Calling All Angels

A beautiful review of Calling all Angels by Eiderdwon Press: I’m not sure if a more saturated incense perfume has ever been made; it has a density that reminds me of oatmeal cookies, and a smell that makes me think, not of churches, but of how I imagine certain artifacts would smell in the Egyptian wing of the Met, if one was allowed to get up close and personal with them. Myrrh, incense and tobacco, sandwiched between the folds of a honeycomb, is how this perfume smells when it first hits my skin and for a long time thereafter—and though this next statement probably sounds more weird than attractive, I’m going to throw it out anyway: When I smell Calling All Angels, I think about the food, wine, oils and perfumes that were placed in the sarcophagi of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. It smells like what I’d like to imagine provisions for the afterlife would smell like: rich and sustaining, with a dramatic darkness that is both reminder and symbol of life’s melodramas ... a promise of the entertainments that await the pharaoh on “the other side.” Balsamic, resinous, smoky, winey and sweet in the way that an English plum pudding is sweet, Calling All Angels is not for the faint of heart. It’s the kind of scent you’d suspect would be attractive to people who already have the life-force flowing in them strongly ... the kind of people you think of as being either adventurous or curious enough to go out on a limb to claim the kind of life they want for themselves. Considering that most days I am neither of those things (much as I would like to say I aspire to them), you would think this scent would scare the pants off of me or that I’d feel unqualified to wear it, and yet it very much appeals to me. This is not a perfume I could wear everyday—it’s that bracing—but I think that’s the whole point of it. It’s a perfume created with the intent of opening up its wearer to feeling a sense of supernatural support. As it dries down, there is a period in which the scent has spicy nuances of clove (I should note that some of the things I smell in this perfume aren’t accounted for in its list of notes—they are what my nose smells, not what the perfume is comprised of). After some hours of wear, the myrrh and frankincense fade away and what is left behind in the final mellow stage of this perfume is a scent that smells like a combination of light amber and a tobacco-like vanilla, lightly resinous and weathered smelling. It, too, can be enjoyed for a humming long period of time and is quite rewarding.

Once again, I thought I had reviewed this ages ago.... Anyway Calling All Angels is my favorite of the April Aromatic samples in my possession. It is a deep, sweet, woody, and smoky incense. It reminds me of the scent of night-time beach bonfires mixed with incense and honey syrup. The price is indeed steep for 30ml, but I have not come across many 100% natural perfumes that smell this good, so whether it is worth the price or not is highly subjective. I tested this perfume when I was pregnant and seeking 100% natural perfumes. I found the price to be prohibitive, personally. Yet I have not forgotten about it either--it smells fantastic. I could never tire of it. Sillage is very nice and longevity is great. I get a solid 8 hours before I would even consider touching up. Update: Now that my baby is one year old, I still seek natural perfumes as I do not like to wear any chemicals around her. I could not forget Calling All Angels and ended up purchasing a bottle. I like that it smells amazing, and I don't have to feel guilt for wearing it around her. I also think this is a wonderful option for when I am in yoga class and don't want to wear chemicals. The bottle is very pretty with amber-colored liquid. There are also beautiful gold flakes floating in the liquid! They come out onto your hand when you spray, and they just melt away. Update 2: I wrote my review some time ago, but I now stock this fragrance at aveparfum.com. My opinions are always my own. Years later, it has become my go-to frankincense perfume and is in my regular rotation. It''s an exquisite creation!

This is absolutely gorgeous and completely FBW. Perfectly named, it's an incense perfume that somehow smells sweet, conjuring images of fat cherubs cavorting on the walls of an ancient cathedral. I love the vanilla/tonka bean combo as a support for other notes. Here, it's sweetened with honey and used to underpin the main incense/labdanum chord. Heaven! This is one of those perfumes where the wafts smell completely different from what you get when you go in for a sniff. The wafts are all sweet incense. Wrist sniffing yields amber and woods. I'm not a huge fan of this base note- too much amber for my amber-phobic sniffer. So I wave my wrist in front of my face when I want a pick me up. By the next morning the woody amber has departed leaving a trace of the vanilla sweetened incense still clinging to my wrist. Edit: My son says I smell like marshmallows. I'm guessing he means the kind toasted over a campfire since that's the kind he's familiar with and it's a perfect description of the smoky sweet, slightly burned note in this perfume. mmm. Edit: this is becoming my go to scent for important days. It doesn't feel like I put this on so much as I anoint myself with it. When I need every blessing I can muster, I call in the angels.

Calling All Angels is both a beauty and a beast; stunning, rich and deep resinous, woody, ethereal incense. I cannot usually wear these notes as they tend to get too heavy but this is different, it has an ethereal air here that is rich and complex yet not suffocating. I feel like I am wearing a saturated work of art, it is all over and goes from being very sensual to almost meditative. I get wafts that remind me of the huge churches my grandma used to bring me in when I was young in Italy, there is a special air of divinity here. I find this presents many facets going from incredibly complex and ethereal to sometimes deeply sensual smoky resins a more charming woodsy and gourmand realm burnt sugar cookies. I love how one moment it is warm and resinous and the next transformed on the skin to deep rich smoky incense to warm woods and sweet honey. Definitely a cozy winter scent. Update: layered this goliath of goodness with my fave rose scent (Rose l'orange), took this on another level of ridiculously good.

April Aromatics Calling All Angels, my first try from the house, is exactly as advertised: a resinous collaboration of benzoin, labdanum, amber, incense, honey, and hordes of other resins that I might have no idea of. Additional sweetness and perhaps sharpness are added via vanilla and tonka, but the main story here is one of resins with slightly woody undertones. It's sweet but not as sweet as, say, Le Labo Benjoin 19, let alone Amber Absolute, but not remotely as animalic, as Ambre Russe. Calling All Angels leans mostly sweet but ever so slightly animalic as well. Longevity is extreme but projection is still quite great. Surely this is unisex and better for cold weather, but since it isn't a crazy projector, it might work on summer nights as well. Overall, a great resinous entry but one that suffers from some redundancy with and similarly expensive pricing ($170 for 30ml) to Le Labo Benjoin 19 ($300 for 50ml). 8 out of 10

calling all angels is all about the incense. It has other notes that are felt, such as rose, which nuances the perfume in a very subtle way, giving it a slightly more powdery and silky character, or vanilla and honey, which together give it a sweet touch. Calling all angels is therefore a very balsamic perfume. A dirty and smoky amber that keeps the center of its strength in the incense. Although it is not the type of perfume that I usually use, I have to recognize on the one hand the quality of the ingredients and on the other the good performance that the fragrance has. I probably will never buy it since, as I said, I do not usually use very incense perfumes and also that space at the moment I have overrepresented in my collection, but I strongly recommend it to any lover of incense and perfume perfumes. the smoked ambers. Scent: 8 Longevity: 9.5 Sillage: 8.5 Versatility: 7 Originality: 8 Overall: 8.5

I fell in love with Calling All Angels at first sniff. It includes virtually all of my trigger notes, resins, honey, vanilla, tonka, smoke, opoponax, amber, incense and labdanum. It is a bit sweet, but the resins, woods and honey make it glow. Longevity is very good indeed for an all natural perfume, as is the depth and to a somewhat lesser degree, the projection. Ambers are not usually a projection beast. I do not understand the comparison to Lutens Ambre Sultan, as I own both and find them vastly different. The rose in CAA is both true and subdued. The swettness is incense in this, but not the bone-dry variety. I am a repeat customer for this exquisite perfume, I find it just wonderful. Sexy, different, warmed skin scent par excellence.

I cannot find the words to describe this fragrance. But I will make a feeble attempt. Bar none, this is the most realistic, beautiful, luxurious and enchanting incense scent ever created. It is candles burning, the ceremony celebrant swings the censer and the clouds of incense permeate the air. This is not a modern mass, but one of timeless dignity and mystery. As others have described, the honey is very apparent, and it gives the scent a gorgeous sweet aura like some ancient sacramental wine. If you've been searching for perfection in an incense based fragrance, you must try this natural perfumery masterpiece.

Apple, and apple brandy is not listed, but on my skin this wafts apple-incense resins. It's a sweet incense, bordering on gourmand and reminds me of some of the work by Sonoma Scent Studio and Solstice Scents. It's quite lovely with excellent longevity and decent silage. For me, it's too sweet to be meditative; it's a cuddly, by the fire, "tasty incense" not cold or austere and green, not straight up smokey warm woods. The honey must be the sweetness, but the tonka and honey don't register as such--but rather an apple-like, fall leaf note. Perfectly unisex.

I ordered this when it first came out and its still one of my all time favorite perfumes. Its a dark ambery incense with a sweet touch of honey and vanilla...or I dont know what else??? There is a lot going on here... It does need time, like with all other perfumes from this house, to settle down. At first spray its intense and strong and it needs the dry down time to develop into a beautiful bouquet. Absolutely full bottle worthy, I just got a new bottle from Luckyscent. My holy grail incense perfume!!! 10/ 10

Mysterious, dark and smokey. It also has nice honey like sweetness to it (thanks to labdanum, I assume).Tonka and vanilla gives this scent a soothing base along with the other earthy resins, while the true Oman Frankincense (boswellia sacra) creates a holy aura around it. Reminds me of old churches and ancient pagan rites. Not too masculine, not too feminine but truly a unisex scent. This is very nice! I love the fact it is all natural, too! A true keeper. 9+/10

I am so loving the beeswax candle aroma. The scent starts out a little woodsy, smoky, masculine. But after a while, it's all the things I like about churches, bottled up.... candles, church incense, oak wood, with a complementary hint of vanilla. My husband dislikes it, which is a bummer. So I layered Calling all angels with the powdery scents that he is fond of and they marry wonderfully! the resiny undertone of CAA lending the powder a base of solemnity

an overwhelmingly lovely scent that immediately pleases! the balance between sweet, ambery honey and resinous incense is perfect. it has a long lifespan on my body, and though i think it probably works best in the cold, i could actually see this being pretty delectable in hot weather as well. i feel very sweet when i wear this, but it's not an otherworldly smell. it's very Of the earth. like a deer that sleeps in a cathedral.

Honeyed incense illumination. Forget chubby cherubs. This perfume is calling platinum-haired Angels bearing flaming swords which illuminate whatever is dark. I wear it on those days when I want an invisible army by my side, reminding me of what matters and what doesn't. An olfactory ode to the power of beauty. Distillation: an ode to beauty angels bearing flaming swords incense-laden smoke

From the name, I was expecting a nice, sweet gourmandish-like fragrance. Was I ever surprised! This is a huge incense, woods, and amber scent and reminds me somewhat of LADDM. The sillage and longevity are great. I really like it and, did I not already possess a primary and a back-up bottle of LADDM, would buy it now.

Beautiful incense, amber, woodsy aroma, natural, resinous ingredients that last very well, I was really impressed with the service too, 2 generous samples and a personal touch. Exspensive, but well worth it.

Lovely powdery, skanky amber. Though it doesn't seem to break new ground, it is beautiful and nuanced. Grateful for the lack of those dreadful woody amber aromachemicals.

Beautiful incense and honey...all natural perfume...my favorite of the April Aromatics line with Precious Woods as a close second...absolutely gorgeous...

Like a violin varnished with honey then set on fire

A Masterpiece....I am addicted to it...LOVE

For a natural perfume this is indeed GREAT! But then comes the 'but'. Before I get into that, I want to try to describe how it smells like to me. To my nose this is somewhat similar to roasting smores ( graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate turned into a sandwich ) on an open campfire with incense royally sprinkled on the logs.(for lack of better explanation). It's definitely a gourmand incense. It's also rather deep, or at least deeper than I expected. And here comes the 'but': You have to keep in mind that this is a natural perfume, which means that it takes a lot of natural materials to produce these kind of fragrance and you definitely notice it in the pricing. If this was a car, it would fall in the "electric" cars segment. Meaning that it would mostly appeal a certain type of group of people with a certain point of view and requirements. And I do mean that in every positive way. For those who prefer natural perfumes ( for health or allergy reason, or natural lifestyle reason etc ) this is indeed no doubt one of the very bests out there! But for those who do not mind to overlook all that and just demand a certain type of performance and price tag for their fragrances you might be faced with some issues with this fragrance. For me personally I love projection monsters and fragrances which lasts at least 8 hours. However on me it lasts about 6 hours and just a decent projection. Mind you still it performs way better than many designer fragrances out THERE! AND also to my nose I have found another fragrance which smells very similar (not a complete copy) to Calling all Angels, and performs way better on my skin. And that's Vento nel Vento Bois 1920. Also personally I think my biggest disappointment with this fragrance is actually that I did not experience any type of angelical or supernatural feeling or Vibe from it. I KNOW the perfumer did not state it would and any sane person would judge a fragrance by it's scent and not by a certain metaphysical experience they hope they would get from it. But then again I do not consider myself falling into the group of sane individual and I have experienced a fragrance before which did give me a supernatural experience. And also due to the name "calling all Angels" I was actually hoping that after testing it I'd feel like I am actually surrounded by Angels. I am not religious or anything but hey, I am open to be pleasantly surprised. But all I was left with is a nice experience of having smelled a top quality natural perfume. And I do recommend others to at least try this, who knows it might win a special place in your heart.

This one is fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. Starts with a blast of honey sweetness and some spice. But quickly becomes the perfect picture of Catholic reliquaries. My grandmother's sister was a nun and I spent a lot of time in churches and convents and around strange little metal and velvet boxes with weird little things in them. This smells like all of that. Like a little lingering incense, sweetness from a beeswax candle, the dusty velvet, the sharp metal smell. I have never so clearly smelled metal in a fragrance. It's that sharp, almost bloody metal smell. I remember we had this one weird little glass bottle with a sterling silver leaf pattern formed around it and blood inside (a saint's allegedly, procured somewhere in Spain in the 60s if I recall correctly), and this smell reminds me of that. It smells like an old velvet box full of silver rosaries. Truly I have never smelled any fragrance that captured a memory or object so innately. This is not a wearable fragrance for me, personally, but this is like the ultimate vamp fragrance. The true cemetery goth vibe captured perfectly. It's fairly strong from the dabber, with decent sillage and some good longevity, but it's hard to say from a dabber and not a spritz. The notes are hard to pick out individually, and I don't know if I would say the fragrance is greater than the sum of its parts, but they definitely form something unexpected out of the sum of its parts.

This one reminds me allot of "Vento nel Vento" by Bois 1920 and "Sanctum" by Ramon Bejar with it's Henna effect. This is quality at max and some sort of bless to my nose. It's not animalic as it is kind of dirty herbal, more spicy than sweet with MILD sweetness to lighten the sharpness of the scent. I guess after all the year it came up in was the era of henna which is the sisterhood of the hyped of the OUD explosion. It remains superb but it doesn't last long and i guess it's because of the naturalism of it's ingredients which makes it of a high quality.

Calling All Angels is an incense smelling fragrance. It's a rather warm wooded, heavy, dark and complex scent. It comes with an allure of sweet ambery, a honey like note mix of tonka bean, vanilla accord with a hint of rose Otto implementing the elements. It's a scent like no other. Each bottle contains within it 24 karat gold flakes to make it a unique one to add to ones collection. The uniqueness also comes from it being an all naturally made fragrance. Best when worn during the colder weather. Longevity 10/10 - Projection 8/10 - Overall smell 7/10

So earthy! And dark! Lil sweet. Smell like morning time surrounded by giant camphorous trees with sweet balsamic breeze blowing after all night rain. I get the water fire earth theme. I guess the olibanum suppose to articulate the spirit element but not smokey or too incensy. Come to mind -- a witch in the woods living in a clean mysterious cabin. The witch isnt good nor evil. Green balsam semi sweet woody smell in beginning. As dry down a dry mysterious kinda creamy wood become more define and noticable. Ima grew with it. Its beautiful!

A breath of fresh air compared to some of the roided out superambers that are marketed as spiritual incense scents these days! This is a very realistic frankincense and myrrh fragrance, smoky, woody, and sweetened by honey or brandy. Smells like an ultra high quality essential oil blend, which is fine by me. Unisex leaning a little bit femme, but would smell nice on a man too. I prefer the dry opening to the drydown, which gets a little too sweet for my taste although it's a natural non-headache inducing sweetness.

Predecessor of Orca, O hira, and many others, this amber perfume begins with a nice sweet labdanum, amber cola, cinnamon, smoky sandalwood, with a citrus flavor similar to coriander with strong doses of frankincense, opoponax ... Followed by an interlude of honey, roses and musk that remind me of Fumerie Turque that I love and ends in a fuzzy, soft, fluffy background, between tonka and balms. Warm, sweet, balanced with small fluctuating variations, more feminine. Ultimately... Good!

Smells like a lighter version of The Dark Side by Francesca Bianchi. This one is a little mellower, less earthy, but they could be sisters. It’s heavy, definitely smells like a bunch of incense sticks but I don’t get the smoke: it’s not a burning incense stick, it’s the scent of walking in to a witchy shop stocked full of incense sticks. That heavy, resinous powdery scent of flavored dirt. This definitely won’t be for everyone, but I love it!

171 No Olympe, all the April Aromatics scents smell different. I own many of them and tried all of them. This one is the best European (Catholic?) ancient church incense scent I have found so far and it is lasting. Smoldering, rich resins...oooh! Faint memories from childhood... Definitely cool autumn and winter scent. 9/10-Well done, I don’t need anything else in this category.

If you want to smell like freshly cut two by fours this is the scent for you. Reminiscent of Profumum Roma Olibanum.

#825 in my "Tour de Fragrance" Got this as a decant. My first from this fragrance house. The opening is Tiny House Concentrated Cider Cinnamon Pancake Syrup. The dry down is the smell of the plate you had the pancakes on, but didn't get around to putting in the dishwasher until evening, plus incense. You can smell very close to this for $1.82 an ounce on Amazon. I love pancakes, but I don't want to smell like an IHOP. I'm not a gourmand guy. Angel's Share and Khamrah Qawah are as close to this type of scent as I can get.

An aromatic, spicy, woody, Instagram-picture-perfect Bali holiday surrounded by tranquil incense magic. It reminds me of the woody/incense smell of a Thai restaurant and has a similar meditative zen of an Indonesian temple. The dry spices reminds me of Rania J ‘Ambre Loop’ but I much prefer this.

I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in this house. So far I've tried 3 fragrances from them, and all 3 were terrible in my opinion ( and that would be a compliment ), and for the price that they are asking, it's simply ABSURD! In the beginning Calling All Angels reminds me of Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan, it's very very close almost identical, so it's quite good ( in the beginning ). Then in the dry down it turns into something terribly awful and repulsive, the only thing I can compare this too is dirty private parts of a woman ( 3 days without shower minimum ). Maybe to some, this can be attractive, but I was nauseated. I woke up in the middle of the night thinking where is this awful smell coming from, it was sadly coming from my arm, where I applied this fragrance before going to bed. My husband said the same thing, smells terrible like unwashed private parts. It stays on for a while, very close to the skin ( thankfully, cause I cannot imagine torturing others around to smell this ). It can be that it's just my skin chemistry :( But I strongly suggest try it before you buy it! I really hope I can save someone from blind buying this.

skin chemistry is a fascinating thng. at the beginning, i believe i get a ton of olibanum, elemi and honey. it's almost gourmand in a savory way but then quickly becomes very incense/resin heavy with woods. i get something sort of fizzy and lemony in the background as well as a rubbery thing, then it turns to this sort of sweet manure/barnyard-incense thing, and then later the woods turn sharper but still has that sweet weirdness, but doesn't really smell like incense anymore at all. just a sort of burning rubber and sweet barnyard. wtf! i read these other reviews and it sounds amazing, but i think my skin has other ideas :/

Unlike the reviewer below me my skin amplifies incense. So I find this REALLY strong sharp incense with a sweet honey hovering in the background underneath LAYERS of balsalmic and almost fir like smoke. I swear I smell needles and sap and a whole forest. On fire. But with some honey thrown in. It's seriously odd and I think it needs more wearing to really get a good picture. I also only have a dab vial which may change the way it wears.

Catholic mass on holy days but covered in honey. Strong. I sprayed one spray to test it and just walking into my small room smelled like church for a bit after. They completely nailed an idea of church and angels. Overall, just too much for my taste as much as I want to love it.

Too heavy -- an incense should drift heavenward, not stay weighted down amongst sickly sweet, cloying gourmands. Nope. Mind you, I do love two of this houses' offerings: Rosenlust and Precious Woods, especially together.

Frankincense and myrrh hit me out of the box and was cloying. I get why people say this is incense, but it’s very very strong frankincense and myrrh more than incense per se, which I should have known since I hate those scents. I couldn’t handle it at all. Hard pass

April Aromatics is a line of both perfumes and cosmetics, including body and room mists and oils. Tanja Bochnig, the owner and purveyor of the company, is an all-natural botanical perfumer, so you won’t find any synthetic ingredients in any of her perfumes or cosmetic products. When I contacted her and told her I was interested in her line, she was kind, gracious, and generous with her time. Calling All Angels features no top notes, but has middle notes of rose otto, incense, and honey and base notes of precious woods, vanilla, opoponax, amber, elemi resin, labdanum, tonka, benzoin, and frankincense. It was launched in 2013 by Tanja Bochnig. One of the unique touches about these perfumes is that each one comes with different ground semiprecious stones, which according to her website, “afford energy and harmony to the wearer.” For example, Calling All Angels is infused with clear crystal and Herkimer diamond, and was bottled on a night containing a full moon. Each bottle also contains 24 karat gold flakes which actually come out of the atomizer, and softly dissolve into the skin. Apparently one of Tanja’s close friends, a well-known psychic and medium, “channeled” this fragrance, and Tanja was able to bring it to life in liquid form. The note breakdown is inevitably going to make this sound syrupy-sweet, but it’s not. At its heart, the incense remains churchy (i.e., “dry”) and the resins and honey notes only serve to compliment this. The frankincense smells bright, if that makes any sense, with almost a citrusy patina to it. It’s almost invigorating to smell. I smell sandalwood and a definite myrrh note. The dry down tones down the frankincense a notch and develops the sweetness of honey, tonka, and benzoin, but without becoming what I would call gourmand – which is fine by me, since I’ve never been an admirer of overly sweet perfume. I know that saying this really casts me far afield from the general opinion about this fragrance, but that is my honest opinion. I personally think a lot of the sweetness people are smelling isn’t made of gourmand notes at all, but emanate from the benzoin, tonka, and sweet myrrh. The ingredients have a brightness to them that is never found in designer perfumery, and only rarely in niche brands. I don’t have the problems with it being too dense or thick, as some reviewers seem to complain. After all, that wouldn’t be terribly angelic, would it? I get about four hours on my skin, which is just about what I expect from an all-natural perfume. If you want more, that’s what reapplication is for. The people who buy and wear April Aromatics perfumes will inevitably appreciate them, at least in part, because they completely natural perfumes. The one thing I don’t quite understand about Calling All Angels is the name. Judging from the name alone, I would have thought it would have been a light, airy, citrus, or perhaps something with prominent floral notes. This, as I mentioned above, has no traditional top notes at all and is mostly a balsamic, incense-based fragrance. Be sure to not waste this on a mouillette, since it only really blossoms on the warmth of skin. Whatever the name, if angels are attracted by this, they have spectacular tastes. Smelling this has only made me more eager to try Tanja’s other perfumes. Addendum: Once I mentioned to Tanja that I didn’t understand the meaning behind the name, she told me that the perfume reminded her of church. So, church, incense – now the name choice is perfectly clear. This should make sense to you, but in case it doesn’t, she went on further to say that whether you like the name or not isn’t really the point at all. What matters is the essence, the art of the perfume, and how it touches you. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Calling All Angels seems to seamlessly blend gourmand, resinous, wooded yet ethereal aspects all in perfect harmony. i find myself catching it at varying points of intensity; sometimes it peeks through when my hair moves, other times it unexpectedly hits me in the face. the cozy familiarity of it makes me feel genuine happiness, reminding me of baking with my Mom when i was younger. the recollection of Mom's sugar cookies baking in the oven alongside her favourite incense wafting through the house is such a welcome one; i truly sense actual tendrils of incense. for me Calling All Angels is a full-on sensory experience with the added bonus of pleasant memory associations. the balsamic and honeyed facets are executed very well, they don't saturate or drown out any of the woody dryness. how this perfume manages to be beautifully rich and dense while remaining approachable and ethereal is a mystery to me. there is a subtle duality that keeps me interested throughout wear. sensual, warm, opulent, and cozy. having extensively tried 3 now (Bohemian Spice, Precious Woods, and Calling All Angels) i'm convinced that, especially for an exclusively natural line, April Aromatics fragrances are worth the price. the thoughtful high-quality blends and superior ingredients, combined with the very sturdy and beautiful packaging, sets this range apart from many others and makes it one of the best in my opinion. ETA - after wearing this for a little over 2 weeks, i'm noticing there is something that smells slightly fecal on me when wearing Calling All Angels. this also happened when i tried a Serge Lutens fragrance that featured honeyed notes. very recently a man said to me, verbatim "you smell really sexy but i also smell something that's close to spoiled fruit and i can't work out if i like it or not." i've no idea what could be contributing to this aroma or why i never noticed it in the first days of wear but thought it worth mentioning - definitely test this for a bit before buying. i was ready to buy a full bottle of Calling All Angels the first week of sampling and now i definitely wouldn't. that's ok though because this means i can buy Precious Woods now!

Calling All Angels is a huge scent; a massive, sticky labdanum that takes Norma Kamali’s classic Incense and doctors it up with chewy honey-vanilla. So many all-natural perfumes suffer from serious commitment issues, oftentimes doing a runner within thirty minutes or so. But with Calling All Angels, it’s the wearer who needs to prepare him or herself for a marathon as this scent goes on big and stays that way for 12+ hours. It’s totally dominating, and takes some forethought and planning to wear. You get it all upfront: the smoldering Kamali-esque labdanum and myrrh alongside sticky gourmand notes that don’t read as sweet, per se, but certainly read as edible and chewy. These are flanked by sappy woods and elemi, and just a hint of bitterness sneaks through from the rose to render the overall effect as a wall of thick, goopy resins. It almost feels as if there’s a syrupy layer on your skin. After ten minutes or so, things turn down a notch and the scent settles into an impeccably balanced and fairly dry incense elegantly merged with honeyed notes to produce something that is perhaps best described as “toasted”—like a gourmet dessert that leans more savory than sweet. It’s relatively smoky, and there’s an unmistakable dispute between the gritty resins and the sweet notes. For the most part, this phase stays the same throughout the scent’s lifespan: resinous and sappy, a marginally dirty quasi-gourmand. I can’t state it more strongly: this is an exceptionally dense fragrance. It’s not cloying per se, but if any angels were to get some of this on their wings, you can guarantee that their aeronautic ability would be compromised and things would turn a bit Icarus. Although I tend to prefer my incense more liturgical, this is an impressive affair—and the fragrance that April Aromatics seems to be most known for these days. But just be warned: it’s a much darker scent than you might expect from a line that seems to embrace all things light and airy. It’s not as punishing as Norma Kamali, but it’s not exactly seraphic innocence either.

I’m with Anteojo— it smells & feels sacred. It evokes a transmutation to another realm, rich and ancient, but with an intimacy from honey. I’ve been looking for an incense+ for decades, literally. I have samples & full bottles of the purported ‘best’ incense fragrances, from the big perfume houses to indies, and of course Amouage. While each has some aspect to love, I strongly dislike oud — and often amber. I get headaches from many of the frags found in (mall) anchor stores’ perfume counters, and many indie houses’ frags are, IMO, not as well-blended or nuanced as I’d like. The most frequent problem tho is me — somehow my body chemistry turns most frags to vinegar. Yep, even ‘all natural’ scents; they certainly don’t guarantee goodness. (Don’t forget that many poisions are ‘all natural’ too!) Calling All Angels is, for me, IT. Finally! It’s divine, even on my skin. Its longevity is decent & its projection is good — I wouldn’t want greater projection in fact. I’m esp. enamoured of the way the myrrh & frankincense & elemi tend to ‘dance’ in and out of prominence over several hours. This frag solicits compliments, but better than that, I find myself so enamoured of how glorious it smells that I have to remind myself —- that it’s indecent to keep my nose glued to my wrist. So in meetings, I rest my head on my hand, elbow on table, as if I’m vaguely bored. That way, my wrist is near enough so I can secretly sniff and swoon, yet appear just attentive enough. If nothing else, THIS frag boosts my mood so much that I actually CAN make it through meetings with some semblance of decorum. Highly recommended!

I can't believe I haven't written a review for this perfume yet considering it is one of my all time favorites. I guess it is because I have a lot to say. This beautiful creation is so high on my list because not only does it smell divine and heavenly but it is also natural which blows my mind. I favor natural fragrances but I can never find decently crafted ones that have the depth and lasting power that I desire. This perfume lingers and projects on my skin in the ideal way; it is personal and it melds with me to enhance me. Now, the actual scent. This is an intoxicating and deeply spiritual blend of resins, incense and just the right amount of sweetness to leave me with my eyes fluttering. To me, this fragrance smells and feels like something sacred. I see a large tendril of smoke in a beautiful church, climbing up into the light that is cascading in from a stained glass window--golden light is drenching the atmosphere and there is a feeling of connection. This fragrance is the transmutation of solid to the ether and other worlds above. Golden pools of honey harden, resins burned to become incense, and the incense dissipates into another realm. It is such an incredible fragrance that smells rich and ancient, and it also feels like a protective energetic armor. I adore this fragrance so much and if you enjoy honey, incense, amber or deep and rich scents, please explore this and find its beauty.

April Aromatics Calling All Angels is plump unearthly fruits, gorged on ancient amber nectar, hanging heavy at twilight, eventually drying and cracking in the heat of a dying sun. Silent sisters, veiled in mystery, stretch these honey-drunk orbs across a vast expanse of time littered with bone, their flesh becoming supple leather under reverent, unceasing hands. Wisps of aromatic smoke rise from flint-scattered pyres, and the air crackles with the essence of aeons compressed into chips of burnished crystal, shards of petrified sunlight, and the tawny tears of grieving trees. The sisters' nimble fingers arrange fragments of balsamic fruit-flesh and sticky sap-jewels, the assemblage of an olfactory mosaic, redolent of a hallowed sweetness entirely beyond mortality’s grasp. In this fragrance of plummy depths wreathed with leathery whispers, of resinous rituals and sacred smoke, the boundaries between plant, mineral, and devotion blur into a hazy, intoxicating mirage, an ambrosial testament to the everlasting, endless, and eternal.

تست امشب ❤️❤️❤️ تجربه ای ماورای لذت احساس میکنم دارم تو مراسم مومیایی یکی از فراعانه باند رول های کتان رو به صمغ های معطر آغشته میکنم . احساس میکنم هرچی چوب معطر تو دنیاست رو تو فصل بهار که شیره حیات درخت جاری میشه رو زیر دستگاههای پرس دارن جدا می‌کنند. چه عطر و بویی چقدر ناب و گرانبها تمرکز نمیگیرم روی عطر حس نوچ و سنگینی دارم مثل حشره گیر کردم تو رزین واقعا پشت افکار عطار چی بوده که اینجوری رزین ها رو ترکیب کرده تا به این معجون خدایی برسه ی آکورد بینهایت سنگین و ناب و غیر تکراری از رزین ها که بشدت معطره من تا امروز عطری اینچنین رزینی و چغر و معطر ندیده بودم احساس میکنم تو ترکیبات لاوندر و پچولی هم باشه . نت غالب این عطر رزینی هم کندر هست . تمام حس سنگین چوبی و معطر و رزینی این عطر با بوی ملایم رز تلطیف شده عطری ماوارای عطر . عطر خدایان بینهایت چگال و سنگین و معطر با عطر روح افزا من تسمه تایم پاره کردم اگه این هم عطره پس اینایی که تو کوچه خیابون میبینم چیه؟ کیفییت شاهکار . رایحه فوق زیبا پرفورمنس خدا واقعا این عطر خدایانه باید فرعون باشی تا این عطرو بزنی باید مثل رامسس دوم به درجه نیمه الهی رسیده باشی

This perfume is an incense masterpiece. It seems to be receiving some recognition but is not seen as what it really is; a natural incense perfume with longevity. I have sampled and have watched reviews on many of the great incensy perfumes. Where this one exceeds all of them is that it is a possibility, in other words, you could encounter this lovely smell in an exquisite setting. The others seem to me as JUST a play on a particular incense: Bahkour, Church etc... This one is a possibility that was found, recognized and savored. All of the notes come together in beautiful harmony. I own Casbah, Cardinal, Avignon, Desert Marocain and Full Incense. These are all beautiful incense fragrances but they are exceeded by the artistry found in Calling All Angels. The longevity is superb and the Silage is good but make sure you let it dry down a bit before going into that important meeting. Scent 9.5 Longevity 10 Silage 10 Masculine 70% but easily worn and loved by women.

I've finally tried this fragrance and now I'm scratching my head at the reviews...Rice is the most popular food in the world but most popular doesn't mean "the best." The not so humble beginnings of Calling All Angels didn't start out so angelic as one would expect. I guess this fragrance had something to prove out of the gate and decided to blaze a trail with smoke. The celebrity notes of honey, labdanum and amber were inhibited by the aforementioned murky mentions. It took a while for this fragrance to get underway in showcasing it's true worth/value. At its peak, I'm left feeling like, "Is that it?" I've smelled sooooo many incensed-driven fragrances so therefore, I rooted for this one to be a bit different; kinda disappointed. In the end, this is an angelic scent with a devilish price point. It was said that Calling All Angels was made with love. If i had to pay with love, then this would still be sitting on the shelf.

Magical. I was in love with Anubis....by papillion, and someone suggested Calling All Angels. They do share certain similarities, at least in tone and feel. Both have qualities of sacredness, but more sensual than austere. They both feel like having sex in a cathedral. Or maybe that's just me. Anyway, CAA is more offbeat, very intense incense throughout, with a balsamic edge...the myrrh is strong in this and then honey, but a very vegetal honey. Its like standing at the side entrance to a Gothic cathedral and smelling the faint woods outside entering the catacombs and ancient timbers and stone and resin and marble. Its very evocative i must say. Performance is excellent. You would not want more. One of my new favorites.

Calling All Angels was a surprise - I expected it to be much more woody and dry and incensy. My skin does tend to amplify sweet notes, so on me this is a beautiful resin gourmand. It begins with a sweet incense and resin opening, with a touch of that elemi / saliva note that I dislike. Then it sweetens and deepens into a lemony, creamy sweet resin gourmand. The resins, incense and woods are blended so that I don't really pick out any in particular. It's quite sweet, with a little resinous tang and a little woodiness. It feels warm. It smells lovely, and not at all dark or harsh. A very comforting scent.

Oh I highly dislike this. I got a sample for myself, instant scrubber. So much so I forbid my husband from using it too. Too much like a spice rack... like snorting pepper and incense. Nothing sweet or "sexy" here to my nose but take this with a grain of salt (😂 ) I am a female (who likes vanilla and amber scents that are "crowd pleasers" so I'm probably not the target audience & I prefer scents like L'homme intense or gris on my husband. This to me isn't an easy fragrance.