depends on how much you spray and so on. . ." I say you can't make something that smells bad smell good. That's just my humble opinion. Peace to all Angel fans around the world.

horrible horrible horrible. I had to wash it off immediately, I don't actually mind the coffee/chocolate opening but the sugared almond/baby powder basenotes are very cloying. I'm not sure if I'm brave enough for this one!

I don't like to smell like food. I will readily wear semi-gourmands, like JPG Le Male, but I think I'll steer well clear of this.

It gives me a headache. I wouldn't drink coffee that tastes like this! And believe me, all I smell is French Vanilla Roast, burnt chocolate souffle and something that smells like a blend of creme carmel and edible baby powder...

If you want something that smells gourmand-ish and devilishly sexy, something that will get women asking what the wonderful cologne is that you're wearing, go for Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male.

Doing this will also save all small children and most mammals within a 20 metre radius from certain suffocation...lol

Who Burnt The Chocolate??????? Thumbs Way Down.

There's only two possibilities: love it or hate it. And I decided to hate it.

It smells like burnt chocolate that is melted in sugared coffee. This added with alcool and bottled.

Sorry, but for my nose this stuff stinks.

My first impression is of a perfume too strong and particular. I dislike it very much, i can't stand the strong way it smells and above all there's a prominent note that nearly disgust me (maybe patchouli?). After a couple of hours this prominent note became more subtle and mixes up whit other notes in an intriguing wat, yet it remains distinguishable. So the drydown it's better, but after all i can't wear a perfume that disgust me for the first two hours!!

Sickly sweet and cloying. Those are the only words I can use to describe this horrid fragrance.

I tested this one several times and concluded I hate it! It is a very powerful long lasting BAD smelling perfume! A word of advice: USE IT MODERATELY! It is very heavy and it can bother people around you!

Too sweet and smells like everythings thrown it it but the kitchen sink. It's from outer space. Too overpowering. It is unique I'll give it that. Something YOU may enjoy on your own but I havent heard any great howls from women on this one, it's too strange,

If you want to smell like a girl than this is the fragrance for you.

Love it or hate it, I suppose. I fall firmly in the latter category. Icky sweet to a fault, and I don't have that much of a sweet tooth to begin with. Unbalanced to my nose, with all other notes overwhelmed by the chocolate/vanilla ice cream accord. Blech.

This is by far the most digusting scent I've ever smelled. It is so bad, it's alsmost funny. Reminds me of cat's vomit, sorry to say

Worst fragrance I have ever smelled.Terrible!

I like the idea of a chocolate/coffee fragrance in theory, but this is just not well done. It's sweet in a very sickly way and very offputting. No thanks.

A vile, execrable potion -- more akin to burning asphalt than eau de toilette. This bottled evil gives me migraines deluxe, and often does the same to those unfortunate souls around me who have to ingest its rancid fumes.

Try gasoline -- it's cheaper and smells far better.

nasty

chocolate + too much... chaotic. I found it repulsive the frist time, had an open mind the 2nd time I wore it...until I got grossed out. won't put it on again.

I don't like the plain chocolate amour de cocoa type scents, I am a fan of cdg spicy cocoa

but this stuff is awful. especially if you put it on then get stressed out it engenders suicical thoughts

NO, NO, NO, what a mistake.
Far too strong.
...And It smell like burnt caramel lavander (what a horrible idea to mix this one with gourmand smells)and incense.
I personally find it to much.
Very personal, very strange.
HORRID!!.
I wish Mugler create a version of angel original in a slightly masculine way.

Undoubtedly thumbs down!!!
This is a horrible, repulsive,vulgar,fragrance and one of the worst i have ever smelled.
I wouldn't recommend Angel/Amen. It's very heady, chaotic and synthetic.
Tar,coffee and chocolate is way too overpowering and destroy the rest of the scent.
This is an overhyped fragrance. Rochas Man which is in the same path as Angel is way better.

Gourmands. what to say. If I wanted to smell like this I'd just do a face slam in a banana split. jmo.

I'm sorry if i don't agree with what everone else says, but to me I think this smells like garbage, garbage in a nice bottle i'll give you, but garbage nonetheless. When i put it on my arm, I wanted to rip it off and slap the makers of this cologne with it.
Oh, so just in case it wasn't clear, I don't like it.

My 16 year old daughter, the Angel for women devotee, bought this for her boyfriend for Christmas.

Boyfriend loved the gift, and applied vast quantities immediately, bringing the merriment to a grinding halt. Somewhere in the neighborhood of six or eight sprays, I believe.

Heavy. Stifling. Cloying. Sickly sweet. It is apparently a permanent fragrance commitment, since it cannot be removed from human skin, so use with caution.

The Scent That Ruined Christmas.

Decided to be a guinea pig for various fragrances today: Some successful, some less so

This scent was purchased on the basis of the basenotes awards, unfortunately we don't get on

An overpowering chocolate blast is too much, I'm afraid

Sampled it this weekend. First I took a pain releiever to rid myself of the heachache, nausea and dizzy spells - then I bathed in tomato juice to make the smell go away :)

I liked it when it first came out. I can't stand it anymore! I don't find the smell of coffee,chocolote and vanilla sexy at all, especially on a man! This scent is totally effimate and girls find it a little, well, girly on a guy. Memorable just because people think that you just marinade yourself in a coffee and cotton candy bathe. They won't remember you because you smelled sexy. Stuffy,sickly sweet, and sinus blasting vile juice!

I was so excited to try this one! I can't believe how rank it was after putting it on the skin...never have I found something so offensive that I had to wash it off. Give me anything else, including a glade plug-in, over this

This fragrance is absolutely awful. I've read over and over about how great this scent is and how women love it. Maybe some girls have a certain affinity for rotting manure covered in pepper and chocolate, but I woundn't touch this horrible excuse for a fragrance if Halle Berry told me to wear it.

You're kidding, right?! This has got to be some sort of sick joke - absolutely horrendous! It sucks the oxygen out of a room and practically brings people to their knees. Smells like ultra-sweet chocolate exhaust fumes, like what might happen if you poured cocoa powder into your car's heating system and sat inside with the heater running on full-blast and the windows all rolled up. Splendidly offensive! Aggressively wretched! If this one hasn't sent lots of people with scent or chocolate allergies to the emergency room, I'd be very, very, surprised.

VERY STRONG! I like strong colonges, just don't like this one. This smells very strange. Very sweet + sort of like an old lady and cotton candy. I do not reccomend this. People will find this one offensive. NOT Masculine! NOT clean smelling! NOT good! Waste of money! Overpowering!

Syrup like sweetness reeking far too synthetic for a presumably expensive designer fragrance. Somewhere in between sandalwood incense sticks combined with cinammon and ginger spiced candy. Some call it bold and trendy, but it smells immaturely playful and juvenile.

personally i cant live without wearing fragrances every day and every hours of my life ,but if this should be the only one perfume existing ,i absolutely didnt buy it,it simply makes me vomit,i find it aggressive ,and smells like medicine

One squirt on the arm of A*Men was enough to give me that old feeling... the feeling of wanting to gnaw off my own arm (a feeling usually involving alcohol, sex, a really fat naked chick using my arm as a pillow and my need to escape before she wakes and remembers what I look like).
Perhaps it should be called "Scary Deja Vu".

This fragrance is WAY too sweet for my tastes. I wore it out once, and all the people I was around really disliked it as well.

One of the few fragrances I detest with a passion - burnt sugar, headache inducing, putrid sickly sweetness with a hint of decayed animal flesh. But I guess I'm a woody type first and foremost. I can see how well it's put together but it's definitely NFM

Had heard a lot and was expecting a lot. The first whiff got me intoxicated with the smell. It was too strong. Felt like 6 types of incense sticks burning together next to the nostrils. The dry down is bearable. But overall derived a headache for me.

Yucch!! Too sweet. Too feminine. too overpowering. Cloying would be an apt description. Something in it repulses me. Although sometimes sweet/vanilla can be done well (Marc Jacobs), this has something that just misses the mark.

Pheww!! This stuff stinks! It's different, but smells just like a combination of chocolate the smokey smell your clothes aquire when in a busy pub or night club. Different? yes. Nice? not really!

Well unfotunatly if there is one scent on earth that my body will reject just by a very light scillage this is the one and same for the women version.
Nothing to do with Mr Mugler but I just can not agree with that one, it is like a bad mussel.
Sorry but this is my only thump down.
laurent

I LOVE ORIENTAl type fragrances...Joop, JPG...butANGEL is an oriental fragrances gone horribly wrong...its sad to admit but it does smell bit like burnt chocolate...the notes are not in balance or harmony... Just in your face type of smell

Smells like melted caramel spilt on the bedsheets of a cheap paris bordello.

Smells like a burning chocolate cake. The best thing I found about it was that it washes off with relative ease.

I am a fan of sweet scents. I own both Pi by Givenchy and Le Male by Jean Paul Gautlie and enjoy both scents very much. However, after wearing A Men for only thirty minutes I experienced strong discomfort of the stomach and found myself wanting to vomit. Perhaps this scent is an aquired taste, I may like it after I get used to the vomiting.

NASTY! TERRIBLE!! THIS IS WHAT HELL MUST SMELL LIKE!! Overly sweet for a woman, let alone a man. If I want to offend someone's sensibilities, this is what I would wear. Scent is subjective, but I want to smell fresh and clean, not like a candy store that has had talcum powder poured on all of its melting wares!!! I would not spray this on my worst enemy. If there was an option for THREE thumbs down, I'd click on that option.
I have been brutally honest, but on a very, very serious note - do NOT wear this in a professional environment. Evokes too strong a response from people.

Burnt chocolate,caramel and bitter stale coffee all rolled into one. Rochas man is much, much better. It has many the same notes but blended together more succesfully. It's more refined than Angel. I do like the Metal container for the angel refill bottle. The fragrnace itself though is not worth the high price nor that good.

I REALLY dislike Angel for Men. My brother told me he loved it so I went out on my search and was dismayed when I smelled it. It smelled almost identical to Animale Animale, which is 1/3 the price. I find the chocolate and uncommon licorice I guess notes in it stifling and thick, and when I go to work I can't take being near someone who is wearing this stuff. I hope Cologne by Mugler is nicer.

It reminds me of a chocolate bar that fell into a cup of latte and spilled all over some cotton candy...and "stuck" there and fermented for days! Sorry..but No A*Men for me:-(

A-Men is a very high quality scent but I don't like it in the slightest. It becomes overly sweet on my skin and turns into pure vanilla on the drydown. Angel for Women affects me similarly. When I first smell it on a woman I think it is the most wonderful fragrance imaginable but after a short time I find it annoying and finally quite irritating and nausea-inducing. But enough on my feedback - you need to try the fragrance on your OWN skin. It might work really well for you. Fragrance is funny like that. I work with a woman who applies perfume and the scent - any scent - is gone within ten minutes. Other women can apply the same fragrance and it smells beautiful all day. Skin chemistry, I guess.