The Mugler fragrance for men A*Men Pure Tonka A*Men was Thierry Mugler's very first men's fragrance. It appeared in 1996, embodying a kind of contemporary and timeless hero, at once current and futuristic.
By offering Angel, designed by Olivier Cresp in 1992, the young house of Thierry Mugler managed to turn its first revolutionary fragrance into a gourmand bestseller that transcends time and borders. Men also got their share of gourmand character with A*Men, composed this time by Jacques Huclier in 1996. From then on, Mugler kept offering magnificent flankers of this virile and original fragrance, and A*Men Pure Tonka, with its chiaroscuro, is no exception.
A*Men Pure Tonka, or Angel's gourmand character taken to its masculine extreme by Jacques Huclier
A*Men sought to offer men a fragrance as original and unsettling as Angel had been in 1992. Thus Jacques Huclier, who developed the formulation of this masculine star, did not hesitate to bring the modernity of vanilla-laden, sensual gourmand notes face to face with much more retro aromatic scents. In the end, A*Men exhales the new man that Thierry Mugler dresses, and its fragrant offspring, such as A*Men Pure Havane and A*Men Pure Coffee, only further highlight certain facets of this man of the new millennium by adding rare ingredients or new creative techniques to the original composition.
Whatever the case, and whatever the bottles, A*Men never stops innovating, and the lovely A*Men Pure Tonka proves it once again by offering a tonka bean at the height of its gourmand and fresh character. This gourmand quality is thus once again given shape by an A*Men Pure Tonka that, in addition to being magnificent, has also taken on an ethical dimension, since the tonka bean used for this opus comes from an ethical charter for the conservation of natural resources along the Caura River in Venezuela. A rarity still in perfumery…
A chiaroscuro tonka bean for an irresistible A*Men Pure Tonka
Jacques Huclier composed A*Men Pure Tonka while preserving the historic and now iconic backbone of A*Men, while adding brilliant olfactory novelties. A*Men Pure Tonka thus exhales the best of its fragrant father while pushing innovation a little further still.
A*Men Pure Tonka has thus preserved the brightness and freshness of its top and heart notes, composed around bergamot, mint, coriander, hedione and lavender. In the depths of A*Men Pure Tonka, patchouli and licorice become woody velvet, while vanilla, cocoa and coffee play with their sweet gourmand character to soften this ultra-virile blend.
However, it is this fine guest of honor, Venezuelan tonka bean, that lends this 2016 opus the full beauty of its various facets. It first appears through its toasted scents, countering the aromatic freshness, then through its gourmand face, blending all the better with the sensual power of the depths of this decidedly irresistible A*Men Pure Tonka…
With A*Men Pure Tonka, A*Men signs a new opus in the saga of Thierry Mugler's Pures, which revisit the A*Men fragrance endlessly around an exceptional ingredient and a unique olfactory expertise. Thierry Mugler on A*Men Pure Tonka.