Reviews of Angel Garden of Stars : Violet Angel by Thierry Mugler
Angel Violette opens with Angel's signature patchouli + vanilla/sugar combo. I initially worried about the sugar being watery sweet. Luckily it's smoothened by vanilla. However, the patchouli seems a little bit sharper compared to the other three Garden Stars, but still, it's been toned down a lot compared to the original. And as usual, the patch + sweetness combo smells like chocolate.
Violette doesn't evolve dramatically. The Angel base is softened by violet leaf, hiacynth and violet but none of them is distinctive enough. After 1 or 2 hours later, like sofiii mentioned, the scent did remind me of the cherry + licorice combo in Jesus del Pozo in Black.
It turns into a skin scent after about 5 hours. The vanilla and sugar mellow while herbal notes become more prominent. It lasts about 8 hours in total and the sillage is relatively soft.
Violette is indeed Angel but softened by violet. However, if you're looking for an unusual violet prominent fragrance, I might not recommend it as first choice.
EDIT: After wearing it a few times, I can now discern the peppery violet leaf and the spicy and powdery violet. The violet combined with the patchouli also gives me a discreet dried plum like note. But overall, it's still like looking at Angel through a violet veil, as the violet mingles meticulously with the other notes in Angel Violette.
Violette doesn't evolve dramatically. The Angel base is softened by violet leaf, hiacynth and violet but none of them is distinctive enough. After 1 or 2 hours later, like sofiii mentioned, the scent did remind me of the cherry + licorice combo in Jesus del Pozo in Black.
It turns into a skin scent after about 5 hours. The vanilla and sugar mellow while herbal notes become more prominent. It lasts about 8 hours in total and the sillage is relatively soft.
Violette is indeed Angel but softened by violet. However, if you're looking for an unusual violet prominent fragrance, I might not recommend it as first choice.
EDIT: After wearing it a few times, I can now discern the peppery violet leaf and the spicy and powdery violet. The violet combined with the patchouli also gives me a discreet dried plum like note. But overall, it's still like looking at Angel through a violet veil, as the violet mingles meticulously with the other notes in Angel Violette.
When Garden Of Stars was released, I was so looking forward to trying Violet Angel, as I was really enjoying original Angel at the time, and also, violet has always been one of my favourite floral notes. However, I was so disappointed: I don't know if the way it developed on my skin was typical, but it smelled like I had mixed Angel with Mugler Cologne; with no noticeable violet at all.
This was the only Garden Of Stars fragrance I tried - I now wish I'd tried some of the others; but, at the time, I'm afraid Violet Angel completely put me off, and I decided I preferred my Angel unadulterated!
This was the only Garden Of Stars fragrance I tried - I now wish I'd tried some of the others; but, at the time, I'm afraid Violet Angel completely put me off, and I decided I preferred my Angel unadulterated!
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Four stars cuz it's Angel, and I don't detect anything else. Some of these fine fragrance distinctions are beyond me for whatever reason. Could I be anosmic to violet, and many other things? Lack experience? Likely. Anyway, nice bottle, nice smell. Wish they'd lose the blue in their marketing materials, or find a more appealing shade...
Ethyl Maltol. In such concentrations that my poor unsophisticated olfactory apparatus shuts down and won't register anything else.
Oh dear, I feel like a doddery old fool insisting I don't understand the music the kids are listening to.
AND they play it too loud. ;-)
I shall persist. I shall not accept perfume generation gap. I'm sure that fault lies with me. Surely the youth of today know what's what?
All self deprecation aside, I can pick a sweet sweet orange oil and something quite violet-like, maybe even a hint of violet leaf. There's something long, cool and pepperminty. Nose against the skin the effect is very sticky and syrupy, the sillage more ethereal - like the breath of someone who's popped a strong mint and a violet pastille in their mouth at once, savoured and then rinsed with raspberry cordial. I'm persisting... I have to try so hard with it to get something beyond the confectioners' sugar.
Just as it's hard to get to know anything beyond the superficial when talking with someone who's the life of the party, so it is with this: carapaced with a sugary floss that acts as shield and armour protecting complexity of personality.
Maybe that's the post-modern point. Scent is analogous to the in-public face we wear. It's meant to be a show, a façade. We save our real self (as is proper and special) for our intimates. What scent does the Angel girl wear at home?
Six hours in there's something pretty, spicy and powdery going on. Egoiste for teenage girls. With. Sugary. Floss.
How successfully this scent achieves its aim. I would not be at all displeased if a young person of my acquaintance favoured this scent. And I am grateful to it for being such a fine example of its kind that I learned a thing or two.
Oh dear, I feel like a doddery old fool insisting I don't understand the music the kids are listening to.
AND they play it too loud. ;-)
I shall persist. I shall not accept perfume generation gap. I'm sure that fault lies with me. Surely the youth of today know what's what?
All self deprecation aside, I can pick a sweet sweet orange oil and something quite violet-like, maybe even a hint of violet leaf. There's something long, cool and pepperminty. Nose against the skin the effect is very sticky and syrupy, the sillage more ethereal - like the breath of someone who's popped a strong mint and a violet pastille in their mouth at once, savoured and then rinsed with raspberry cordial. I'm persisting... I have to try so hard with it to get something beyond the confectioners' sugar.
Just as it's hard to get to know anything beyond the superficial when talking with someone who's the life of the party, so it is with this: carapaced with a sugary floss that acts as shield and armour protecting complexity of personality.
Maybe that's the post-modern point. Scent is analogous to the in-public face we wear. It's meant to be a show, a façade. We save our real self (as is proper and special) for our intimates. What scent does the Angel girl wear at home?
Six hours in there's something pretty, spicy and powdery going on. Egoiste for teenage girls. With. Sugary. Floss.
How successfully this scent achieves its aim. I would not be at all displeased if a young person of my acquaintance favoured this scent. And I am grateful to it for being such a fine example of its kind that I learned a thing or two.
This is a funny one. Bought as a blind buy, because I love Angel and I love violets; seeing as it was discontinued, when I found a bottle available online, I pounced. It's sweeter than the original Angel, more obviously 'gourmand' - and it's as though the elements which make Angel interesting are missing. Someone has commented that it smells like 'a deep fryer' - to me it's what a deep-fried Mars bar would smell like, only with added violets. Bizarrely, I still like it....
I love the smell of violets when they are not too strong or too powdery. In this fragrance they are perfect.
Violette Angel is delicate, fresh, green and sweet. It is surprisingly quite warm and comforting, almost like a cashmere blanket draped over your shoulders. I'll agree that this is indeed a Wintery scent.
I love that this fragrance is sweet without being too sweet. Forget cotton candy, think lightly sugared violets, powdery almost.
This is by far my favourite from the Garden of Stars collection. I loved it the moment I sprayed it, even before I let it develop. And let me tell you, the drydown is divine. Soft and powdery vanilla with the slightest hint of violet.
Once again the sillage and lasting strength does not disappoint, Thierry Mugler fragrances rarely do. This fragrance gets the thumbs up from me.
Violette Angel is delicate, fresh, green and sweet. It is surprisingly quite warm and comforting, almost like a cashmere blanket draped over your shoulders. I'll agree that this is indeed a Wintery scent.
I love that this fragrance is sweet without being too sweet. Forget cotton candy, think lightly sugared violets, powdery almost.
This is by far my favourite from the Garden of Stars collection. I loved it the moment I sprayed it, even before I let it develop. And let me tell you, the drydown is divine. Soft and powdery vanilla with the slightest hint of violet.
Once again the sillage and lasting strength does not disappoint, Thierry Mugler fragrances rarely do. This fragrance gets the thumbs up from me.
Notes:
Top: Violet Green, Crystallized Sugar
Middle: Violet, Woody Notes
Base: Patchouli, Vanilla Notes
Part of the Garden of Stars collection by Mugler, which are floral renditions of the classic Angel, Violet Angel manages to retain the alluring gourmand character of the classic while inserting a facade of violets.
Violet opens with a sweet slightly sugary violet flower note. Violet flower can be a temperamental note with many a bad and overpowering renditions on the market. The perfumer F. Caron was obviously aware of this as Violet Angel's sugar-violet note, while imbued with sweet sugar and floral tones, is output at half the wattage as most other violet dominant fragrances. You get the violet sweetness dusted by sugar crystals but due to the lower sillage it somehow isn't as bothersome as the description would have you believe. There is little to none of any violet leaf's green character...sweet sugar dipped violets is what the top notes are about. The rest of the fragrance is Angel/A*Men patchouli-woods-vanilla gourmand framework without the chocolate-mint fireworks.
I would say that Violet Angel, surprisingly, succeeds. It presents a somewhat interesting and less annoying sweet violet note overlaid on a bed of gourmand basenotes. Its far less intense and loud than its big sister Angel, and consequently might be easier to wear for some. Interms of complexity and impact its nowhere near the classic that is Angel, but it may find its audience amongst people who are too scared to dip directly into the vast intimidating pool of Angels original brew.
Rating: 7.5/10.0
Top: Violet Green, Crystallized Sugar
Middle: Violet, Woody Notes
Base: Patchouli, Vanilla Notes
Part of the Garden of Stars collection by Mugler, which are floral renditions of the classic Angel, Violet Angel manages to retain the alluring gourmand character of the classic while inserting a facade of violets.
Violet opens with a sweet slightly sugary violet flower note. Violet flower can be a temperamental note with many a bad and overpowering renditions on the market. The perfumer F. Caron was obviously aware of this as Violet Angel's sugar-violet note, while imbued with sweet sugar and floral tones, is output at half the wattage as most other violet dominant fragrances. You get the violet sweetness dusted by sugar crystals but due to the lower sillage it somehow isn't as bothersome as the description would have you believe. There is little to none of any violet leaf's green character...sweet sugar dipped violets is what the top notes are about. The rest of the fragrance is Angel/A*Men patchouli-woods-vanilla gourmand framework without the chocolate-mint fireworks.
I would say that Violet Angel, surprisingly, succeeds. It presents a somewhat interesting and less annoying sweet violet note overlaid on a bed of gourmand basenotes. Its far less intense and loud than its big sister Angel, and consequently might be easier to wear for some. Interms of complexity and impact its nowhere near the classic that is Angel, but it may find its audience amongst people who are too scared to dip directly into the vast intimidating pool of Angels original brew.
Rating: 7.5/10.0
I expect violet to have a dusky and somewhat piercing grey note.
This scent is sticky-sweet, syrupy-thick, somewhat juvenile. No violet in sight. Perhaps raspberry lifesaver candy, with an irritating metallic tinge.
This scent is sticky-sweet, syrupy-thick, somewhat juvenile. No violet in sight. Perhaps raspberry lifesaver candy, with an irritating metallic tinge.
This was a blind buy for me. I didn't expect it to smell so "purple." It's nice, but I probably won't be wearing it anytime soon.
Violet violence. I was ravaged by too much synthetic violet, which lasts and lasts to a nauseating degree, to fall in love with the otherwise 'angelic' undertones of patchouli, myrrh, and green floral citrus. It's way too funky even for a patchouli hag like myself,
Very similar to the original except for 30 minutes of musty violet in the top.
Love Angel and love this version! It wears similar to the original and dries down to a distinct patchouli scent that lasts and lasts.
I love the original Angel and am a sucker for reiterations so got Peony and Violet. Peony is the better of the two with a more exotic twist. Violet is harmless and a less out there version of Angel.
An odd bird, this. I usually don't care for strong violet frags for women, but this one really threw me for a loop. Imagine a gourmand that's also a distinctive floral. Imagine a "dark" frag that's also bright and crisp. Green yet purple.Bizarre stuff -- well worth the sampling.
I tried it--and I thought this is nice....Light, powdery, a little violet sparkle, purple smelling. But then in about a half an hour all I could smell was something that resembled a deep fryer. I used to wear Angel and still like it now and again, but this version is truly awful. Maybe it's just my skin--the opening was so promising, but then....blech. Even my husband noticed the foul odor and he barely ever notices perfume at all, whether good or bad. He asked me if I had been out to eat because I smelled like a restaurant. I will be staying far, far away from this one.
The top notes of this Angel variation are amongst the best--cheery, tasteful. Then the strangest mood comes over the fragrance. It turns sort of sullen, peppery, dark and woody, at least on my skin it does. What happened to the fresh, semi-sweet opening? Was hoping it might turn "dirty" in a good way due to the patchouli, but it simply turned dirty.
I heard several people compare this to SL Bois de Violette (big love of mine), and I like Angel... Blech! Too good to be true! The violet is too sweet and synthetic smelling, mingling immediately with what smells like cumin. Don't get me wrong, I am all for "the funk" in a scent when it is dirty in a sexy way, but this just isn't pleasent on me. The drydown is not the same Angel base I was expecting. It is like a cheap version of Kingdom (and I LIKE Kingdom!) but with violets. Totally not what I was expecting.
I heard several people compare this to SL Bois de Violette (big love of mine), and I like Angel... Blech! Too good to be true! The violet is too sweet and synthetic smelling, mingling immediately with what smells like cumin. Don't get me wrong, I am all for "the funk" in a scent when it is dirty in a sexy way, but this just isn't pleasent on me. The drydown is not the same Angel base I was expecting. It is like a cheap version of Kingdom (and I LIKE Kingdom!) but with violets. Totally not what I was expecting.
I don't wear Angel but I love roses & violets so I had to try these. I put Rose on one wrist & Violet on the other.. Rose was a jumble of smells, not meshing well! It smelled funky & fake. Violet started off great, thought it was a keeper with its deep purple & soft choc...after they melted in tho everything changed! Now Rose was lucious & yummy, a perfect balnce of sweet, fresh rose & choc, nice & smooth; and Violet was the stinky jumble! So I'll stick with Calypso Violette for the violet/choc.
I don't wear the original Angel very well, and this one surprisingly works well with my chemistry. Gourmand with a hint of florals. I like this one more than Lily, Rose or Peony.
Both the Violet and Rose versions of Angel have a component that smells distinctly like body odor on me. It might be the courmarin, don't know. Without that note, I really love the Violet, but I just can't get past the feeling that I've blown through my deodorant. Angel Rose doesn't even make it to dry down on me before I'm scrubbing it off.Guess I'll stick with the original and Innocent (watered down and bland, but very nice anyway.)
I absolutely loved the smell of this and eagerly sprayed my wrist, but it went terribly sour on me. I was really dissapointed because it's a very lovely mix. Lily angel is beautiful as well and doesn't smell horrible with my skin chemistry.
I own each of the 'Garden of Stars' and the Violet scent runs a very close second to The Lily (which is my favorite). I cannot wear a typical 'floral' scent, but this seems to be okay. To me - it smells nothing like the original Angel (which I like), but has a sweet soft smell and I like to wear it during the day. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to try something different.
Still too sweet...almost as sweet as the original Angel, only in a bizarre floral way.