Womanity

hey, can I be weird for a second and say I DO think it smells like vagina but that I like it because of that? alright, I’ll back up. this is like, WILD amounts of fig on first blast. I honestly almost don’t like it to begin with—I just stick it out because I know the dry down is where the magic happens. this moves from cold to hot to me—the initial fig is distinctly chilly and fresh, but over time, you leave it out in the sun on a briney shore and it really begins to deepen. your first hour or so in is when things get sticky. it’s sweet in the way a warm jam is, backed up by earthy salt. it’s not cold anymore—it’s intimate and animalic. It’s saliva on warm skin. It’s intriguingly metallic. I have NEVER smelled metallics in a perfume before womanity. it is weird and it is haunting and I love it. It’s the smell and taste of blood. when you bite your lip or cut your finger and you lick the blood off, would you say it’s because you actively enjoy the taste and smell? or is it because you’re just naturally drawn to it in some way? this is how I feel about womanity—do I like her? I don’t know—if I’m enamored of her, obsessed with her, drawn in by her, and endlessly intrigued by her, what does it matter if I LIKE her? doesn’t that seem infantile in comparison to all the other feelings she dredges up in me? anyway, we were talking about vaginas. I do get pussy from this! I can’t lie! now I don’t mean unwashed, 100% organic vagina right in your face, but that hot, sweaty, candied umami unmistakably EVOKES pussy for me. it’s no post intensive workout-coochie or anything—this is more the panties you put on last night after your shower. however, I truly only get this along with the metallics when I’m smelling very close to my wrist hours into the dry down. truth be told, anyone near you is likely just going to get wafts of fig cut by savory salt. I think a fragrance causing your imagination to run wild is a magical thing, but let’s not get TOO wild—there’s for sure some pussy magic (vagic?) happening here, but it’s nothing your office mates are going to notice. unless you’re a little more than mates with them, I guess. I’ll mark myself down as firmly in the camp of “You People Sound Insane” in regards to those that think this smells like fish. caviar doesn’t even smell like fish, so I’m not sure how anyone’s getting fish from this. that’s a truly wild concept to me, but I guess womanity is one of the better fragrances to demonstrate just how differently people experience the same scent. It’s strange and salty and metallic and animalic, I’ll give anyone that—but there isn’t an ounce of fish in there. anyway, I love this weird bitch. I found her after a deliberate departure from floral crowd pleasers in search of something stranger and darker, and I’m so happy I could find that in her. if you ARE of the floral crowd pleaser persuasion, she’s not the girl for you, and that’s fine. I personally blind bought this to pleasing results, but I can’t say I’d recommend others do the same. regardless, there is such a high art to mugler bringing us this sweet, pink woman who has fig juice running down her chin and smells of warm, fertile skin, yet adorns herself with cold and uninviting clanging metals and fresh blood. this evokes so many visuals of what it means to capture the essence of a woman, each more interesting than the last.

Whether this has been rereleased or it was never discontinued, I am glad it is available! Now they need to make us happy and bring back "Angel Muse" and "Aura"! "Mugler" has become one of my favourite houses. From the interesting titles of their products and their unique bottles to their masterful fragrances, the entire experience is so worth it. Since I had been enjoying salty fragrances (Olympea, Reveal, World Power) a great deal, I just thought this one should be my next purchase. I got the 80 ml on sale a couple days later. I used to find the bottle of "Womanity" hideous as a kid (not sure where exactly I had seen it), but now I think it is mesmerizing. My only complaint is that the atomizer is a little leaky but I may have received a shitty bottle. The pink colour of the liquid totally suits the specific scent of the ripe, juicy fig flesh. It is a very "pink" scent but not in the usual way. I don't like fig as a fruit but I enjoy it as a fragrance note. I haven't smelt caviar in real life but what I smell here is a raw, natural, salty note that is slightly animalistic. It is a bit pungent and marine but not fishy. The green, milky, bitter aroma of the fig leaves is also quite natural. It is stronger in the beginning and softer in the drydown. This is very different from other woody fragrances. I assumed it would be a basic, simple scent because 3 of the 4 notes are different parts of the same plant. But no, "Womanity" utilizes these notes very well. I don't find it simple because it is beautiful and fragrant enough. Imagine creating a drawing with just one or two colours of crayon. You would use a different amount of these colours to create different shades. This is what the notes of "Womanity" remind me of. It is an outstanding, bold scent but still wearable. It is the most appropriate fragrance I have by "Mugler" and the one I will be wearing the most. I think it is quite womanly with the different accords representing different qualities - strong and unapologetic (the opening); sweet and gentle (the drydown); candid, imperfect, vulnerable (the salty accord). As it dries down, the marine accord softens and the sweetness of the fig disappears making the scent more milky. The sillage is strong for only about 2 hours but the remaining scent is quite long lasting - I could smell it inside my T-shirt 10 hours later. I guess I am just sweating a lot which decreases the longevity because it seems to last quite long on my clothes. The scent also sticks to my hair very well. Update: there was still some remaining scent in the back of my hair 30 hours later even after washing it! So far, "Womanity" and "World Power" are the best salty perfumes I have tried. Of course, at least one of them has been discontinued. Bottle: 9/10 Originality: 8,5/10 Strength: 7/10 Longevity: 10/10 Price value: 8/10

Spotted they’d brought this back last year or so, dithered over going in blind and it went out of stock, as soon as it came back I figured I didn’t want to miss the chance again and went in blind and very happy, I think my quest for my perfect fig frag has been fulfilled! I got this discounted so it was £55 for 80ml, incredible value considering the performance and the fact the bottle is like having a supermodel on the shelf. Opens with a pungent blast of pure citrus (I get grapefruit, possibly bergamot) and wood, very acidic and not at all sweet, almost floor polish territory. That quite quickly settles down into a very pretty, comforting scent - softly fruity, musky, a little bit of lactonic creaminess. The saltiness comes through in a “sea air” note but it’s not overwhelmingly marine, similarly there’s a clear woody base but it’s not dominated by that. I think the strongest impression is from the fruity notes but it’s not like the super sweet, candy-or-shampoo impression that “fruity fragrance” tends to be associated with. There’s a little bit of the green notes and rhubarb that show up in Aura as well but it’s nowhere near as green and bitter as that or something like Debaser. I think there’s a bit of a vogue at the moment for savoury notes in “my skin but better” musky compositions and this feels very ahead of that curve, it smells a bit sterile on paper but really radiates from skin warmth. Unlike current gen skin scents though this has the assertiveness you’d expect from Mugler - it’s not Angel/Alien level beasty but it definitely projects and lasts all day. I think it’d be fun to layer this with simpler scents to see how it’d bring out the woody/musk/green aspects but you’d probably need a light touch to avoid smelling overwhelming. Feels reasonably unisex but a little feminine - I think this is a unique scent but if it’s close to anything the citrus-fig-woody accord is similar to Fragonard Beau de Provence which was a little too heavy on stereotypically masculine woods for me to want to wear, so that might be a decent option for someone seeking a ‘masc’ alternative. Also leans spring/summery but I think versatile enough to be an all-year, everyday scent with signature potential.

I keep putting off reviewing this for a good cozy time, and it's now. Wearing this again to get a refresher, and it is truly, absolutely, a trip. I'm always so blown away, and I admit to being a shameless Mugler fangirl. This is so masterful. Aura is a jungle; but Womanity is the sea and inlets rich with oceanic breaths. The marine accord is so stunning and real, it's cold and brisk, untamed and salted. I'm familiar with, and unconditionally in love with the harsh rocky beaches in Washington state...we don't have "nice" warm beaches; they're more textured and rough. This marine note (I certainly don't relate it to any female secretions, I wish people would quit with the crap) is *real*, striking, and somewhat metallic. Some real fig, and especially true woody (astringent) notes pair nearly evenly with the salty sea, making this one of the most authentic perfumes I've ever smelled. It's a powerful and realistic sea scape. The fruit is like a real fig, full of seeds, and it truly smells like one has been cut into in front of you. This is like nothing else, and I can't bear to not have it in my collection at all times. Despite it being so, so heavy, it's still capable of being worn in the summer months. I almost can't define it seasonally, as I've experienced it in various weathers. Whenever I do, I am convinced it belongs in whatever season I happen to be in...but probably summer if I needed to be decisive. I also completely headstrong in my opinion that this is utterly unisex, and men could embrace it fully. It's a fiercely sensual fragrance, but in the most bare, raw, and beautiful ways. It quite honestly moves me, and I hope it will for you too. This is challenging, and each time I spray it I nearly balk at the opening. However, it's in such a wonderful way, I love and admire the harsh notes until they settle (most of my ultimate favorites have brutal openings). *edit* Something is absolutely psychedelic about this. It smells the way liminal space feels to gaze into. Deep, swooping, and beautifully unsettling.

I'm Italian, and when I was a kid, my family and I would spend summers by the sea, and we would often have pic-nics in the maritime pine woods that surround Italian coastlines. In Mediterranean areas there's a type of green fig that gives it's fruits in July: it's not as sweet as usual figs, and it has a green, plant-like, chlorophyll aroma. Now, figs, in Italy, are traditionally consumed by wrapping them in slices of prosciutto. It's the most gorgeous thing: you bite into a salty outside, and then you're met with the juiciness, sweetness, and chlorophyll of the fig. Womanity really feels like that. This frag is the perfect, photorealistic reproduction of one specific day by the seaside I had as a kid. We had spent all day in a wild, rocky, uncontaminated beach, surrounded by Mediterranean flora and maritime pines. My long, curly, frizzy big hair smelled like salt, and my skin was sticky with sea spray and humidity. At some point, it was time for dinner: we went sitting under the maritime pines. There, my dad took a shopping bag and pulled out some fresh figs he had picked the day prior, and some homemade prosciutto. I feasted on figs and homemade prosciutto, which is usually way saltier than commercial one. Picture the taste of pure salt, meat, with sugary juicy green figs. It's weird yet absolutely delightful. I ended up not eating anything else. Just green figs and prosciutto. My hands were sticky with fig latex and fig juice, and I could smell so much salt coming from the sea and green, woodsy notes from the vegetation surrounding me. Womanity is the photorealistic reproduction of that time in my childhood, but not in a comforting way: It's wild, salty, sticky, sexy. It's my childhood summers, but as soon as I spray it on screams: "you're no longer that innocent girl. You're a woman now." It makes me feel strong, almost in a fight-or-flight way. It tells me to bite into that delicious salty-sweet delight as soon as possible, and to feast on it until my hands are sticky with juice.