Thierry Mugler

Thierry Mugler is a French author, fashion designer, and creator of a fashion design company created in 1974. Owned by the French cosmetics and skincare company Clarins, it is now mostly known for its perfume division, as the Couture division was closed in 2003 due to increasing losses. All Thierry Mugler ready-to-wear is now produced under license agreements.

It is particularly renowned for giving unlimited credit to its perfumers in order to get the best fragrance possible, whatever the price. Its most renowned fragrance is Angel, created in 1992. The scent, composed of notes such as berries, caramel, vanilla, patchouli, and chocolate, is the number one women's fragrance in France, the number two women's fragrance in Europe (after Chanel No. 5), and among the top ten women's fragrances in the United States. A men's version, A*Men (known as Angel Men in the US, Canada, and Middle East due to trademark issues) that shares many of the same notes, was launched in 1996. Angel Innocent (now known as simply Innocent) for women followed in 1998, while Mugler Cologne, inspired by a soap from Mugler's travels, was introduced three years later in 2001. B*Men, the sequel to A*Men, was introduced in 2004, and in 2005, the Angel Garden of Stars fragrances (peony, violet, and lily-tinged versions of the original women's fragrance) were introduced. Most recently, Alien, Mugler's first major women's fragrance launch since Angel, was introduced in limited distribution in late 2005, with the worldwide rollout continuing throughout 2006.

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