This is the funniest post ever. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am going to read it again and again when I need a good laugh! Thank you, Luca (and Tania)!!! 🤣
I brought a sample spray of Angel with me the first time I went to Paris (from the US) in 1992, the year it came out! It was sooo unusual and loud and strange! I was staying with my parents who were living there at the time, and they thought the same. I immediately loved it.
I bought a bottle when I returned to the states and started wearing it (sparingly because of the immensity of the sillage). To my horror, though, within a couple of years, it grew and grew in popularity. Women doused themselves in it. It was everywhere. Something I loved was suddenly abhorrent to me out in the masses! 😢
I did go through a couple of bottles over the years, though, and still have one (from the mid 2000s), but it's not the same. Reformulations killed it IMO. I wish I could repeat that memory of that first spray!!!! A total ❤️ for me.
I've laughed out loud at two fragrances: at the sheer audacity of Tubereuse Criminelle putting the mentholated tuberose right up front in an unmistakable Canada Mint blast, and at La Petite Robe Noire Couture because that opened with what I can only describe as "scented feminine hygiene products."
I want to love Angel but Mugler frags are horrifying on me. I quite enjoy them on others. The only patchouli/chocolate I can wear is Borneo 1834 and that only in cooler/cold weather.
Love this review of a mainstream fragrance!! I remember your review of Angel La Rose (bought it immediately after ofcourse), not sure about this one yet but will try for sure.
The bit about Alphonse Allais is pure gold. I feel very much that way about the Vessel at Hudson Yards; though it is thankfully much less intrusive from all directions. As for the olfactory, I’m surprised that nowadays more independent perfumers don’t cleverly «sous notre nez» poke more fun at the mass-appealing blockbuster perfumes (Baccarat Rouge 540, Santal 33, Aventus, etc.) instead of just trying to tweak their formulas with better materials or make low-cost dupes. We certainly have more humor in the fashion world today than in the infinitely self-regarding 1990s, but aside from folks like Jonathan Anderson I still don’t see anything on the scale of a Schiaparelli. (I do however like how Francis Kurkdjian poked a bit of fun at himself with Kurky.)
Angel is exactly the opposite of what I like in perfumes but I love to be informed so I guess I'll have to try the Stellar flanker. I'm already nervous...
The last chapter of this review is, among other things, why I'm subscribed to your blog. Your humour is one of a kind. Thank you for that!
Turkish despair - bwa ha. It will be my new name for that suspiciously familiar box of central Asian sweetmeats turning up at every twixtmas drinks in my village last year. Pretty sure it’s stalking me, but equally pretty sure I bought it in 2018
I know of no Angels, I'm late to the game because I was a young kid in that era, and as I became aware of it, I heard it's been reformulated so I never bothered with it or any of its flankers. I did hear this one is good. I am intrigued sufficiently now to sniff this. Thank you for the wonderful writing!
Your description reminds of how I feel every time I test a Masion Crivelli extrait offering.
HHahahaaaaaaaaa!!!! I am in tears! From laughing, of course, but also the tears imagined I would be in as my imagined self would be in your vehicle with you and Tania Sanchez as she is rolling down that window. And as always, Mr Turin, you have tempted my curiosity.
Oh, Lord. This had me laughing as much as the comparable review of Amarige, in A-Z Guide. Don’t think I have to rush out and smell it, but may try it instead of just passing by, if only for the experience & I’ll try to keep my nose clear. And to cite that reference:
From the Amarige review …However, it is also truly loathsome, perceptible even at parts-per-billion levels, and at all times incompatible with others' enjoyment of food, music, sex, and travel. If you are reading this because it is your darling fragrance, please wear it at home exclusively, and tape the windows shut.
This is the funniest post ever. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am going to read it again and again when I need a good laugh! Thank you, Luca (and Tania)!!! 🤣
I brought a sample spray of Angel with me the first time I went to Paris (from the US) in 1992, the year it came out! It was sooo unusual and loud and strange! I was staying with my parents who were living there at the time, and they thought the same. I immediately loved it.
I bought a bottle when I returned to the states and started wearing it (sparingly because of the immensity of the sillage). To my horror, though, within a couple of years, it grew and grew in popularity. Women doused themselves in it. It was everywhere. Something I loved was suddenly abhorrent to me out in the masses! 😢
I did go through a couple of bottles over the years, though, and still have one (from the mid 2000s), but it's not the same. Reformulations killed it IMO. I wish I could repeat that memory of that first spray!!!! A total ❤️ for me.
I've laughed out loud at two fragrances: at the sheer audacity of Tubereuse Criminelle putting the mentholated tuberose right up front in an unmistakable Canada Mint blast, and at La Petite Robe Noire Couture because that opened with what I can only describe as "scented feminine hygiene products."
I want to love Angel but Mugler frags are horrifying on me. I quite enjoy them on others. The only patchouli/chocolate I can wear is Borneo 1834 and that only in cooler/cold weather.
Same for me with TC. Just audacious. Love that stuff.
Perhaps Tania, like Allais, can find refuge by subletting a bedsit in your nose.
Love this review of a mainstream fragrance!! I remember your review of Angel La Rose (bought it immediately after ofcourse), not sure about this one yet but will try for sure.
Hey Luca. What's "Ahnzhel"?
French pronunciation
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I started laughing, which I don't always do in reaction to a fragrance review.
Greetings to Tania and I wish her continued good spirits, good health for experiments on humans (isn't that forbidden?) and strong nerves!
I remeber once being hugged by a colleague wearing Angel. I had Le Feu d'Issey on. It was completely burried under Angel! lol!
Feu d’Issey was also a work of genius, and apparently a complete flop…
I was destiny's tot when Angel burst onto the scene at my local Macy's. I declared it a "no" and immediately bought it. That bottle.
The bit about Alphonse Allais is pure gold. I feel very much that way about the Vessel at Hudson Yards; though it is thankfully much less intrusive from all directions. As for the olfactory, I’m surprised that nowadays more independent perfumers don’t cleverly «sous notre nez» poke more fun at the mass-appealing blockbuster perfumes (Baccarat Rouge 540, Santal 33, Aventus, etc.) instead of just trying to tweak their formulas with better materials or make low-cost dupes. We certainly have more humor in the fashion world today than in the infinitely self-regarding 1990s, but aside from folks like Jonathan Anderson I still don’t see anything on the scale of a Schiaparelli. (I do however like how Francis Kurkdjian poked a bit of fun at himself with Kurky.)
Angel is exactly the opposite of what I like in perfumes but I love to be informed so I guess I'll have to try the Stellar flanker. I'm already nervous...
The last chapter of this review is, among other things, why I'm subscribed to your blog. Your humour is one of a kind. Thank you for that!
Thank you for your kind words!
You got a big laugh out of me on this!!! Great way to start my day. Poor Tanya lol!
Turkish despair - bwa ha. It will be my new name for that suspiciously familiar box of central Asian sweetmeats turning up at every twixtmas drinks in my village last year. Pretty sure it’s stalking me, but equally pretty sure I bought it in 2018
I know of no Angels, I'm late to the game because I was a young kid in that era, and as I became aware of it, I heard it's been reformulated so I never bothered with it or any of its flankers. I did hear this one is good. I am intrigued sufficiently now to sniff this. Thank you for the wonderful writing!
Your description reminds of how I feel every time I test a Masion Crivelli extrait offering.
HHahahaaaaaaaaa!!!! I am in tears! From laughing, of course, but also the tears imagined I would be in as my imagined self would be in your vehicle with you and Tania Sanchez as she is rolling down that window. And as always, Mr Turin, you have tempted my curiosity.
Oh, Lord. This had me laughing as much as the comparable review of Amarige, in A-Z Guide. Don’t think I have to rush out and smell it, but may try it instead of just passing by, if only for the experience & I’ll try to keep my nose clear. And to cite that reference:
From the Amarige review …However, it is also truly loathsome, perceptible even at parts-per-billion levels, and at all times incompatible with others' enjoyment of food, music, sex, and travel. If you are reading this because it is your darling fragrance, please wear it at home exclusively, and tape the windows shut.