Bolstered by sandalwood and natural jasmine extracts—and a campaign starring Euphoria's Hunter Schafer—the new scent is a modern riff on the patchouli-heavy, 1992 original.
, who wore a waist-snatching corseted black gown from Mugler’s fall 1995 couture collection. A familiar smell wafted through the crowd, growing stronger as you approached the center of the exhibition, where the designer’s olfactory achievements, most notably his 1992 triumph, Angel, were on view: Even encased in glass, the iconic—and polarizing—eau de parfum that forever changed the fragrance world made itself known.
To have lived through the ’90s is to know Angel’s cloying, unmistakable trail, which smelled nothing like the decade’s more ubiquitous aquatic offerings, fruity florals, and room-clearing ’80s-era holdovers. “Angel broke all the rules,” Cadwallader says of the synthesized praline, cotton candy, and red berry concoction that created an entirely new category.
, a modern riff on the original that aims to broaden its appeal while staying true to a hyper-performative DNA dotted with queer nightlife characters and a fetishized femininity.Elixir doesn’t totally abandon the original Angel, insists Hunter Schafer, the face of the new scent. “I think of them as sisters,” elaborates the 24-year-oldstar.
At 27, I have both a vivid memory of the old Angel and a Gen Z affinity with the spirit of the new version, so I wore both to theoffice, on alternating days, to compare them. While the original eau de parfum stoked nostalgia, especially among our senior editors , it also smelled “a little ladylike,” according to a young colleague. Elixir, meanwhile, was the favorite with an even younger colleague. It smells “woody,” she said; and “not like it’s meant to be a female fragrance.
The new fragrance arrives in a dark blue version of the original five-pointed-star flacon. Courtesy of Mugler Fragrances.had a chance to smell the new fragrance in its early incarnation. “It was very emotional,” reveals perfumer Domitille Michalon-Bertier, who co-created the formula with Anne Flipo, of the designer’s encouraging reaction to the updated blend, which arrives in a dark blue version of the original five-pointed-star flacon.
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