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| Blends of floral and citrus-based fragrances are recommended for casual and daywear. Spicy, woody or warm amber-based fragrances are traditionally favorites for evening and special occasions. |
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AUTHOR |
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RATING |
| BANNED FROM NEW YORK UPPITY RESTAURANTS! |
CHRISTINA |
12/15/08 11:34 PM |
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| MESSAGE BY CHRISTINA |
| The first time I smelled "Angel", a flamboyant six-foot-three salesman with the shoulders of a linebacker encased in a baby blue zoot leaned over the counter and sprayed me. I recoiled. "is this a joke?" It was the worst thing i had ever smelled. I suffered then from the naive belief that women should smell only like flowers, fruits and possibly candy; yet Angel, perversely, smells of them all, with the same relation to your average sweet floral as the ten-story-high demonic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from "Ghostbusters" has to your average fireside toasted sweet.
In that sense, Angel is certainly a joke, bad or good, and you should only wear it if you know how to tell the joke properly. A woman wearing Angel should be utterly original and out to create merry hell! Countless perfumes have copied parts of it - like Victor & Rolfs´ "Flowerbomb", Calvin Kleins "Euphoria" - but they mistakenly play it straight. Although Angel is sold as a gourmand for girls, spoken of as if it were a fudge-dipped berry in a confectioner´s shop, it´s all lies. Look for Angel´s Adam´s apple; a handsome resinous, woody patchouli straight out of the pipes-and-leather-slippers realm of men´s fragrance, in a head-on collision with a bold black currant (Neocaspirene) and a screechy synthetic white floral. These two halves, masculine and feminine, share a camphoraceous (mothball) smell, which gives Angel an icy brightness above its overripe - or even rotting - rumble. The effect kills the possibility of cloying sweetness,
despite megadoses of the cotton-candy smell of ethylmaltol.
It´s not an easy perfume to wear, and some people really take offense
or feel ill in its presence. It´s not a crowd pleaser either. Personally I think it has created a whole new category in perfumery, but a most difficult one. You don´t wear it, it wears you - and you will get some attention - not necessarily positive.
In New York it has been banned from certain uppity restaurants ! And what about the men ?
Most men do not respond in favour of this louder-than-loud all-synthetic concoction. I´m afraid I have to agree. |
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