Crystal

Someone mentioned that this fragrance turned green on their skin and then metallic...umm, no offense but that must have been due to their skin's unique chemistry. I got nothing green or metallic. I love this fragrance. It's a spot on dupe for Angel but it's better. It's angel in all of it's hazelnut, cocoa, gourmand richness with a base of the most comforting patchouli without the initial alcohol haze that comes with EDPs or EDTs. It's the way everyone wants Angel to smell on their skin: decadent, indulgent, mysterious, sensual, and expensive. I have many arabian oils including many Al Rehabs and while good year round, this perfume smells most divine in cold weather. The sillage is amazing provided one applies it correctly (most people in the west do not realize how to properly apply oils. It's a dab on the wrists, maybe the decolletage. Then rub the roller ball on your palm or use the dropper to place some there. Next, rub your hands together and smooth your hands over your clothing, arms, what not). With this application, I received gentle yet satisfying waves of the fragrance all day and into the night. I did receive compliments, but the most precious to me was that of my very rough and tumble young son who immediately said after I walked into the room to take him to school: Mom, you smell good. It lasts for around 24 hours and even the final note is absolutely lovely---a rich and smoky musky floral scent. Such perfume finds are why I love arabian oils----incredible scents that surpass the original both in price and quality.

After looking at the differences between Al Rehab’s Bakhour [on their website] & Thierry Mugler’s Angel I would say this scent is an oriental vanilla that is more green, floral and incense-y version of the latter. Remove the excessively sweet/fruit accords, swap patchouli with oakmoss (still keeping the earthy aspect in mind) also nutmeg + caraway with tarragon then add pleasant florals like ylang-ylang, heliotrope, carnation and tuberose which provide a rich gourmand component without being too cloying or indolic. Simply put with that formulation then you would have Bakhour. Lastly, I would say this is an incredible rollerball oil (was Bakhour... and now stated as Crystal don’t know why though) and eau de parfum (Bakhour) on its own it is quite wearable [unisex leaning slightly on the feminine side] and has good layering capability. Got several compliments earlier this spring when testing out wearability of the fragrance, additionally this is a great comfort scent so +++ lol. Rating: 9.5/10 Fragrance composition [from Al Rehab’s official website]: Top notes; Green notes, citruses [bergamot, neroli & lemon], tarragon. Middle; Lily-of-the-valley, ylang-ylang, carnation, jasmine, tuberose, heliotrope, orris root, orchid, violet, lilac and rose. Base; Sandalwood, tonka bean, oakmoss, vanilla, honey, amber, civet & musk.

Mugler Angel, Mugler Angel, Mugler Angel for a mere fraction of the cost and longer lasting :) Since I have worn Angel since 1994, I have been very sad the past few years since the reformulations have utterly destroyed Angel. Luckily, it still almost smells the same...but longevity and sillage are just terrible. I can put 10+ sprays of current Mugler Angel on, and it is a skin scent in an hour (the original formula... 1-2 sprays would last ALL day or night). This Al-Rehab Crystal is so close to Angel, and lasts so long....I am in heaven. I will put this on, and then spray with Angel edP. This lasts hours and hours and gets compliments everywhere (got one today after showering and dressing at the gym and then at the car wash. LOL) I will not discuss notes and ingredients.....just know this is MUGLER ANGEL :)

For those of you that love Angel and would like a very strong, dupe, this is it. Crystal is a beautiful, chocolate scent. I love it. Chocolate and roses and some other mystical smells!! If I had to choose between Angel and Crystal and money was no consideration, I think I would choose Crystal. It is more wearable for me. I wore this to work today, putting on only 2 little drops. I wore it to bed with lotion last night and I could smell it when I woke up and actually, even after my shower a little bit. I am having a little bit of a love affair with Al Rehab and it is such a wonderful discovery when that little bottle smells so great and stays on for so long. Update: Bought this for a guy friend that loves unisex fragrances and he loves it.

As a long time die hard Angel fanatic I can quite honestly say that this is a DEAD RINGER for the original TM Angel. Astounding perfume which is a personal rendition of Angel but doesn't share itself with half the world when it is worn. Silage sits very close to the skin but longevity is 24 hours plus!! If you don't shower this stays with you. I stopped wearing Angel a while ago because of the abuse it receives by people who don't know the meaning of subtle, but this has reminded me of how beautiful this smell is. I feel like an alcoholic who has been on the wagon for years and then has that first lethal drink and all of a sudden, can't get enough!!

This has been my signature scent for over 10 years. However many times I flirt with other perfumes, I always return to Crystal. This is a warm and spicy floral. Thick would be a great way to describe it. You do not need to slather this on as the sillage is huge! A light dab at your pulse points will last 12+ hours. I like Angel, which closely resembles this fragrance, but Crystal is so much warmer and friendlier than Angel. Angel can smell synthetic and cold on me sometimes, but Crystal never does.

Amazing! As others have said, this is very similar to Angel but without so much dirty patchouli. I have issues with patchouli - sometimes it works for me, but mostly it doesn't, and although I love Angel I've concluded it doesn't always love me back. With Crystal I can enjoy the fruit and sweet notes without being overwhelmed. It doesn't seem to be available in a spray version, which is a shame, but the longevity is so good that I suspect the 3ml roller will last ages!

My mother used to own Angel by TM, back in the day I would wear it to school because of how much I love it. However now it is quite pricy for a uni student. This Al rehab perfume shocked me as how similar it is to Angel. The only difference is this is much more spicy when u put it on your hand/ straight sniff from the bottle. When the wind hits it smells exactly like Angel. This is such a great find. I'm so thankful to discover this gem.

I would consider this my signature scent. I own Angel, which I love, but it never develops as beautifully on me as Crystal does. Warm, spicy, and floral...never too loud (I only need a dab at my pulse points), and I can smell it till I take a shower the next day. I have worn this scent for 5 years. I don't wear it everyday, but I reach for this scent more than any others.

Can anyone tell me where in the US I can buy this fragrance? Please, it is out of stock everywhere apparently. email me [email protected] or DM here please. <3

i have story to tell because this fragrance.. from my childhood i was so curious about beauty and good stuff and good smells and i was so Interested about myself how be cleaned and how to be good looking in that time sadly i born in poor family we was so poor and my interested come to wrong person. who don't have the ability to enjoy with good stuff. when i was 12 years old i was in market and i was see a beautiful stuff and i was talking to myself one day i will have the money one day i will buy to myself and to my mam good stuff :( and i was so shy even i can't ask the seller how much is this or this or this i was so shy to ask about any thing i was thinking if i ask for any thing then i must buy . when i was standing looking to a lot of beautiful stuff that stuff was dream to have it come a guy and he was asking about stuff and i said in myself it's chance to know bout the price and he ask for this fragrance And I was surprised it's cheap there is light of hope for me as a little poor boy . then i saved money form any thing i need or from School mony and some from my mam if i did good . and i buy it and i like it in that time and i got a lot of Compliments from friends and Especially mam she was so happy for me and i was so happy . this fragrance is my childhood Memories. now after this age now i'm 32 years old in i will become 33 years old after 3 months after 20 years i see it and i remember every sad and happy moment in same time. (*Notes** i was talking to myself one day i will have the money one day i will buy to myself and to my mam good stuff :( *** thanks to my god this day come and i'm not that Rich but i can now buy to me or my mother or my wife for my kids a good stuff and i did that promise i did make to myself i buy a lot good things Especially for my mother Because she was deprived of many things) i Still feel the scent i will buy it soon because this is my first fragrance scent i buy it for myself this fragrance will have a special place in my heart why ?? i don't know why maybe i remember the Hard life for me and learn myself tomorrow another day another life and tomorrow will be ok and i will live a good life full life with a big hope

Really glad I took the plunge with this one. Yes it is rumoured to be an Angel knockoff and that should ring alarmbells for me. Maybe I need to revisit Angel too but the reason I like Crystal is that is is not a sour-turning patchouli on me. The main notes I get are dark chocolate, earthy spicy patchouli, dusty woodsy vanilla and maybe myrrh as another reviewed suggested. I am not sure what fruity notes there could be but they seem very subtle. Crystal seems sweet to begin with but it becomes darker and more tooth friendly as time goes on.The drydown is delicious. I have also layered it with Al Rehab Choco musk which makes a great combo if you are after a strong gourmand patchouli.

Well the Angel reference is totally valid point, whichever flanker we're looking at. Sadly, Angel has never turned on me the same way as it did on others, all I used to get was a chemical mess, lacking any of the niceties. I got the roll on from a lovely fragrant friend and I must say, initially I had a very similar experience to Angel.But after about half an hour into wearing this one has opened the sultry petals Angel never given to me. It's a like :) not sure I will reach out for it too often, very strong this one!

I was so impressed with the rehab choco musk that I bought 10 more various rehab roll-on's including this one, Crystal and well, the other reviewers hit this one right on the button. It is a dead-ringer for Angel! I've had enough bottles of it to know! Even though I'm burnt out on Angel, I got this anyway knowing in advance. Crystal has the same bite as Angel but as the other reviews noted, it does seem to have more depth than Angel which does make this roll on very pleasant to own.

On me this is indeed an Angel dupe, without the patchouli. I could not handle Angel because patchouli is way too strong on my skin. Crystal is also very strong, but more wearable for me. Beastly sillage and longevity for days (okay, maybe just one day). I like to put some unscented body lotion over this to dilute it a bit, otherwise it is too much of a statement on my skin.

Reviewing again as I just had to buy a fair amount of this it's so nice. I just tested side by side with Angel and it's a lot more thick in every sense of the word - a bit more woodsy citrus twist than angel and in my opinion a lot better. Longevity also outperforms angel by a mile.

This is gorgeous - no wonder it's the most expensive amongst these roll ons. I enjoy most of them actually but this one is very good. Woodsy, Spicy, a little gourman, long lasting. Beautiful. Not sure about the Angel similarity, perhaps a little but Angel is sicklier (to me).

This reminds me a great deal of Angel but I find it to be easier to wear. It is very sweet and rich. The longevity is insane (it lasts all day) and the sillage is heavy.

It starts off smelling like Angel, but quickly turns to a citrus or fruity mess on my skin, sadly. The longevity is great though, even on my horribly dry skin.

Good dupe of TM Angel. It felt really cold. I dont think I smelled anything fruity in the rollon oil. Floral spicy ? Yes. The longevity is really great.

All I can say is yes it smells just like Angel except it is softer and the sillage is average. I feel very pretty wearing this.

I’m super confused. Disclaimer: I’ve never smelled Angel or any other TM fragrances. But I’m very into gourmand scents and Angel is almost always listed as one of the most popular gourmands there are. This is so cheap and a supposed dupe of angel, (even though the notes listed aren’t really the same at all) I just had to try it. And I’m super disappointed. It literally burns my nose. I can’t even explain it, it’s just so sharp and sour and burns my senses. I tried it on both wrists, knowing that the opening might be very different than the dry down. I almost had to scrub it off but I pushed through. (I also rubbed the oil off onto my hoodie to help it dry faster.) Now what I smell isn’t as horrible as it was, and is actually almost bearable, but only if I completely abandon the sweet/gourmand idea and accept that it smells very unisex/dirty/hippie/heady. I guess it might be a frankincense/myrrh smell, although I’m not familiar enough with them to know for sure. I definitely won’t be using this and will probably see if my sister (who is more into masculine scents) likes it. UPDATE: I’m going to give it another try. After realizing that with many al rehab oils, you have to give them multiple tries and their first impressions can be very misleading, I asked my sister if she would give it back. She said she’s not using it anyway. I’m excited to give it another chance, let it sit, try just a tiny amount, and see if I can smell the sweet angel that everyone else does. Or at least just come to love it for the Catholic Church-y insence smell I got last time. I’ll update when I get it from her.

I don't know who lists the notes on Fragrantica but this is my third review for an Al-Rehab fragrance and what I'm getting is nothing like the notes listed. Nothing. On all three so far. I have to agree with the other reviewers this smells like TM Angel. I was completely driving myself crazy from the second I put this on. I just knew that I recognized this smell. It was so familiar. So I opened up my phone and read the notes here. What, this doesn't make sense. And it being the third in a row I was starting to worry something was wrong with me. I started reading the reviews. Angel. Yes. It hit me like a brick. I actually read every single review. This smells nothing like the notes listed. You're not crazy. Take a peek at TM Angel and relax there's nothing wrong with your nose. It's whoever is entering the notes on Fragrantica.

Oh. My. God. Closest dupe of Thierry mugler's Angel that I've ever had! As soon as I put it on I smelt that familiar chocolatey patch powdery vanilla goodness!!! Longevity, so far I've been wearing it for six hours and it still smells strongly, very pleased, sillage I have no idea because its windy in uk and the only time I encounter other people is out in town doing my shopping and nobody notices there haha! And my fiancé never compliments my perfume which is sad for me but I suppose his sense of smell isn't too strong. I don't care though this perfume oil is fantastic and I've got 3 bottles, yay!

Srtaight from the rollerball, this absolutely *is* Angel. I got all of the expected top notes of Angel, right away, and it stayed that way for about half an hour before it turned GREEN. As in, minty, evrgreen, Christmas tree GREEN. That was the "middle", i suppose, and lasted another hour or so, and I should have been happy to have it because the dry down was... metallic! Cold, sharp metal. The fragrance equivalent of a scalpel. I'm sad... Angel is so pricey.

Think it smells half of a big bar of chocolate and half TM Angel 'ish'. It doesn't smell sweet though, as the Angel 'ish' smell makes it quite a dry smelling scent. The chocolate dies down after a time but it is nicer than Angel to my nose. It has a musky, warm, background to it, that is not there with Angel.

Angel with floral undertones (perhaps violet or rose), spices and a cooling quality that is quite pleasant. If you enjoy Angel but want something less cloying, more refined & sensual and definitely not offensive -- this is for you!

Roll-on mini-review here. I was extremely disappointed when I first applied this. It didn't smell *at all* like Angel. After 10mins though it completely changed and resembled Angel a lot more. I still prefer the real deal though.

Wheww this oil is way way way too strong and cloying. Obnoxious. A chemical scent. I dislike Angel by Mugler so I should of known better. It's turning my stomach. It's floral chemical white spoiled chocolate candy not so dandy.

@Bob Marley: I respectfully disagree. These OILS probably contain fewer chemicals than alcohol-based extrait, edp, edt, edc and body mists. Just what do you think non-oil fragrances are made of, angel's tears???

I think this smells just like Angel EDT but for a small fraction of the price. While it has excellent longevity, I wish it were stronger. A fantastic fragrance, nonetheless.

I just received my perfume oil bottle (roller ball 3 ml) and by smelling at the bottle - yes! Angle in oil form. Will report back on development, longevity and sillage :)

Definitely reminiscent of TM Angel, although not an exact dupe. If you like those kinds of chocolate patchouli mysterious notes you will like this.

Similar TMs Angel and Innocent. Fabulous sillage and longevity.