Anglomania (for women)

weegee

Never for the office unless you act in porn. Wear only around someone with whom you're already intimate or would like to be.

The opening blasts a dare and a warning shot of green tea sharpness with the bite of fresh green coriander (cilantro!) and warm, incensey spice of cardomom. Enter if you hear the music, feel the rhythm and want to dance in the dark. Enter if you dare.

Beyond sexy, the drydown is a boozy, rich, deep, wet slick of sweat, warm leather, pipe tobacco and a wafting vapor of burning incense (amber) wrestling with the oily, resinous scent of the darkest of deep red roses. Dazed, you realize the heart of roses has been there all along, pulsing it's hypnotic beat. The violets and nutmeg make the rose-heart deeper although I can't parse them out separately.

This is the way we might wish the bedroom to smell the morning after a particularly lovely evening. Try a single spray at the nape of the neck to be warmed by your hair and another over your heart. Will last from dusk on through breakfast.

Same nose as Miss Boucheron, Ysatis and Safari; Anglomania has the same depth as these other treasures.

hollivomitsyou

anglomania is amazing. lush red roses, soft leather and lots of sweet powder. it makes me think of a beautiful woman all made up laying on an antique leather chaise lounge with vases full of roses around her. gorgeous and long lasting. also love the packaging. it would be a good first leather for someone who feels a little interested but nervous.

darlingbuds

Ah! The scent of a fresh maxi-pad! A freshly-powdered crotch! An aromacoepia that can only whisper 'feminine hygeine'. Anglomania is an offering leached of great potential darkness. Like Anne Geddes babies in bondage leather with cat o' nine tails clenched in their chubby fists. Innocence and experience not playing well together at all. Olfactory effects in either direction are canceled out, as any bestial, sexual qualities Anglomania aspires to are flash-sanitized, rolled through the de-lousing chamber, and sprinkled with Love's Baby Soft on the way out.
And it lasts and lasts.

ArtELLE

Gorgeus perfume! Very unique and strong. Unforgetable!

Moyra

Anglomania is my second foray into the Vivienne Westwood's perfumes, and it has not really been easier than my first (Boudoir), so much so that when I read the notes and the reviews extolling its sweetness, lovely roses and other marvels and smell my wrists, I wonder if I may not be suffering from olfactory hallucinations.

I really, really have to strain through the sharpish, screeching opening that lingers on and on in order to derive even the slightest rose, violet or vanilla. It could be the cardamom, it could be the cumin, or it could even be the strong green tea, but something blocks my way into the sweet, softer places in this composition.

On the positive side, it is an unusual spring/summer scent, it lasts about 8 hours, has decent but not earth shattering sillage (thankfully?) and the bottle is quite elegant.

So far, Vivienne Westwood perfumes and I do not have a comfortable relationship. I do know they are special and interestingly made, definitely not run-of the-mill scents that everybody smells like or that smell the same on everyone, and I keep trying to make friends with them because they are so special.

But I tell you, its WORK, not an easy relationship at all!

krmarich

Great attention grabber. Red, bold yet not overwhemling. Evertime Westwood releses a scent, they are become hard to find. Such a shame, because they are great! This one was never labled unisex, but looking at the notes, it is easy to tell. The top notes are pretty feminine. It dries down very androgynously. It has a very rebellious quality to it. I detect memories of Vivienne's punk rock days.

CARMENMINIGA

Le parfum est comme un manteau sur une robe soit pour habiller soit pour exprimer quelque chose de nous.Anglomania c'est quelque chose qui me donne beaucoup de confiance en moi et egallement me fait sentir comme un modele sur un scene.
C'est fort et plus interessant.

Miertje87

maybe it is my skin chemistry but I really didn't like this at all. I bought this based on the great reviews and thought it would relly be for me..I was quite dissapointed, I couldn't smell roses at all only coriander and cardemom..

iMaverick

This scent is about roses. I didn't catch much of the tea and spices note in the beginning, but a lot of the vanilla and amber notes drizzled over the rose, creamy and dreamy. Later on, I could catch the the spicy tea notes in a dancing frenzy around the rose, sharp and assertive with a dose of powdery violets, unlike its general dusty smelling nature, and a supple leather beginning to emerge.

The scent lasts quite a while--I haven't even experienced the last exhale of the vanilla and amber yet!

ktv0926

I've just recently found out that i have a thing for leathery scents. Anglomania has very sensual and deep leathery aftertaste, i love it! The opening is a bit strong for me, but the middle notes and drydown are really worth waiting!

solocha

I'd say it is a perfume for young girls who are not particularly those girly girl types, but not very original either. The scent in the beginning is, for me, a rather generic type of sweet, uncomplicated, not very heavy floral scents with (according to current standards, they can even call it 'oriental'). Vanilla with chocolatey flavour. In the drydown it is getting more interesting - it goes through the soap-y stage to the quite lovely, again uncomplicated, baby powder. It sticks to clothes very well and leaves them with a completely different impression in the long term than the impression it wanted to do in the first sniff. The baby powder note overlaps with leather note, the result is a clean, soft fragrance.

Boggi

I need to add that this has a georgous leathery smell in the drydown. Reminds me a little of Bvulgari black.

Boggi

When I was a kid I had a little bottle of True Love from Elizabeth Arden. I loved the fragrance and treasured every little drop of it. Recently I bought a full bottle of True Love and the disapointment was big. It did not smell like the little bottle I owned many years ago.

But now when I got a tester of Anglomania, I discovered this smells very much like the true True Love! Mysterious, wonderful warm roses! Perfect for a walk outside in cold weater or for a day you (and people around) you can take a really strong perfume.
This makes me feel different! Love it!

rebella

The opening fragrance is so good that I could drink the perfume right from the bottle, but I don´t. A hot, sexy and warm fragrance with a whole lotta roses. ;) Avoid overdose, because it´s so strong you might get a headache, somedays I don´t manage this strong fragrances. The drydown is wonderful, warm, tender and in a way calming...
Try it!

takemyhusbandplz

Anglomania, is definitely what this perfume gives me! I find Anglomania sensual and exciting. On my skin the middle & base notes come out the best. Spicy and yes, a bit powdery because of the violets, but not overtly so. The rose is a sexy rose with the nutmeg and amber giving it a spicy tone. The leather, vanilla and otto give it the sex appeal. The green notes give it the lasting power. I find Anglomania quite exquisite. The lasting power is excellent too. The bottle is gorgeous, as all the Vivienne Westwood bottles. I find myself reaching for this spicy and intense fragrance much more than I thought I would. Love it!

TOP NOTES: Green Tea, Cardamom & Coriander. MIDDLE NOTES: Rose, Otto, Violet & Nutmeg. BASE NOTES: Leather, Vanilla & Amber.

elgab89

Bold! Powerfull! Gorgeous! For a woman with confidence. Caution - is not for everybody - however, if you need a power boost this is it.
I loved the bottle, too.
Not a pretty in pink scent, but sexy in red!