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etk646InsuffBooni – :
من اجمل العطور البودرية لمحة الازهار و الرائحة البلسمية جعلت العطر جذاب عطر يناسب منطقة النبض عطر يأتي بتركيز اكستراكت مناسب للسهرات و الاحتفالات الكبيرة
selena007 – :
I love it … so enveloping, velvety and chic is conceived to seduce, evoking an elegant boudoir, with dusty woods in the room boiserie, the face powder and the old lipsticks. Good longevity and sillage
Gorodetsky – :
Angel’s Dust deserves an honourable mention here for being the ONLY perfume I’ve worn so far, that got a voluntary compliment from my Husband. We were going out for dinner, I sprayed on some Angel’s Dust and proceeded to wait on the living room couch. Husband’s head swiveled, a look of blank surprise on his face as he weighed his words carefully, “Hmm… that smells NICE.” Bear in mind that he dislikes half my perfume collection, and the other half usually gets only an “it’s ok” with a shrug (when I ask). So this is high praise indeed.
So KIV this man-pleaser. Especially if your guy is not a jaded or snobby perfumista but an average bloke like mine. Who looks askance at your fragrance collection and wonder why perfumes these days hardly smell like perfumes. And appreciates the fact that his wife could smell like his wife and not some shape-shifting crone.
On my skin, this is a fleshy, three-dimensional mimosa and rose with a generous support of tolu balsam. Angel’s Dust is a very very pretty perfume. A huge dose of femininity as usual from Francesca Bianchi. Lovely piece of work.
PinatRy – :
Guerlain Metallica, just doesn’t last as long.
I111 – :
Woah! this one certainly blows away the cobwebs. Im pleased that the mimosa, rose and iris are equally strong.
Powdery mimosa and iris followed with sweet rose. A very interesting combination. It opens as a bright floral carnival and closes soft and resinous. I have to wait an hour or so before I can make out the resins and woods in the background providing a good sound base for the flowers.
With time there is a honeyed sweetness that surrounds the flowers whilst the powderiness is still quite evident. I suspect its the balsam and mimosa that create this honey sweetness. It finally fades with soft honey and resins.
Good longevity but it retreats back to a skin scent after an hour or two.
buka_01 – :
Old school rose fragrance on me. It’s unusual but that doesn’t mean it’s good. On me it’s really really strong and really heady – and it’s just OK, not a showstopper. I may grow to love it, for now it’s a “like”.
sum927Negeltzex – :
Its a cute adult boudoir scent. For those looking for a non-syrupy sweet one..this is for you.
valera1974_09 – :
Angel’s Dust is something really beautiful to me. The scent is soft, sweet and lipsticky, that has a warm, “lived-in”, intimate feel. Wearing this feels like I’m waking up in the morning by the sunshine streaming through an open window, warming my nude body, with messy hair and yesterday’s red lipstick smeared upon my pillow.
I think I smell mostly roses and iris, and, as it dries down, something with a warm, buttery undertone, something creamier. A plastic note develops sometimes, a note that reminds me of the synthetic nature of lipsticks, and because of the context of this plastic note (i.e. this smells of lipstick, which I associate as something synthetic) I actually don’t mind the smell here. The lipstick accord reminds me of the sweet and powdery scent of vintage ones. It is difficult for me to determine notes, as they are all very well blended, but the composition is warm, feminine, and deeply sensual, with a whisper of powder, and has a sort of hazy effect, which reminds me of a mosquito netting tumbling gracefully onto a four poster bed dressed in white linens. I find it very evocative.
The sillage sits around me like a friendly, perfumey little aura; soft to moderate in strength. Longevity was for about 7-8 hours 🙂
urmserumak – :
Smells like sweaty lycra panties of an old woman.
Also it smells like suntan lotion after you’re exposed to the sun for two hours.
Not so distant from sex and the sea. linen to be washed.
Dirty Lipstick.
Disturbing.
No angels. Maybe a dead one.
димыч72 – :
Very sly creation!
Cold silver-shaded powder that hides some intime musky body odor, sweet as a honey and cold as a fog at the same time… It brings into my mind powdered wigs from Renessains where powder, perfumes and wigs were used for hide dirt, uncareness and even some unequivocal thoughts.. like courtesan with angel’s face.
A good work for sure!
vova_93 – :
Angel’s Dust is a fragrance for lovers of vintage makeup powdery scents.
I honestly couldn’t imagine this fragrance being any other name. It literally smells like magical dust sprinkled by an Angelic creature. It’s delicate and dusty, sweet and powdery with the most innocent bouquet of Rose, Mimosa and Iris.
This is not a new scent to me, it takes me back to my mother’s vintage makeup drawer where she kept her oversized powder puffs and cans of Talc powders. Most of her lipsticks were pale pink and hues of purple as were her eyeshadow compacts. Everything was heavily fragranced back then, and when she would open this drawer I remember this exact smell.
gqd692elipseskism – :
I guess her main note is the iris cause i sensed it quite clearly in her whole line which is by itself is quite impressive.
Angel’s Dust isn’t different from her other fragrances. This one includes red roses, black pepper, musc and sandalwood. It’s like a rosy fragrance but with added conquered iris. It’s quite pleasant but i personally don’t prefer the roses.
Eventually i can’t deny that she blend it well, and i guess “Francesca” is becoming one of my favorite artists beside Naomi Goodsir, Stephane Humbert, Hans Hendly, Olivier Durbano, & Anatole Lebreton.
denisfedoroff23 – :
Remember the opening scene of Dangerous Liaisons with Glenn Close and John Malkovich? When Valmont and Merteuil are getting ready for the day? This could be the perfect frangrance for it!
Angel’s Dust is full of voluptuous sensuality, bed-warmth, languor, enjoyment, intimacy and refinement.
It starts of with a playful, but substantial slap on your nose with a swandown puff, with the ensuing cloud of pale pink powder (iris and mimosa being the dominant notes). From now on you will see the world through this iridescent halo, which is so ridiculously pretty, that it makes you giggle. Slowly the beautiful florals emerge from the haze, soft and charming, making you understand why Luca Turin thought of Guet-Apens. (Warning! If you are looking for a substitute for GA or its later avatars under countless names by Guerlain, look elsewhere. There is a connection between those and AD, but AD is substancially different!) I adore the play of the sensual rose and cool iris, it is like a witty fencing game of words á la rococo seduction.
The powder calms down in a bit, but will always be the principal element of this perfume. My favourite part is the lived-in quality of AD, but this is not the pissy civet or greasy castoreum of Bal a Versailles and the other big animalics of yore. It is the natural smell of a washed (and perfumed) body, the next morning, still in bed, which is surely due to the beautiful musk used.
To me, AD is a contemporary picture of a boudoir, seen through the eyes of a 21st century person, idealized but not to the point of cliché or commonplace. For lack of better word I would say, it is a very “human” perfume, close and intimate, that seems to be a common feature in Francesca’s creations. Probably works best on a woman, although maybe in the appropriate moment it could be dead sexy on a man, too.
Funnily, when I first wore it, the initial 20 minutes of the experience was indeed like a “flash”: AD made me euphoric, I felt like sitting in a rainbow coloured bubble of powder puffs (whatever it may be), floating giggling through light-filled air. So the name may be apt, it may have some – strictly legal, yet totally magical – powers of making you high! Or is it only a perfumista’s joy and elation on finding a wonderful work of perfumery art? Who cares! I love Angel’s Dust with all my heart.
*****
Uorinnagej – :
scent is inextricably bound to memory, and for me, this perfume by francesca bianchi is very powerful in its context and situation. i should say now, this isn’t something i would wear personally; perhaps in moments of quiet interlude between moments. however, saying that, it is indeed beautiful and, for me, melancholic in its associations. not to say i don’t enjoy it, however i like to think others would find more pleasure than quietude from it.
not long ago, i was devastated by the loss of a close friend of mine; my second grandmother i called her, and she was. full of life, boisterous, cheeky, mischievous, but kind-hearted; she had a spirit that couldn’t be quenched. in her age, she had left behind most of the cosmetics and creams that she so adored, wearing at most a little lipstick. these resided in an old box she kept at her bedside in front of a mirror. i like to think at one point she would have spent hours there, making sure not a single hair or powder was out of place. it’s funny because it was mentioned in conversation between me and miss bianchi, the rituals we take in order to bring sleep, and i feel this box, this perfume, represents exactly that. morning and evening, this would be her go-to, to sleep and to wake up.
smelling this perfume, from opening to drydown, i am reminded of that image. it opens with a cool, powdery iris; plush, pillowy and soft, enhanced with touches of mimosa, in all its heliotropin loveliness, and dry rose petals. the connotations to makeup are unavoidable in my mind, and here it sweeps forth as you open the lid of that small box. the sweetness here is kept in check and, although it does at times remind me of those little pressed-powder candies, it never broaches into the edible. even as the mimosa begins to spin powdered sugar into the air, it’s not cloying or overbearing, just comforting. powder puffs distributing fine particles into the air as they’re brushed across skin. basically, this perfume is a powder-lovers dream! and anyone looking for that ‘vintage cosmetics’ smell will find it here in my opinion, without that typical ‘old-age dustiness’ associated with antiques.
this perfume is decidedly softer than my experience with ‘the dark side’, but still long lasting and fairly potent. performance is once again precisely within the boundaries of an ‘extrait’.
as things begin to settle, these hazy, pink and white clouds begin to find anchor closer to the skin with the help of sandalwood, disclosing a creamy texture. now, instead of lipsticks and foundations, i imagine scented creams and skin ointments that no doubt had their fare share of use. the coolness of the iris recedes slightly as you dig deeper into this box and discover wonders upon treasures of collected bottles and vessels from times long gone by todays standards.
from here, slowly, after a few hours, the tolu balsam lends more of a dusty, ambered note along with benzoin to amplify this feeling of ‘aged vanilla’; more sweet, yes, but still reigned-in with more of a ‘balsamic’ feeling than straight-up vanilla extract. the sillage of this is still centered around the mimosa and distant iris, a fleck or two of rose petal, whereas smelling up close reveals its balsamic character, perhaps vaguely woody. now we realise the box itself has taken upon itself the smell of all these contained beauties, imbuing it with years of muted sweetness and creaminess. further in, the powder ‘top’ merges further into the balsamic shapes and forms, becoming one cohesive whole on the skin. here it is warm, powdered, gauzy, soft. utterly comfortable.
exactly is this the experience i had when i found the box itself, curious as i was to find the contents of this mysterious container. the scent is almost unmistakably engraved into my mind, and though my friend is gone, i will always remember this smell; arguably her smell, from her youth and onward, which she kept by her bedside all this time. associations be damned some might say, but here, for me, there is melancholic charm. otherworldly and vintage beauty at its absolute finest. i’d love to hear / see what other people think of this and what their associations are!
bravo francesca bianchi!