Angéliques Sous La Pluie

If this perfume was a flower it would be the Queen of the night lily. Blooms only once at night. Blink and it’s gone. This was the first FM ever smelt when they first came out. The smell stayed with me. I never forgot it. It was so transportive. Like others have mentioned about it feeling like being in the rain in the forest etc. that’s the exact feeling I get it. There is something somber, reflective and introspective about this. Calming and grounding as someone else has said below. Hyper photorealistic. Back then to spend that amount on a fleeting scent wasn’t practical. I was a teenager looking to impress the girls. This just wasn’t it. I wanted Tom Fords and the latest club banger. But I never forgot this sent. Then I smelt Hermes Voyage in a store. Instant purchase. It was this scent profile but beefier and cheaper. With better performance. But the truth was it was never the same. It was as close as you could get. But it didn’t have the opening or quality in ingredients. It lacked the spices and the cedar, the airiness and musks. But it made more sense at the time. I don’t know why this scent is so fleeting. Cedar coriander and pink pepper have the ability to stay around. And let’s be honest, if this fragrance wasn’t selling it would have been on the chopping block years ago, FM aka Estée Lauder don’t mess around when it comes to the bottom line. I don’t know who this scent is for. I don’t know where it would be appropriate to be worn. By the time you get there it would have disappeared. For me it’s at home just out of the shower. Or when I’m in that kind of quiet contemplative mood. Maybe this scent has survived so long to show off the artistry of the brand. Maybe there some millionaire bathing in the stuff to warrant FM to keep producing it. Whatever the reason, I’m grateful to now have a bottle to experience that fleeting moment. That opening that feels like rain on flowers, drops dripping off their petals. The spicy woody mid before it disappears off into the night. Thank you Jean Claude Ellena.

This heavenly juice is a very underrated piece in the FM line. One of the most unique and interesting smells out there that is exquisitely pleasant and natural and real. It's never boring or linear. Yet so simple and so inoffensive! I have come to like it more than any other fragrance I own because it isn't trying to be anything. It doesn't have a pretense but it stands out and makes a statement. You can't categorize it; you can't call it sexy or masculine or feminine or woody even. It's not woody because the cedar is rounded out too well, in such a way that it doesn't evoke woods at all. It's slightly medicinal because of that roundedness but yet really natural and wet, like if you were standing and smelling a bottle of some tincture in some green, wet jungle...but the scent isn't stationary-- it flutters around you. It has almost a minty quality that would completely destroy any association with musk. People don't smell this on you and think it's a perfume. It smells like dewy rain and stalks of Angelica, and it is nothing like any standard perfume iteration out there. It refuses to be identified. I'm flabbergasted that a fragrance could be so bewildering! It's art! The reason I love it so much is whenever I smell it, my brain, at a loss for words at such poetry, immediately connects the scent to where I wore it most in the past-- Miami in the summer. It rained a lot then and the flowers were blooming and it was just a quiet majesty to the surroundings. The scent made the memories from when I wore it comforting and magical. Angelique Sous La Pluie is WHIMSICAL. It makes me imagine fairies, like what Tinker Bell would smell like. That sounds like such an odd association but it's a very unusual perfume!

how can i put this into words? imagine a green circle with a layer of dust over it. that is the best way i can describe the opening. it's green but not an alive green, it's not necessarily herbal or freshly cut plants, it's a dead green stem that's still green but neither sharp nor alive. which is actually quite pleasant. it is quickly accompanied by what i can only think of as a "ricy" note, it's powdery, a tad bit starchy, dusty. there is metallic touches imo from the juniper, but it doesn't necessarily smell like iron or blood, it's not even screechy, it smells like what i expect liquid aluminum solution to smell like. then comes the drydown where my skin brings out a natural sweetness from this, i can't necessarily say that it's musky, it's more so like a coconut water type of sweetness, which is why i'd categorize it along with guerlain coconut fizz. the only thing is that it lasts about 2 hrs on my skin, which is what it's supposed to do and be.

There is a life situations when your perfume must not be loud or offensive, but you want to enjoy in your fragrance that moment just for yourself, than is the right time for Angeliques, but most interesting, for about 2-3h after applying you have possibily to apply a completely new perfume because the scent of Angeliques would completely disappear. I dont know why many folks thing that is hard to create a LOUD and longlasting fragrances, that makes apsolutely no sense to me. A good quallity product doesn't mean the good longevity and big sillage. Is considered as a forerunner of French Lover, there is a long story behind, personaly i prefer Angeliques over the FL. I respect this creation so much, it is so Ellena! Minimalistic and realistic smells of the angelique tree under the rain. So calm and gentle. It can be a great cologne to starting a day with but i prefere to wearing it before i fall in sleep. 10/10

It starts like a pale-green, cold, rainy day. Angelica shows its full spectrum; lightly rooty and herbal, aromatic, and vividly green. The opening is genuinely captivating: wet, cold, and green. Then the steering wheel is suddenly taken over by juniper and cedar. The scent shifts from that muted, icy green into something more woody; crisp, piney, and still distinctly cold. Up to this point, it’s excellent. And then my brain makes a connection I can’t unmake: on me, this feels like a colder, greener, better-executed version of Juniper Sling; but still very close to it. I accept that. Similar enough that as long as I have Juniper Sling, buying this would feel pointless. Once my Juniper Sling is gone, this will become an FBW. Tag(s): pale-green, cold rainy opening, angelica, rooty-herbal, aromatic, wet, juniper, cedar, crisp woods, piney, forest-air vibe

The "traditionally masculine" notes of Angéliques Sous La Pluie blend to make one of the most gentle cloud-like true unisex fragrances-pepper over the delicate aroma of young herbs growing under tall cedar woods-the herbal notes of angelica and coriander are so refined that this woody floral musk could scent the clothes of cherubs-or some royalty with the most delicate composition. Almost smells like rain-that could be a note in this fragrance... As sweet as the water coming from an unpolluted lake in a forest somewhere north, but indeed fresh and bitter and peppery-So beautiful and balanced, sprightly...Why can't anybody make a fragrance (like this!)so divine without charging as much as Frederic Malle?

As my taste develops in the fragrance game, and I start to appreciate different kinds of fragrances. I’m often left in disappointment. This is usually due to finding a fragrance that completely blows my mind but lasts only minutes on my skin. This particular fragrance is one of those scents. It is so fleeting, but so perfect at the same time. Which leaves me completely lost on whether I would recommend purchasing a full bottle of this. Side note: This smells nothing like French Lover. This is very close to Peau d'Ambrette by Atelier Materi. Which is probably why I enjoy it so much, and is probably why I can’t seem to hate it. But the performance on this fragrance is utterly atrocious.

Wait a minute! Months ago I received a sample of this, I wore it on my wrists for the day and I loved the beginning but I thought it disappeared too rapidly. I promptly forgot about it. Today I rediscovered the sample and decided to use it up for the day. Well, wow!! 8 hours later and I can still smell it as the fragrance periodically comes to my nose. It smells lke a delicious orange citrus martini. Just fresh, fresh, fresh! It is wonderful. There are some indoles in there for sure, but it doesn't blur the scent. This would be great for the spring, summer and office anytime. I know that Elena continues to use the orange as his signature note and this variation is beautiful.

i blindly smelled this perfume, among other malle perfumes at the frederic malle counter as recommended by the sales person. overall i don't like frederic malle's perfumes as they are too rich and heavy for me, but this one stood out as one i actually like...even during the drydown. the opening had a strong gin smell to it, which i like. i tend to like alcohol/cocktail smelling scents anyways. than it drydown into a lighter more floral but still fresh smell, not overtly feminine either. later the evening i googled and found out it was this scent, due to its gin reference. in the future i would definitely consider this perfume.

The first time I tried this fragrance, all I really got was a whiff of celery, then not much else. Trying it again a year later, with a new manufacturer's mini, it has a completely different character. A green-still celery-like opening, which warms up and wraps itself in a delicate musk. Fragrance stays close to the skin, and with a good spray, lasts about 5 hours. It reminds me, strangely, of Eau de Cartier. Just tried the two (one on each wrist) and they do have a similarly, although EdC is sweeter and more floral, but still light and fresh. (5)

This opens with a juniper burst in a very gin and tonic way (not disimilar to something like Diptyque Orpheon). But as it develops, the white musk really comes out -- and it's like beautiful juniper, angelica white musk skin scent. Like if you mixed Diptyque Orpheon with Essential Faith. I will say if this is above your budget a more affordable that evokes a similar feeling (in addition to either above) would be A&F Ellwood White Bergamot (yes I said what I said).

This is the smell of being alone in nature. Of being the sole witness to a rainy day Autumn scene, fallen leaves fresh under foot, and tender plants catching water droplets on their delicate intricate leaf structures. It reconnects you to the earth, the elements, and the finer, almost alien-like details of the natural world, and so beautifully captures that melancholic feeling that comes with the turning seasons.

A very lovely, understated, barely perceptible woody, peppery, citrusy mix; very fine ingredients, but something for someone who doesn't want anyone to know he/she is wearing a perfume. Nose Jean Claude-Ellena is known for his subtle and elegant creations. This one is high on the list of practically invisible scents, suitable for warm weather, completely unisex (if that word even exists anymore?).

Loved it from the very first sniff! It can appear a bit masculine for some, but not for me.. On my skin it turns into a lovely mix of dried angelica, pepper and gin. As was mentioned by some of the other reviewers - it has something gin-ish. It's like drinking a really refreshing gin-tonic, while sitting in some Herbarium room, full of dried-plant aroma. That's my two cents.

Hermes vibes all the way! I always loved the smell of morning rain and this is how this scent smells. Clean crispy Juniper. A bit sweet very sophisticated. it's a mix of Jardin sur le nil and voyage by hermes in my opinion. Very unisex Very contemporary Morning - office appropriate. All ages can wear this. For me, on men this is VERY SEXY. Raw.

I love this spring fragrance, it's fresh and bitter like tonic water. I cought myself stopping and smelling my shirt just to say aaaah. I wish it was stronger but I bought 50ml anyway. If only Frederic Malle or any other perfumer made this twice as strong this would be an instant hit present in top x niche green compilations on youtube.

this fragrance makes me cry, it lives up to its name angels in the rain, like a lot of Jean-Claude fragrances this is light and realistic, this one is very atmospheric, fills my head with beautiful rain and life wether its evoking the past or a day dream it leaves me feeling sentimental, its a delicate masterpiece, its a piece of art

beautiful aquatic green scent. the juniper here reminds me le labo's baie 19. unfortunately doesn't even last 1 hour. it sits close to the skin, and i personally never look for loud fragrances, so silage is not problem. but damn this thing disappeared way too quickly. disappointing!

One of my absolute favorites. I’d love to be one of the lucky 21 people who believe this perfume’s longevity to be “eternal.” Instead, I get about 13 minutes of verdant bliss, followed by a strong feeling some blue bloods are having a laugh at my expense.

Doesn’t seem to last cedar, juniper really nice. More masculine. The light murmur of musk and top and middle notes does hum three or four hours. Would be good for office and confined areas.