Comments on: Perfume Review: Rose Angel by Thierry Mugler

By: Tommasina

Tommasina — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:27:37 +0000

Tom, I spent too many hours as a student of mediaeval literature to want to smell of old books! I’d be happy to send you some Cocoon if you don’t have ready access to any.

By: tmp00

tmp00 — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:22:08 +0000

Tommasina-

I’ll have to try Cocoon; I do get a bit of the mildewey library, but I like that.

Ina-

You missed it when it came out? How? I thought it was practically unavoidable? I was so glad to finally smell it on someone, out of the bottle it had me running, frantically crossing myself.

By: Gaia, the non-blonde

Gaia, the non-blonde — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:22:03 +0000

I’m fond of the Innocent version, because it lacks that horrible pineapple note that turns my nose (and my stomach) in the original and its clones. This one sounds much better. I’ll go and sniff.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:28:41 +0000

This is definitely my favourite Angel. That rose note is so perfect in the composition. It makes it just right, neither too sweet nor too heavy.

By: Marina

Marina — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:37:31 +0000

I absolutely adore this one. Truly my favorite Ange. This is one time when I was glad soemone made a sequel for a popular scent.

By: Tommasina

Tommasina — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:28:31 +0000

Tom, Borneo - though I *want* to love it - smells of old libraries with foxed and mildewed pages, with maybe a hint of dry cocoa in the background. Yves Rocher Cocoon is what Borneo *should* have been on me. Chemistry. Go figure. I have a client who comes to me for bodywork sessions who wears Angel and - OH! It’s all I can do to stay with her in the room and do my stuff. I have to fumigate when she’s gone.

Patty and Chaya - ooh yeah, with you on Shalimar: ICKY on me!

Sorry, Ina: didn’t mean to take over the blog… Have to go seek out Rose Angel and the others. I wondered if I might like the Violet version; what doesn’t work in it, for you?

By: Leopoldo

Leopoldo — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:23:21 +0000

Like Judith, I dislike chocolate notes in most perfume (though the traces of it in Dior Homme and Vetiver Oriental are rendered beautifully, I think). Angel was (is?) the ubiquitous smell of London when I last lived there - it overwhelmed me. Rose Angel - I promise to try one day soon with an open mind.

By: Judith

Judith — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:14:38 +0000

Well, I haven’t commented yet, but Chaya has indeed correctly described my reaction to my first sniff of Angel–I ran for cover! And I still do. But I pretty much hate chocolate in perfume, and for that reason I haven’t fully “got” Borneo either. Rose Angel is definitely my favorite of the group–that is to say, it doesn’t make me sick, as Violet Angel does–but I don’t think I’d wear it.

By: newproducts

newproducts — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:03:10 +0000

I’ve actually tried this one, and it smelled horrendous on me–sour fruity with a B.O. note. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? I wish I got all the things you do. Chemistry!

By: Elle

Elle — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:34:49 +0000

I swear Angel was pure evil on my skin for years, but one day retried it and something had happened and it was suddenly, inexplicably divine - in minute amounts. I don’t wear it any longer because, frankly, there are too many other scents to wear and life is short, but Rose Angel sounds intriguing, especially since I’m in a serious rose phase. Will get my derriere out to a store to smell it.