Katie Puckrik Smells: Thierry Mugler Womanity Taste of Fragrance

Now with added boings and chikka chikkas.

The gang at Mugler Perfumes have always been especially gung-ho about giving the DJ treatment to their fragrances: plenty of remixes of the same old songs to keep sales brisk and bodies moving on the dance floor. The latest remix gambit is “Le Goût du Parfum”, in which Angel, A*Men, Alien and Womanity are zjushed up with a selected “flavor enhancer.” I think we can all agree that given the stadium-level volume of the aforementioned scents in their original mix, enhancement is not a requirement that immediately springs to mind.

Womanity Taste of Fragrance: well-calibrated bombast.

However, Womanity seems to have benefited from the few extra drops of punchy this and sassy that. The box doesn't read “Now even figgy-er!”, but it'd be fun if it did. It does list “fig chutney” as the added component, along with an exhortation not to imbibe. Womanity Taste of Fragrance should be a mess (some of the others are -- reviews on the way), but all the crazy boings and chikka-chikkas keep an already lively and unusual blend even more festive. Given the name, it's ironic that Womanity is the most “unisex” of all the Taste of Fragrances. Which is fine. It's men's turn to be lumped in with a unifying term of the opposite gender.

Womanity Taste of Fragrance is available from Amazon at $65 for 1.7 oz

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20 comments:

PurityFebruary 18, 2012 9:31 PM
Great review Katie! I really liked the A*Men Le Goût du Parfum version, haven't tried any of the others though, I live in Norway and they are really inaccessible here. Looking forward to those other Le Goût du Parfum reviews!
Katie PuckrikFebruary 18, 2012 9:35 PM
Thanks, Purity. I don't share your enthusiasm for the A*Men TOF, though - I thought it was a disaster!
PurityFebruary 19, 2012 12:49 AM
Haha, yeah I can understand why a lot of people would think that. It is a bit over the top, but I enjoyed it nonetheless! It would be great if you would still review it though, it's so funny when you review perfumes you don't like.

Btw; You must hear it all the time but you have a great sense of humour :D
MarkoFebruary 19, 2012 1:41 AM
How strangely coincidental....we must be on the same "wave length" or something - I've been wearing this for the past 3 days and really liking it a lot! The "jammy-ness" (or the "chutney" as they are calling it) reminds me quite a bit of the jam-like quality in Yves Rocher's Rose Absolue, but as you mentioned, the underlying "bitterness" keeps it from becoming too sweet and sticky. I also get a tiny bit of milky smoothness from the fig note that I never got from the original version. And, just like you, I definitely think this is the most successful version of the foody 4. And did you see that Mugler is doing the same thing this Summer (or Fall, I think?) by adding LEATHER to the "fab four"? I'm super looking forward to trying those when they get to the States! (If you see them in London before you head home, nab me some samples....)
DarrylFebruary 19, 2012 7:29 PM
I was baffled by the A*Men, and that's the one I was most looking forward to when these were first announced (I love those chocolate-chili bars). It's chili and chocolate, yes, but thin, and floating overtop a generic woody/fresh men's cologne from Department Store Counter #439. Say what you will about the original A*Men, but you can't say it's generic, and neither is it as threadbare and gaunt as the Taste of Fragrance version. I suspect that there actually isn't a drop of the original A*Men in it, whereas the other ToF's clearly smell like their progenitors. (Angel's in particular smells like the ORIGINAL original Angel, before they dialed down the coumarin and cleaned up the patchouli.)

Womanity is the only ToF I haven't tried, but if it gets the KP stamp of approval it must be worth a sniff! I get a kick out of Womanity; it just smells happy and vivacious to me, and there's something entirely guileless about it.
AnonymousFebruary 19, 2012 7:36 PM
Is 'flavor enhancer' part of the PR spiel? If so, that's horrible. Urghhh! Monosodium Glutamate is not a good thing to be namechecking. Also, chutney???? It all sounds so hideous.The last range I know of that was so obviously was food inspired, and where food was named as the creator's inspiration (the first fragrance I tried of theirs could be summarised as foccacia bread on chopping board- herbs and cedar) was so bad that the rep looked like he was going to cry when I told him that all their fragrances were just awful, and the creator obviously had no talent whatsoever as a perfumer. Inspite of you giving Womanity a thumbs up (that sounds wrong, i know), I'm expecting a disaster all round.
Ricardo RibeiroMay 28, 2012 11:08 PM
I like this version so much, and i think that in the 0-5 minutes womanity gives to you a spicy sauce foodyness, with the fig big note when to me that's the point that i consider womanity enought to eat, mmmmmmm! but after that, womanity aligns with the original revealing the same notes to my nose, today i try the womanity eau pour eles , this is an eau de toilette with the strawberry new note, nothing special or summery for my nose, taste and the original, just perfect, but i prefere Angel, is more seductíve and as katie smells says on the flower by kenzo review: " yééééééééééééééééééaaaaaaa" xD , As to whether Womanity be unisex, hum...i think that the original NOT, BUT IN THIS TASTE VERSION , yes, a men can use this! Love Alien's Mugléééér Fragrances... kiss to you katie ;)
Richard - Portugal
AnonymousJanuary 25, 2013 2:23 AM
I´m a guy and I just bought this and I adore it.
I don´t find it feminine at all. It´s salty, fruity, woody and strange.

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