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.
The house does not lay out a classic tiering: it announces three revelations. Sambac jasmine, which it describes as luminous and honeyed; cashmeran wood, musky and warm; a white amber it describes as suave and plush.
Robin finds this order confirmed on skin. The opening is first a sensation — dry, transparent, warm — that she attributes to the solar accord, before a very expansive jasmine and the woody cashmeran take over entirely.
The base is woody, musky, ambery, with the velvety, almost powdery finish of cashmeran. She perceives an offbeat note there, which others describe as glass cleaner, as essence, or as nail polish remover, faint but persistent through to the end.
The sillage accounts for the rest of its reputation. Robin calls it powerful, especially in the first hours, to the point of leaving a trace behind in every room passed through — a trait Alien shares with Angel.
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