Alien Mirage

This is a clean version of alien with the addition of a cold vanilla. It is pretty and feminine with that special alien twist. Simply put: smells like a daytime version of alien + cold vanilla. Beautiful!! Lasts long in my skin. The DNA is true to alien, which I love, so it still feels a little oomph when I wear it. Yes the notes are different, but somehow still smells like alien when I compare them when they begin to dry. Maybe the amber.. Not sure how that happens. I would say Mirage is more 'comforting' as a scent. Bright + airy, but warm at the same time. It has a underlying sweetness because of the vanilla, but not sickly sweet at all. I love this more as it begins to dry down and settle into my skin, and as it drys down it reveals more sweetness in contrast to the beginning which is a more alien with a mineral/solar twist. I mostly smell it when I sniff the bottle, kind of sun screen vibe, but this part doesn't really appear on my skin. I really appreciate it and the whole soft journey. I recommend this for spring/summer mostly but can be worn year round. I'd say it's definitely less 'weird' than when I think of mugler. It is more mainstream, easy to take in. Day/night all year round no fuss. I feel that I smell unique, but I'm not worried about offending anyone or coming on too heavy. It lasts around 7-8 hours on me which is long lasting enough for my preference. I've noticed it lasts wayy longer on my skin compared to my other flankers that are in the same vibe group Flora futura, fusion, extrodinare. Often I put mirage on before bed, and I still smell it in the morning. Any of the other flankers I mentioned are gone before morning when I have used it for bed. Beautiful bottle!! The picture does not do it justice. It's a purple to light blue ombre from the bottom to top. Gorgeous. If you like clean airy scents + vanilla, and the original alien is a bit too strong for your senses, this one is a beautiful option and easy blind buy. However, if you like very bold scents (aliens: oud, musc, etc), and you don't like anything that is softer or "mainstream" than the original alien, you will probably not like this. I brought 4 backup bottles. Yup. I'm obsessed.

Beggining is clean, as in good washing powder clean and mineral. Did you ever lick a salt lamp? Opening is an almost like salt lamp licking and putting your nose in a washing powder container. ALMOST is the key word here as both "feelings" are perfectly balanced and you cannot quite put a finger on what you actually smell. Luxurious clean smell don't get me wrong! But after a second there comes a beautiful lotos note. Just stunning, aquatic, wet. It transforms into something sweeter for a moment. Soapy, sweet and clean? You know the generic floral bath bombs from drugstores? Or a higher-end lotos hand soap? That's that exactly. A citrusy-ish freshness comes just after. Here I started recognizing the classic Alien DNA. I could swear I smell jasmine at this point - but there is no jasmine in the notes list :D Mirage starts giving hints like jasmine, orange blossom, some amber for sure and again a little bit of salt lamp or bath salts. It isn't the cloying and overly sweet white florals and amber combo that recent years releases tend to gravitate towards. This is pure class. After 10 minutes we are left with a performance of an "almost" things: almost salty, almost metallic, almost sweet, almost floral, almost fresh spicy, almost ambery/woody, almost plasticky even! Among whole Alien line this has to be the most alieny creature of all of them :) A hint from me: if you want a quicker graduation to an almost everything zone - spray it on the body if you want to stay in the divine mineral / Ganymede-ish zone of the top notes - spray it on your clothes. Haven't had a chance to be impressed by a sheer construction of perfume for a long time now... I normally wear fresh spicy or rose perfumes. I recommend trying Alien Mirage if you want to have fun for at least 3 hours and keep guessing what notes you smell at the moment. Alien Mirage to me is a mixture of: classic Alien (white florals + amber), Ganymede (mineral notes), CK Reveal (the saltiness & pepper) Definitely a beautiful unisex frag. Imo for a formal setting or desk/office job. Nonoffensive but detectable, clean but cozy, elegant but flirtatious and so so so unique!

I recently spotted a bottle of Mirage mistakenly placed next to its Goddess sisters under the glass counter at a Macy's. I asked to test it because I knew it for what it really was, and even the worker did not know what it was! Mirage has long been unavailable in stores. I was smitten from the first sniff and went home after, immediately looking to purchase a bottle of this discontinued beauty. The bottle I acquired was new in box and the liquid has turned a dark golden shade, just like my old Aliens. The lavender blue ombre of the glass is still visible and looks so much better than in pictures. Mugler smells like the Mugler of old! A unique but incredibly wearable melange of cold water and moist flowers. The original Alien EDP base is very prevalent, and it smell like the best of the CFG formulation, with a stronger sweeter jasmine and less of the golden ambery cashmere of the Thierry Mugler formulation. I think the early CFG formulation might actually be my favorite, though I still keep bottles of the original vintage too. Layered alongside are a cool, smooth lotus reminiscent of good-quality skin creams and juicy sweet syringa that reminds me of the fruity-green- white florals in Aura, another of CFG/Mugler's masterpieces. In a way, Mirage is the intersection of Alien EDP and Aura EDP because it delivers the best of both's signature florals. On top of this, though, I get a glacial, sharp mineral accord, along the lines of CK2. Definitely aquatic and mineralic but NOT like seawater a la Olympic Orchids Kingston Ferry or Nishane Boszporusz. More like sniffing river rocks that you just plucked out of the water. Compared to Alien EDP, Mirage is sweeter and fresher without being lighter, unlike prior summer flankers. Mirage is a little weird and I love it for that. However, Mirage is also very wearble. I think this is what makes it quintessentially Mugler.

This is so damn good! Mirage is an apt name for this flanker and the colour of the bottle is also very fitting as well. This beautiful blue gemstone holds a refreshing and unusual composition which, whilst it lends itself perfectly to warmer weather, is still fantastically wearable during the cooler months as well. As always with Mugler (well, pre L'Oreal..) this has an unusual note in it which is apparent all the way through the various stages of development on skin, the opening is bright and airy; mineral notes are instantly apparent and give off a "humid" vibe while pink pepper gives a sharp snap before I get a mix of lotus, syringa and this odd "custardy" floral note which then starts to smell a little bit like hot tarmac/petrol to me, I know that sounds repulsive but its oddly addictive and blends beautifully with the mineral notes, after a good 4 hours some hinoki and amber pad the base out, but the mineral petrol notes and humid feel are still very much present on my skin, there is something in this which does hint that it is indeed an Alien flanker, but I cant quite point out what it actually is, well, at least on my skin anyway. Longevity is EXCELLENT on my skin giving 8 hours of wear with a moderate silage, there is something very typical of Mugler about this and I LOVE it, its very clear that this was made prior to CFG selling Mugler to L'Oreal, whilst I do like Alien Goddess, I am so dissapointed that this wasn't made a permanent offering and that a limited edition Alien flanker wasn't released again this year, I'll treasure every drop of this wonderful creation! Also, any other fellow Zelda fans also think that the Alien bottles look like Rupees? will be totally honest and say that was the whole reason why I tried the OG Alien in the first place haha!

What a rare gem. Usually most lighter, summery Alien flankers are basically Alien lite + another fresh fruity or floral note. Which is not a bad thing, but a little predictable. Mirage is different. It has some of the Alien DNA, but less of it than other fragrances from this line. And it goes through different phases. In the opening it's most recognizable as one of Mugler's Aliens, but also very aquatic and mineralic. Lovely fresh lotus and other light florals lift the scent, while the mineral notes remind me of wet stones. The scent paints a serene, calming scene of a spring in the woods surrounded by flowers. But there is also the amber, or should I say vanilla? Because I honestly don't get much of a balsamic note here, just creamy, cool vanilla. Like ice cream. Hinoki woods play hide and seek, sometimes the scent turns quite green and woody, and then I don't that at all. At times Alien Mirage shows similarities with Mugler Aura, but less sweet and without the fruitiness. In other moments it's salty and creamy, reminiscent the drydowns of fragrances like Rabanne Olympéa and CK Reveal. It's a cooling scent with a warm background hum. Ideal for spring and summer, but it still smells nice now in fall and it seems like it lasts longer today than when I sampled it in the warmer months. This is so hard to find and rare in Germany, neither Douglas nor Galeria has it, only Müller. Is it like that in other countries too? If so, what a bad decision, this is the best lighter flanker of Alien I have smelled so far.