Angel Elixir Mugler 2023

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6.6 / 10 220 Ratings

A perfume by Mugler for women, released in 2023. The scent is sweet-floral. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Sweet

Floral

Creamy

Synthetic

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Pink pepper CO2

Heart Notes

Orange blossom absolute Jasmine

Jasmine

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Amber Xtreme™

New Caledonian sandalwood

Bourbon vanilla

Perfumers

Anne Flipo, Domitille Michalon-Bertier

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Ratings

Scent

6.6220 Ratings

Longevity

7.5170 Ratings

Sillage

7.1170 Ratings

Bottle

8.1174 Ratings

Value for money

6.1135 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 05/05/2025.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is the American model Hunter Schafer.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/02/2023

3
Pricing 7
Bottle 4
Sillage 5
Longevity 4.5
Scent

Sjefke
33 Reviews

Sjefke

Helpful Review 4

Boring

I've been reading a lot of criticism of Mugler lately since she was acquired by L'Oreal. The scents appear to be flatter, shelf life appears to be considerably shorter and the originality of the latest scents appears to be below par. Personally, I can never do much with this kind of criticism. A scent is nice or not for me.
I am not a fan of the Mugler fragrances myself. Have Aura in my collection. Barely worn and eventually gave it away.
I was very curious about this Elixir. The fragrance notes do not seem special. But you expect an intense and special scent from Mugler and from an Elixir. I sprayed this scent full of anticipation. I had to sniff twice before I could perceive the smell. It opens with a recognizable vanilla note and white flowers. The vanilla continues to develop and the white flowers disappear to the back. I couldn't think of what this scent reminded me of. And suddenly I recognized Good Fortune by Viktor & Rolf. The vanilla and white flowers are one to one.
It's a very light scent. The staying power on my skin is also below par.
The scent represents a lot except what an Elixir and the perfume house Mugler stands for. It's boring, unoriginal, bad sillage and shelf life. But no bad smell anywhere.
Unfortunately, I recognized the criticisms I've been reading so much lately since the takeover about Mugler...

03/21/2025

4
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Scent

Bex
3 Reviews

Bex

2

Angel Only in Name

As a fan of Angle, I was very excited to try out the Elixir that promised an elevated and honed-in scent profile. Unfortunately, this scent doesn't feel, smell, or project like Angel. I truly think that putting Elixir in the same league as its predecessor was a mistake, especially when it has more notes in common with the Alien line.

This is not to say that I dislike the scent. It's a beautiful creamy woody vanilla. It feels like a winter scent but performs well in slightly warm weather. Angel is a slap in the face from 10 feet away, but Elixir still radiates a few feet from the body. Besides good sillage, the scent is FAR less divisive than the original and is a safer way to start exploring Mugler scents. It's a scent for the grown up vanilla girl on a night out. The pepper and amber give the white florals and vanilla just enough edge to make it feel like a Mugler.

08/03/2024

5
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 4.5
Scent

Maksy
19 Reviews

Maksy

3

A daring DNA thrashed by mediocrity…

Oh L’Oréal… Why did you have to do my darling Angel dirty like this.
I really don’t wanna sound sour about this release but it’s hard for me not to. As someone that grew up in the Clarins Mugler era, this acquisition by L’Oréal is constantly a roller coaster of emotions. Alien Goddess Eau de Parfum Supra Florale? I love it. Fantasquatic? Love it!.. But this? This ain’t it, and it pains me to write a review like this for a house I hold in such high esteem.

Bright slightly metallic pink pepper and lush jasmine greets my nose in the opening. Now I like this part, I like white florals and Jasmine is dear to me, but after around 30 minutes however, I knew this was going to be vanilla dominant with that lingering powdery texture lurking behind the florals.
The orange blossom and ylang ylang are hanging out amidst the jasmine, bringing out a slightly fruity nuance to the composition, but I mainly smell jasmine in the heart.

After a little over an hour, this scent becomes unbearable on my skin unfortunately, which is the same thing that happens with Luna Rossa Ocean Eau de Parfum (which has the same base accord); just overly powdery sweet Amberwood.
I understand the direction L’Oréal wanted to go with this – "...augmented femininity of today’s fearless supra-women", but wow is this execution poor; the new “Supra-woman” smells like every other person out there? Because when I can draw comparisons to another L’Oréal distributed (the aforementioned, Ocean EdP) fragrance that is sad, not surprising just sad. I firmly believe this would have worked better as an Alien flanker if I am quite honest. If I had smelled this scent coming from an its faceted talisman, I would not have second guessed it – swap the Sandalwood for a Cashmeran accord and I would fully believe this to be a part of the Alien family.

To be clear, this is not disappointment directed towards the perfumers of this scent, they are making their living, this is disappointment directed at L’Oréal for pushing mediocrity. I have yet to sample Angel Fantasm, but I’m hoping they learned their lesson from this fragrance, and actually created a flanker worthy of the Angel name, and not something like this vanillic Amberwood mess of a fragrance. All of these things combined with a price tag that’s best left to privé designer offerings and “artistic niche” fragrances, this release has just left a bad taste in my mouth.

11/20/2024

6.5
Scent

DogiCoco
621 Reviews

DogiCoco

1

Angel? Elixir? Where??

This is neither related to the original Angel in any form, nor what I would expect from something called Elixir. To me, it's one of the most disappointing Angel flankers ever. Not because it smells bad, the scent itself is all right, but because it's such a weird move to put it in that dark blue Angel bottle. I never found the frequent flankers for Angel (and also Alien) super innovative, even before Mugler went to L'Oréal, but I liked that they always had traces of the famous pillar fragrances.

Angel Elixir would honestly make more sense as a flanker to YSL Black Opium, something about it reminds me of that one. I can't quite put my finger on it, something about the interaction between the vanilla and the florals maybe. But as a huge Black Opium apologist and fan, I also want to stress that Black Opium is a much nicer composition.

Angel Elixir smells like a run-of-the-mill white floral vanilla, of which there have been so many in the last ~5 years. The vanilla in it is creamy, milky and has a plasticy undertone. I don't hate it, vanilla scents like that give me a cute, nostalgic vibe. The floral notes on the other hand are a bit too undefined and cleaned-up fot my taste. I can't say that this perfume smells like jasmine, orange blossom and ylang-ylang, to me it just smells vaguely white floral.
The only note that breaks up the sweetness is a touch of pink pepper, but it's not enough to make the scent exciting.

To be completely honest, I might have seen this scent in a better light if I didn't know it was supposed to be an Angel. But even then, it's just not a mind-blowing fragrance. It's okay, it's fine, I wouldn't mind smelling it somewhere, and that's it.

03/29/2025

4
Scent

lucekingg
133 Reviews

lucekingg

1

You for Grandma

I got a sample of this in a Sephora order and I wasn't expecting to like it based on the notes and sadly I predicted correctly. This smells like if You Eau de Parfum had a little bit of Belle Chérie Eau de Parfum mixed in, and it definitely has that older lady smell to it. Sweet but there's just that super powdery mature floral in the back. Not for me but maybe in a few decades.

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