Thomas de Monaco Fleur Danger by J

Perfumer Ugo Charron of Mane has created a rare flower for Thomas de Monaco’s Flowers for the Future Artist Collection line. Fleur Danger plays with tension, its petals feel protective, yet its heart tempts you with its sweet allure. It’s the most mysterious of the trio wrapped in a resinous smoke yet there’s a nod to retro-futurism to how it smells and wears. Thomas de Monaco Fleur Danger is an iridescent dream of an impossible flower.

Perfumer Ugo Charron of Mane and Thomas de Monaco courtesy of the brand.

Shimmering light reflects off of a glimmering translucent surface almost like a holographic disco ball, making bright flickers of pink pepper sparkle over the surface of your skin and in the air around you. Fleur Danger’s silvery steel accord glows with a boozy rum cocktail warmth, that sensation of the alcohol warming you as it slips down your throat. The composition’s effervescence adds to the futuristic scene that perfumer Ugo Charron conjures in Fleur Danger. Saffron summons a steam like musky haze leaning into the red tones of the pink pepper and gives the perfume a shifting feel as you wear it. I keep thinking of the scramble suits in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, especially how it was brought to life in Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film adaptation, a constant shifting layer of protection holding safe the person’s identity inside. Fleur Danger holds something inside its glowing metallic aura, you can feel facets of its abstracted sweet softness escaping through the steel’s cracks.

Thomas de Monaco Fleur Danger image courtesy of the brand.

Before we get to its sweet heart, layers of saffron and suede envelop you, bringing an industrial high-end chic while adding another layer of protection. It’s very airy, hovering above your skin and just below the shimmering silver steel. Fleur Danger’s gentle suede nap vibrates with a purring sensuality. Darker resins and woods add to the soft haziness feeling atomised as those textures and aromas bring out tougher facets to the composition. Fleur Danger wrap around you, firm and inviting as you dive deeper through its smoky haze. It’s here the heart of the perfume is revealed. A playful raspberry sweetness blooms, feeling enticing as it rubs against the harder steel and darker smoky woody tones. It’s almost flirty as it’s gives you winks and peaks before hiding back in its perfumed veil of safety. Fleur Danger’s darker elements become a metallic incense with a smoky creamy texture, fizzing like electricity as you smell deeper into the abstractly fruity floral heart.

Images of Iris Van Herpen’s couture that makes J think of Thomas de Monaco Fleur Danger.

Fleur Danger’s musky incense-like cloud mellows into a neon glow with sparks expanding out from the petals. Its green and red tones merge forming a sandalwood aura giving a dry creaminess that feels very futuristic. The holographic silver sheen forms a petaled shield for the precious glowing neon saffron floral stigma and stylus letting sandalwood’s creaminess feel like the haze of light glowing through their translucent petals. The way Thomas de Monaco Fleur Danger wears makes me think of the couture of Iris Van Herpen, its flows with a shimmering protection that feels airy yet the avant-garde Fleur Danger hums with allure, there’s a beautiful tension between the petals shell and its sweet glowing heart. It pulls attention from those nearby as it diffuses, an undeniable attraction and desire to experience the futuristic flower in all its glowing glory. You can smell but you can’t touch, its danger feels wild.

Notes: Steel Accord, Pink Pepper Pure, Rum Absolute, Saffron Accord, Raspberry Nat Neo, Suederal, Ocanox, Gurjum Balasam Essence, Sandalwood India.

Disclosure: A bottle of Thomas De Monaco Fleur Danger was sent to J for review; thoughts and nose are their own.

J Wearescentient, Senior Editor, artist & olfactive writer.

 

Thomas de Monaco Fleur Danger courtesy of the brand.

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Ugo Charron of Mane is featured in our young perfumers series

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