{{Short description|none}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox fragrance | name = Angel | image = | image size = 250px | alt = A bottle of the perfume Angel by Mugler; it is blue and designed to look like an irregularly shaped star. It sits on the shelf of a department store, next to a box of its flanker, Angel Elixir | caption = A bottle of Angel on a department store shelf | endorsed_by = Mugler | category = Gourmand | designed_for = Women | top_note = {{hlist|Bergamot}} | heart_note = {{hlist|Praline}} | base_note = {{hlist|Patchouli}} | released = {{Start date and age|1992}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.muglerusa.com/fragrance/womens-fragrances/angel/angel-eau-de-parfum-perfume/M010101003.html|title=Mugler Angel Eau de Parfum Fragrance | Mugler Official Site|accessdate=3 March 2024}}</ref> | label = Mugler | perfumer = Olivier Cresp and Yves de Chirin | concentration = Eau de Parfum | tagline = | flankers = {{ubl| * Angel Nova<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.muglerusa.com/fragrance/womens-fragrances/angel/angel-nova-eau-de-parfum-perfume/M020604168.html|title=Angel Nova Perfume Eau De Parfum | Mugler Official Site|accessdate=3 March 2024}}</ref> * Angel Elixir<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.muglerusa.com/fragrance/womens-fragrances/angel/angel-elixir/M020604286.html|title=Mugler Angel Elixir Eau de Parfum | Mugler Official Site|accessdate=3 March 2024}}</ref> * Angel Sunessence<ref name="auto"/> * Angel Eau Croisiere<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.muglerusa.com/fragrance/womens-fragrances/angel/angel-eau-croisiere/M020604166.html|title=Angel Eau Croisière - Eau de Toilette | Mugler Official Site|accessdate=3 March 2024}}</ref> * Angel Muse<ref>[https://fragranceroom.com/products/angel-muse-for-women-eau-de-parfum-spray-by-thierry-mugler Angel muse for women]fragranceroom.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229215056/https://fragranceroom.com/products/angel-muse-for-women-eau-de-parfum-spray-by-thierry-mugler |date=29 February 2024 }}</ref> }}}}
'''Angel''' is a 1992 perfume from Thierry Mugler and the first modern gourmand perfume, with notes of patchouli, praline, red berries, and vanilla.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jahns|first=Erin|title=And Now, the 17 Most Popular Designer Perfumes of All Time|url=https://www.whowhatwear.com/most-popular-designer-perfumes|access-date=2022-01-24|website=Who What Wear|date=19 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The perfumiers were Olivier Cresp and Yves de Chirin.<ref name="Angel-704" /> The design of its bottle is an irregular shaped star.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Groom|first=N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYrDPqLVD-kC&dq=angel+mugler&pg=PA10|title=New Perfume Handbook|date=1997-06-30|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-7514-0403-6|language=en}}</ref>
Angel, along with the company's companion scent Alien, accounts for $280 million in annual sales.<ref name="create stir">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/fashion/02MUGLER.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | title=Thierry Mugler, Still Creating a Stir | first=Eric | last=Wilson | date=30 April 2010 | accessdate=26 December 2014}}</ref> The perfume continued to be produced after Mugler's luxury monobrand women's line folded. As of 2011, the fragrance was the fifth best-selling perfume of all time in the United States, according to The NPD Group.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schaefer|first=Kayleen|date=2011-12-05|title=A Little Confection Behind the Ear|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/fashion/perfumers-turn-to-scents-of-candy-skin-deep.html|access-date=2022-01-24|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It once surpassed Chanel's No. 5 fragrance as the best-selling perfume in France, and remains one of the best-selling perfumes in Europe.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kapferer|first1=Jean-Noël|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSC8SVYX9PEC&dq=angel+mugler+best+selling+in+europe&pg=PA189|title=The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands|last2=Bastien|first2=Vincent|date=2012-09-03|publisher=Kogan Page Publishers|isbn=978-0-7494-6492-9|language=en |author1-link=Jean-Noël Kapferer }}</ref>
==Marketing==
Previous faces of the Angel perfume line have included Jerry Hall, Naomi Watts, Eva Mendes, Toni Garrn, and Georgia May Jagger.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/toni-garrn-model-angel-nova-mugler-perfume-interview|title=How Model Toni Garrn Found New Beauty Rituals in Quarantine|website=L'Officiel USA|accessdate=3 March 2024}}</ref> In 2023, American actress Hunter Schafer was announced as the new face of the Angel perfume line.<ref>{{cite web | last=Weil | first=Jennifer | title=EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Schafer Is the New Face of Mugler's Angel | website=WWD | date=15 February 2023 | url=https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beauty-features/exclusive-hunter-schafer-new-face-mugler-angel-1235526866/ | access-date=3 March 2024}}</ref>
==Awards== *FiFi Award Hall of Fame 2007<ref name="Angel-704">{{cite web | publisher=fragrantica.com | url=http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Thierry-Mugler/Angel-704.html | title=Ange | accessdate=26 December 2014}}</ref>
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