Thierry Mugler has launched three new limited edition summer fragrances: Alien Sunessence Edition Saphir Soleil, Angel Sunessence Edition Bleu Lagon and A*Men Sunessence Edition Orage d’Eté…
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Thierry Mugler Angel Liqueur de Parfum ~ perfume review
Angel was a huge success for Thierry Mugler. It continued to sell long after the fashion line fell out of favor, and even after the fashion line disappeared altogether in 2003. So it’s no surprise that the flankers have been many. Some of them did quite well on their own (Angel Innocent was so popular it ended up with its own line of flankers) and many perfumistas loved the Garden of Stars series, especially the Rose Angel.
In 2007, Thierry Mugler released Angel La Part des Anges. Perfumer Françoise Caron had reworked the original Angel juice, adding dried fruits in the opening and amber in the base. Then they’d put it through an aging process devised in collaboration with cognac firm Rémy Martin, whereby it was aged in cherrywood casks for a period of weeks (some sources said 12, others 23). They sold it in Parfum, in a Swarovski studded bottle, at $220 for 10 ml.
I smelled it at Bloomingdales that year, and was quite taken…
Thierry Mugler Angel ~ an appreciation
Thierry Mugler’s Angel, like Yves Saint Laurent Opium or Guerlain Shalimar, is one of those perfumes that is so iconic, and so widely written about, that it’s hard to think of anything new to say on the subject. But as was the case with Shalimar, I want to review a flanker, and it just seems wrong to talk about the flanker when you haven’t talked about the original fragrance. So: some brief thoughts, a few quotes, but nothing like a real review.
Angel launched in 1992. It was the first fragrance from Mugler, who at one time was one of the bigger names in French fashion but whose house had by that time already started to decline; arguably he is better known today for the perfumes.1 Vera Strubi, president of Thierry Mugler Perfumes, noted that:
Angel is not the product of a marketing recipe. Angel surprises and intrigues people at the same time. It is so different that some find it shocking, but others become addicted to it.2
I, for one, found it shocking. Angel was, and is, a bestseller, so I surely must have smelled it at some point over the course of the 1990s, but I was not especially interested in perfume at the time and have no memory of it — the perfume I remember smelling everywhere in the mid-1990s was Calvin Klein’s CK One…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2009, part 1
From Thierry Mugler, Angel Collector Superstar Eau de Parfum (above left): “A 38mm Swarovski crystal is delicately poised, dangling at the center of the bottle as a reflection of prestige and beauty. More than 250 gleaming Swarovski crystals surround the jewel…”
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2009, part 13
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Viktor & Rolf, the 2009 holiday limited edition of Flowerbomb…
