Nirmala Molinard for women

My mother loves this perfume on me, but I'm not. Smell of floral sweet fit for a well-bred lady. To me, smell like freshly baked cookies from the owen.

When people say the first gourmand was Angel , it makes me rolling eyes . This one is so sweet that it would have deserved to be called so too , despite it doesn't have any food notes (well fruits are food, but you see what i mean )because of it's oversweetness .

Unlike many i don't believe either that they resemble each other , the main thing about Angel is Cotton Candy , Chocolate and Patchouli ( btw i've noticed that when any scent has quite a strong patchouli note , there's always someone to say "OMG! It's like Angel !!! " even if it's the one and only note they have in common . ) Roll eyes again
Nirmala hasn't any of those foody notes ! They're just both very sweet ! Really different .

Nirmala has been created in 1955 , but it's so hype in its smell , if it was better advetised it could be a hit ! All the Loverdose , LL Premier parfum , Black XS for her fans .... would love it and BUY it , because it's pretty cheap ( there is also a little 30ml bottle available)
I've asked the lady from the perfume store to scent me with it this morning, because i'd always love it on the test paper , today it's quite cold outside, and despite this i believe it's really really sweet . If you're not a gourmand fan , don't buy ! If you are, you'll love it , and yet you won't smell like the other gourmand fans !

I just wore Nirmala yesterday after being out of it for a long while. It's certainly not for the shy or cool personality. At the same time it is sweet enough that it could work for a younger person. For Americans it would definitely seem feminine but I think some men could wear it. In either case a very light hand is the best - this baby is strong going on and doesn't dissipate as much as drop off after 6-8 hours on the skin. It sticks forever on cloth.

I was concerned that I was getting a reformulated bottle, but going on my experience the juice I got hold of is the one I remember fondly. I knew it as soon as I smelled that slightly dirty sweet opening of the fruit. It is not a simplistic sweet fragrance - rather there is a fermented complexity to the fruits that lasts into the woody and still sweet drydown.

This does have similarities, on my skin, to Angel. The woods are not as strong as the patchouli however the "dirty" or fermented effect reminds me of Angel quite a bit. Even though it's definitely fruity, the way Molinard uses fruit is not the same as a lot of the gourmand frags of the last 25 years or so. I don't think, ooh I will chomp down on that cassis (or passionfruit or whatever). Instead I lean closer and wonder what's so compelling about the scent and making me feel almost like I do after a good dessert.

Wearing this made me remember a summer when I wore it daily. It's really a great warm weather scent - if it suits your style, of course. As of 9/30/2011 Parfums Raffy seems to be selling the older formulation.

Several years back I ordered this perfume blindly on line...thought the bottle was adorable and the description sounded wonderful. I don't have it any longer so I'm going solely off memory. I remember it as intensely musky and pheromoney....dare I say...like liqueur soaked panties and incense.Memories of feeling a bit dizzy and overwhelmed by it's otherworldliness and strength. At the time, I wanted so badly to love it because it was so unique but I couldn't have hated it more. It was oozing sweet,hot,woodsy sex ( which sounds amazing...I know) but it just did not mix with my chemistry. I gave it away because I just couldn't take it anymore...it was also very strong and hard to scrub off...the kind of scent that carves itself into your psyche right from the get go and makes people blush when you're near.. Reading these reviews has sparked my curiosity again after all these years....I wish I had that bottle still...I'd like to give it a second chance.Maybe it's a love or hate thing.

i have had positive to very positive experiences with the house of molinard.
and after reading the reviews here comparing this to angel...well lets just say it was a no brainer for me to get this as it cost about 75% less than angel.
darling fragranticans, i thank you again for not letting me down!
this is a real treat.
even though these notes are not listed, i very much get caramel and coffee.
it does dry down to a slightly soapy, musky, and vanilla.
would i love a bottle of TM angel? oh heck ya!!!
but i do prefer for the most part quantity over quality.
luckily, nirmala, is a very good quality version of angel "light"
at a very very good price! : )

this to me deffently have the resemblance to bouth innocent and angel by TM.
the opening is very much like innocent to me . but this one is alittle bit more fruity and stronger .
I can realy smell the citruses , especialy the grapefruit, in this first moments it is pure pleasure , then the Mango and passionfruit come in and makes it a little bit messy for me , im not quite shure if i like it that much in this stage . this have to grow on me i think.
The mango has so much neewanses to it and so does the Passionfruit ,but after all the clen smell of grapefruit saves this for me in this stage.
then in comes the tiny whiff of vanilla . and my thoughts are mmm... nice . then it grows eaven bigger and takes the Tonka beans to dance. heavenly . the sandelwood iMO could have been left out in this , but it is not to strong so..
in this ending stage the drydown is pretty like angel IMO . the innocent have left and the Angel has arriwed:)
this is a unik and very interasting perfume . (The only thing i have to think about whit this is not to put it on whit a empty stomack. i then will get ill by it . some perfumes have that affect , and this is one of them ..)
i quite like it , note shure if i easely could use a 100 ml bottle but who knows..

I tried this one several times , because I wanted to like it. But everytime I gave away the bottle. It is a nice and alluring scent, but it is not my type of thing. It's called the original "Angel"(Mugler). If you like "Angel", you might like this one too. Another scent trying to come close to Nirmala is the first Halle Berry. The scent to me has a big pear note.

It's hard to believe that such a beautiful, quality fragrance can be found for so inexpensively! Excellent for summer.
I absolutely adore it, well done!

Nirmala and Mugler's Innocent are so very similar - and both are absolutely stunning. You cannot go wrong with either, in my opinion. Nirmala has a wonderful balance between fruity, spicy, and woodsy notes.

Resemblance to Angel? Personally I dont see any (at least Angel has only shown me its awful bitter face, whereas Nirmala is warm).

The opening is a lovely-honeyed like fruity one (this reminded me of Ginestet's Botrytis).

The jasmine is almost unnoticeable on my skin, very soon cca 15-20 mins the base notes appear, first like a big heap of hay with some fruits.

Regarding the base there is not much vanilla, to my nose it is the cedar that is most prominent. Some musk, some tonka, well balanced.

This is a unique and harmonious fragrance, for grown-up women.
I reckon it is both lovely for daytime and evening.

Only it does not seem to last long on my skin :(

Got this sample in a swap and I was excited to get this up to my nose once it was on my skin. I got all the lovely fruits listed while it was still floating in the air. It smelled delicious. But then when I brought it closer and took my first whiff... it smelled liked my daughter's school erasers (rubber-like). The one fruit note that stood out amongst the eraser smell was the passionfruit.

Perhaps I need to try this yet again, but so far I can't agree with the positive reviews. At first it's indeed scrumptious, and it instantly makes me think "Angel" even though the notes are quite different. Then it slides quickly into a very bad rendition of Angel. Not to say Molinard copied Angel or anything of that nature. I like Angel, but Nirmala is just a bad combination of good notes on my skin.

I have to admit I've rarely smelled something as delicious as this fragrance. It's most likely the main source of inspiration for both Innocent by Thierry Mugler and Hypnose by Lancome, but it eclipses both of them with its class and masterful realization. Where the latter two become rubbery and plasticky, Nirmala matures into a deep, natural creaminess, a perfect symbiosis of fragrance and skin which I can only attribute to the superior ingredients used in the making of this gem.

The passion fruit is prevalent in Nirmala, giving it a tasty fruitiness which brings it closer to the concept of a woody gourmand. It lasts for practically days (after 24 hours I can still smell its trace on my wrist) and the sillage is fantastic. Despite the price tag, I would buy this fragrance with no reserves.

I got Nirmala in a grab-bag of samples and thought it was cloying and strange when first smelled - but I could not leave it alone, had to just check it again, day after day; something about it mesmerised me even though it seemed overwhelmingly sweet and fruity. I used up then sniffed that one little sample container day after day until I finally just ordered a bottle of it. I now absolutely love it, but have to wear it very sparingly - as it is so intense. I find it irresistable but on the edge of being too much! I don't wear it to work. Although it has some shared notes with Angel it is a different experience altogether: it is a very complex and original scent, not at all like anything else. Very worth trying!

I first came across Nirmala in Nice, France where I actually purchased it after trying on a sample in a perfumerie....that was years ago...I loved it instantly and have used it every since; of course what I brought back with me did not last and I searched the internet for Nirmala which I found and purchased agan; It is one of my favorites which I wear daily! every time I wear this I get compliments and they want to know what it is..a waiter even once commented and said "I love the way you smell" quite embarrasing since I am married but gratifying to know that this essence is powerful enough to have strangers comment on its scent!! wonderful job MOLINARD...I also perchase the perfume which is very expensive....$150 for the bottle....if anyone reads this, try AMAZON.com...I have given it as a present to close friends and my daughers as well!!

oh and this is definately better than angel. angel sometimes smells like it is gonna attack you when you put it on. gives me a headache at times.

hmmm yummy. smells kinda fresh too. which i love. definately a keeper

In contrast to other reviewers, I'm not detecting a lot of similarity between Molinard NIRMALA and Thierry Mugler ANGEL. NIRMALA opens to my nose with a dark, almost fermented fruitiness. Something--I initially thought it might be incense or myrrh--is so strong that it's nearly tarlike.

As it dries down, NIRMALA becomes more enjoyable, but I don't really like the sandalwood note very much in the middle period. By the end, however, when the fermented fruit has finally gone away, the warm vanilla wood smells very lovely. I do admit that a couple of times I caught a tiny whiff of something very vaguely redolent of ANGEL, but it was so evanescent that I cannot really agree that the two have much in common.

If I could skip the opening and move directly to the drydown, I might add NIRMALA edp to my collection. But I can't, so I won't.

It is an intensified Angel Innocent - or the head notes of Angel, unchanged. Nirmala stays sharp all the way - perhaps, mango is to blame.It does not go all patchoulish-chocolatey on you, like Angel does. Instead of that, it holds you down with a hand full of sparkly citruses and tropical fruitiness. It is not, absolutely not, a gourmand scent.Woodsy base is still slightly astringent, never let itself loose, and it does not resemble Innocent`s flowery-milky base at all...it`s all woods and citrus here. There is a pine bark/needles accord that reminded me of Marina de Bourbon, which I love, and which also resembles Angel Innocent to my nose. Nirmala is the most grown up and strict among all of them. I am waiting for a cool evening to wear it, otherwise it probably will intimidate me!
PS After a thorough testing - evening/night/morning - I want to add a couple of things. There is a note that is very strong in Nirmala and it appears to be the heart of this wonderful scent. It`s almonds, or something that smells very close to almond essence.Gradually, it goes away and the dry down is similar to Angel Innocent - very clean,slightly soapy, but divine.My love is confirmed.

Smells EXACTLY like "Angel" by Mugler. Unfortunantly I'm one of those who just can't stand neither one, no disrespect to all of you who loves this (for example my man loves them both on me). But why not go for this original one created in 1955 instead? every Angel-lover should absolutley compare these 2 perfumes. ;)

Kastehelmi, I have both Angel and Nirmala and I love them both, but my husband prefers Nirmala!!!
He says it has better staying power and is more alluring. It does not have the depressing effect that Angel has. So if you know the picture of the two clown faces, the one smiling and the other crying, Angel is the crying one and Nirmala the smiling one!!

My name is "Nirmala" born in 1955. The perfume gifted to me in 2005 by Principal Kinnaird College - I was her secretary at that time. Now my age is 53 years. Since that time I been searching for this perfume but hard luck I can't get it from anywhere. I live in Pakistan. I would be grateful is you could gift it to me.

I think I'm testing the latest issue - I swear this smelt like honey on first application. I do know the older versions had beeswax so wonder if that note carried over to the newer version or I tested an older sample. I can't say I get much citrus but I do get other tropical fruits. The jasmine and vanilla and sandalwood comes forward later. Thankfully, not any cedar. This is a sweet fragrance but apply with a light hand or it could be too cloying. Good lasting power.

Nirmala vs Angel. As a matter of fact right now I have both on (it's a pity we humans have only 2 hands;) So, the opening differs greatly - Angel is more foody and sweet and makes me think of a cup of hot chocolate; Nirmala is also sweet but not in a gourmand way. The middle notes are practically 1:1 on me, rich and smooth, deep and dark. The basenotes are very much alike, but I like Nirmala more - can't even explain why - maybe Nirmala has a more prominent woodsy note in it. A few years ago we had to saw off an old orchard - cherry trees, plum trees, an old eve etc. And this smell of sawdust + tree resins comes to my mind when I smell the drydown of Nirmala - Angel gives me more food-like associations.

I love this - get an older bottle if you can though, not sure if the latest version is the same quality. Yes, it reminds me of Angel, but Angel copied Nirmala, if anything! A blackcurrant note is very strong in this perfume, and it's one of my favorite notes. Passion fruit is very prominent too, and it's VERY redolent of sandalwood, right on the edge of being too much. IN the older version the sandalwood is of excellent quality, so that's not a problem for me.

This is an example of the right way to do a fruity scent, and it blows all those boring, smell-alike lightweights out of the water.

Some Molinard i hate..others i find facinating and stunning...and there is no mistaking that they are French... Normala is a unique sweet floral and for sure will remind one of Angel without the bite...I do not like Angel but i like this i wear this when i am feeling eccentric and playful....which isn't often anymore.

It's like combination of Innocent and Angel plus mango, minus half of the patchouli ;) Very good if you can't decide if you want to use Angel or Innocent ;) Good staying power

I have been wearing Nirmala for years now, and I also wear Thierry Muegler's Angel.
If you smell Nirmala (the eau de parfum, sadly discontinued, is your best bet) you will instantly "get" the inspiration for Angel. Its so blatantly derivative of this 1955 classic that its almost embarrassing, one wonders why there isn't some sort of copyright protecting scents.
Nirmala is exquisite, fresh, strong and lively, more elegant than Angel because it has no head-shop inspired patchouli note and less of a chocolat-ey, vanilla note. Its better for daytime wear because the sillage, although decent, is not the atomic blast radius sillage of Angel.
Its also a LOT less expensive than Angel.
Don't get me wrong - I wear both Nirmala and Angel, I love strong sillage and sweet scents, but Nirmala is probably the most wearable of the two on an everyday basis.
Try to find an older, frosted pink glass bottle of the Nirmala eau de parfum, because the eau de toilette only lasts a very brief time.

I tested Nirmala in the store today, it's a sugary, almost cloying fruity floral. It didn't come in the bottle pictured though but in the one the Les Fleurs, Les Fruits, Les Orientaux are packaged in. Nirmala is a burst of sweet fruits, even sweeter than fruit juice, an almost syrupy mixture of citrus, mango and passion fruit. I couldn't detect the floral note, when eventually the fruity notes died down, Nirmala became like caramelised sugar with a hint of smokey vanilla, like a vanilla cake you've just got of the oven. Finally, a touch of musk made it a bit soapy and fresh-smelling, which was kind of incongruent with the rest of the gourmand and sugary notes. So this will definitely be the new Nirmala, a reformulated one, I find it hard to imagine the same scent in the fifties.

The notes on this sound great, making me wonder whether I got a bad bottle from eBay. On me, it was the most synthetic laundry detergent and cumin - one of my least favorite perfume experiences!