Angel

Dupe Angelix borrows Mugler Angel's playbook - a fruity-sweet opening built to smell like dessert rather than a traditional floral - and pushes the candy-floss and stewed-fruit facets even further forward than the original does. Bergamot and mandarin add a fleeting citrus lift before cotton candy and ripe plum take over, sweet enough to read from across a room in the first half hour. The heart softens into honeyed jasmine and rose, a gentler, more conventionally floral turn than Angel's famously polarising patchouli-heavy centre. Where this dupe pulls furthest from its inspiration is the base: amber, chocolate and musk give a pleasant, warm-sweet finish, but they sit thinner and quieter than Angel's dense, long-running patchouli-praline-vanilla drydown that so many wearers either love or can't stand. Expect a fun, mostly-linear sweetness rather than the original's slow, gourmand-oriental transformation - a candy shop rather than a chocolate-and-patchouli fever dream. Good for anyone curious about Angel's shape without committing to its full intensity or its all-day tenacity.