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Thierry Mugler

Alien Eau de Parfum

Alien was released in 2005, thirteen years after Angel, for which Mugler was seeking a successor. Dominique Ropion and Laurent Bruyère built it on three revelations that the house declares: a luminous, honeyed sambac jasmine, cashmeran wood and a white amber. The talisman bottle, faceted like an amethyst, is refillable.

Brand
Thierry Mugler
Launch year
2005
Perfumers
Gender
Women
Olfactory family
Floral
Concentration
Eau de Parfum
EAN
3614274076752 (10 ml) · 3614273606400 (15 ml) · 3439600056914 (30 ml) · 3439600056921 (60 ml) · 3439600056969 (90 ml)

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Angel had changed everything in 1992, and there was no rush for Mugler to find it a successor. Alien arrives thirteen years later: Robin, of Now Smell This, presented it on release as the house's first major feminine since that overwhelming success.

The house presents it as a talisman rather than a fragrance, and builds around it the figure of a sun goddess. The slogan of the first campaign, Do you believe in the extraordinary?, still appears today on the page Mugler devotes to the fragrance.

Dominique Ropion and Laurent Bruyère signed the formula. Mugler acknowledged the difficulty of the exercise in Women's Wear Daily in June 2005: Angel was born in innocence, whereas Alien was created under the gaze of the entire world.

The line has kept expanding since then — Eau Extraordinaire, Essence Absolue, Eau Sublime, Goddess — to the point that the name now designates an entire family as much as a single bottle.

Olfactory pyramid

  1. Top notesThe first minutes
  2. Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
  3. Base notesWhat lingers

What critics say

Robin (Now Smell This) neither loved nor hated it: expansive jasmine, velvety cashmeran, a persistent offbeat note and a sillage that does not go unnoticed.

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What the community says

LongevityLong
Fleeting3 votesAll day
SillageGenerous
Intimate3 votesOverpowering

Season

Winter75 %
3 votes
Autumn25 %
1 vote

Occasion

Evening67 %
2 votes
Work33 %
1 vote

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The advertising

A sun goddess from elsewhere

Do you believe in the extraordinary?: the first campaign makes Alien a talisman and gives the fragrance the face of Tina Baltzer.

The first campaign poses the question that still serves as the line's signature: Do you believe in the extraordinary?. The fragrance is presented there as a talisman, worn by a sun goddess figure that owes as much to the extraterrestrial as to the fairy creature.

Model Tina Baltzer lends her features to this figure in 2005, and the house names Felicity Gilbert as the line's second face. No director or photographer is credited for this first film.

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