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 :)

Top notes open with a tuberose and absinthe mix, I believe. The top notes fade into a wood mixture, although I think I can get some soapy note or something. Base notes are rather uneventful to me, it’s almost just like a slow fading of the middle notes. Very fascinating mix. There’s something about the mix that’s rather brilliant, something about the very idea that’s exquisite. If fragrances can be labeled into classes, this is a definite high class fragrance. Personally, for whatever reason, smelling ATLM conjures in my mind a 1930’s era well-to-do woman wearing this. That’s the thing about ATLM - it conjures up images and pictures for me, it doesn’t merely stimulate the olfactory sense. It stimulates the mind. It is in your face. Like it or not, ATLM is bold and doesn’t care what you think about it. It is chesty (not big-breasted) - I mean it’s cocky; it’s quite sure of itself.

I love this fragrance. But as others have said there must be more than the ingredients listed in this. First spray. I totally get the Licorice smell. (Is that the absinthe?) Really good quality licorice. (I should know I'm a licorice junkie.) My beloved Tuberose. To me this is one of the nicest tuberose I have smelt. It doesn't overpower or shriek. It's just beautifully in alignment with everything else. Honey. Yes. But not sweet and sticky. Demure honey. And a beautiful dry-down of white flowers. I have 3 of the Mirror Mirror line and at the moment this one takes top place alongside Dis Miroir.

I love it. It's rich honeyed tuberose. Beloved gold juice. I received many compliments. At the beginning it is not easy, it's cold and I feel some freshly cut grass, but in 20 min it develops to warm, subtly sweet cloud of rich smell. Edit 17/10/23 after 10 years I reached out for my treasured bottle and boom! Again this unique, hipnotizing cloud is around me. Wow, nothing has changed, it's the same gem. To me this is a genuin narcotic venus:) it's completely different take on tubereuse, not too green or buttery almost neusea inducing like in majourity of other use cases.

I am going to test this a couple of times before writing a full review but I just wanted to say BRAVO Thierry Mugler! The opening note for me was straight absinthe and in my rebellious days my friend smuggled a bottle of it into the States! Smelling this literally just took my breathe away and transported me back to my first shot of absinthe which knocked the wind out of me! I'll come back to this in a couple of days and update, I was just in disbelief I had to share this part now! Wow!

What an incredible tuberose scent! Unlike many of the reviews I've read, I don't pick up coldness or a synthetic/medicinal vibe- I think the honeyed notes make it warm, enchanting and inviting! The honey notes and potency are reminiscent of Serge Lutens' Miel de Bois- and the tuberose notes place it on a par with my other tuberose favorites, vintage Chloe and Fracas- If you like the idea of a honeyed white flower powerhouse fragrance, definitely check this out!

Vetiver (to me)/woody green, Tuberose fast on its' heels. The idea of honey...richness rather than sweetness...surprisingly gentle. I was underwhelmed at first, it really does need time to develop, for such a 'simple' perfume it becomes much more interesting & harder to pin down. My favourite in this line is still Voluptes, but this deserves its place in my wardrobe too.

This is absolutely fantastic... I get that honey so clearly. Its alive! May be, imo, the best tuberose around. GOSH its great. Dries down subtley and sweet. Is so unique. I cant stop smelling my wrist. I love this collection. I have 4 of the 5 and i cant get enough

have you tried Ricola’s fine Honey herb drops???? from the first smell, i tried to find out what reminds me of... soooo differend and so relaxing succesfull blind buy at good price( 50euros) thank you for your precious help!!!!!

As I wore my decant more often, I actually grew to like it, especially on warmer days! The official notes listed tuberose, absinthe, and woodsy notes (some websites listed wintergreen instead). It starts out with a minty wintergreen, which could get dusty on colder days. Then it soon evolves to a honey-like tuberose that feels very clean and pure. Slowly, the absinthe seeps through, bringing in the bitter and medicinal wormwood, with notes of anise and licorice. On warmer days the tuberose and absinthe notes are very well-balanced, like an herbal flavored honey! However on colder days, the tuberose note could be short-lived. The scent would just transition from the dusty wintergreen opening, to the very bitter absinthe note, which can be too sharp and dominating. The first time I tried it, it felt so strong that it almost made me wanna gag. Because I like this so much on warmer weathers, I think it's definitely suitable for summer, and I would like a bottle for that mouthwatering, inedible medicinal honey. Projection is strong, as with all older Thierry Mugler releases. Lasted for over 8 hours on my skin. A gothic absinthe scent!

The fragrance notes on here are wrong! They should read: TUBEROSE WINTERGREEN ABSINTHE Definitely unisex. It opens with wintergreen and absinthe and then the tuberose makes an appearance. It leaves a lingering, slightly woody scent on my skin after 3 hours or so. I cannot smell any honey, although there is an underlying sweetness, which is not sugary . Sillage and longevity is soft on skin, but is still evident on clothing some 12 hours later. I'll want to reapply to skin every 3 hours or so. I don't normally hang on to boxes (take up too much room and my scents are stored in a dark cupboard anyway) - but the mirrored one this comes in is an exception. It's gorgeous. A very subtle fragrance for me - it is very unusual and I think works very well in summer heat, as it's cooling and refreshing.

Definitely not a tuberose in the 'classical' way. I got it in a sample-swap, and when I first opened the little vial I was surprised. I didn't knew what to think, as it was so different from what I expected. Later on I tried it a few more times, and I came to the conclusion the tuberose smelled herbal, and there was not only honey, but also a bit beeswax. I really do understand jtd saying there is some 'herbal toothpaste'. But I prefer to think of this as a soothing herbal tea with honey. It makes me calm and relaxed.... I love how perfumes can have this medicinal effect. So all in all, I think A Travers Le Miroir is absolutely no mainstream scent, which needs a somewhat tolerant nose with fantasy to appreceate it. Really recommended to try at least.

Honey? Seriously, honey? I am not really getting honey at all out of this. Sweet, yes. Honey, no. There is a lot more going on here than tuberose and (something sweet, but not honey) Vaguely medicinal. People have described it as licorice, absinthe and mint. I could see all that. It has, to me, a little touch of thymol with something grassy-green. Mint, maybe, but more like menthol than natural mint. Sort of reminds me of Listerine mouthwash. But more in abstract way, not, "Whoa, she must have spilled the mouthwash all over herself". There are similar notes, but delivered in a different mix. I like this, it doesn't smell like every third perfume out there. Not sure this is an ideal match for me, but for the right person, this would be a great scent.

Stunning, twisted, very mysterious, complicated despite the very few notes it contains. The honey I don't smell, the tuberose is there but dominated by absynthte. This is a perfume for a femme fatale for sure. Cold, even distant, elegant and powerful, I enjoy it immensely, it makes me feel special. I feel the passion lurking beneath the icy cold facade, like royalty ready to fall madly in love with a dangerous stranger from a faraway land, ready to risk it all for the pleasure of an untamed burning love. I find it surprisingly easy to wear, it's an every day escape from the ordinary. The mirror box, the bottle, the silage and lasting power are all magnificent.

This is totally not what I was expecting. Not that that is a bad thing. I am on quite the Mugler kick and I have blind bought 5, which is not necessarily a smart idea, but this one is definitely a keeper. When I first spray this I get strong anise/licorice scent. Maybe the absinthe and/or honey? After some time I get a soft floral mixed in with the licorice scent. This is really nice! I was pleasantly surprised. This is quite a find!! This reminds me of Sambouca. The licorice scent is the strongest note on me...followed by the soft floral scent. I love this. As with all the Mugler fragrances I have tried, this is unique.

Alternating between sweet warm notes and icy cold medicinal astringency, this scent seems to vibrate. The result is a bitter tuberose that could be worn by men just as easily as women. Although it is tuberose, it has that cold quality of freshly painted galleries and wet plaster that makes it particularly odd and modern. I find it incredibly beautiful, but a little difficult to wear. Good for art openings, but difficult for casual wear. In the winter it gives me the chills. And even though I find it rather androgynous, my husband who cares for very few scents, likes this and Carnal Flower.