Angel

Thierry Mugler · 1992

The patchouli-and-chocolate scent people can smell coming from another room.

Bitter dark chocolate and praline sit directly on top of raw, earthy patchouli, an odd pairing that reads as both gourmand and a little animalic. It was the first fragrance to push dessert notes this hard against something so earthy, and it still smells unlike almost anything else on shelves.

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Ranked by how much they share with Angel. The notes in common are listed under each bottle. Prices and stock come from the makers’ own shops.

Estate Cacao
Solstice Scents
$90EDP
Chocolate sits directly on patchouli here, the same bitter-sweet-on-earth pairing Angel is built on, with raspberry and pomegranate instead of a general red berry top.
Shared notes
- Chocolate
- Patchouli
Sultry
City Rhythm Fragrance
$40–198
Shares the patchouli and caramel base, but the top is cherry liqueur, rose and almond, so it lands fruitier and more floral than Angel's chocolate.
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Beaver Maple Edition
Zoologist Perfumes
$9–200
Patchouli and vanilla sit under cocoa-infused maple syrup and castoreum, echoing the gourmand-and-animalic pairing, though maple stands in for chocolate.
Shared notes
- Patchouli
- Vanilla
Pinyon Truffle
Solstice Scents
$19.50Parfum
Chocolate, tonka and vanilla are all here, but pine and resin do the earthy work instead of patchouli, so it reads drier and more piney, less mossy.
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Estate Cacao

Sultry

Beaver Maple Edition

Pinyon Truffle