[3] There were music videos made for "Imitating Angels" and "Sad and Damned".

Despite Geffen's expensive promotional efforts, the album was a commercial failure.

Brian Flota of AllMusic proclaimed Nymphs to be "the last great glam-metal album".

[2] The Vancouver Sun wrote that "[Inger] Lorre is a great hard-rock singer, with a clear, strong voice that pierces straight through the guitars that thunder and crash around her.

"[6] In June 2020, Nymphs was ranked in LouderSound's "10 Obscure but Absolutely Essential Grunge Albums".