A*Men Kryptomint

Thierry Mugler A*Men Kryptomint EDT opens with a moderate projection of sweet, spicy, green, and gourmand accords. The opening is fresh, cooling, spicy, inviting, unique, and very pleasant. The mint, sage, chocolate, and coffee are opening noticeable notes. The mint and sage combine themselves creating an intense and prominent cooling green and slightly peppery note, fresh, sharp, and unique. The coffee, patchouli, and tonka bean are noticeable as well. The patchouli is green and intense but refreshing as opposed to the classic patchouli found in other fragrances; the coffee and chocolate introduce an aromatic blond roast coffee and delectable gourmand note, they work well projecting and intensifying the fragrance, but are not as prominent as the mint and patchouli that lead the fragrance with their cooling green note. As the fragrance moves towards its dry down, the tonka bean grows adding a sweet, spicy, and slightly nutty accord. The geranium is the least noticeable note, a faint floral touch in the far back of the fragrance. The fragrance has a few and noticeable opening to dry down changes; the opening is sharp and bright, cooling green, minty, and spicy. Towards the dry down the tonka, coffee, and chocolate boosting the fragrance but staying one step behind the mint and sage. Once Thierry Mugler A*Men Kryptomint EDT has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, cooling green mint, spicy sage, sweet tonka, coffee, chocolate, and patchouli fragrance with faint floral accords. The fragrance feels airy, casual, clean, cold, diurnal, energizing, exotic, green, high-quality, invigorating, masculine, modern, nicely-blended, playful, special, sporty, slightly sweet, ultra-fresh, unique, versatile, wild, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020. WOW RATING: 10/10. A pleasant, unique, impressive fresh minty, and delectable fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 1/10. The cooling green notes are prominent. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. Green, minty, sweet, a unique fragrance. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 5/10. Good, about 5 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 6 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 5/10. Good, about 5 hours, it projects well for over 3 hours. SEASONS: Spring, Summer, Fall. OCCASIONS: Outdoor gatherings, gym, office, casual, holidays, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 7/10. Good, a pleasant versatile fragrance, great for almost any time of the year. GENDER: Masculine. The mint and spices lean it to the masculine side. AGES: Any. RECOMMENDATION: Thierry Mugler A*Men Kryptomint EDT can be found discounted for about $45. Its uniqueness, versatility, and great performance are fantastic. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: Yes, but only if you are familiar with the notes featured in this fragrance. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. • Chanel Allure Homme Sport Eau Extreme EDP is a great, mild, slightly sweet, white musk, citrus, mandarin orange, mint, tonka, pepper, and cedar fragrance. • Creed Himalaya EDP Men is a good, light, musky, lemony, powdery, citrus, and woody fragrance. • Dua Fragrances Flagship is a very good, intense, citrusy, neroli, mandarin, floral, orange blossom, mint, vetiver, white musk, and cedar fragrance. • Dua Fragrances Poseidon’s Tux is very good, a Tuxedo and Aventus clone fragrance. • Montblanc Individuel EDT Men is a very good, mildly sweet, vanilla, citrus, mint, spicy, and woody fragrance. • Parfums De Marly Percival EDP is OK, a faint, mildly sweet, ambroxan, lavender, citrus, mandarin orange, and woody fragrance. • Ralph Laurent Polo Ultra Blue is a great, intense, lemon verbena, basil, and aquatic fragrance. • Rochas Man EDT is mild, delicious, sweet, coffee, vanilla, and resinous fragrance. • Versace Man Eau Fraiche EDT is OK, a mild, citrus, white musk, woody, rosewood, cedar, spicy, and pepper fragrance. • Thierry Mugler A*Men Kryptomint EDT is great, a cooling green, mint, spicy sage, sweet tonka, coffee, chocolate, and patchouli fragrance SUMMARY: A moderate projection, cooling green mint, spicy sage, sweet tonka, coffee, chocolate, and patchouli fragrance with faint floral accords. The fragrance feels airy, casual, clean, cold, diurnal, energizing, exotic, green, high-quality, invigorating, masculine, modern, nicely-blended, playful, special, sporty, slightly sweet, ultra-fresh, unique, versatile, wild, and very pleasant.

A*Men Kryptomint is a limited edition that brought a breath of icy, vibrant air to Mugler's A*Men line, reinterpreting the house's woody gourmand DNA with an invigorating overdose of peppermint. Launched in 2017 and designed by Jacques Huclier, creator of the original A*Men, Kryptomint stands out as the most energetic and refreshing fragrance in the line, without losing the density and olfactory impact that the brand carries. The Olfactory Experience Kryptomint opens with an explosively fresh accord, marked by the almost minty intensity of peppermint. It's like a breath of icy air — vibrant, energetic, almost medicinal — that evokes the sensation of crystallized mint. Sage complements this opening with an aromatic, herbal and clean touch. In the heart, geranium adds a metallic and masculine floral nuance, continuing the freshness, but with elegance and complexity. The base, typical of the A*Men line, begins to emerge little by little: earthy patchouli, dark chocolate, roasted coffee, tonka and vanilla form a warm, gourmand base, contrasting deliciously with the initial freshness. The result is a fragrance that starts out glacial and ends creamy, warm and comforting. Performance Long-lasting: Good (7 to 9 hours) Projection: Moderate to high in the first hour, then becomes softer Sillage (trail): Medium — noticeable, but not invasive Despite having a lighter feel than the original A*Men, Kryptomint still delivers above-average performance, maintaining the Mugler house standard in terms of presence and longevity. Occasions of Use Kryptomint is one of the most versatile and daytime flankers in the A*Men line, and can be used with confidence in: Hot spring and summer days Informal and casual environments Daytime and outdoor activities After showering to refresh Ideal for those who like fresh fragrances with a gourmand base, without resorting to excessive sweetness. Perfect for those who find traditional A*Men too heavy for everyday use. Bottle Design The bottle follows the iconic look of the A*Men line: robust, with a rubberized finish. This time, it gains a vibrant mint green tone with a shiny star — evoking freshness, energy and even a slight inspiration from superheroes, as the name "Kryptomint" itself suggests. Final Considerations A*Men Kryptomint represents a cool and invigorating breath within a line known for its dense and intense fragrances. It’s a great gateway into the Mugler universe and an ideal flanker for warmer climates, without losing the house’s gourmet signature. It skillfully blends the contrast between freshness and depth, offering a bold yet wearable and modern fragrance. Final Score: 9.6/10 One of the most original flankers in the A*Men line — unusual, invigorating and captivating. Kryptomint proves that it’s possible to maintain the soul of a classic and still dare to take a completely different approach.

I’m not sure how some folks can adore Ultra Zest and not at least like Kryptomint. They are, after all, like fraternal twins issued from an Andy Warhol silk screen print. Perhaps it has to do with the auto-response people have to certain aromas. That’s understandable, but the principle is the same for both of these: take the coffee heart of the A*Men formula and add one intense, compatible note to create a new fragrance with the same DNA. Package it in rubberized pop art color. Voila! I passed on Ultra Zest after wearing a sample mailed to me by Mugler because I felt that, although the blood orange was very good, I had other orange fragrances that I liked even better, like Hermes Orange Vert. I will give Mugler credit for appearing to ignite the current craze for blood orange in fragrance (a’la Dior Homme Sport 2017, Dunhill Desire Extreme, etc.), but Kryptomint is more stimulating in my opinion. The essential mint is uplifting and combines with the chocolate in a pleasant way that remains gourmand, but not suffocating. The patchouli comes forward here, the geranium adds an unexpected floral touch, and the caramel as well as a few other notes are dropped. Nothing complicated. Just nice. I can also vouch for the fact that Kryptomint really comes to life on sun-warmed skin. I live in a subtropical climate. If I am working in my flower garden in the hot sun and come in the house all sweaty and wilted, a few spritzes of this right after a quick shower is absolutely delightful. I liked the sample I received so much that I ordered it straight away from Mugler and have been wearing it with relish ever since. I have gotten several “You smell wonderful!” type exclamations from strangers, but this is not a criterion for me. Kryptomint is just a fun, spring into summer personal refresh-MINT! This A*Men flanker also compliments warm weather wardrobe essentials brilliantly. Good timing on the part of Mugler.

I've seen the A*Men line everywhere and have tested only two -- the original, as well as Pure Malt. A meh for both. I've wanted to like this line of Mugler as I've had, and am a huge fan of, the TM cologne, green juice. So I'm perusing my local perfume district and stumble upon this pastel, minty, green looking box. "Mugler...Kryptomint...?? What in the world is this?" So, I took a mental note and came straight here to read reviews. The reviews don't match, exactly, my experience with this at all. This was, basically, a blind buy. I tested this on skin and got no mint in the opening but more of a fresh sage(?) herbal type scent. Completely surprised. The chocolate/patchouli note came on almost instantaneously. But it's not a cloying, cheap, chocolate scent. More of a velvety smooth, almost oud-like dark chocolate. The dry down is herbaceous and creamy vanilla. No association with food (as in none of this smells edible) yet it parallels along those familiar smells. Toothpaste? No. Peppermint Patty? No. Dinner mint, After Eight, a complete mess? No, no, no. I can see why folks would place these opinions here, but this stuff is not quite that. Calming, soothing, fresh, clean, sexy, confident, with a tad of sweetness helping with projection, sillage. Not a winter fragrance for me, but more of spring and fall. I can't tell you what this stuff smells like exactly, except that it's good! And definitely far off, in a good way, from my expectations and the reviews I've read here. To me, it runs in the veins of being slightly similar to Paco Rabanne Ultraviolet -- keyword is "slightly". Again, basically a blind buy and no regrets. Very unique, but not very minty. And that's okay. My first purchase from the A*men line. I'm quite satisfied. This stuff is great!

I'm a woman who usually doesn't care much about men's fragrances, at least not on myself, but I got a soft spot for A*Men since I was a child. And I also love mint chocolate. So trying a sample of Kryptomint was an obvious choice. This opens with a huge loud blast of mint, very bracing and refreshing. But you can already smell the warmer notes of patchouli, vanilla, dark chocolate and tonka underneath that, which makes for a nice contrast. I get a hint of the geranium too, not intense but clearly there. It has the typical A*Men DNA of tarry patch and sweetness, so it doesn't smell like a photorealistic imitation of After Eights, so beware if that is what you're looking for. This is too aromatic and masculine for that. Nevertheless it doesn't smell like a scratchy male deodorant or something, so many women could easily pull it off, too. I think I would perceive this as a yummy gourmand on a man and as a cool and unique fragrance on a woman, if that makes sense. It's not something I would buy for myself, but it was fun to test this. If only my fiancé liked A*Men! Edit Nov. 2020: I gave the sample to the guy who was my fiancé when I wrote this review, but is my husband now, and he finally wore it. It smelled sooo good on him. I really recommend it for men and anyone who can pull off masculine scents better than I.