Ramon Monegal Attractone Musk by Nicoletta
Putting Ramone Monegal Atractone Musk on my skin instantly took me back to a memory I haven’t accessed for more than 20 years. An endless holiday morning in my summer city by the seaside, the breeze moving the freshly washed curtain, still smelling of ivory soap, and painfully clear blue skies. In the background: MTV’s “Alternative Nation” morning re-run, and in the foreground: me, sand in my hair, eye bags under my eyes, salty sea skin – being as intensely dramatic as only a teen packing for a festival could ever be. MTV Garbage’s “Milk” was on heavy rotation these days. Remember the lyrics?
Video still from Garbage “Milk” 1996
“I am milk
I am red hot kitchen
And I am cool
Cool as the deep blue ocean”
So what does Ramon Monegal Atractone Musk smell like? In short: red, white, and deep-as-the-ocean sensual.
“… In my years as a perfumer, I’ve learnt that scents exist to identify and communicate values. This olfactory language is communicated unconsciously through the olfactory image the scent evokes. When I wear Attractone Musk it’s the law of attraction, desire and a connection with life that is communicated via myself.”.-Ramon Monegal
Ramon Monegal official photo, via Facebook
A flower bouquet blooms on the skin, alternating between hot and cold and bouncing between white and red, attraction and release, like a pulsating fragrant heart. It feels hot on the skin and deeply red: a sensual jasmine has its most animalic and sexual facets lured to the surface by cumin, turning it up to a red hot degree. Then come well-tempered watery nuances of a spring bouquet made out of lily of the valley and cyclamen, to cool things down a bit and keep things classy and more in the realm of “art house naughty” than full-on X-rated.
photos via the brand collage by Michelyn
Uplifting shades of white come to play next: waves breaking on the steep stones of the shore, the ocean foam particles are raised in the air and float towards the fluffy summer clods giving it even more added layers of purity and transparency in a whirlwind of ozonic, aldehydes and mineral facets. There is a hit of cosmetic sweetness interwoven between the petals here, like the whisper of a raspberry lip gloss, adding yet another carnal element to the seemingly innocent floral construction and perfect sweet juxtaposition to the salty mineral oceanic twist. As always, with Monegal’s creations, things are never what they seem, and just when you thought you have caught the rhythm, a new beat resurfaces: woody notes of creamy sandalwood and cedar come to add a perfectly unisex frame to the floral picture. After a while the scent turns into a “my skin but amplified” radiant musk, hovering and pulsating above, like an iridescent white armor one would wear to attract Cupid’s red hot arrows, not deflect them.
via the brand
Ramon Monegal Atractone Musk is, to the core, a beautiful musky floral bouquet. But it has the ethereal, floating, suspended in time quality of a carefully reconstructed and re-composed memory, with all its multifaceted layers of subjectivity. Imagine a flower that dreamt it was human.
If this mortal coil sang of “Dreams made flesh”, Senor Monegal composed a Flower-made flesh here.
Notes: Top: Ozonic, Aldehydes, Baies rose, Cumin, Cashmeran; Heart: Jasmine, Lily of the valley, Lilac, Cyclamen; Base: Sandalwood, Musk cocktail, Amber, Raspberry
Bottle kindly provided by Ramon Monegal, opinions are my own
Nicoleta Tomsa, Senior Editor
Art Direction: Michelyn Camen
Also, check out Nicoletas’ reviews of Ole, Kiss my name, and Hazy Rose
Karl Topham’s Review of Ocean Oud
Karl Topham’s Review of Ramon Monegal Next To Me.
Stephen Gavrielatos’s Ramon Monegal – 3 you should be wearing.
Ramon Monegal Atractone Musk bottle via the brand
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