TM220 Alien Oud Majestueux

Alien Oud Majestueux takes Mugler's original solar-jasmine Alien and folds an oud accord into the base, creating an oriental, spicier take that's more polarising than the mainline scent. Jubilee's TM220 gets the broad strokes right: a spiced saffron-cardamom opening giving way to a jasmine-cashmeran heart and a warm amber-oud base with real presence. Where it falls short of the original is in the oud's texture. The real Alien Oud Majestueux has an animalic, almost barnyard-like quality in the dry-down that reviewers describe as polarising but distinctive, and TM220 smooths that edge away in favour of a safer, more generic woody-amber finish. The result is still a rich, warm, long-wearing fragrance well suited to cold-weather evenings, just without the original's rawer, more sacred-smelling oud facet.