Alien Eau de Toilette

I am an ALIEN obsessive. An obsessee. This is ALIEN with Sprite/7up/lemonade and fresh ginger in the opening. This is ALIEN without the dry tonka and with less of the cedar. This is a softer, lighter, brighter, fresher, more dewy, more casual and easygoing version of ALIEN. But it is still distinctly ALIEN. I generally don't go in for eau de toilette versions of my favorite eau de parfum fragrances. I never really see the point in them. But there are exceptions, especially when the main, original version of the fragrance is so potent and unique a scent as ALIEN. An ALIEN EDT could have gone badly wrong. It had the potential to really suck. It could have smelled just like a fake, copycat version of ALIEN, but it doesn't. ALIEN EDT is a scent all its own, with the juicy, syrupy jasmine of the original remaining in tact and the amber softened. I find this very easy to wear, any time, any place. Side by side, hand in hand with my beloved ALIEN. A TRUE eau de toilette. When I sprayed this today my male best friend got the craving to wear ALIEN himself and our brief discussion on this matter lead to the conclusion that the eau de toilette version is perhaps less unisex than the original edp. Something to bear in mind? The EDT may be construed as a more feminine version of ALIEN, therefore perhaps better suited to those who have found the original ALIEN too heady, deep and bold? I LOOOOOVE ALIEN. 💜 (Quick note - have found that spraying this on top of ALIEN EDP after a day's wear makes for a perfect refresher of the jasmine note, when I'm fatigued by it in the original and can no longer smell it, this amps it up a notch or twenty!) Note to reader - my review is based on the old formula of this. The CURRENT FORMULA is far weaker, more one dimensional, really does smell like a dreaded copycat of itself. Exactly what I feared the original EDT might smell like... but the original formulation of the EDT is amazing, while this current reform, though pleasant, lacks heart. Or ought I to say it lacks BASE? It just isn't nearly as good. There's a touch of something plastic in the current version, rubbery? Gasoline? Candle wax? The jasmine actually smells not dissimilar to some used in Lush's Lust. I never saw a link between Alien and Lust before. Such a shame it lacks the complexity and richness of the original EDT, still enjoyable mind you, just lacking.

I became obsessed with trying this perfume. You know how that happens? Something snags your attention, a bottle, a review, a trail of scent in the air. So finally I got a bottle of the EDT. (I've never tried the EDP.) Truthfully at first, I was like, "Why would someone want to wear something named ALIEN??" Kind of how I outright object to anything that has the word "juicy" in it. But now I find there is something compelling about the whole thing, and I adore the little 1 ounce Alien that houses the juice. Tho the blond ethreal models are the antithesis of myself, who is all shades of dark colors. I actually find this to be a simple fragrance, and the whole 'purple' concept is so stamped in my mind that ALIEN EDT reminds me of rich purple flowers, rather than heady sweet white flowers. ALIEN is mostly a rich floral, with a hint of amber underneath and a bit of orange in the top notes. The only wood notes I detect are those of the abstract variety. Two sprays is enough to last for hours, and the sillage is pretty good. Actually I wore this to work the other day (which I won't do again--this is a bit too much to wear to a workplace like mine) and myself and a coworker were taking xrays on a shih tzu. I was holding the dog, and she remarked, "You know this dog's feet never touch the ground, because he just smells like fancy people hold him all day. He smells like rich perfume." I just smiled, and didn't suggest that it was probably me that was wearing the 'rich perfume.' But it was a nice comment noneless. So, Alient EDT--good enough for shih tzus held by rich, fancy people.

Hmmm...Ok..it's time I give this one a proper and thorough review after some time of not wearing it.Which I wore just quite recent. This to me,on the initial spray,smells like what the EDP smells like after a couple hours wear.The Dry down of the EDP basically.But with a hint of something citrusy that is not lemon.Imagine a orange flavoured gummy candy plus a powdery scent.I smelled the powderiness of it in powder form before but can't recall which. I love to use it more like a casual scent.Lunch or dates with the sun still up.Much better under the warm weather I guess. And this doesn't have the mysterious vibe of the EDP.It doesn't have the subtle indolic note which made me love jasmine too.It's a citrusy-powdery white floral.A confectionary sugar dusted on an orange flavoured turkish delight with "A white floral".A cleaner jasmine per se. If the EDP is a perfume that draws in mystery,provokes the dark night with an ethereal and holy vibe but has a devilish-innate core,then the EDT is basically Alien in a good mood where she's just chill but still a succubus but acts like a doe and vixen at the same time.She's just there,being Alien in a good mood,brightening up the place and blending in(which she fails to do) but still manages to stand out. Longevity is good but not as good as the EDP and sillage is about an arms length or close to skin.Lucky enough if the wind blows up whiffs to people around you.Stays quite good on clothes too. Final verdict: This is Alien going out in the day and trying to lay low and have less exposure.

I bought the EDT after falling in love with the EDP version, but I wanted something with a softer sillage to use every day at work (I have a very sensitive sense of smell and I NEVER stopped smelling the EDP until I showered, even if I only sprayed once on my wrist. It even gave me headaches when I wore it in closed places with heating). The first time I tried the EDT I thought this Alien was from a completely different planet, as the initial jasmine-woody notes that had made me fall for the EDP were completely replaced by sweet, citrusy notes. After about 5 mins the jasmine starts to pop, and after an hour it dominates the composition. Sometimes I get a whiff that smells like grape candy, but it's not disturbing to me and quickly fades. After 4h or so the woody-amber notes appear, and I've noticed that I can still smell them the next morning. The sillage is strong, mainly smelling like the top or middle notes, but it's not as nuclear as the EDP. I have to spray it on my chest and use a woolen sweater to keep it discrete to work. After a week of consistently wearing it, I can say that I enjoy it, but it doesn't have the "I'm an Alien from planet Amazon, here I come, step away or be abducted" effect the EDP has on me. Its more like the Alien is on a girls' night out having a laugh and some wine in a nice bar, but she can't help being an enticing Alien at its core. 9/10

I have loved Alien for many years, but it was actually the EdT that I started wearing first. It took me some time to grow into the EdP given the phenomenal performance it had back then, and once I did the EdT got less and less of my attention. I still have that first bottle which has obviously macerated but never turned. I am wearing it for the first time in a long while and this reaquaintance has given me almost a second chance at a first impression. The opening is already a little different from the EdP. The kinship is immediately clear, unlike with many contemporary offerings which reinterpret the DNA completely (Burberry Her comes to mind), but I feel that the EdT is a version of Alien that exposes the construction of the EdP. It opens with a beautiful, juicy and fresh jasmine note (think of a sweet but crisp green apple), and this aspect remains throughout, but becomes more transparent, revealing neroli or perhaps petitgrain and vetiver in the drydown. I feel like the amber isn't really there as much. So at the end of its development (on the skin, not on clothes where it smells much like it does out of the bottle) it feels fresh, woody and impeccably clean, reminding me of the classic mugler cologne (original DNA). It's similar enough to the Alien EdP, but different in delightful ways. On me this probably received more compliments than the EdP has.