Floral Curiosities - Angel's Trumpet by Ineke

Bottle Design:
Ramona Rühland, Helena Seo

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Floral Curiosities - Angel's Trumpet Ineke 2011

7.9 / 10 38 Ratings

A popular limited perfume by Ineke for women, released in 2011. The scent is floral-green. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Green

Fresh

Spicy

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Leaf green

Honeydew melon Orange

Orange

Heart Notes

Angel's trumpet Pimento

Pimento

Cinnamon leaf

Base Notes

White musk

Virginia cedar

Perfumer

Ineke Rühland

Ratings

Scent

7.938 Ratings

Longevity

7.428 Ratings

Sillage

6.527 Ratings

Bottle

7.736 Ratings

Submitted by Chipsy, last update on 10/08/2023.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/26/2013

LadyGrey
1 Review

LadyGrey

Very helpful Review 7

My first review: Angel's Trumpet

After reading Sherapop's review of an Anthropologie fragrance, I decided to check out our local store to see what might be available. I went in with the mindset that there would probably not be a lot of fragrances to look at, so I started with my usual clothes shopping therapy. As I switched to fragrances, the salesperson showed me a small display near the front of the store, and then said there was also one in the back, near the dressing rooms. I was headed back that way, anyway (yes, I did find that perfect spring skirt), and found a fairly large display of various fragrances. Among them were all four of the Ineke Floral Curiosities collection! There were only 2 testers out, so I tried Angel's Trumpet and Poet's Jasmine. My personality dictates that when I can't make up my mind, I just buy both. Well, today I deviated and only bought one, Angel's Trumpet.

I do not care for "soapy" perfumes. When I wear them I just dwell on the soap, and can't enjoy the other notes to the fragrance. With AT, I totally agree with Sherapop--this is a soapy floral. But...it is glorious and a pleasure to wear. I think the florals balance the soap so well, and my nose is happy. The longevity is great--I have not reapplied since I bought it this afternoon.

Each of the four fragrances comes in a 15ml bottle, packaged in a little "book". The design is artistic and delicate -very characteristic of Ineke. I love that feeling of stumbling upon something unexpectedly--it was beautiful, and it made my day!

Fortunately, I have to return a top that I bought (as well), so I will just have to pick up the Jasmine, and maybe ask if they can start testers for the other 2 fragrances in the series!

07/14/2012

8Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 5

Fresh and Natural Soapy Floral--not a contradiction in terms...

There are soapy floral perfumes, and then there are soapy floral perfumes. Ineke ANGEL'S TRUMPET is a soapy floral which I can truly appreciate. This will no doubt come as a surprise to anyone who has glanced at the above notes without sniffing the perfume, but believe me, if ever there was a soapy floral, ANGEL'S TRUMPET is a soapy floral--and a glorious one at that!

ANGEL'S TRUMPET opens ever-so-briefly with a detectable melon note, but that's really just a prelude: the main opus here here falls squarely into the floral category. The floral notes are not listed above (as is true for the others of members of this "Floral Curiosities" series, as well), and I cannot claim expertise when it comes to the actual smell of angel's trumpet. All I know is that I am picky about soap, and this one works for me.

However, because soapy notes mingle so differently on different wearers' skin, I definitely recommend that you try before you buy. Not all soap is created the same--Camay is not Dial is not Irish Spring is not Dove--and I only like certain soapy florals. This, happily, is one of them. Excellent soapy florals have great longevity and project well, and ANGEL'S TRUMPET is no exception to that rule, in addition to being a pleasure to wear.

Here are the notes according to my box, which I trust, since this was a limited edition launch available only at Anthropologie:

brugmansia ( = Angel's Trumpet)
honeydew melon
Seville orange
leafy greens
cinnamon leaf
allspice
virginia cedar
white musk

12/31/2012

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Franfan20
40 Reviews

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Franfan20

Top Review 19

Brugmansia suaveolens - The Fragrant Angel's Trumpet

Angel's Trumpet is definitely one of my favorite flowers. Its slightly sweet scent is a delight to my nose. I always loved the huge plant that used to stand in our garden. Unfortunately, we don't have one anymore, but someday I would like to have one again. It's always the toxic plants that I like. Oleander, larkspur, foxglove, Angel's Trumpet - please bring them all to me. They always look good, usually smell enchanting, but they also have their dark side. The term "dark side" fits particularly well here, as it is, after all, a nightshade plant.
The scent of Angel's Trumpet starts off quite green and fresh. I smell a bunch of wet leaves paired with a bitter orange peel. It somehow feels slightly tropical to me, refreshing like after a warm summer rain. I quite like this smell. In the heart, the flowers of the plant open up, and I have the aforementioned plant standing next to me again. Of course, it always depends on the compatibility. Angel's Trumpets can be quite intense for some, but the scent doesn't bother me at all. On my fictional list of favorite flowers, Angel's Trumpet shares the top spots with gardenia and tuberose. Also discernible is a spicy scent of cinnamon and a bit of invigorating moisture from honeydew melon. This gives the fragrance a spicy kick, while still maintaining the impression and freshness of a rain-soaked forest. The combination is unusual for me, as the scent - similar to Scarlet Larkspur - has a soapy character. Soapy floral is rather a rare and difficult combination, I would say. Especially for me with my aversion to clean scents, but here it works for me. In the base, I still get a hint of soapy musk. The fragrance is cheerful, sunny, and invigorating. You go outside, take a deep breath, and the day becomes good. After my rather disappointing experience with Angel's Trumpet in Evening Edged in Gold, I am positively surprised here again. No disgusting plum, no unpleasant osmanthus bothers me. No strange sweet-slick film lies over the flowers. No, just the finely spicy aroma of cinnamon and leaves fits in perfectly. The appealing character of the fragrance makes it my favorite for this summer. For me, it is clearly the best scent in the Floral Curiosities collection.

07/12/2020

10Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Seerose
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Seerose

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Jolly is also a Curiosity and very demanding

Ineke's "Floral Curiosity - Angel's Trumpet" smells exactly like my angel's trumpet "Jolly"!
After my lush light yellow blooming angel's trumpet "Maya," which smelled like Elie Saab's "Le Parfum," perished due to stem rot after wintering indoors on a very frosty late May night, I got myself a three-year-old angel's trumpet, Jolly.
It was my carelessness; I had taken many cuttings, but the frost came so early in the autumn that I unfortunately forgot to bring the rooted cuttings inside.
Angel's trumpets need a constant temperature of at least 12° to 16° even in winter and a bright spot. I only have this spot in one place in the apartment.
Actually, this is not a climate for angel's trumpets; the first night frosts come too early. Also, hard frost with icy north-northeast winds can mercilessly freeze many plants and early bloomers until early June. It becomes critical for angel's trumpets below 8°.
In Crete, angel's trumpets, especially Jolly, grow several meters high and bloom even in October with numerous flowers.
Jolly should be less sensitive to cold and also unfold a particularly fine floral scent.
Angel's trumpet flowers release their wonderful scent in the evening.
However, for noses like mine, my beautiful Maya, for example, was very animalistic and carrion-like when in close proximity and near the bloom. But she filled the terrace and the apartment with a heavenly scent with great sillage.
Quite different is Jolly. She was a late bloomer in the first two years with me; once, a fierce hailstorm shattered her leaves and pods, from which she did not recover that summer. The last two summers were too hot and too sunny-dry.
She only had 2 to 3 flowers by the end of August, which initially emit a slightly sharp-green and chemically rubbery scent in the evening but then develop into a much more subtle, very beautiful, unique floral scent. Her flowers are up to 25 cm long and have orange-red flower tips. The location on the terrace was also too windy for her. I moved her. I can already see small signs in plants when something is wrong with them.
However, after last summer, I "talked" to her and told her that she was now old enough and that she would either survive the winter in the apartment until the end of May with her cuttings and hopefully have to acclimatize. Otherwise, she would face the same fate as her predecessor Maya.
And lo and behold, her cuttings also thrived well; they even bloomed in January in the apartment.
And now she has set many pods for the first time and already has 5 flowers fully grown from the pods, with their beautiful scent only perceptible in the immediate vicinity in the evening.
But how does it relate to the scent of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet"?
For some time now, I have been able to call the special edition of a 15 ml bottle in a book-shaped box with an old-fashioned design my own, thanks to the generous gift from a very dear and knowledgeable user here.
And already during the first test, I found it striking how similar Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" develops to the real floral scent of Jolly. Although on the scent strip and at the spray head, the cool, subtle, yet lovely, very distinctive and unique floral scent of Jolly is perceptible to me.
But on the skin, it first develops a slightly sharp-green and chemically rubbery scent, just like the flowers of the real angel's trumpet "Jolly" do. It then evolves into this lovely, yet almost cool, reserved, distinctive floral scent. This lasts for many hours and ultimately retains only a hint of it. Only then do I also perceive a light musk scent.
For some time, I had the intention to comment on Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet." I wanted to make sure that this - at least for me - perfect correspondence of a flower with a perfume is indeed possible.
Once again this evening, I compared the scent of Jolly with that of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet."
I also asked my husband about it. He found the scent of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" beautiful from the very first test without knowing that it was the scent of "Jolly."
We went together to the terrace to enjoy the scent of Jolly.
And afterwards, I let him smell it at the spray head and on my skin.
He said in astonishment: "But that's the smell of the angel's trumpet outside."
Despite all its loveliness, the scent of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" is not only unique. It is also oddly green and cool, very reserved in sillage, just like my angel's trumpet Jolly is.
Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" can be worn without hesitation on all occasions; it is a light floral and unobtrusive summer scent.
Regarding the ingredients in the pyramid here, I can only say that I do not smell anything mentioned except for the green. Rather, the perfume smells only of the angel's trumpet flowers of my "Jolly."
That's how it should be with a perfume. One should smell it and enjoy it without thinking: Oh, there's also allspice, cedar, orange.
That's good for testing, but for wearing and feeling well-scented, you don't need that.
Here, a very successful perfume composition has been achieved. It's a pity that it remained a rarity as a special edition.
Above, Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" is declared a feminine scent. Basically, as it is classified today, that is so. But aside from the fact that my husband does not want to wear perfumes at all, he willingly let me spray a little on him, as I could then perceive the scent mirrored; I found that Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" suited him very well, even though he is not a young man.

01/06/2021

Rubia
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Very helpful Review 5

Heilpraktikerin cracks the Nivea formula

Hmm. Upon the first spray, there is only a faint scent. I’m already wondering if I’m dealing with a "body mist," and I spray generously.
The fragrance reminds me of straw flowers - or rather: of a meadow after a long heatwave, its aroma wafting from afar. It’s just before haymaking, and the meadow flowers and herbs are exuding a slightly spicy-resinous scent. The overall impression leans towards organic cosmetics.

In my imagination, I am in a healing and massage practice. In the communal kitchen, someone has brewed chamomile tea, and the meadow scent flows in through the tilted window. Everything is very unobtrusive. I relax on my treatment table.
Just as the masseuse closes the window and mentions that she only buys Wala products now, another scent in the room grows stronger and stronger.
"Strange," I say, "I could swear I smell Nivea from the blue jar."
"Oh," the masseuse replies, blushing, "yes - I just can’t get away from it."
I feel: Where Nivea is a guilty pleasure, nothing bad can happen. I hand my child to women wearing Angel's Trumpet and share my worries with them, as gentle understanding awaits me.

After four hours, the scent on my skin has quietly said goodbye after a final Nivea resurgence; it still lingers in my wool sweater and has gained a slightly soapy quality. Overall, it’s a nice scent. While I don’t particularly want to wear it myself, I enjoy encountering it from time to time.

(Edit: I now know that my sample of the perfume was probably no longer intact. Comparison photos show that the color has darkened significantly. As a novice, I have also learned that the sample in the plastic spray bottle from 10/2013, which reached me last September, is not an optimal testing basis. Therefore, my comments below should definitely be understood in this context - as a note on how this scent can be perceived differently over time. The helpful insight for me: I will not hoard my samples but enjoy them. And I am now aware that scent quality depends on many factors. I might also have a curious nose. Ah, perfume: a vast field and a long journey - let’s enjoy the view.
A big thank you to Seerose for the helpful, relevant exchange.)

Statements

10 short views on the fragrance

Lavendel18

3 years ago

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

27

42

Green-floral and softly-creamy dream! Enchants like never before, from an angel's trumpet... Set? An unfulfilled perfume love...

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Seerose

5 years ago

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Evening angelic blossoms scent, very similar to my angel's trumpet + green - 1 Pr spicy: In the house blooming light latex-acetone note.

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Shamis

7 years ago

8Scent 6Sillage

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3

Delicate, yet playful! Tingles in the nose like spring: citrusy, floral, sparkling. Very pretty.

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Yatagan

9 years ago

7.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

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1

Green, spicy, fruity notes stand alongside the angel's trumpet at the center. It doesn't bring down the walls of Jericho, but remains tender.

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Heikeso

8 years ago

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Ooooooh, it's so beautiful. Floral-green fits perfectly. And fresh-spicy-soapy. I'm completely amazed by this wonderful floral scent. Something totally different.

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Kokoloressa

9 years ago

8.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

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Reminds me of lilies, but more delicate, with a gentle spiciness underneath. My favorite from the line, but unfortunately a bit weak on the projection.

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