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Thierry Mugler

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Angel Mugler 1992 Eau de Parfum

Ranked 140 in Women's Perfume

6.8 / 10 1657 Ratings

A perfume by Mugler for women, released in 1992. The scent is sweet-gourmand. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Oriental

Spicy

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cotton candy Cassia

Cassia

Coconut

Bergamot

Jasmine

Mandarin orange Melon

Melon

Heart Notes

Honey

Orchid

Peach

Apricot

Blackberry Jasmine

Jasmine

Lily of the valley Plum

Plum

Red berries Rose

Rose

Base Notes

Patchouli

Caramel

Chocolate

Amber

Musk

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumers

Olivier Cresp, Yves de Chiris

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Ratings

Scent

6.81657 Ratings

Longevity

9.01302 Ratings

Sillage

8.81223 Ratings

Bottle

8.31261 Ratings

Value for money

7.4593 Ratings

Submitted by Sani · last update on 04/08/2026.

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Interesting Facts

T. Mugler successfully utilised ethylmaltol (first used in "Vanilia" by Artisan Parfumeur in 1978) in a mainstream perfume, thus kick-starting the gourmand genre in 90s. Maltol occurs naturally, e.g. when roasting malt, hence its name. Ehtylmaltol is a synthetic variant which increases the caramel impression four- to sixfold.
Vera Strübi, former president of the Mugler company reports that the bottle's prototype (a 85,000 € design) was not accepted by Mugler. They agreed on the famous star-shape flacon instead but were initially unable to find a glass blowing workshop able to produce it. Furthermore, Strübi and the investors at Clarins disliked the scent and Mugler had to fight for its realisation. The argument that the price per bottle was too high had been refuted with the idea of a refillable vessel.

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12/25/2012

FloraMilena
47 Reviews

FloraMilena

Top Review 18

Dessert for Zombies

This masterpiece of modern perfumery smells like a blast of overly ripe soon to be rancid fruit compote sprinkled with stale cinnamon powder and a touch of rose liqueur, surrounded by grotesquely indolic jasmine bouquet with cloying tropical orchid accord woven through the indoles, resting on a monstrous base of caramel, sickeningly sweet melted vanilla ice cream drips hardening on the kitchen counter, moldy old hershey’s chocolate kisses left over from last Christmas, and the overwhelming odor of musty graveyard dirt from an old cemetery.

Angelic isn’t it? BAH. I wouldn’t even want this sprayed on my corpse.

11/10/2012

6Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Cryptic
24 Reviews

Cryptic

Top Review 14

Behemoth

Angel lumbered onto the perfume scene in the early 1990s, trampling wimpy aquatics and waifish florals in its path like Dumbo the big blue elephant. In retrospect, Angel's launch marked the beginning of the slow rise of sweet, gourmand perfumes and the corresponding rejection by the masses of sourish oakmoss chypres, although the IFRA certainly played a part in their demise.

If you love Angel as I sometimes do, it is a ground-breaking, brilliant fusion of masculine and feminine, light and darkness that deserves a place alongside the likes of Coty's Chypre and Shalimar. However, familiarity inevitably breeds contempt, and after being smothered by Angel applied without restraint, as well as its legion of imitators, Angel often strikes me as a demonic combination of cheap candy, spoiled fruit and mothballs. Say what you will about Angel, it is impossible to be indifferent to this perfume's beauty/ugliness.

04/29/2012

3Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Very helpful Review 9

Perfumic Equivalent of Garbage Pizza

Imagine being invited to a friend's house as a young child. Her mother offers you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But then she realizes that she's out of peanut butter, so she slabs some Welches grape jelly on a couple of pieces of white Wonderbread and serves it to you anyway. You're starving, so you scarf down a couple of bites quickly. Suddenly, after swallowing the first bite, while the second is still in your mouth, you are filled with a sense of malaise. There is something wrong. Something dreadfully wrong. And it's not just that there's no peanut butter in your PBJ.

You open up the sandwich and lo and behold you discover a big glob of green mold sitting in the middle of the bread, clearly visible through the translucent purple jelly. You have now eaten two bites of the sandwich. Your appetite is ruined. You inquire as to the location of the bathroom...

Honestly, this is one of the most sickening so-called perfumes that I have ever encountered. I most likely tried a spritz of this in a department store when it first came out but no doubt repressed all memory of the experience immediately, as I had until this testing no recollection of ANGEL at all.

I am a liberal about many things, including perfume. Very open and forgiving: à chacun son gout; à chacun son nez. But I implore, beseech, entreat you: if you ever wear this substance in my presence, please do not sit next to me!

01/08/2013

Hayven
74 Reviews

Hayven

Very helpful Review 8

what a mess

Oh Angel, you smelly pirate hooker you! Down and dirty patchouli mingling with dark chocolate rolled in dust. Time and time again, I smell this fragrance trailing behind an anosmic shopper at the mall or an office worker...and it never smells pleasant to me. I sampled this on my skin, thinking maybe if I sprayed it and waved my hand under it (letting the mist fall lightly on my skin), the scent would be somewhat pleasant or more tolerable.

NOPE.

It is still very heavy and attacking the senses, my frenemy patchouli showing its mean and ugly side--so unclean and cloying with the bitter chocolate note. This perfume is meant for the loud, proud, adventurous sort (or someone who can appreciate/enjoy being around such people). I am very much an introvert; Angel and I are never meant to be. I'll stick to the sugarbombs I know and love.

01/07/2013

LiliumLibido
51 Reviews

LiliumLibido

Helpful Review 8

Must be midlife crisis, lol

I only recently got into Angel, and considering the number of years I've been into perfume, it's almost criminal, lol. Angel was everywhere, I had to wait for the mass obsession to wear off before I could give it a try.
This stuff is STRONG. One spray and you can cause migraines and nausea in every person in a 10 mile radius.

And yet... If you don't spray but only dab a couple times (no more than that!) and wait half an hour, you get what Angel was meant to be: soft, tentalizing, a little naughty and just plain yummy.
I don't understand why it is sold in a spray bottle, frankly the spray is what has caused so many people to turn into rabid pitbulls: it's just too much.
Sprayed Angel is like a badly aged, drunken sewer drag queen on a rampage: She'll chase you down and exhale her furious halitosis in your face until she brands your memory with a nasty case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Dabbed on Angel is all whispers, giggles and sighs, cuddly to no end, pervasive, lingering but gentle, youthful and absurdly pretty, full of charm, really. But you CANNOT overdo Angel, or her fairytale magic turns into a nefarious nightmare of epic proportions. And the bitch simply does not forgive, EVER.

... Sure enough, I find myself going back to this one more and more often, because I am a trace, minute amount wearer, so Angel likes me.

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