Ramon Monegal - Bravo
An ode to virtuosity, courage and power. Inspired by a journey to the origins of perfume, when it was created through smoke, from the Latin “per fumum”. It’s the powerful magic created by burning the wood of agar, cedar and fir. A chord enriched with rose petals and seasoned with white jasmine flowers, like in a classic hookah, with the combined flavour of cassis, strawberry and apricot.
Bravo has trace of Spanish leather at the heart, tanned with clove, cinnamon and artemisia so that it settles in the skin to give a pleasurable experience of the nobility of amber, the firmness of oakmoss and the sensuality of musk.
Woody Leather
Top notes: White jasmine, rose, cassis, strawberry, apricot
Middle notes: Leather, clove, cinnamon, artemisia
Base notes: Amber, oakmoss, musk
THE RAW MATERIALS
by Ramón Monegal
As a result of having worked with the most extensive palettes of the best raw materials available and provided by the most prestigious international suppliers, Ramon has a background and experience that allow him to combine the most advanced processing techniques with some of the most ancient and classical, as the true infusions that take years or the macerations of different components, obtaining truly unique and hard to replicate fragrances.
Moreover, along with the best raw materials available, he has an extensive range of natural extracts, bases and molecules of his exclusive property, fractions of iris on cedar, a vetiver root from Haiti, an amazing Russian leather base, a unique cocktail of musks, among many others.
The inkwell
Inspiration, quality and features.
The main source of inspiration for Ramón Monegal, apart from nature, is literature —from the wealth of prose to the succinctness of poetry. He turns words into notes, phrases into chords, stories into compositions, and the ink, the ethyl-lyrical component and of all events, into imagined perfume.
In tribute to his source of inspiration and making use of the most luxurious materials, the perfumer has designed an inkwell, lovingly referred to as Mon encrier, as an iconic perfume recipient, an object of desire, a single bottle that houses all of the soul and essence of his work.
Sticking to his principles that involved using the best materials, he chose semiautomatic handmade glass that allowed him to produce a flacon with a unique body, feel and presence; bakelite —a formaldehyde resin that was widely used in perfumery in the mid-twentieth century and he wanted to recover for its valuable characteristics of feel, sound and neutrality— for the lid and the presentation box; and, finally, bonding together glass and bakelite, a crimp made of zamak, an alloy that combines zinc, aluminium, magnesium and copper, and gives the flacon an unmistakably rich feel and sound.
