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About Angel perfume?

221 replies

Ejzuudjej · 01/08/2015 13:47

Surely there are others who agree this is what hell will smell like.

I am a perfume-lover and can usually tolerate all the strong ones - Guerlain, Calvin Klein etc. but there is something about this perfume that makes me feel ill. I can smell it a mile-off.

A woman in my office wears it. She is lovely, but I can't stand to be near her, or be in a room she has been in.
I know I am being unreasonable really, but do people really think this smells nice?

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blueistheonlycolourwefeel · 01/08/2015 22:28

Thanks Dame!! Smile

Dampfloor · 01/08/2015 22:50

I want to love Angel (and Alien for that matter) but every time I have they have a nasty, almost dirty undertone to them.

I won't go as far as fishy bits and smelly bumholes (as others upthread have mentioned) but I can actually smell dirt in them both!

Someone has mentioned my favourite on here which is Vivienne Westwood Boudoir which to me is very talcy and strong. I've worn it on and off since I was a teenager but it's a little difficult to get now so I save it.

And Lady Gaga Fame is possibly the nicest thing I've ever worn and had the most compliments on - cheap as chips as well now.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 01/08/2015 22:52

Yes I agree, I smell the dirtiness of it too but then again I like really soapy scents.

AllTheUserNamesAreTaken · 01/08/2015 23:05

I detest Angel. No offence to those who like it but I just find it so heavy, sickly and sweet; I find it very hard to be near anyone wearing it as it makes me feel ill. My best friend used to wear it........all the time!

I also used to really dislike Fahrenheit aftershave when it was popular, for the same reason.......that heavy sickly sweetness

foreverton · 01/08/2015 23:13

I love love love Angel :)

Have received lots of compliments whilst wearing it.

My all time favourite is "poeme" by Lancome. It's only sold in a few places but is absolutely divine.

Love "1 million" Paco Rabanne for men but absolutely hated "lady million" on me.
Sil came and smelt lovely, I asked her what she was wearing- lady million!

I think perfume is very nostalgic. Certain smells can instantly take me back to a certain time in my life.

Original poster
Ejzuudjej · 01/08/2015 23:17

achieve6 do you mean to the woman I work with?
No. She is senior to me, although not directly my manager. I just can't imagine saying anything. We've really only spoken a handful of times, and that was before she started wearing her new scent. Now I actively avoid her. I can actually walk into an office and smell if she is there Sad or has been recently.

I agree with ShatnersBassoon that the smell makes me cranky. I'm curious about all the people who have said they love it though... Does it not bother you that SO many people find it repulsive?

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ShatnersBassoon · 01/08/2015 23:21

There is a dirty smell in it, which is partly the engine fumes thing it reminds me of but more bodily. It's like a car mechanic's armpit at the end of a long shift.

SavoyCabbage · 01/08/2015 23:24

Angel is the only perfume I recognise the smell of. It reminds me of that sweet manure smell you sometimes get a whiff of in the countryside.

squoosh · 01/08/2015 23:30

I like a hint of dirt in my perfumes. Clean, laundry fresh smells are boring.

Still hate Angel though.

Dampfloor · 01/08/2015 23:30

Glad it's not just me re the dirty smell.

Behooven · 01/08/2015 23:34

I like Angel and Alien but White Linen and Aromatics (my boss in the 1980s stank of the stuff) still gives me a migraine

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 01/08/2015 23:48

I hadn't realised that so many people did find it repulsive, I just assumed some like it, some don't. I find Poison repulsive, presumably sone other people do too, but obviously a lot love it. Thankfully no one wears strong perfumes where I work.

msgrinch · 01/08/2015 23:52

It's disgusting. Sadly always worn by the elderly women I get the bus to work with, it makes me feel so ill.

Peacheykeen · 01/08/2015 23:55

I can't stand it worked with a girl who showered in it I think she felt the same about my samsara though. I just find it makes me feel really sick Angel and poison make me heave

IsItMeOrIsItHotInHere · 01/08/2015 23:59

I find it far too sweet and cloying but I love and wear Alien, which is another very 'knock your socks off' Thierry Mugler fragrance.

whywhen · 02/08/2015 00:12

I used to love the original Angel, but it smells awful since they reformulated it - it has such an unpleasant sweet chemical smell.

Some perfumes can really affect you though. I remember having to get off the Tube and throw up into my handbag when I was 3 months pregnant and stood next to someone who had, apparently, bathed that morning in Clinique's Aromatics Elixir. That is the most revolting scent I can think of - it literally makes me heave, even when not pregnant.

jdear · 02/08/2015 00:26

I don't know how anyone can like it!

Dampfloor · 02/08/2015 00:44

Alien smells (to me) like an old bottle of Angel buried for ten years and dug up. Sweetly acidic, with a not insubstantial note of topsoil.

Sorry to everyone who loves it (I've tried to love it, honestly I have) but it's just awful as far as my nose is concerned.

Lucked · 02/08/2015 00:58

I agree with the OP. I remember it coming out and I couldn't understand the popularity. I assumed it would become dated and passé but unfortunately it is standing the test of time.

I don't think it is acceptable as office wear, very inconsiderate. My favourite evening perfume has been discontinued, Sicily by D&G. I haven't found a replacement yet but I go out so infrequently now it hardly seems worth the expensive because perfume had got really really expensive over the last 10 years.

Welshmaenad · 02/08/2015 01:09

I love quite heavy, challenging perfumes - pp up thread mentioned Womanity, which I love, and which smells good on me (or at least DH thinks so because he can't stop sniffing my neck when I wear it!) but Angel makes me physically ill. It's vile.

My current favourite is Versace Crystal Noir. Also love Petit Robe Noir by Guerlain.

Sazzle41 · 02/08/2015 01:28

Heavy cloying perfume is awful: very 80's/ 'tarts boudoir'. Not nice Perfume shouldnt be an eye watering attack on you sensory system.

I could smell my boss coming in my last job. People used to move hotdesks to avoid her (Poison). I think older women seem to like a strong perfume, no-one under 45 where i work seems to wear any at all that i can smell.... i only do if going out, v small spritz of Chloe, which i'm told smells 'expensive'. Or Shisheido which is very light/fresh.

honeyroar · 02/08/2015 05:28

I used to think it was ok, then someone gave me a squirt of it and I felt sick until I could have a shower! Now even the faintest smell of it makes me feel ill. It's nice to know it's quite common.

foreverton · 02/08/2015 05:54

Just to add, I loved "flowerbomb" until I was pg with dd, now 4.6, the smell then made me really nauseous and I've never liked it since, very strange.

New look have recently started a perfume range and they're absolutely lovely.

bodenbiscuit · 02/08/2015 05:55

I don't like it either.

steff13 · 02/08/2015 06:01

Sadly always worn by the elderly women I get the bus to work with, it makes me feel so ill.

It smells exactly like the sort of perfume an elderly lady would like; like something sold by Avon in the 1950s, heavy and bad. We actually refer to it as "old lady perfume."