Mirror Mirror Collection - A Travers Le Miroir

This was love at first sniff. An absolute pleasure. I've never been a floral person but I do have a weakness for jasmine and tuberose, and when I wear them, I WEAR them, if you know what I mean... This was a blind buy based on the fact that I was so in love with the uniqueness and beauty of Dis Moi, Miroir and Miroir de Envies! The scent started off quite weak, or so I thought, so I basically covered myself in it. I could sense that sort of "cold" aspect people mentioned. The absinthe is obvious yet very subtle and subdued at the same time. The honey is also very present but not a dripping, candy-like honey. It's a soft, wispy, powdered honey (sort of reminds me of the honey of Quelques Fleurs Royale in a way, but less pronounced). After 30 minutes I was surrounded in a giant cloud of sillage. Maybe I put too much on! Oh well, it's gorgeous! The thing is, the sillage is not thick like with something like Datura Noir or Fracas. The sillage is wispy, light, floaty. The flower is delicate and frail, almost ethereal. The scent is like nothing I've yet experienced. It's so incredibly soft, yet surrounds you and envelopes you in sillage at the same time. The tuberose is absolutely gorgeous. This is what I would spray on delicate, light pink, silk lingerie. I can just picture it hanging on a clothes line, drying in a soft summer breeze with the sunshine peeking out and big fluffy clouds rolling by. There's something cold about the scent, yet it is at the same time incredibly soft, cozy, and cuddly soft. I would say this is appropriate for any season as it's so likable and inoffensive. Even with probably 1 mL (way more than I would normally use) spread all over my hands and neck, I still don't feel like it's overwhelming. It's just that the cloud is stronger. But it's still gorgeous. I am absolutely thrilled with this blind buy. I couldn't be happier. All tuberose lovers MUST try this hidden gem!

This perfume cannot be consisted of only two ingredients. The first time it touches my skin, it's very woody. Was it licorice? Vetiver? It can definitely be unisex. That top note on me is very masculine. Not that I don't like it. I can imagine in winter it will feel warm and close hugging. But I do notice that men don't like this phase? One of them said, "What's this smell?" Hahahaha Then after that it disappears and for the dry down we have tuberose and honey. Definitely like the drydown, but this perfume is intense. Like every Mugler product, one needs courage to wear it. I apply mainly on my wrist and the back of my hands as I can sniff all through the development. Wear on the neck for winter only. Would I buy a full bottle? I don't think so. It's not love and I will not wear this unique thing often. But I'll keep it though. Edit review: I was mistaken. I LOVE THIS! If I can find a full bottle I will buy it. It's so sublime for night bed scent or whenever I want to smell inviting and sexy. I can't stop smelling my skin. Warm spicy aromatic first blast that's quite masculine, vetiver! It's got to be vetiver to my newbie nose. It's what I love about Donna Karan Woman as well. Then it transforms to the sweet soft trail. Defitely not sickly sweet. I can't stand sickly sweet scent nowadays. I can't wait for night to come, coz I want to wear this with my lingerie on!

This page is a little bare and the note pyramid is incomplete, so hopefully I can provide a bit more information. According to osmoz.com, A Travers le Miroir is "...a floral aromatic, unveil[ing] tuberose interwoven with absinthe, evolving towards a woodsy, masculine drydown." I absolutely love that this fragrance is playing with gender, with the feminine tuberose playing against masculine absinthe and woods. This is one of the only tuberose fragrances I can think of that many men could pull off. This fragrance forced me to reconsider my stance on absinthe/wormwood -- a note which I usually dislike as it is very bitter. But I can understand and appreciate the role that it plays in this fragrance. It adds a green sharpness and freshness to the tuberose note and harmonizes against the camphoraceous facet that tuberose sometimes has. There is also a sophisticated, powdery, woodsy note in the drydown accompanied by a soft honey note which is not at all thick or clumsy. A Travers le Miroir is beautifully artistic, and is both ethereal and eccentric. It's a shame that this lovely composition never really had the opportunity to become widespread, since it had limited distribution and was only produced for a short while. It deserved a much wider audience and was genuinely good enough to be released as a unisex pillar fragrance under Thierry Mugler.

One of the most stunning of all recent tuberose themed perfumes, take a walk through a very white indolic garden hedged by stark espaliered wormwood shrubs while busy worker bees go about their business collecting scads of fragrant honeyed nectar, a truly novel & bitter-sweet take on my favorite of all flowers and beautifully counterbalanced by the coolest of intoxicants, Absinthe. Although recently launched it has now become almost impossible to track down, hopefully my 50 ml. bottle of edp will endure, just one of the many reasons I have stopped buying limited edition versions as of late. Superb silage & longevity during drydown are not a problem with this unusual beauty, the quality of natural elements used in this parfum are of the highest available. On a positive note I have found this eau de parfum concentration similar in strength to Dior's latest offering of J'adore L'Or, Essence de Parfum. The mirrored coffret presentation is sensational, so very 'Mugler'! Tres Chic . . .

A Travers le Miroir to me is creme de menthe mixed with a feminine, happy, gentle tuberose. I don't personally get absinthe here, at least not the kind I drink. To me, absinthe scent is associated with it's ingredients of green anise (or licorice scent - star anise), fennel, wormwood, angelica. Not saying that others are wrong. Whatever absinthe note is here, to my nose it's being covered up quite a bit by the mint. Maybe the wormwood is in there as the green woodiness I smell, to prop up the rest. And the sweet floral note can be the sugar cube heehee. Actually this is just fine with me! This minty floral is very beautiful to my nose! I usually assign my perfumes to moods/occasions/seasons, but so far I still don't know how to categorize this one. It's driving me crazy!! I guess it really did take me to Wonderland LOL Edit: I've figured it out now, it's a scent for a Winter Wonderland :)