Harem

i have this since many many years, still in the old version bottle. i was used to use this several years ago for nights out and i always got compliments on this. yes there is left still pretty mutch because i used it with light hand always. it's powerfull and longlasting. incredible, when i first sniffed angel when it came out, i knew that i did smell this before, even if it was hyped as a revolution in perfumes, to me it smelled very familiar, but i din't know why! i had forgotten about my harem because i'm owning and wearing so mutch newer scents in the last few years - but now by reading the reviews here, i know about the WHY of my thoughts: i sprayed both - each to one of my wrists, and they are really almost identical untill the caramel-vanilla drydown which one is softer/tender and more comfortable for harem by LR. stunning discovery! by wearing harem recently, my husband told me it smells sooooo sexy and better than angel... he likes angel too but it's too mutch offending and less sexy than harem (he's used to call angel a somehow aggressiv fume... harem it's not) guess on the bottom notes, angel is darker, harsher and louder because of the patchouli-tonka-mix. angel-lovers: give harem a try !

well to have REALLY nothing in common with angel as some mentioned, this has obviousely a few notes in common with angel ;) my nose never cheates me, it smells INDEED like angel, but more refined and less harsh by same intensity. this one is really old ! shurely muglers perfumistas where inspired by it when they created angel. this one by LR was the first real gourmand perfume i knew in my life far away to the first launch of angel. both are rich oriental-vanillas with a bunch of patchouli, chocolate and caramel mingeld with tender jasmin and a juicy frity opening. angel has a colder vibe than harem and it's more honeylike here harem is ambery. but the rest is identic, so plz angel lovers, go and try it out before you refuse to accept the obvious similarity as well in the pyramid of both scents.

It's sad to hear when a unique perfume gets reformulated. But it also goes to show that time as well as your feelings are elusive. Memory is all that remains. Even if they hadn't or perhaps actually haven't reformulated this one, it would have changed over time because its chemistry reacts. So, you can never be sure what you have really smelled back then, and how it compares to what you are smelling right now. Anyway, I once knew a girl who wore this one - judging on the comments below it must have been the first incarnation. It really felt like a special fragrance, and suited her well. ...because it was a special moment, and special moments will be remembered just like that. ****

I was LR salesperson in 1998, and Harem was already then in the collection. The bottle looked a bit different then. The info says, it was launched at the 2000s. Have they changed the perfume then, and kept the name? I don't think so, it sounds like the Harem I knew. It was a very popular LR scent, many women bought it from me. It is a very unique oriental scent, with good lasting power and heavy sillage.

when they changed the bottle they also tuned down the forumulation, it smells now rather like chopard wish than like angel from mugler. what a shame.... still nice but not the same :( staying power is not as good as the old version. happy to still own the original stuff.