Angellover

It has been a few years now that I encountered the Fifi. And that was so:
I received a perfume exchange package and when I opened it, an incredibly beautiful fragrance flowed towards me! I had never smelled anything like it before!
I quickly identified as the culprit an advertising letter, which was neatly dusted with the fragrance. When rubbed against it, it strengthened even more. I was completely entranced.
I know it's not so chic to talk about cost in the context of perfume, but I'll do it anyway, because with my slim budget at the time, I was sad to realize that this fragrance was beyond the pale for me. So there was nothing left for me to do but longingly sniff the little letter from time to time. It was amazing, by the way, how long it lasted!

One day I came to parfumo. And read with pleasure in the forum that there was the Fifi as EdT at Créateurs de Beauté, and even in affordable! The bottle was a round ball and had I think instead of the nice pink Pömpelchen a normal spray head, the liquid was then still pink.
For the fact that it was "only" an eau de toilette, the scent was extraordinarily powerful and had a room-filling sillage. My colleagues at the time were happy to come "just so" with me to catch a nose full of Fifi. It also worked wonderfully as a room freshener.
However, it was over with the dream when the beauty creators closed their doors forever. For unknown reasons, there was the Eau de Toilette also no longer, not even with Mrs. Chachnil höchstpersönlich.

I have never forgotten the Fifi. When I thought of this fragrance, I was overcome by a real longing. As I said, I have never smelled anything comparable before or since.

If I am to describe the fragrance, I would say a powdery ambrierte spicy rose with citrusy prelude. That's about it. Actually.

In reality, he is an experience and I always have to smile a bit when I read in comments "cheap, vaudeville, smoky, wicked, tobacco and pub".
For me, he is all that by no means.
This fragrance is incredibly sensual, seductive, while at the same time fresh, lively, powerful and radiant. If somewhere therefore tobacco should be found - I have no idea where and when. Maybe I have a different idea of tobacco and associate smoky dives. But no, this fragrance has nothing at all to do with it.
I find him graceful, elegant, playful.

Graceful-playful elegance?
Graceful-graceful playfulness?

No matter how hard I try to find the right words for it, the reality is that I just want to rave about it and revel in it. That's how beautiful I find it.

Yesterday it was finally so far. After certainly seven years I was allowed to experience Fifi again. Yes, experience. This time as Eau de Parfum, in the flat bottle with the wonderfully kitschy pink Pömpelchen dran. That cute pink bow with the little gold coin! One could really think of a handbag dog "decorated" with these paraphernalia.

And then the first spray!
This wonderful freshness at the beginning, citrus notes they call it, you want to inhale it and wish it would not stop. It's like a delightful fresh breeze that buoyantly accompanies the powdered rose, which comes lightly spiced (with what, actually? A touch of cinnamon, perhaps?) garnished with a dab of amber. The whole thing is so wonderfully interwoven that it's a joy when a little whiff of it hits your nose!
It's not really a complicated scent, all the components are "on hand" relatively quickly and culminate in the already described powdery ambery spicy rose with a citrusy upbeat. Quite simple. And yet so wonderful.

Fifi is thus anything but a verr(a)uchtes pub slut. For me, she contains all facets of femininity that make a woman attractive and seductive.
Fresh, playful, fun-loving, but also profound, warm, soft, sensual, seductive - and also damn erotic.

By the way, I expected that the Eau de Parfum is heavier and you would have to dose it more carefully than the Eau de Toilette at the time. This is not so. On the contrary, this version is even a bit "flatter" than the EdT, this was still a lot fresher and "punchier". The EdP also does not last so long, after a few hours you can add more. This is for me but not a downer, perhaps I also come with the old-fashioned spray system not yet so well clear.

Anyway, Fifi is an incredibly beautiful fragrance and unfortunately you can only have one signature scent, otherwise this would definitely be my second :-)

I did it! After dear Harielle left me an answer to my angling howling comment and recommended me to test Mr. Lehmann's no. 84, I wrote a mail to Mr. Lehmann after a short hesitation (the price really doesn't hurt) and ordered the same fragrance. The order process is really very unusual, there is neither an order confirmation nor a shipping info - the package was simply delivered one week later. And there it was. Mr. Lehmann's castle maid has moved in with me since Saturday, in a 10ml atomizer. Well, what can I say ...

After several attempts on test strips, on fabric, of course also on me, I am torn. I must admit that it is extremely daring to recommend a (former) most passionate (note the superlative) Angel lover a fragrance similar to Angel. That can only go in the pants ;-)
I tested Miro's Blue Star years ago for fun and was horrified at how anyone could even remotely compare it to Angel. Sure, it smells a little like that, but...

A year ago Aysha from Al Haramain fell into my hands or rather into my nose through a blind purchase. In a touch of euphoria I recognized Angel again - and wrote a cheering comment in ecstasy. After two days I came to my senses again and had to admit that the test strip on which the wishful thinking had a miserable rest, had nothing to do with Angel. I deleted the comment again.

So, what's wrong with the damsel in distress? Actually she is quite nice, the Chantalle, and I would like her so much, because she has no airs and graces me with her friendly, light and airy air from her rooms (respectively the bottle) ...

Ah, she uses shower gel. This is unexpected. Of course, there's nothing to say against nobility smelling fresh and clean, but showering??
She has nibbled, I quietly hear a nice chocolate with bitter aroma, with slightly sweet vanilla. She is also a bit tipsy, I smell a light liqueur flag. I even like that.
All in all she is really nice and we spend a nice and entertaining afternoon together. In the evening she sinks tiredly down on her sofa and smells slightly and not at all unpleasantly a little bit before she falls asleep and then disappears with a quiet puff like a bottle.
That's not how we became friends, Chantalle and I, she is a bit too superficial for me and she lacks depth and facets, the effervescence, the spontaneity. She just couldn't inspire me, like ... oh yes, she could.

It is unfair to compare the damsel of the castle with the enormous composition, this work of art Angel, which has accompanied me for years like a very best friend. I understand the most enthusiastic comments and I really have to admit that I find the value for money really excellent! If you test this fragrance without any bias, you might be positively surprised here!

I thank you, dear Harielle, for this recommendation and am glad that I followed it. Because:

Because the prices are so nice at Mr. Lehmann, I ordered the Mol Intens as well. Score! This is really great! :-)

Before I swapped the scent, I had read Caligari's statement - and was skeptical. But since I like vanilla scents very much, not much could go wrong, vanilla goes for me always.
But I was even more sceptical about the pear! Pear in perfume is just as bad for me as peach, because they usually smell disgustingly artificial with plastic stitch. One of my favorite scents - She by Armani - they have completely disfigured with exactly this disgusting pear note.
All the more surprised I was at the first spraying, the bulb is not bad at all. Sweet, juicy, tasty and little artificial. Actually, I like the scent, but it didn't convince me in the end. I like warm, sweet vanilla scents, but in combination with fruit they are not wearable for me. I don't like it when I smell like fruit baskets, I like Gourmand very much, but I have a hard time with fruits. I find this comment just as difficult because the fragrance is beautiful, but also somehow simple to knit. I would describe him best with sweet-fruity vanilla sorbet. As I said, tasty, but hard to carry.
I wish I could have a little more enthusiasm for this fragrance because I want to offer it in the souk. But maybe someone wants to snack a little :-)

It took me a long time to write this comment, but today I read a great blog article about reformulations (another big compliment to you, dear N471v3!) and that was the initial spark. It's time.

I've always wondered that apparently no one ever noticed what happened to Angel, at least that wasn't apparent from the comments (well, at 97 I might have overlooked something). The first comment that sums it up is the last from Karjala. Yes, my dear, you're saying it. "This artificially sweet-biting "scent" is really the epitome of what I don't want on my skin."
Thank you.

And now for the fragrance. How he used to be and how he is today.
As you can easily tell from my name, I loved Angel. I probably had the first reformulated version, the one before must have been even nicer. "Our time" was about the years 2010 to 2016, I was looking for a scent lost through reformulation and only noticed later that it was a copy of Angel (I also wrote a comment on that, see harem, which is absolutely unacceptable today, by the way, I had a rehearsal for fun, horrible and unbelievably bad!).

Angel was a dream! A cloud of joy!
I never took the trouble to dissect the individual scents, it was too complex for me. He had a wonderfully fruity-sweet start that lasted a long time with me, on some days I could smell a wonderfully sweet plum, even when I had left the room and came back again. At that time I ate muesli with prunes and somehow it was potentiated in the air. The beginning also quickly became a little bitter, but only light, that was the chocolate, but the bitter disappeared after a short time. With the Patchouly, which was probably also responsible for the somewhat harsh impact, I never had a problem, because it quickly became soft and wonderfully woven. Actually, I never liked fragrances that have too complex a course, but with Angel it was different. Every moment was unique, an experience and a pleasure. Despite his complexity he was always somehow homogeneous and coherent.

But the most beautiful thing came at the end. It ended in a wonderful warm, soft, velvety sweetness that lovingly blew over you for the rest of the day.
Yes, dear Karjala, you can have everything. Unsurpassed durability and sillage, and a fragrant fragrance!
I probably could have worn Angel for the rest of my life, but it was different again.

It must have been in 2016. The bottle ran out and of course there had to be supplies as soon as possible. As always ordered from my trusted dealer and tried immediately after arrival.
I just need to gather a little bit so I can find the right words. It was as Karjala described it. Terrible.
From the bottle came a disgustingly bitter-herbal mixture and I thought at first that the scent had tipped over. I once had a bottle where that was the case and I could only remember too well how it smelled. Besides, the liquid had faded, an unmistakable sign. Not so in this case. The blue was as beautiful as ever, the scent alone was a catastrophe.

No more nice fruity-sweet entry. It receives me a bitter and bitter repulsiveness, which is up to the end. No more delicious plums, nothing. I can best describe it as "bitter-herbaceous-synthetic" and it bites in the nose. Good believers might suspect a very bitter chocolate note here, and maybe it even is, but it's really just unappetizing.

If you believe that you just have to hold on long enough and will be rewarded in the end - no chance! There is no happy ending. No warm, soft, gentle sweetness that caresses and envelops you. Just disgusting, sticky, bitter sugar sauce.

All in all, I would put it in such a way that the scent is completely fragmented. Similarly, one would like to smash the beautiful star flacon into a thousand pieces.

I was so unbelievably disappointed by this adulterated brew that I gave it directly to my colleague who also loves Angel. Of course not without warning.
She didn't notice! Not until today! Every time she pulls this disgusting bitter synthetic flag behind her, I could scream!

When that happened, it was like losing a good friend. I mourned for Angel and for years I refused to buy a new favourite fragrance. So this doesn't happen to me again.

Finally it's out.
And that brings me to the end.
But not quite yet.

To be continued, if you like, please read my comment about Al Haramains Aysha.

Who has held out up to here, I say thank you very much for the sympathy and in this sense greet you very cordially
Angellover :-)