Thierry Mugler Alien Taste of Fragrance


When 12” “remixes” of New Wave hits were introduced in the 80's, they usually amounted to nothing more than an extended intro with a Syndrum breakdown jammed in the middle of the otherwise untampered-with Simple Minds or Human League track.
This Taste of Fragrance flanker of Thierry Mugler Alien is the perfume version of an 80's-style remix. It pretty much smells the same as regular Alien, but with an an extra layer of more-of-the-same that doesn't change the overall effect. So if you already like Alien, you'll like this, but probably won't need to buy it. And if you don't like Alien, nothing here is going to change your mind.
Taste of Fragrance Alien is available from Amazon.com at $62 for 1 oz
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13 comments:

  1. cacioMarch 29, 2012 6:16 AM

    Alien (with or without additions) I can probably leave alone, but funny you mention OJ Tolu - I am in fact right now waiting for my order from OJ, which includes Tolu bath oil. (I will mix it with shower oil and so have the most fragrant gym showers ever ...)

    cacio

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    1. Katie PuckrikMarch 29, 2012 11:50 AM

      The Tolu bath oil will be dandy (multiple uses from bath oil to moisturizer to doctoring your shower oil) - but there's also Tolu shower gel available, from what I remember.

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  2. Nathan BranchMarch 29, 2012 9:54 AM

    I rushed out to buy those extended mixes of 80's hits (on vinyl, of course) -- Tears for Fears, Wham, Human League, Yaz, Thompson Twins, Howard Jones . . . synthdrums were my cotton candy treat, especially after having grown up in the rural Midwest on a steady diet of Rush, Rush and more Rush.

    But that's kind of out of my system now (as of almost thirty years ago), so a buttered caramel Alien isn't on my Shop Now Shop Often list. But it would have been. When I was 18. And synthdrum crazy.

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    1. Katie PuckrikMarch 29, 2012 11:52 AM

      I can still remember the style of dancing done to those extended Syndrum breakdowns: kind of a swooping side-to-side move ending in a little crouch at each end. Also a New Wave kind of "pony" bop. Interspersed with grandiose Siouxsie Sioux/Jim Kerr sweeping arm gestures.

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    2. Nathan BranchMarch 29, 2012 12:45 PM

      We obviously hung out at the same clubs.

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    3. Katie PuckrikMarch 30, 2012 12:01 PM

      I remember you.

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  3. cacioMarch 30, 2012 6:12 AM

    Katie:

    indeed, OJ is to be commended for making the whole line of bath products for most scents (unlike, ahem, Chanel, which makes an oil every 10 years or so...). My skin likes Eucerin shower oil - it gets too dry with most showergels - so that's why I need a frag in oil form to give a mild scent to scentless Eucerin.

    cacio

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    1. Katie PuckrikMarch 30, 2012 12:01 PM

      I'm an oil fan for the same kind of reason. "Lubricate" is my motto. Weird motto.

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  4. VanessaMarch 31, 2012 12:06 PM

    I liked the Alien and Womanity ones, and felt the latter was an improvement on the original - in the spirit of less being more.

    I remember catching The Human League at the Ulster Hall in Belfast c1980! I wore the full New Romantic tackle for a while, complete with Crazy Color-ed auburn hair (though I toggled between that and aubergine).

    Random trivia facts about Phil Oakey: he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi and my brother, and used to be married to my ex-lodger's girlfriend, who read auras, no less.

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    1. Katie PuckrikMarch 31, 2012 6:31 PM

      My Manic Panic color was "Pillar Box Red."

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    2. VanessaApril 02, 2012 3:33 PM

      I remember it well from photos or the telly? - your Signature Scarlet phase. I am unintentionally sporting an orange thatch in place of hair at the moment, but hope to have corrective surgery shortly.

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  5. Jennifer WellsApril 02, 2012 6:25 PM

    "I can still remember the style of dancing done to those extended Syndrum breakdowns: kind of a swooping side-to-side move ending in a little crouch at each end. Also a New Wave kind of "pony" bop. Interspersed with grandiose Siouxsie Sioux/Jim Kerr sweeping arm gestures."

    I want to see you demonstrate said moves in your next video.

    My six-year-old son's favorite fragrance is Alien, which he describes as "it smells like grapes, artificial grapes. I just love it."

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    1. Katie PuckrikApril 02, 2012 7:19 PM

      Nora, it takes little-to-no encouragement to get me to execute ridiculous dance moves.

      I adore the confidence of your six-year-old's Alien analysis, ending with the flourish of "I just love it."

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