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The title already implies it:
In my opinion this flanker shows no resemblance to Alien (apart from the flankers I know of). That's not too bad, at most a little confusing, since one is tempted to find a scent similar to Alien...
In fact, the scent of the new Alien flanker reminds me of AURA!
Mirage is however more transparent than its green cousin. By this I mean, it is consistently less dense than Aura, which always immediately lays itself on my skin everywhere to stay there...

The sillage of the Mirage is of a completely different kind:
It's more like the scent hovers around me... you can imagine the perception as if you are passing a garden or a wild rose hedge near the coast and suddenly unconsciously lift your head (strangely enough, we always do that when we want to absorb a scent especially well - must be something archaic... :) ) because you think "Aaaah, what's that special smell...".
This image is also appropriate because the fragrance seems to be carried on a coastal aroma, as if the rough, spicy sea breeze were the basis on which the ingredients are passed around. The colour of the bottle - this delicate smoky blue - also fits perfectly with the fragrance.

The first scent impression is therefore an inseparable fabric of sea breeze, pipe bush and lotus.
After a few minutes the pepper is perceptible and gives the fabric a mildly surprising, friendly, sparkling turn. Here Mirage now becomes a little more floral overall - everything still transparent - and in the course of the following hours changes into a warm woody scent, which accompanies me home in a friendly and delicate way after a long walk on the mudflats or along the coast.

The durability is okay with 4-6 hours - after all, it's an EdT; and I'm still quite astonished to find none of the usual Mugler humming.
Alien Mirage isn't sweet in the true sense of the word, but it's a delicate fragrance with character, which is likely to be used over and over again, especially in summer. At high temperatures, it is certainly invigorating, energizing and refreshing - and does not require lemon, bergamot or the like.

So, as I said: Alien fans should definitely test before buying if they expect a relationship here...
Aura fans can easily like the fragrance (especially in summer) - I would call it "Aura L'air" or "Aura Marine" :).

AURA... oh, AURA...
will always be special to me

I wore Aura for the first time shortly after his appearance.
At the end of 2017 I had arranged to go to a movie night. A wet and cold evening, we still had a little time and went to the little perfumery around the corner.
What possessed me to spray on a d e r a r t i g e n fragrance unknown, and on top of that before a movie night, I can't say for the life of me ... he simply wanted to come to me :).
And then we went to the movie theater, my child (20) and I had a ravishing, moving, stirring, exciting and almost satisfying evening, where we laughed, cried, scared, held our hands, held our breath, jubilated, wrestled and fought and learned and looked - and everywhere I went, aura crept into my nose with its green, clear, self-confident notes,
not looking for favors, of headstrong presence and with backbone!
A backbone with clarity and heart, and without hardness. Yes, for me he radiates truthfulness, presence and sensitivity and is free of all coquetry. I appreciate that very much

I will probably associate the fragrance with this special evening for the rest of my life, as well as with the protagonist of the film and her skills:

to do what needs to be done
to live and integrate their own history
to mourn without dissolving into self-pity or hardening
to see, to understand and to stay touchable
to be yourself without a lot of fuss and staging - and to let others be as they are
And with all this, be aware of the connectedness of all that exists...

Especially when I wear AURA, I realize that I wear fragrances for ME; that my essential impulse is to emphasize, strengthen or protect certain facets of myself... In other words, the intention to achieve a certain effect on others with a fragrance is foreign to me.
Neither my scents nor my clothes make me break other people's heads and wear what I feel like, simply because I feel like it.
And since AURA, in my opinion, does not show any obvious "favouritism", this is always particularly clear to me with this fragrance.

Even without going into detail about fragrances or describing their development - which others have already been able to do with their expertise :) - i hope to give you an impression of the emotions and attitudes I think this fragrance is capable of conveying

And if necessary, I would also be willing to reveal the title of the impressive film in a personal conversation :).

PS:
The first one who guesses the title of the movie gets a nice little scented package as a present :)
(aside': "I'll have that fun!")
PPS:
There is a scene in the film in which the protagonist looks into the mirror... and here the title of this commentary is pictorially expressed... (but there are no more tips!)

I am not a friend of the Bussi culture - so "kiss left - kiss right" greeting and the like...
I just don't like it.
But this is quite an abomination to me if I become the involuntary victim of foolhardy flavoured gentlemen (more rarely ladies) - and afterwards carry their olfactory legacies around with me for the rest of the day/evening...
With every movement I perceive what was left on my skin unwanted. Sometimes it just annoys me, but in the worst case it causes upset and/or headaches.
If I also find myself in a social event from which I can't easily distance myself, my pain takes on astronomical proportions (which may be difficult for others to comprehend)...

Why am I telling this? That's how I feel about "Rumeur".
The fragrance pyramid of this fabric made me rejoice and long for a container. But finally on my skin (thanks to a hearty donation from a dear Parfuma; a thousand thanks!): I really only notice a kind of aftershave. Aftershave, aftershave, aftershave... bööh.
"Flowery Powdery"? Not at all. On me a downright passive-aggressive aftershave note unfolds that neither wavers nor gives way. In a kind of fascination of horror, my nose wanders for hours to the wetting ("scented" I don't want to say here) arm - and still and again gibt´s aftershave, aftershave, aftershave. I don't recognize a fragrance development, and only the patchouli I can identify to some extent...
I'm afraid (please don't hit!) if this creation were offered in any bottle in the lowest drugstore shelf for two-fun - it wouldn't take me by surprise.

I would love to speak in a flowery way of the journey that took me to Rumeur and of everything I experienced then...
Alone, I have only the wish that he may go where all the rumors belong:
To Pepperland.

I was impressed by comments and statements and was enraptured to buy this fragrance blind. That's how it is sometimes when you think you know how "that" has to smell after studying fragrance pyramids, reviews and hymns of praise... :). (Know what I mean...?)
And no matter which fragrances I have already tested or call my own, there always remains in some hidden corner of my being the longing for the sacred "fragrance"-Gral...

ONE LOVE came, and barely on my skin, I thought "Aaaaaaaah" and "Ooooooh" and devotedly "Jaaaah"...
but, what shall I tell you...? the auspicious joy of the blossoms, which immediately elicited a smiling ray from me, was followed by clammy sadness in desolate green coolness. Not pretty, not pretty at all...
It is to be noted that I can love green smells quite - however here in the process a green-herb dampness shows up, which depresses me straight. And that's not all, the drydown even adds a rejecting brittle to it.
A brittleness that is not of the sympathetically charming individuality that I like... No, a brittle one with bulkiness and an annoying "wäwäwäwäääääh" (falling intonation - you know that) - and then leave me alone in a musty, damp cellar corner (and take my candle with me!)
Even less beautiful...

ONE LOVE is for me - even after several attempts - a tragedy in three acts:
1. Act (promising + confident): "Aaaaaaah...!"
2. Act (sad + clearly quieter, possibly trembling lower lip): "oooooh, please no..."
3. Act (annoyed, but too polite to get really rough): "Menno! Geh´weg And give me the candle so I can get out as soon as possible!

ONE LOVE is a No Go for me because of its course. The durability is at me - thank God - less than mediocre. So there is no big damage; I "only" got one fragrance experience richer; one that I don't have to repeat :).

The Fragrance Grail - of which I have been pretty sure for quite some time - doesn't exist and can't exist; first of all, I'm not and won't always be the same myself (and can't and doesn't want to smell or be perceived that way all the time), and secondly, it's always too much fun to fathom out whether I'll find YOU some day (Fragrance of course :)):
The ever-goer, the soul comforter, the protective shield, the aura, the heart, the raised head, the sure step, the lightheartedness, the radiance, the warmth, the benevolence and the openness - a fragrance which expresses no more and no less as deeply felt humanity...
Well, that's a bit much to ask!
And, of course, I hope to be human even without fragrance.... But MIT often makes it more fun, is sometimes a little simpler, friendlier, sunnier...

I'd love to keep looking around. There are still sooo many beautiful plays :)