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The utopia of paradise
In recent years, fragrances from Ramon Monegal have come under my nose from time to time. Even if all of them have left a good impression on me, but none was there that put me in enthusiasm. Probably the reason why I have not yet dealt more closely with his person. That should change with The New Paradise.
I was at least not aware that Ramon Monegal is also one of the heavyweights in the perfume industry.
His ancestors founded already in 1916, the Unternehme Myrurgia, which produced not only drugstore items and perfume, but also paints and varnishes and developed over time to the court supplier of the Spanish royal family and the most important international perfume company in Spain.
In the fourth generation, Ramon Monegal began his training in 1972 in Barcelona and continued with renowned greats of the industry in Geneva, Grasse and finally Paris. That his path led to the top of the family business Myrurgia, which was acquired by Puig in 2000, seemed inevitable.
However, when you have supposedly achieved everything, you aspire to higher things, which culminated in his founding his own perfume brand in 2008 (other sources indicate 2009) with the desire to create fragrances under his own name without the guidelines of third parties and characterized by artistic freedom.
In this context, there is a beautiful quote from him:
"Next to nature, my most important source of inspiration is literature. I can turn words into notes, phrases into chords, stories into compositions, and ink into imagined perfume."
The New Paradise is the first of his fragrances I tested that grabbed me immediately. Ok, that wasn't too hard, because fig scents usually have it very easy with me. But it is not a fragrance that puts the fig in the center, but initially starts only with the typical green unsweet fig note. This is accompanied by a nice bitter citrus note, as I like it so much. The fern I do not really smell out, next to the fig he could strengthen the green impression, however.
Unlike many other fig fragrances, however, this is not a soliflor, because soon rose and jasmine contribute very aromatic floral notes, but by no means drift into the feminine, because sweetness I can attest to the fragrance at no time even if other testers (see statements) had a different impression. In my opinion, the fig prevents exactly that, it remains the perception namely long, which is me and my preference for fig fragrances of course very accommodating. Lily of the valley in fragrances often provide a certain coolness, which also comes into play here and in turn prevents it from becoming too sweet or feminine, so that the fragrance is rightly classified as unisex.
There is then not much more going on. Oak moss frames the fragrance impression green and slightly tart. Warming amber I can at best guess in the base, but in the blind test I would not have guessed him.
Overall, The New Paradise seems very "perfumey" to me, a term that has been discussed more often in the forum, since everyone here understands something different about it. For me, this means that the fragrance does not act like a second skin on me, as if it would merge with me. I rather feel scented. You can perhaps compare this to a man who normally wears jeans and a t-shirt/hoodie and is now suddenly put into a fine suit. It pinches and constricts, is unfamiliar, maybe it even feels dressed up. Eventually, however, he realizes that a sublime sense of style and chic creeps in, and then the learning to appreciate begins.
Whenever I move, The New Paradise blows around my nose like a foreign body and I try to find out the origin of the fine fragrance until I realize that it is me who smells so good here ;) Now is that bad that the fragrance does not melt into me? Not at all! on the contrary, this recurring fragrance prepares me every time a joy and conjures up a smile on my face.
Thus, in the end, I also understand the initially clumsy name of the fragrance The New Paradise:
"Utopia of a new paradise. Impressionistic return to nature. Harmony between plants and new molecules. For me, the idea of paradise, like the best utopia of nature, always provokes the attempt to interpret it. To unite in perfect harmony the pure joy of the senses, flowers, fruits, woods and roots, like an allegorical nectar of optimism and well-being."
I was at least not aware that Ramon Monegal is also one of the heavyweights in the perfume industry.
His ancestors founded already in 1916, the Unternehme Myrurgia, which produced not only drugstore items and perfume, but also paints and varnishes and developed over time to the court supplier of the Spanish royal family and the most important international perfume company in Spain.
In the fourth generation, Ramon Monegal began his training in 1972 in Barcelona and continued with renowned greats of the industry in Geneva, Grasse and finally Paris. That his path led to the top of the family business Myrurgia, which was acquired by Puig in 2000, seemed inevitable.
However, when you have supposedly achieved everything, you aspire to higher things, which culminated in his founding his own perfume brand in 2008 (other sources indicate 2009) with the desire to create fragrances under his own name without the guidelines of third parties and characterized by artistic freedom.
In this context, there is a beautiful quote from him:
"Next to nature, my most important source of inspiration is literature. I can turn words into notes, phrases into chords, stories into compositions, and ink into imagined perfume."
The New Paradise is the first of his fragrances I tested that grabbed me immediately. Ok, that wasn't too hard, because fig scents usually have it very easy with me. But it is not a fragrance that puts the fig in the center, but initially starts only with the typical green unsweet fig note. This is accompanied by a nice bitter citrus note, as I like it so much. The fern I do not really smell out, next to the fig he could strengthen the green impression, however.
Unlike many other fig fragrances, however, this is not a soliflor, because soon rose and jasmine contribute very aromatic floral notes, but by no means drift into the feminine, because sweetness I can attest to the fragrance at no time even if other testers (see statements) had a different impression. In my opinion, the fig prevents exactly that, it remains the perception namely long, which is me and my preference for fig fragrances of course very accommodating. Lily of the valley in fragrances often provide a certain coolness, which also comes into play here and in turn prevents it from becoming too sweet or feminine, so that the fragrance is rightly classified as unisex.
There is then not much more going on. Oak moss frames the fragrance impression green and slightly tart. Warming amber I can at best guess in the base, but in the blind test I would not have guessed him.
Overall, The New Paradise seems very "perfumey" to me, a term that has been discussed more often in the forum, since everyone here understands something different about it. For me, this means that the fragrance does not act like a second skin on me, as if it would merge with me. I rather feel scented. You can perhaps compare this to a man who normally wears jeans and a t-shirt/hoodie and is now suddenly put into a fine suit. It pinches and constricts, is unfamiliar, maybe it even feels dressed up. Eventually, however, he realizes that a sublime sense of style and chic creeps in, and then the learning to appreciate begins.
Whenever I move, The New Paradise blows around my nose like a foreign body and I try to find out the origin of the fine fragrance until I realize that it is me who smells so good here ;) Now is that bad that the fragrance does not melt into me? Not at all! on the contrary, this recurring fragrance prepares me every time a joy and conjures up a smile on my face.
Thus, in the end, I also understand the initially clumsy name of the fragrance The New Paradise:
"Utopia of a new paradise. Impressionistic return to nature. Harmony between plants and new molecules. For me, the idea of paradise, like the best utopia of nature, always provokes the attempt to interpret it. To unite in perfect harmony the pure joy of the senses, flowers, fruits, woods and roots, like an allegorical nectar of optimism and well-being."
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