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My great love...
"Angel"...Mugler seemed to have taken a special liking to the celestial beings & meant well, considering the later equally intense, polarizing sister with the same initial letter. Fragrances for the heavens & beyond - so special that whether they are hated or loved, they will probably never be forgotten...
Fragrances simply burn themselves into the memory in a completely different way & some have their very own meaningful stories. It's the same with Angel for me.
To be honest, I don't know to what extent it is correct to say that I smelled Angel's sister Alien first - in order to understand that, I have to expand a bit.
When I was just 18 I had a "no name" perfume that came in an elongated bottle with a silvery lid in the shape of a heart & a dark blue decorative stone, which was called something along the lines of "La Couer" & the liquid inside was bluish. It was an incredibly special scent, very different to what I had known before & I loved wearing it occasionally. I treasured the rest of that perfume, fearing I would never get my hands on anything like it again, for years. In fact, I still have the bottle today, but after time & due to the quality, it's now tipped...
I wore it really rarely, out of the concern described above. In the intervening years, I came across Alien & had my first real Mugler fragrance contact with it.
Time passed again & suddenly I fell in love with a wonderful young man. In many ways he was my absolute type - not only visually, but also as a person - no one had come close to him before. He had dark hair, equally dark eyes with a deep penetrating gaze, was "alternative / goth" if you were to call his styling, was androgynous, had the most beautiful voice a man could have & a deep spirit like a good soul. And he smelled incredibly good everywhere. So good that I think he was one of the first men I ever asked what kind of perfume he was wearing.
He went into his bathroom, I followed him & there he presented me with this blue star-shaped bottle, which I had often seen but never smelled directly. Smelling the perfume directly was also a 10/10 for me, but smelling it all on him was simply a 100 out of 10. You know how it is - people have their own smell & every perfume smells different on everyone. These two simply resulted in the perfect, addictive symbiosis for me.
Angel is a classic women's perfume, but even if the notes seem so sweet, it is somehow not clumsily sweet like a dessert, it is so multifaceted & I would like to say spicy, even if this word again does not do it justice. Neither could the other adjectives that are commonly used, such as oriental or fresh, fully describe it, it's too special & unusual for that. And I think that's why Mugler named the celestial essence fragrances this way, because they are incredible in their mysticism, almost overwhelm you with their power & splendor, but can never be completely tangible for us mortal beings...
That's why I don't find it strange that a man wore it - celestial beings are, as we know, mostly gender-neutral.
As soon as he showed me the scent & I was allowed to smell it from the bottle, my scent memory kicked in - yes, of course, I certainly knew something like that! It smelled just like the old perfume I cherished and cared for & I knew I would have to add it to my collection one day (even if it would probably never smell as good on me as it did on him).
Time passed again & even though this love had been great, probably the greatest love of my life so far - this relationship was ultimately doomed to perish in our harsh modern times...
And time, as we have now learned, dear readers - never stands still, which is how I eventually came to have my own blue star bottle.
And yes, sometimes when I apply it today, I think of him & silently send him my love & gratitude across the universe & the sky.
That's how I got my own Angel.
Fragrances simply burn themselves into the memory in a completely different way & some have their very own meaningful stories. It's the same with Angel for me.
To be honest, I don't know to what extent it is correct to say that I smelled Angel's sister Alien first - in order to understand that, I have to expand a bit.
When I was just 18 I had a "no name" perfume that came in an elongated bottle with a silvery lid in the shape of a heart & a dark blue decorative stone, which was called something along the lines of "La Couer" & the liquid inside was bluish. It was an incredibly special scent, very different to what I had known before & I loved wearing it occasionally. I treasured the rest of that perfume, fearing I would never get my hands on anything like it again, for years. In fact, I still have the bottle today, but after time & due to the quality, it's now tipped...
I wore it really rarely, out of the concern described above. In the intervening years, I came across Alien & had my first real Mugler fragrance contact with it.
Time passed again & suddenly I fell in love with a wonderful young man. In many ways he was my absolute type - not only visually, but also as a person - no one had come close to him before. He had dark hair, equally dark eyes with a deep penetrating gaze, was "alternative / goth" if you were to call his styling, was androgynous, had the most beautiful voice a man could have & a deep spirit like a good soul. And he smelled incredibly good everywhere. So good that I think he was one of the first men I ever asked what kind of perfume he was wearing.
He went into his bathroom, I followed him & there he presented me with this blue star-shaped bottle, which I had often seen but never smelled directly. Smelling the perfume directly was also a 10/10 for me, but smelling it all on him was simply a 100 out of 10. You know how it is - people have their own smell & every perfume smells different on everyone. These two simply resulted in the perfect, addictive symbiosis for me.
Angel is a classic women's perfume, but even if the notes seem so sweet, it is somehow not clumsily sweet like a dessert, it is so multifaceted & I would like to say spicy, even if this word again does not do it justice. Neither could the other adjectives that are commonly used, such as oriental or fresh, fully describe it, it's too special & unusual for that. And I think that's why Mugler named the celestial essence fragrances this way, because they are incredible in their mysticism, almost overwhelm you with their power & splendor, but can never be completely tangible for us mortal beings...
That's why I don't find it strange that a man wore it - celestial beings are, as we know, mostly gender-neutral.
As soon as he showed me the scent & I was allowed to smell it from the bottle, my scent memory kicked in - yes, of course, I certainly knew something like that! It smelled just like the old perfume I cherished and cared for & I knew I would have to add it to my collection one day (even if it would probably never smell as good on me as it did on him).
Time passed again & even though this love had been great, probably the greatest love of my life so far - this relationship was ultimately doomed to perish in our harsh modern times...
And time, as we have now learned, dear readers - never stands still, which is how I eventually came to have my own blue star bottle.
And yes, sometimes when I apply it today, I think of him & silently send him my love & gratitude across the universe & the sky.
That's how I got my own Angel.
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