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zup – :
The smell itself is beautiful. But I can barely smell it. Even right after spraying it on me. I have to stick my nose to the skin and even then I have great trouble smelling it. This is probably the softest perfume I’ve experienced. Sadly I have to vote dislike, even though I liked the smell (when I could smell it). For me there’s no point in wearing a perfume that you can’t smell.
keeper – :
Papillon Artisan Perfumes / Angelique
The olfactory group: Floral Green
Base notes: bitter and gentle
Duration and playability: Poor
Starting note:
Alcoholic, bitter, and vegetarian is the beginning of a quartz while you will not find an accordion.
Then it gets a little hot and smoky and spicy. It’s not too hot, it will have a quick, quick start.
Middle notes:
Smell a little smoky, sliver, and mildew bread, and you’ll understand that it’s from the Champaca tree. It’s a mushroom in English …!
In this step, you will feel the warmer and more powdery aroma of this fragrance than the start of the perfume. It will not last much longer.
Final note:
Only the powdery and mildewed mode will remain at this stage with a little moisture. The bean patch will relax in the space of the fragrance.
Papillon Angelique
It has a uniform smell so that you will not see a particular and lasting change
Aroma is a floral, powdery, soft and unisex fruit (I think most women are)
An aroma with a dry, mysterious, mysterious atmosphere, like the dark, strange, old and fearful of unknown places.
My understanding of perfume was this.
Early on, I had a sense of failure and discomfort with the perfume experience, but when I allowed the perfume to form my own mind, I was eager to continue working.
The atmosphere of perfume and the image that will make perfume in your mind, I’m sure you have not imagined before
Comparing Angelique perfume with other Papillon fragrances, Ms. Liz Moores was expecting more perfume because I used to admire special chords to create this work.
Mrs. Liz Moores is likely to have a special personality who creates special perfumes. What I saw in most of their work is that they are bipolar …!
Or you hate or hate their work
I’m in Salamé and Angelique in the Bounty Humor or Hate …!
You can use this fragrance all year round. But because of the fragrance of the second half of the year, it is better to choose.
Sillage: 2/5
Longevity: 2/5
Scent: 2/5
Overall: 3.5 / 5
Ruis – :
Florista below hits the nail on the head mentioning skin on skin. This is what this perfume reminds me of in terms of the usual scent. I personally find this fragrance makes me feel queasy but can imagine with the right chemistry it would be pleasant.
emungully – :
Root, sands, & gum ِِِِArabic.
It is a sweet covered with roots and soft sands. The sweet is like hints of mango and i believe it’s the osmanthus, with a slight mild plant roots, and a dry sand from sahara as i can smell the calmness of the Arabian deserts, and above them all comes the gum Arabia with it’s mild sticky texture and sweet taste. I just can sense the gum quite clear but covered by the power of roots, sands and hints of mangoes.
This is quite impressive, my 2nd favorite after “Salome” and before “Dryad” from this house.
Alex099 – :
Angelique is the safest offering from Papillon. Pretty, green and inoffensive. Nothing to really write home about. This is a fragrance for when you want to smell good but unassuming.
The green in the opening is a bit like dank greenery near a river… but in a good way. It doesn’t last long enough though and softens to an unassuming floral/cedar mix that sure, smells nice but won’t make you stand out in any way.
lexus92 – :
This is beautiful. Unfortunately, when I received samples of all four Papillon fragrances, I decided to sample them all at once on different limbs (can you imagine?) so Angélique was overwhelmed by the others. However, I needed a refresh before a meeting late one day so I threw the last of my sample vial on and was distracted by how totally ravishing this scent is.
It is a wonderful yellow floral with lots of lovely iris – it is sunny and a little cool, soft and tender, and seems to me to be beautifully balanced by cedar (not at all sharp or pencil shaving-like) and the lightest touch of incense.
When I tried the Papillon range I realised that I needed to sell off a lot of my wardrobe if only to be able to buy bottle(s) of Liz Moore’s work. I need to sample this one again, by itself more than once, to decide if it is joining my collection.
EDIT: I have now re-sampled and can confirm that this is beautiful – soft, hazy, buttery up top, and woody in the drydown. However, this is low projection. Really a skin scent for most of its life. The longevity is very good – it lasted all day – but only I could smell it. This is fine for some people and this would make a great scent in environments where you have to be careful, but I am after more carry. A pity.
koteyka – :
In a way this is my favourite from Liz Moore and I love the others but for me its less overt less obvious and I would love a full bottle. It opens soft watery florals on me and shifts slowly into a summery soft powdery sweetness but is not too sweet. The mimosa is a favourite of mine and here its done really well. It has a touch of resins and buttery suede after about 30 mins but the drydown is super gorgeous and for me after all these years as a perfumaholic its the DRYDOWN that is the real test of whether I’ll get a FB. This is beautiful, feminine, extremely well crafted with high quality ingredients and a cut above other niche brands out there.
demon8 – :
Starts out flowery, green, and fresh, but quickly moved on to a very sweet, powdery iris that borders on gourmand. The greeny freshness completely disappears, which was disappointing for me. It could be perilously close to old lady-ish, but I often get that with iris. After awhile, some of the florals return and add a tiny sharp edge that tones down the sweetness and balances out the iris. It ends up a warm floral; not quite a comfort scent, but soft and sweet, without the harsh tones many florals have on me. I do get that slight dustiness in the later stages. It’s pretty. I like I, but didn’t fall in love with it.
Edit 4-06-2016 I tried this a few more times and it got much more like a gourmand rather than a floral. Very sweet and a bit too heavy for me.
vishnia979797 – :
It smells so…Weird. Its like a faint, buttery, chemical smell. Smells like the base ingredients to a fragrance. Like its missing the rest of the fragrance. I’m not sure I like it. But I don’t hate it. Very odd. It smells like how someone would naturally smell. Not from their sweat or soap. Just.. How they smell..
qkam – :
Not at ALL what I’d expected, and that’s not a complaint!
Knowing the notes I’d braced for a floral onslaught, but it was the only one from Papillon I hadn’t experienced, so I had to give it a sniff.
I was shocked when my nose met with powdery greenness. To take on champac, osmanthus, mimosa AND iris, yet not have it become a whirlwind of floral chaos speaks (yet again) to Liz Moores’ talent. There’s a high-wire act of wonderful balance executed here.
Reading others’ reviews I get the sense that this one truly opens differently on varying skin types. I personally don’t get an overly sweet feel from it, nor creamy. The cedar and frankincense foundation quietly support a dry, powdery, green, and sliiiiightly floral cast of characters.
Although a far cry from the big-booted siblings of Anubis or Salome, there is definitely a certain je-ne-sais-quoi familiarity to the others of the Papillon name.
I’m now a confirmed (and shameless) fan of this house!
moumatveu – :
Buttery, perfectly sweet iris and mimosa. Perfect and delicious. 2 of my favorite smells in harmony. It appeals to me in a similar manner to Skin on Skin, but this is handled with a lighter hand, much more delicate and luxurious (not to mention lacking the synthetic extremes of Skin on Skin). Fresh mimosa, to me, smells like a newborn baby and this is the only mimosa perfume I’ve sampled that doesn’t oversupport it’s delicate smell with another floral to give it backbone (thus overamplifying it and making it smell synthetic and cloying). Angelique is like early spring, the first dewy green blades of grass, the turgid buds, the clean slate. It’s unisex like smelling fresh and clean is unisex (it’s not the first scent you think of to describe masculine OR feminine, but people will want to get to smell you better either way). It’s soft enough to apply liberally so go to town.
Vital2011 – :
After application I’m enveloped in a buttery cloud of Iris coupled with a apricot like sugary sweetness coming from the mimosa petals. This is all on a woody backdrop which underpins the scent at this time.
The scent is floral and a bit powdery though unmistakably feminine. I could appreciate smelling this on a lady but could not wear this one myself.
All in all a nice fragrance.
sergei1983 – :
Angelique, beautiful name and a beautiful scent.
On first spray, to my nose smells just like Ellnett hairspray…seriously! Which I thought was quite lovely as I remembered watching my mum patiently, and quite seriously as she had her long, chestnut hair styled and liberally sprayed whilst at the hair salon.
Angelique then moves onto a intriguing mimosa/cream and iris scent. It’s gentle and quite angelic, without a gender or age.
She is in my collection, I rarely wear her, I sniff the nozzle and spray my bed linen, as it has a lovely aura and my bedroom is my favourite place.
yarik075 – :
Floral green? I’ll say floral but not green. It smells like a wonderful concoction of rich buttery orris, strong stewed osthmantus tea, honey and delicate fuzzy mimosa flowers. I tend to see mimosa scents in a yellow spectrum and I’ll colour Angelique gold, not a flashy gold but dappled gold. The honey has an animalic tone that reminds me of Miel de Bois. If I caused alarm intially with my almost gourmandic description, fear not for Angelique is definitely not gourmand. I still won’t label it floral green though 🙂 Sillage and longevity are good. The first from this house to really wow me and definitely goes on the want list.
innushca – :
Angelique is very pretty indeed.
It opens very green, then becomes softer, dustier and sweeter,like honeyed blooms: this is, I suspect, the combination of mimosa, iris and osmanthus. Amidst all that, I also get some tobacco (?) or smoke, that’s not in the listed notes and that keeps baffling me. It’s kind of hay-like and I like Angelique all the more for it. It makes it more bohemian.
It’s elegant, very easy to wear and appropriate for any number of occasions. However, it is ultimately too soft on me. I don’t just mean the sillage, which is average to low. It’s like it is painted in pastels and I would prefer if its intensity and brightness were somewhat amped up (I am probably not making any sense by now).
All in all, a great quality fragrance, lovely and versatile. I would not buy an FB now, but that is only a matter of personal preference.
Edited on Nov 2015: I tried this again and I found it stronger and more vivid than in the spring. I now think it’s a really good autumn fragrance: honeyed and dusty.
uaa906intitytek – :
Al momento è una delle fragranze all’iris che preferisco !!
Polverosa ma non dolce, perfetta anche per un uomo.
La persistenza non è eccezionale.
Ma la nuvola di aroma che crea attorno a me è molto bella, mi fa sentire avvolta da malinconica poesia.
Trattandosi di un profumo naturale, se non erro, il risultato finale è molto complesso e la bravura del Naso è immediatamente evidente.
Bello.
baxit – :
Buttery orris and suedelike osmanthus with just a hint of sweetness lurking in the background, Angelique opens very promising, announcing the exquisite leathery-floral composition. As soon as these heavenly top notes start to change (5-10 minutes), my enthusiasm decreases; osmanthus and cedar (not among my favourite notes) are taking the lead increasing the woody-sweetness level to the point of smelling just plain clean, having this weird detergent/fabric softener quality I simply cannot ignore, as much as I would like to… On the other hand, mimosa is nowhere to be found, for champaca I don’t care anymore at this point.
As there’s no perfect white without a bit of black inside the mixture, the same I like my florals to have a bit of dirtiness/darkness. Not the case here.
I expected so much of this (mimosa based fragrance), so all I can say is: Why the osmanthus, Liz? WHY??”
mr.freeman33 – :
Angélique is such an other-worldy creamy orris butter. There is something in it that smells like the faint bit of smoke in the air when you singe a piece of paper. The perfume is slightly sweet. I smell just a bit of mimosa, but if I did not see the notes I would never guess that there was any mimosa here. I think the most obvious floral is osmanthus, which gives it a bit of clean-ness, but overall I don’t really smell much in the way of florals. I just smell buttered iris, woods, smoke, and something like caramel. Very rich and resinous. I love it! This is as marvelous as Anubis, they share something in common, but Angélique is softer, more chic.
Update: 3 years later and I now stock this in my web-shop aveparfum.com
Epidemz.biz – :
Fabulous mimosa fragrance!
I really like the way it’s done. I smell orris, mimosa and powder the most. Somehow it reminds me of iris as well. I thought of 28 La Pausa Chanel smelling this. Similar feel except there is rose in La Pausa and mimosa in Angelique. Earthy and comforting, elegant and bohemian.
I could’n find perfect iris fragrance, instead, I think, I’ll go with Angelique. Really good quality fragrance. 5 stars from me!
andrey1407 – :
This strangely smells a lot like Mugler’s Angel on the drydown, and I wonder if there isn’t a play on words here with calling it Angelique. There’s no patchouli in this, yet it does take on a powdery, intensely sweet cotton candy like fragrance at the end notes. It’s a very pretty fragrance. I’m getting mostly mimosa and osmanthus from this initially. It’s got an moist, earthy type of quality that then fades to the powder of the orris root.
shtorm852 – :
Utterly gorgeous. A new perfume house. Lasted around eight hours and I loved it immediately and all the way through.