I'cant remember how many bottles I've purchased of Angel. It's my favorite scent for almost 10 years.
It was unfamiliar to me, but my husband (at the time he was my boyfriend) bought this as a gift for me. I had to get used to this unusual scent. It didn't stink, but it was unlike the floral scents I was used wearing. I used it anyway, because it was a gift and I was crazy in love with my boyfriend, so nothing he could do was wrong!
After a coulple of weeks wearing it I fell in love with it. People on the street asked me what I was wearing, my perfume was amazing! :)
I was (and still am) convinced, this is my signature scent. My skin agrees with it 100%. And very important: it stays all day long and you don't need much of it. I love it!

My favorite perfume of ALL TIME. I first got this on my sweet 16 trip to spain 8 years ago and I still have the original bottle! I get it refilled every year at Bloomingdales :) The scent is a bit strong, but I love it. My husband loves it as well :D

I took a spray of this on a little sample card in a department store, as well as spraying some on my wrists. I've been waiting 6 hours now for the gourmand notes to emerge but all I can smell is a strong, sharp, chemical smell. Where's the chocolate and vanilla? I swear it smells more like bug spray.

/in my defense, I had knee surgery today. OMG ouch. So I'm locked into bed, higher than a kite on pain meds, and bored. What better to do than write long reviews on MUA? If you don't like very long, overly wordy, kinda funny reviews...then skip this one/

Angel....quite possibly the most polarizing perfume on the planet. My perceptions - at length - are to follow.

This perfume makes me smell like a whore. There, I've gone and said it. Right out loud out with my inside voice. A refined, high-class, "You couldn't begin to think to afford me" whore...with long legs and beautiful curly hair and expertly applied makeup and custom-tailored clothing. But still a whore. But better yet, it makes me FEEL like a whore.

Which, when you are married, is a good thing. Let me explain. Hubby gave me his usual Gallic shrug when I asked him how he likes it, but a curious thing happens about twenty minutes after I put it on...he gets...uhmm..."handsy" and touchy-feely and starts following me around and giving me random kisses and whatnot. Since I am married to a man who isn't really hands-on, so to speak, this is remarkable. I don't think he knows that it's working on his little reptile primitive brain, but it hooks him through the nose and makes him my slave...for a time.

Very, VERY strong when first applied...a blast of sweet chocolate, bitter vanilla (I know, it sounds weird) and to me what smells like a powdery toffee mix with a tiny hint of salt. After about 20 minutes, a light, non-earthy patchouli peeks through, entwined with a wispy mild sour-ish fruit (blackberries? Currants?). Hubby hates patchouli in any earthy/hippie form (he says it smells like dirt), but this is a brighter, greener, cleaner patchouli. Like the leaves, not the bark. I get no B.O., dirt, blood, semen, or any bitter metallic tang (exception noted below).

After a few hours, this wildly riotous combo softens down to traces of all the above, but melded into a non-foody, non-edible food scent. Non-edible food scent? Yes. Sweet, rounded, caramel-like, scrumptious cloud...but doesn't make you want to eat anything. Just smells...deliciously delicious. Nom nom nom.

I should note...I have whiffed Angel on random women and wanted to smack them upside the head for wearing such a discordant scent out in public. On some body chemistries, it is a shockingly unpleasant acrid mix, like baby powder poured onto vomit. That's gross, I know.

Then on other women, I want to nuzzle my head into the side of their neck and gobble them up in a (mostly) non-lesbian way. (tee hee)

This scent is ABSOLUTELY dependent upon your chemistry. I have approached probably a total of ten friends and family, the likes of which WILL tell you if a perfume compliments you or leaves your reputation hanging in shreds and tatters...male and female, they prononced Angel a success on my skin. Get a tester, as it's rather expensive, test it out on different friends and family at different stages in of drydown (and don't punish them for telling you what may be an unpleasant truth, please). Then proceed from there.

A few tips...tester. Friends and family. Tell them to be absolutely honest. This could be an investment of a tidy little sum of money.. If that works and they pronouce it a go, MIND THE DAMN SILLAGE. This stuff is even more potent than Donna Karan's Be Delicious Night, which I didn't think was possible. ONE SHOT. ONE SHOT. ONE SHOT ONLY. Cleavage is best...if you don't like anointing your bewbs, then the back of your neck. Either way will allow the scent to warm and waft up. Don't you DARE bruise this scent by rubbing wrists together. It will change if you do that. It goes very metallic and sharp. I tried it. Then washed it off. Then reapplied it properly.

Even if it's da-bomb sexy, you do not need people in Singapore and Bhutan smelling you. Your nose will become anosmic to it over the day. Don't reapply. It's there until tomorrow, I promise. Even on "suck up every trace of scent after half an hour" dry-ass skin like mine. I love. You may hate. The only way to know is to try it and see.

Worst perfume I've smelled in my life, literally makes me dry barf. Old lady/sickly/too sweet smelling. Just nasty.

EWWW DISGUSTING! stinky lady is all I can say!

Overpowering, sickly-sweet.

I have been wearing this for 15 years, love it, big fan of the gourmand trend that this scent started. I know it is a polarizing fragrance, people either love it or hate it. It smells great on me & my husband loves it. Every fragrance smells different on different people, I say give this one a try! I especially love the recycling approach that designer Thierry Mugler has...you bring your empty in to a Nordstrom and they refill it for you. No more beautiful empty perfume bottles thrown in the trash! genius, continued >>

I got a sample yesterday with a Sephora shipment and I was so excited to try it. I know there are tons of women that love this perfume. I am a Flower Bomb addict! If you read those reviews it's the same, either you love it or you hate it. That said, Angel smells like I just sprayed a bottle of nasty body odor on myself. I could not believe how bad this smelled on me although someone I work with actually said I smelled good. LOL. It's so crazy how perfume smells different on people. The dry down was actually not that bad and the scent does last. There is nothing worse than a perfume that you can't smell on yourself...for me that is Light Blue and Vera Wang Love Struck. I can't smell these the minute after I spray them. I am going to try the sample again tomorrow just in case!

It's just one of those things you either love or hate. I happen to love it! I found this for the first time while on vacation. We were in FL and the lady beside me at dinner was wearing it. I fell in love. I will admit that the eau de parfum can be a little overpowering at first spritz....but after the drydown it becomes this nice and warm scent. Perfect for a date night.

Rewind - - - pushing my baby in a stroller through a department store perfume floor in Sydney in the early 1990's - - -something BLUE in my way ahead, WTF, perfume is NOT blue, hrmmmpph, some gimmick, what is the world coming to etc. Oooooooooohhhh m g. Its perfect, its art, who invented THIS...I LOOOOVE it. Hang on its too young for the Mitsouko=wearing me. Oh heck, my daughter will need perfume soon, I'll buy it for her!
I must have this in the house, I must be able to go and smell it if the need arises. Truly monumental and magnificent, well deserving it's pedestal in the perfume hall of fame!

I want to like this so desperatly, specially when I go through the notes of caramel vanilla chocolate and all the things I would basically love on a perfume. I have tried it a dozen times I want to like It!!!! on me it doesnt smell like anything yummy it smells like sweaty arm pit.... I have tried to wait for the drydown...and still after 40 minutes I still get arm pit , too bad just guess it is not for me gave me a hedache too!!!!!

I would desribe the scent as the one of a 50 year old man who has danced the night away in a sweaty ballroom :D PURE ARM PIT TO ME

i wore this in high school after smelling a woman in a dept store who had this on and wildly running around trying to track down the exact scent... i thought i was a genius for finally discovering that it was, in fact, angel and asked for it for christmas that year. looking back, can't believe i ever wore it. i haven't smelled it in over ten years but the sickly sweet, heavy scent has been burned into my nostrils.

I got a sample of this some years ago. Gosh, this perfume is awfully nasty. I dunno how to describe the smell... it's so overpowering it makes me feel so dizzy and it gives me a bad headache too. Smells like any other cheap and crappy perfume you can find at your local supermarket, just ten times more expensive. Can't understand why someone would like to smell like this trash... seriously...

All I can smell is overwhelming powdery musk. No chocolate or anything else. Apart from Angel converts, I don't think alot of people can stand this. When I tested this I asked the lady if she liked it, and she said
"NO-ONE likes it, except for a few customers who keep buying refills, so we keep stocking it".
Then my Mother, who loves every perfume under the sun, said
"What the %&^* is that? Oh god no thats horrible", and my BF said,
"I HATE that perfume, its the kind of musty powdery musk that if you get a tiny bit on a piece of clothing it is ruined forever, and so is any item of clothing you wash with it - they'll all stink of powdery musk for months. Please don't buy it."

A couple of weeks later, I was trying on a some clothing in a store, when someone entered the changing rooms in a heavy cloud of Angel perfume. I thought, well, its overwhelming but not THAT bad, when one of the changing room attendants (maybe 19) said loudly to her colleague, "Oh god did you smell that? Old lady Gross!" and they both started giggling. The woman wearing Angel sobbed and left the store huff, which was embarrassing as she was already trying stuff on and had to re-dress in a hurry. Based on other people's reactions, it sounds as if alot of people REALLY can't stand this, so please bear this in mind if you're considering making this your signature fragrance. continued >>

I love this smell. Def a unisexy scent....but I still love it!

Wow, what to say about Angel? The EDP is practically radioactive coming out of the bottle and the top notes make me think of commercial bathroom cleaner + mutant cotton candy (and yes, it absolutely MUST be applied very sparingly). I'm glad I gave it a chance though cuz after 20 minutes or so it smells much less synthetic and overbearing, on me settling into a slow delicious unfolding of fruit, chocolate, spices, vanilla and musk. I can tell it's in there, but thankfully it doesn't smell much like patchouli to me at any stage. Drydown is lovely and very long lasting.
I get compliments all the time when I'm wearing Angel and like others here I've found that guys usually find it very enticing, although I had a BF who disliked it. On the downside it's a pretty common scent that some find annoying and it's not mysterious or subtle even in small doses (basically just pleads "EAT ME!!"). Bottom line is, I really love the way it smells on me after it calms down and often wear it as an evening scent.

The only good thing about this fragrance is the packaging. Which is just as well because with a perfume like this one there is a lot that has to make up for this atrocious scent.
Its strong and overpowering, non of it in a good way. Its so harsh that my sinuses became inflamed from breathing in this perfume. I don't know what to do with the sample and the full bottle which Sephora gives for buying one of their samplers. I'm shocked that others would find this scent to be sweet; I have tried to discern that sweetness and haven't managed to get any of it. But then perfume is personal so this is just my opinion.
For the reviewer who mentioned that this smells like raid insect killer I agree with you 100percent!!!

I actually cringe when I think that I actually wore this when it first came out!!! I can only imagine all of the people I offended. This is the absolute worst fragrance. My boyfriend actually has to leave a room when he smells it, and so do I. I actually once got off of an elevator and took the stairs because someone had this on. It is cloying, overbearing and harsh. There is nothing even remotely appealing about this fragrance. Who the hell wears this anymore????

This is definitely "MY" signature scent. Back in 2000 I thought it was an overly sweet scent that I could not get into - maybe it was the body chemistry of the 2 girls who wore it that turned me off... then I tried it for myself in late 2000 and never went back. Everywhere I go I get massive compliments from men & women. I love the lotion and the hair mist too. I've been using the refillable bottle for about 9 years now (luckily the bottle has not broken) and that helps save me a little money - even though it only lasts me about 2 months. This works with my body chemistry very well but I hate I can't find another major scent that moves me the way this one does b/c I do like to change up every once in a while... So I am stuck with this scent and everybody knows me by it... continued >>