Angel Muse, an eau de parfum launched by Mugler in 2016, reinvents Angel’s gourmand character around a hazelnut cream and vetiver. Quentin Bisch opens the composition with grapefruit and pink berries; the house presents it as the first gourmand vetiver for women. It leaves the star behind for a refillable bottle shaped like a cosmic pebble.
Thomas Dunckley (The Candy Perfume Boy) finds Angel Muse smoother and rounder than Angel, yet undeniably part of the family; Elisa (Bois de Jasmin) sees it as a fruity patchouli gourmand worthy of the line.
What critics say
Rounder than Angel
For Thomas Dunckley, who reviewed it in June 2016 on The Candy Perfume Boy, Angel Muse is a modern variation on the queen of gourmands. He admits enjoying it very much, even though he hardly likes seeing his favorite fragrance reworked.
Where Angel was angular and spiky, Muse strikes him as smoother and rounder, like the pebble that holds it. Less confrontational, the fragrance remains in his eyes an Angel, in a more contemporary version.
A gourmand true to the line
Elisa, on Bois de Jasmin in January 2017, considers the original Angel practically unimprovable. She places Muse among the fruity patchouli gourmands, those dessert-like orientals sweetened with burnt sugar and fruit.
She is glad that Mugler keeps Angel’s magic alive through quality flankers and praises the way the house embraces, in its campaign, the fragrance’s divisive character.
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