I think I've talked fairly
extensively about my love of Angel and indeed the whole back story of how I fell in love with it. I won't bore you with all that back story again but it's fair to say that Angel has been my longest running love affair and although there have been others and we've broken up once or twice I've always gone running back to it.
I've told you about the new Angel Eau de Toilette and as part of that review I talked about the original Eau de Parfum but I wanted to tell you about a couple of the newest items to join the Angel family.
First up the Christmas Limited Edition Angel with Bracelet. A lovely bottle of the original Angel Eau de Toilette in either 25ml or 50ml.
The bracelet comes in a little leatherette pouch and looks really pretty on, it's not made of silver or anything, it's a steel bracelet and zamac (!) star but it looks really pretty on and I love it. I won't tell you about the perfume itself as I've discussed it before, but it's really gorgeous if you like that sort of thing, which I obviously do! The 25ml is £51.50 and the 50ml is £66.50.
The really special new addition is Taste of Fragrance Angel. This time Angel is enriched with a Gourmand note, in this case, dark bitter chocolate.
As usual, a beautiful star shaped bottle, the great thing about this one is that it stands, unlike the Angel EDP which is a nice touch. I keep mine in their boxes always anyway but I know people like to stand their bottles up. As for the fragrance, well I'm just in love. Unsurprisingly. It is definitely chocolate, and I do mean POW in your face chocolate on it's first spray. It's a bitter chocolate and like all Angel scents it's not for everyone, however, I do think if you're on the fence about Angel, its worth giving this a sniff as it's different. Whereas the original is very patchouli heavy, this is a mellower scent. The chocolate fades fairly to a much subtler trace after about 30 minutes, but its still there if you give it a good sniff, it just seems to mellow out the patchouli. It's strong but it's not as overpowering as the original Angel, but still the fragrance lasts all day. Love love love it.
When I first heard about this I wanted to try it and I'm so happy I love it as much as I hoped I would. Am also getting the Angel Liqueur de Parfum for Christmas so I'm Angel'd to the max at the moment.
This one is £42 for 35ml.
I should also mention that part of this Taste of Fragrance there are also others in the line. Alien has been given a twist of salted butter caramel, Womanity has a touch of fig chutney and A-Men has red peppers. I'd love to try them all!
*Disclosure - Both perfumes were PR Samples*
Very spookily timed post, Charlie - I've been thinking about Angel in the last few days as it's a perfume I've spent years trying to work out if I love or hate it, it's definitely the Marmite of the perfume world isn't it!
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to take the plunge, hopefully there might be some gift sets on sale after Xmas ;)
Oh I love it so much but it's worth trying all the variants as they are all subtley different, the EDT is softer and teh chocolate one is also strong but mellower. I love it!
ReplyDeleteI cant figure out if I like it or not. My mum wears angel now and then but it works so much better on her than on me! SO annoying! I smelt the special cocoa edition but it was too chocolately for me (which I NEVER ever thought I would say)
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