Description
18 years after Angel and 5 years after extraordinary Alien, Thierry Mugler is saluting femininity. The new edition will thrill all fans of his creations. It is named Womanity and it arrives in stores in mid-June 2010. Thierry Mugler with Womanity plans to launch (for the third time) a bestseller perfume and which will attract the public for years.
Womanity is a word created to connect femininity, humanity and city. An overture to this edition began in March 2010 when Mugler launched Womanity.com web site with an idea that every woman cooperates in its creation and finishing touch. With an aim to create contents for the website, one story is finished by several women, each of them writing on her page. Contest asks women to give creative ideas for a particular project or cause. The winner will work with Mugler to finish the website.
Fragrance WOMANITY was created as a part of this phenomenon, in a pink bottle. Connections between women are presented as chains and ring on top of the bottle which is decorated with metal frieze with symbolic design. Design of the top part of the bottle and beautiful frieze figures can be interpreted as Gothic or Art Deco style. Mugler‘s idea was however that the frieze encapsulated and depicted women of all generations.
Composition of Womanity was created by Mane, as a powerful contrast of elements. By using the new molecular process of extraction, Mane manages to extract natural aromas of fig for sweet accords. Savory notes originate from caviar and the structure in ensured by fig wood aromas. Pierre Aulas, olfactive director of Clarins Fragrance Group, says that it is a true challenge to work on Mugler‘s idea of combining savoury and sweet notes.
Womanity was created by Mane, Alexis Dadier and Ralf Schwieger.
malinka200009 – :
This was my first introduction to salty marine notes. Let me tell you, I instantly bought it and religiously wore every winter. Now Olympea has replaced Womanity, but in my opinion these two ladies belong to the same family tree.
I don’t know why but almost every perfume from Mugler works on me like a second skin. These perfumes aren’t everyone’s favourites, but they are my favourites. Womanity raises up discussions, while in my life it was just daily fresh perfume reminiscent of salty sea breeze in the winter. It was potent, unique and sexy without any efforts.
Murloc – :
Womanity.. my true love! The perfume that opened Pandora’s Box, so to speak. I used to be a “normal” perfume user.. had a couple bottles, didn’t wear fragrance every day.. then I found this rabbit hole of a website and got sucked into reading all the polarizing reviews of this beautifully misunderstood scent. I ordered a sample and was so shocked at how utterly beautiful and womanly this scent was.. here was a REAL fragrance for a grown-up lady with her s#&* together! And so my descent into Mugler madness began and here I am 348248324 perfumes later overflowing my poor bookcase, but anyway I digress…
When I discovered Womanity I wore it for about a month straight.. I exhausted my little bottle, used every drop. I couldn’t get enough of it. Then of course other perfumes were arriving every other day in the mail 😉 so it got pushed aside for awhile. But I always come back to this one.. I find myself craving the ripe, fleshy fullness of that fresh fig note and the strange metallic seaside note of the caviar. The dichotomy of such truly different notes makes for a very polarizing scent, clearly.. and I can see how some may hate it. Luckily Womanity loves me as much as I love it and our chemistry is great because I smell fabulous when I wear it.. probably my most compliment-getting fragrance I have.
No matter how full my shelves get, there will always be room for Womanity!
powerman_7 – :
Blind buy based on reviews and notes… Oh my I LOVE YOU Womanity! Unconditionally love you from first sniff. So feminine, so beautiful and so deep and complexe. Really adore The fig notes who really works on my skin. Perfect silage, perfect longevity… I really dislike Angel … But This one is just as good as both Alien and Aura which I adore. Daringly addictive!
VolodyaSovyak – :
I have been waiting to try this for a while, and I really just knew I would hate it. I don’t prefer green and I thought I would for sure pick up a fishy smell. But I’m so happy to say that I love this and definitely need a bottle! Its super yummy and fruity and smells sexy at the same time. Mmm yes, definitely worth a try.
шлангор – :
i can’t find anything wrong with this. have tested it a couple of times now and i get a sweet salty dried-fig floral (and yes i know there aren’t any flowers listed in the notes – just my brain’s saying “sweet flower”) with a pleasant slightly spicey woodsy backdrop.
no blood, no red meat, no fish and chips, no lady parts. just a rather pleasant perfume with decent sillage and longevity.
me and Angel never got along, so this has been a nice surprise.
also, i get a cross over note that i enjoy in Kelly Caleche EDP, which i am guessing is the sweet salty from the leather/suede accord.
nik100 – :
“To me, it smells of cigarettes and feminine sweat”
Really!? Because to me, I mostly smell sweet green bell peppers!
Kind of like I just finished chopping some raw green bell peppers for a salad.
I still love this stuff, though.
vladibork – :
If you combined the *ideas* behind Etat Libre d’Orange’s Jasmin et Cigarette and Putain de Palaces, you’d get the scent of Womanity. To me, it smells of cigarettes and feminine sweat (the kind that follows intimate activity), plus a metallic edge. It’s not repulsive on me, but it’s just not my kind of scent. Like most Mugler fragrances, this one lasts and projects for hours, even after scrubbing with soap!
vvnbtn – :
Congratulations! I have a big bottle of this beauty. How can I describe this perfume? Hard. It’s such a different, unusual scent that it often gets a lot of negative feedback. I suspect that the fluid is as liberal as any woman and chooses whom to make chemistry with. Obviously not with everyone – many of the comments are for an acute, repellent smell.
The perfume works fine for me. It opens with an explosive sweet start, deep, tight, demanding. But it quickly calms down by mixing with my skin and my own odor. Subsequently, it remains like a cloud of sweet figs with a slightly salty accent of caviar or rather sea salt. My base is clean, soothing, even soapy.
Exquisite perfume – different, feminine, tempting, luscious. I adore him.
Longevity and track without comment. Huge.
Do not buy blindly. I ordered 5 ml testers before.
wlad.fva – :
Some florals, a nice spiciness, and then ripe, unwashed body smell. It smells like a person in dire need of a shower quickly spritzed a spicy-floral perfume all over them. I’ve smelt worse for sure, but either I got a bad bottle, or this stuff is just not for my skin. I really do not like it at all!
Scent: 4/10
Sillage: 6/10
Longevity: 7/10
vlako321 – :
This is the first perfume I remember liking. I had found fragrances I could barely tolerate before, but this is the first one that tasted right to my young stupid nose.
I used to have several testers, and I finished them up just by smelling them. I think I never wore it before I got my hands on it again, almost 10 years later.
djpayk – :
I have to confess, that this one was pure hate at first sniff.
I was sitting in January on bench, surrounded by the snow and very exited to try a new samples. I put Womanity on my wrist and it was complete disaster! I smelled sharp fig note cut with pungent salty note and something rotten. I was so disapointed, that I´ve never tested Womanity again.
Till lately, I was on a trip to Scandinavia and walking across local food market near sea in Copenhagen. And oh, that smell, sea breeze, saltiness, sun, local seafood dishes. They reminded me of something.
And I tried Womanity again. In the heat, on the sun. It was completely another story. Fig note develops beautifully, a can smell caviar note, but not like rotten fish.
I´ve never smelled something like this before, afrer all, it´s Mugler.
I´m not sure if people, that I´m surrounded by can handle this.
TonkoPeco – :
I bought this after smelling it in a shop in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It’s…. well, weird. Addictively weird! At the time I bought it, I was across the world from home, living alone and doing a research study for my dissertation. I was totally out of my element in every possible way, so this was exactly the right fragrance. As you can tell by the mixed reviews, it’s a love or hate scent – it’s challenging. And yet, it also smells very simple. There aren’t a billion notes, and it’s doesn’t progress through the wear. Nonetheless, it just works on me, and it lasts for ages. Like Alien (which I only wear in the winter) it’s perfect for work meetings where you need to absolutely dominate. The major plus to Womanity is that you can wear it year round because it’s seasonless. The bottle is also stunning. If you’re a badass chick who likes to challenge the norm and doesn’t want to smell like everyone else in the board room, give this one a go.
Spark – :
I don’t want to offend anyone but i really really hate this. I think that’s the worst perfume I’ve smelled in my life.. the longevity though is outstanding, i had to wash my hand a lot for the smell to come off . I can’t stress this enough DO NOT BLIND BUY THIS, i almost did!
DAK-wolf – :
Womanity so gorgeous both in summer and winter, suitable for a any age. I love how long this lasts, feminine and clean oceanic scent, green plants and slightly juicy fig, what a great fragrance, so glad I have this.
demasx – :
i snagged a sample several years ago, completely blind. I’d selected a handful of different fragrances straight from the Mugler website, as I’d just fallen in love with Alien (or maybe one of its flankers, now that I’m thinking about it). Anyway, I’d yet to meet a Mugler that I didn’t like so I blind ordered a bunch of Mugler samples, including Womanity.
Why the backstory? Because I decided pretty quickly that this stuff smells like vag without any suggestion or influence. Sorry to everyone that thinks people are only detecting this because they were told to expect it, but I was not prepared at all so your theory is disproved.
It’s not entirely vagina. More like someone trying (and failing) to disguise the need for a shower with a spritz of some sweet, pink peppered scent.
I literally haven’t touched it since I first got it so I paused a moment while writing this and gave it another try. Yup. Still smells like kitty. Not like a truly dirty one but I don’t really want to go about projecting any kind of vag smell, clean or dirty!
slavikkk – :
I’ve been brave lately. Having avoided the house of Mugler for quite a while I’ve been testing a few samples here and there. While I found this one a bit odd but nothing too bizarre or even unique( to me it’s very similar to Olympea or Reveal but with more watery floral notes) I don’t get a lot of salted fig, more like marine water + a bit of jelly. My significant other however was immediately repulsed and recoiled and demanded , ” ugh what IS that?! “. I told him it’s an aquatic savory perfume. “Smells like Aquaman f*****d a mermaid”. Was his description. I kid you not. So depending on your nose you might get vaguely aquatic fruit or…uh, something else!
I didn’t hate it but wouldn’t buy it. The bottle is really cool though.
Wipasiada – :
Tried it at the bay, and I believe they reformulated it…I don’t find it as horrible as I used to..seems the fishy smell is gone….this is a love or hate I suppose…still, I know a couple people who wear it, and I just think the fig comes out in the weirdest way..like unwashed clothes, or something like that…this is definitely a unique creation! Like Mugler does it so well.
Juice78 – :
My favorite Mugler! What an incredible creation. Definitely need to have it in my collection.
vitaliy0810 – :
Back in stock in Canada too. The Bay are stocking it again anyway. Great news!!
adnnin – :
I used it back when it first came out and loved it. Although I never had an occasion to wear it…so I put it away and kind of forgot that I had it, until just recently. I was going though my perfume collection the other week and found it had turned colour to yellow ( 🙁 ). I got scared the scent had changed so I had to spray it. The scent was the same (thank goodness) but OMG!
Put it on a warm summer night and it will take you to the stars!
I have now used it every single summer night and wow…! I don’t remember this being so sexy but it is! So happy I “found” it again!!!
olya – :
This smells gorgeous! Very aquatic clean. Sometimes I smell just a the tiniest amount of salt! Very reminiscent of being on the beach, taking a dip in the sea and then just lying in the sun and enjoying life! I absolutely think this would waft around beautifully in hotter climates. I cannot for the life of me understand how this got discontinued!
If you like the aquqtic scents such bright cristal by Versace I think you will like this.
soliko – :
Ok, this is only ok. Doesn’t smell pleasant on me at all. At first spray, it’s strong and screaming, but it finally dries down to a softer even out mix. It’s a floral herb mix on me. The dry down is much better on my skin. It took a sweet sour dry down on me with a fig note right off the branch. Now remember perfume can smell different on everyone. I bought this when it first came out so if it’s been reformulated I have one of the originals. I do love Mugler fragrances they are my style, sophisticated and so different from anything out there on the market. The sillage on this is a punch in the face for a while after about 30 minutes it’s working it’s way to a softer side. All I can say is….very interesting hmmmmm…
teymurS – :
BACK IN STOCK ON MUGLER WEBSITE – UK
Domovoi1693 – :
I don’t understand the hatred for this frag &
– or how it took me 8 years to finally try it. Everything I have read about it has lead me to believe it either works stunningly with your skin profile or it’s a hideous skunking you wish you could scrub off. I am so happy to be a former contestant!
I can’t pick out the individual scent profiles (much like I have a hard time doing that for all Mugler frags); I own L’Artisan Premier Figuier which is about as figgy as you can get, but it takes a lot of sniffs and thought to really pull that out of Womanity. I smell some kind of flowers in Womanity, Jasmine probably, but flowers aren’t listed. I do smell the slight sourness of the caivier, but it’s definitely not as horrendous as people have made it out to be. I mean, I was all prepared for some rancid vajay-jay; instead I get crushed greens with just a touch of fig leaf, white flowers and salt that doesn’t spit up at people (at least not from the tester vial) and clings to the skin like a nice green summer scent. This mixed with my sweat and didn’t turn rancid like a lot of frags do in the hot summer. I may have to buy this, I can’t stop smelling myself!
Kniaz.V – :
Green powdery musky fig! Has a chypre-gourmand perfume category been already invented? If no, this is the one. Interesting work of genius!
Stookeple – :
@Alpa The juice has a tendency to change colour over time from pale pink to light tan – kind of a urine colour! I’ve had several bottles over the years and my back up refill 80ml bottle is yellowy-tan not pink. It came that way, but still smells exactly the same and is not a fake. I store them out of the light in a drawer and they are fine. I will probably try a different company for my back-ups in future and hope it arrives pink!
NaftPluff – :
Someone once told me don’t buy a perfume at least tested it 5time.i think I should test womanity more than 5time because I was looking forward to it for test and I couldn’t find any samples or testers.but few years later i saw it on some store and I said to my self I should try it.so I spray some on my hand I remember that I told my mama”what was all those dislikes for?this smells amazing”few minutes later I smelled it again and i was going to throw up.i told my mama”I wish I couldn’t spray it i think im stink now.”I looking forward to a bathroom to wash it away but when i was going to wash it suddenly i fell in love with it.i didn’t buy it because I wasn’t sure what I’m thinking about it.but I’m going to test it few more time and decide then.
sqhpbhtbwjt – :
My first Mugler. I was intrigued to try Muglers based on how polarising these scents are. I’ve yet to try Angel, being scared off by the dominant patchouli note, and saved Alien for bit since I already have a jasmine in my wardrobe, so I picked a sample of this because I thought the caviar note sounded interesting and I’d yet to try fig.
Love at first sniff. This is a beautifully sweet/salty scent, a bit loud and somewhat metallic, but in no way fishy or artificial. It’s your skin but fresh and bold whilst being endearing at the same time.
This perfume is so clever. It makes me think of a clean vulva. I mean that in a very good way. It’s an abstract representation, it definitely doesn’t *smell* like that but I get that impression so strongly that the name really suits. It’s like embracing the feminine and radiating it with your very pores.
I’m disappointed this has been pulled. I can’t see it on their website anymore. I’d still recommend trying this for anyone looking for a fig or salty/sweet scent that veers into the abstract.
hvost5 – :
Alright, so imagine the Greek goddess Aphrodite combined with the goddess Athena. Now put that in a bottle.
That’s what Womanity is.
You’ve got the beauty rising from the sea foam, and you’ve got the strong, aggressive warrior.
This was a blind buy, after another user recommended it to me based on my love for every Mugler fragrance I’ve touched, and my other tastes in fragrances.
I’ve felt some frustration in the “sameness” and mediocrity of a lot of newer fragrances. So many of them are cotton-candy-vanilla-easy-safe-crowd-pleasing-mass-produced-money-making-machines that just seem shallow and flat to me.
I’m not a blend-in-with-the-crowd, go-with-the-flow type of person. I’m very well aware of the fact that my personality can be polarizing, I can be aggressive and difficult to deal with, and there are moments where I really toe that line between healthy self-assuredness and outright arrogance. I make no excuses or apologies for who I am.
Which, I think, is one of the reasons why Mugler fragrances tend to fit me so well. Womanity is no exception to that rule.
And oh my God, it’s amazing! Complex and complicated, not really easy to describe, but totally addicting.
It’s unapologetically feminine and unapologetically aggressive.
And yet, I feel like this could be a unisex fragrance on the right guy. I imagine it would be very pleasant to be cuddling with a guy and smell this on him. Romantic and self-assured, it would take a certain kind of personality to pull this off, but it could be really attractive on a man.
Jekakoks – :
I very like this perfume. Unique and interesting. To me, it smells like the seaside on a hot summer day. I very love the sea, so I also like everything what reminds me of it. This fragrance is really pleasant and lovely. I do not like the commercial of this fragrance, do not fit for this scent in my opinion. And the bottle is not so pretty, also do not really fit of the scent of this perfume. I would rather imagine a seashell shape bottle instead of this. 🙂
BatShady – :
I’m very disappointed, ’cause it appears that it’s been reformulated. I purchased 80 ml EDP bottle a few days ago, the code is valid, but the longevity and sillage are WAY lower than the one bought in 2014, 4h tops.
wrx069 – :
I wore this for a few years. All of Thierry Mugleir’s perfumes are unlike anything I have ever smelled before and I absolutely loved this fragrance. It is sweet but it is an unusual kind of sweet which I now know is the fig/woodsy smell. Sounds gross but I loved this perfume. It lasts a long time and it smells great on me. The citrus isnt all the strong either, but I like it that way.
Dellete – :
D: oh no. I just got a whopping bottle of this from the Mugler website when what I actually wanted was Womanity Eau Pour Elles!!! The latter is fig paradise from my mini, and this is straight stinky caviar with a fig leaf hint underneath. Boy was I disappointed when I sprayed it. My skin does weird things to salty scents, so I’m guessing this doesn’t make most people smell like the back end of a fish 🙁 anyone interested in swapping pm me
skripah – :
This is Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in perfume! I am flabbergasted! The reviews are hilariously vivid in their animus towards it, and I have not had the best experiences with any Mugler perfumes. To find a beachy gem in the midst is beyond belief! Womanity smells like laying on a hot beach, your skin oiled, the salty waves lapping at your feet. You’re a little drowsy, and have this general euphoric good feeling of enjoying the sensual aroma of lounging on the sand. Salty, beachcomber pleasure bomb!
zxn979speagoessenda – :
Way more than only figs, fig foliage and wood in that? Big citrus. Anyone with half a nose can smell a large dose of lime, with ginger and the fig,oceanic salt, vetiver, resins and wood. Gorgeous if used with a light hand, ghastly if over sprayed.
olegg – :
I couldn’t be happier if this smelled like salt, or anything sweet, or fish or fig or figtree or any of their combinations on me. But on me it smells like violence and a laugh in the face. Violence, because I ‘ve never smelled anything as agressively aquatic as this one. On me this is no more and no less than a killing strong aquatic scent, not feminine at all, and very ordinary. Something like in Davidoff Cool Water for women that i hate passionately as well. And a laugh in the face by the marketing team of this perfume because they wrote ‘caviar’ on the bottle and people started to smell caviar and fish in this fragrance. I really don’t get it, or the smell of caviar and fish in Middle-Europe must be totally different from the rest of he world.
It’s not
Sadly enough there is almost no way to get rid of it once you sprayed on the skin.
BUT
Since I heard that this one was to be discontinued and is still widely available online in my country I wonder if it had been reformulated and the raveing reviews were written about a quite different thing. I don’t know. But womanity in the form I know it is simply unbearable for me:(
wovkodav1992 – :
Interesting, addictive, smells very niche for me. Love, love, love. Opening is a bit strange. Dries down on my skin into something beautiful and sophisticated. Worth to try.
maxssimmuss – :
I don’t know why I didn’t like this all these years!what was wrong with me??salt,fig and wood.This is perfect.I imagine myself being in a garden near the sea and singing while playing my guitar…somewhere in Greece or Italy….perfection!!!
ЖеняСМ – :
This is my love. My pure love
Татьяна – :
Blind buy this, and received it today. The scent maybe is not everyone’s cup of tea, very unique,but this is Thierry Mugler, i wasn’t surprise. It isn’t Mugler if it is not unique. Can’t tell what the scent is like, but i like it. The first 10 minute quite strong, but then it drydown to a lovely refreshing summer scent. I can imagine my self wearing this in a beach, laying under the sun and enjoy the summer breeze.
sergejw313 – :
A blind buy. In fact – a risky one, because I’m a white flower fan, but I was so curious about it – the unusual bottle and the notes – figs and caviar /soo not me/ sounds really interesting. And I thought that I will like it, but no – I love it and the best thing – it lasts like forever on me.
Kuponabi – :
The scent I was looking for since I was a little girl!
Every summer my family use to go to Mediterranean Sea side for summer holidays. We were usually located next to the sea, yet if you wanted to experience the real beauty of nature and sea you’d have to walk to not so popular (wild) beaches. So we woke up every day early in the morning to get there before it became too hot. This walks were one of the best part of it.
Fig, olive, cedar trees and through leafs you could see and smell the sea. I was not sure till that day any scent could capture this beautiful breeze I memorised so well. But this is it.
A beautiful Mediterranean breeze in all it’s summer glory, suntan lotion, figs, sea, ozon, nature, salt, sweetness all together.
Brilliant creation.
Not even sure I myself could wear this. Those memories are some how nostalgic to me. But on other people- I’d love to smell it. It’s totally suitable for both genders.
If you can understand it…it’s a beauty.
(I would bet there’s coconut in here too)
Patik.E46 – :
I really wish I could like this. BUt Nope, nope, nope. All I get is savory. I could see maybe spraying this on a piece of tissue to get some kind of scent in cold weather, but definitely not on ME. No green, no nothing. Just savory. It gets really cheap on me, and just evolves into other variations of savory. I’m glad that I got it on ebay. It was brand new in box, totally wrapped, unused so I’m thinking that it wasn’t old, just soething I don’t like. Bummer
Trane – :
To me this perfume smells like minced parsley and other green notes with a little bit of salt and sugar. Weird, but the good kind of weird. It doesn’t smell like fish at all…
jms240elipseskism – :
This doesn’t smell just like a suntan lotion, it doesn’t smell just fresh, ozonic and aquatic as most of “sea” fragrances. This is a woman’s skin with the salt from the sea left on her and with her creamy white floral suntan lotion, after hours of playing and walking on a sandy beach with her beloved. It is the most unique fragrance I have ever smelled.
taz_kz – :
The aroma of eternal freedom.
Farrero – :
Starts out almost hazelnutty (reminds me of the hazelnut note in Angel Muse).
Bright, fresh, and citrus-like. Its not as salty as I expected. I thought it would be salt on skin after swimming in the ocean but what I have got so far is mainly fruit (synthetic), a hint floral, with a ‘tropical holiday location’ vibe wafting in the air.
Strangley, on my skin, the dry down on this reminds me of a Chanel perfume; it is a typical classy, feminine scent (Does anyone else get this?).
*Side note* using an unscented salt scrub before the application of this fragrance improves its savoury salty aspect.
Although it is not listed here this fragrance contains Labdanum.
Which after 1-2hrs is the main note I get from this (BUT my skin does amplify florals)
If anyone in Aus would like to swap with me, either a sample for a sample or a 95% Full 80ml bottle for another fragrance please msg me. Thanks 🙂
Jurijjj – :
Faint smelling – I had to use a lot. Vaguely floral, slightly sweet/green/woodsy/floral. A slight and not-unpleasant hint of bug spray. Summery. It reminds me of being at elementary school in Palo Alto in the early 1970’s. It smells like that pinkish putty color that was popular in construction in the 1960’s. It makes me think of the shiny tiled flooring at Emporium in Stanford Shopping Center. Maybe they used a cleaning product that smelled similar. Gives me a slight headache. Overall – pleasant but nothing special, slightly nostalgic. I prefer no scent over wearing this scent.
EDIT: It started getting oppressive and gave me stomach cramps. LOL. I’m pretty sensitive to perfumes. Many make me sick like this, so don’t take my review too seriously.
JohnBenGood – :
Wearing it right now. Very, very uniquie frag. Close to my skin I can smell green and sweet tones and in wider distance appears salty undertone-all together it comes light milky and nutty to my nose. Fragrance radiating misty pink with pale grey aura which is calming and promising at same time…like standing at the empty evening beach, watching at the sea while waiting to see your love one sailing back home. I can see a one wearing this frag like t-shirt&white panths 30+ lady with grey cardigan, bare foot sitting at grass lining beach with feet covered in sand. A loving and loved one woman, selfcouscious, patient… satisfied woman. Womanity gives me feeling of satisfying.
bsv747 – :
I must be cursed in that I fall in love with the challenging fragrances no one else likes, and then they are discontinued. This has happened many times, from BBW’s Velvet Tuberose and Vanilla Noir to, egregiously, the absolutely gorgeous Womanity. On me, I smell only bright, green, fresh fig and clean salt air. The sillage and projection is just enough, not too much. I’ve had people follow me to ask what I am wearing, telling me it’s lovely and fresh. The “caviar” note people decry is lost on my skin. I truly wish that note had never been revealed; I think it put people off and led them to imagine they smelled something that wasn’t there. It’s a darn shame this beauty was discontinued, because in a world of fruity florals and overpowering gourmands, it stood out, beautifully and proudly.
kuzma1985 – :
I was surprised to see that people are ‘scared’ of Womanity. ‘Scared’ of the caviar note. Surprised because when I first tried this years ago, it was an immediate hit with me. A sweet, juicy fig, a dash of sea salt on the skin, a clean note running through contrasting beautifully with the underlying rich, deep woods. It is stunningly beautiful.
Caviar is just a salty note, that’s all; nothing too out of the ordinary in perfumery, to be honest, and certainly not at all fishy here. It’s funny how people’s expectations colour their cognition. Of course, it is slightly outside of the normative fruit-sweet water that is so common nowadays; however, for me this is no scary thing. It’s the kind of scent that, when worn, will be recognised as ‘you’ when you walk into a room. I had someone I work with in the lab describe it as ‘clean smelling’, and I agree. Clean like salty air at the beach, sweet like a fig dessert. If the colour of the juice matched the scent, it would be a soft, pale shimmering two-tone purple-green.
It is such a shame this has been discontinued. I know that perfumery is, fundamentally, capitalist and they want to bring in the bucks, but it is such a shame that beautiful, unique, rich frags like this have to be taken off the shelf primarily through people’s fear of the unexpected.
DENIS7 – :
First of all, I’m glad womanity is not another sweet gourmand bomb. It still has that strange aura that most Mugler fragrances carry, sort of like a “what’s going on in here?”. You get the unexpected. Which is not always welcome.
Womanity is fruity with the darkness of the fig and a tangy bite that may well be a berry or citrus. Then I get a “dirty” note, perhaps the caviar ( or whatever that may be) and some dry wood notes that I thought it was vetiver but I guess I was wrong.
I’m a guy so perhaps I see this fragrance in a different way, but don’t stay with the first impression, give it some time, from an awkward beginning womanity put itself together and becomes a green, slightly fruity beautiful perfume.
Soulcatcher – :
I wish this didn’t get so much hate. I mean it’s not going to be “expected” because it’s a Mugler fragrance. I disagree that this is masculine. It is more neutral and unisex. It is sweet because of the fig. It just doesn’t scream “hey! I’m a girl! And I wear flower scents all the time! Because I’m a girl!” I love the fig scent in this. I got onto a fig kick because of SJP stash. I get mostly fig and salt from this, and then something green like parsley. It’s not a yucky stinky leathery green like in Lauder’s Aliage. It’s like a fresh crispness. Bell pepper maybe? But it’s pretty. I think if you like fig this is one of the better fig fragrances out there.
FriendKevin – :
Too risky for the blind buy and giving as a gift. This perfume is definitely not for everyone. Harsh, salty, masculine and daring. Tried on different people, everyone hated its beginning, yeah, it has a very strong beginning in an awful way, I admit! But in an hour it turns out a softer -but still salty- fig and I can’t stop smelling my wrists.
bockr – :
I don’t undrestand the dissapointment of people when it comes to Womanity, maybe they expected something different and got something else? I like that Womanity is so distinct, you just can’t mess it with another perfume.
The opening could be considered near disgusting and unpleasant, but that’s part of the whole Womanity experience. Very herbal, softens as time goes by, and decidedly green. Others are calling it stale, well this fig is more on the rotten than on the sweet side.
Salty yes. In fact the scent is evocative of the salty skin at summertime. The bodily effect is very comforting, smells so familiar, sometimes it exudes the scent of sweaty skin. I can totally see where the animalic claim comes from.
It’s a very special scent that you should test sometimes before buying, testing on paper strip does not help much, get a good 10 ml sample and wear it in order to understand. This perfume is easy to dismiss, beware.
kovalenko – :
I absolutely love this!It really blends well with my body chemistry.I get fresh,balmy,sweet and salty combination.Lasts all day on my skin.
Va1era – :
I don’t get it. This is supposed to be polarizing?
It’s a rather bland fig (mildly fruity but without any juice) with some mild saltiness. That’s it. I don’t find it strong at all (hey I grew up in the 80s I know STRONG perfume). It’s just sort of… boring. Not something I’d spend money on certainly, but not because it’s horrible just because it’s got nothing interesting going on.
wxf699InsuffBooni – :
My perfume soulmates described this perfume as horrible, disgusting, cheap & annoying. And that was a clear signal for me to try it because I´m well-known as the Queen of Strange Perfumes.
And – wait for it – I fell in love.
In my fantasy, I imagine Womanity like a big cold can, full of salty seawater and sawed figs. This scent is salty, sweet, aquatic & tinny, everything at once. I don´t wanna make any rash conclusions, but I´m afraid that´s not only something