Flamenco

I tried this among the 'fruity trio' of coloured bottles in Harrods. I was expecting Ole to be the standout in the parade but nope, surprise again in the World of Niche - it was this little number! Flamenco is a wonderful raspberry scent. I saw the red and was thinking strawberry but it's clearly a beautiful, uninterrupted sweet Raspberry for me. It's almost jammy but yet remains juicy to keep it tangibly different to the competing Rouge Trafalgar that is a tiny bit less sweet and more woody/musky, less powdery. But they can be close at the start. I think the apple here keeps the raspberry juicy and sweet. It's better than any other fragrance I've tried in the 'Full fruit' genre, miles ahead of something like Boadecia's Glorious for me that starts just as good but quickly turns strange and floral with a weird magnolia, and other off-putting floral notes coming in. Flamenco just remains sweet but does turn more powdery during the dry-down as expected of scents containing violet. I dislike violet but honestly I only get this towards the drydown thankfully - but it has a more watery effect here with the sweet fruit notes somehow remaining and always proving a lingering jammy note that is quite remarkable. No pungent 'rubber' notes for me thankfully (I got those in Ole, strangely enough!). This is a real Winner; without using any stated vanilla note, Ramon has created a faithful syrupy-sweet raspberry and thankfully labelled it unisex; so the sweet-toothed men among us can enjoy this wonderful elixir. Initially, I really liked it enough to warrant an 8/10 for me. But this is for me the rarest of the rare; it impressed me even more on further wearings. I almost get a 'strawberry / mango' accord into the drydown and Flamenco manages to keep the fruits above the florals and not let the flowers and rose totally take over, especially at the start where it's virtually all fruity. It's a must buy for me, and I'd say a must-try for any fan of serious fruity scents that are Quality and the polar-opposite to all the girly popsicle stuff on the high streets. A Masterpiece, I was so close to awarding it a full score but just stops shy as it can stray to be much too feminine for most men and the drydown with that violet can come off as a little bit 'designery', dare I say it. My rating: 9/10.

It's an incredibly joyous fragrance with resuscitating rasperry and reviving green apple accords, grouted so smartly with velvety violet and rejuvenating orange blossom, you can easily feel transcented all of a sudden on a cliff in southern spanish riviera, watching over the hypnotic white foams emerging from the untamed waves eroding the rocky reefs on endless shores. When you reach to the mid notes, the rose welcomes the rasperry and the green apple so passionately, where the iris connects with violet in such an affectionate harmony, and the jasmine mates so jalously with the orange blossom on top notes, that you wish that this family portrait gets no way spotted, and the evergreens in base notes actually accompany you in every step of the way, and reminds you constantly that your dream is taking place in mediterranean, the beautiful amber coupling with the mighty virginia cedar gives this hovering concoction its unmistakeable character. I love spraying this jewel over and over, yet I cannot help admitting that the amber-rose duo is whispering into my ears their thirst of a touch of further leathery notes, where the twins, fir and cypress, giggling about their anticipation of meeting some serious fougere in my humble opinion, so in order to make each character in this fairytale happy, I spray my husband's Equipage twice in air first, dancing underneath to make sure that I captured every tiniest droplet falling upon me, then I spray 4 times my beloved Flamenco on it, and now I am done.Marvellous perfume

Flamenco EDP de Ramón Monegal (2017) de la colección España. Mi fragancia favorita, la siento como mi firma. Es una fragancia de la familia olfativa floral frutal ambarada. Sus notas de salida son la frambuesa, la manzana verde, la violeta y la flor del naranjo. Es la mejor frambuesa que he tenido el placer de oler; es madura, dulce y ácida. Al aplicarla te envuelve la frambuesa y la manzana verde rodeadas de la sensación empolvada de la violeta que también es finísima y delicada. En las notas de corazón encontramos la rosa, el iris y el jazmín las flores están en su mayor esplendor y aportan una sensualidad elegante y sí, carnal., así debe oler el alma del flamenco. La rosa es una rosa moderna y muy particular de las fragancias del maestro Ramón Monegal Este jugo maravilloso se asienta en sus notas de base que son las prestaciones más exquisitas de cedro, de pino y el ciprés, que para mi le aporta es olor y calentura del tablao; el abrazo de su ámbar delicioso nos deja de cara a una fragancia úunca y definitivamente adictiva. Es un imán de cumplidos. En mis restaurantes favoritos me han pedido que la vista cada vez que los visito. Tiene una duración en piel de 8 horas en ropa el doble. Para mi su proyección es de un brazo, sin embargo en lugares cerrados han venido tanto hombres como damas a preguntarme que es lo que llevo. La estela es importante pero no avasalla a nadie.

Wow Gorgeous red scent! Slightly erring on female - very bright, quite bright. Almost like a raspberry bon Bon but not cheap. Buying a bottle - WAAAAIIITTTT A MINUTE!!! Hmm - smells familiar (apparently everything smells like BR540 - no - other than sweetness this is not like BR540). Hmm - let me check Qom Chilom, no - but vaguely, Carner Barcelona Volcano, no, damn it - oh yeah House Of Sillage HOS 001? Nahhh.. it’s more medicinal... oh wait (20 min later)... OH YES!!!!! Oh yeah and Atomic Rose too... thought it starts with a greener connotation and the Rosenis more dominant. Sooo... not exactly the same, 001 has a different medicinal opening like a Halls Cherry Bon Bon and drying down in a fair bit darker and dustier almost with a soft oud like base. Flamenco has none of that, nor does it have the stonking performance of 001 but it is above average. It is also close enough that I would buy Flamenco as a substitute if only to draw out the life of my 001 bottle. The cost effectiveness makes this a pleasant buy regardless in comparison to HOS001 but in reality despite the say 85-90% commonality to my nose (irrespective of note table) I would still buy both - 001 for winter and Flamenco for summer...

I am trying this wonderful perfume and i only can say... Awesome!! Different to any other perfume i have tried before and very nice and comfortable. The perfume keeps a very nice, but a bit medicinal, sweetness during his whole Life. The mix between the soft and powdery rose and the sweet and fruity Raspberry is wonderful. For me flamenco is like wearing a Raspberry licorice on!! Sweet, delicious and long lasting! The saffrong gives some powdery and spicy vibe, amolified with a very subtle hint of iris, and the musk gives a long Life to the fragance. The performance is great. The quality of the ingredients seems to be very high. The longevity is also high, more than 8 hours on skin, and the projection is moderate but good and oerfectly noticeable. Innadition the sillage keeps for some hours on a high standard. I think flamenco is a unisex perfume, although in my opinión, It would be worn more for women than by men. Weareable during the day because of his fruity character and some freshness that It has, but good also for night use due to his sweetness. Flamenco has just become one if my favourite perfumes! Scent: 9.5 Longevity: 9 Sillage: 8 Quality/price: 8 Versatility: 8 Originality: 9 Global: 9.5

Flamenco! The traditional dance and music genre from South Spain! So passionate and colour full! For some reason the colour red fits in perfect. Flamenco by Ramon Monegal starts with a blast of fruity sweetness! A mix of raspberry and apple! This fruity accord forms the stage and band of Flamenco! Whereas two another accords are the ones that perform the dance itself. Its on one side the feminine florals and on the other side the ambery woodyness. And like watching the Flamenco, I can't tell you which is more dominant. Also to my nose, at some moment the florals take the upperhand and other times the woods are in charge. However the entire time the raspberry-apple is present! The florals take different stages, the iris adds a soapy creamness, and the rose is thick sweet. Acting like moodswings one time, and harmonious the other time. The counterplayer is the woody amber aspect. This has some green woodyness that has a warm heart to it. This scent feels unorchestrated if you focus too much, but is a beautiful sweet play if you look at it in total! A sweet, passionate, colourfull play! Like the Flamenco!

This is very nice. I didn't quite appreciate Flamenco at first, and probably expected something spicier with a sharper edge, but after a few wearings I am becoming quite infatuated... Rose and fruit are very prominent, raspberry mainly. I do get a touch of the other florals, but rose predominates. That said, Flamenco (perfect name) is far from a fruity floral - there is a very dense quality to the juice, and a depth from the amber and cedar in the base that compliments the raspberry/rose perfectly, evoking a juicy, intoxicating, wine-like quality. This is absolutely a red perfume!!! Could even have been a deeper red. I originally dismissed it because I detected a slightly plastic/vinyl-like note in the opening, something that I have smelled in other Ramon Monegal perfumes (pleasant, just unexpected). In retrospect, it may just have been the base notes coming through, because after a few minutes the whole thing transformed into something perfectly smooth and amazing. Longevity and sillage are fabulous. This is definitely one worth trying!

Wow! Better second time around now I have a full bottle! Yes theres a tart Raspberry and apple on top but really this is an exceptional rose scent! It’s a jammy sweet fleshy rose with a slight dustiness - the raspberry and Apple ideally complementing the rose giving it just enough tartness that helps soften the femininity and Makes it just accessible for men. It reminds me of Initio Atomic Rose (and to a degree Carner Barcelona Volcano and Rose & Dragon) though minus the dark ambery sultry base. Very much a ‘fat free’ version if you like with all the yumminess in performance still intact. A powerful extraordinary performer In both Sillage and Longevity it makes an ideal top of the class Rose scent for those looking for a fresh summery scent or something to brighten your cold winter day. Men will have no problem with this scent though some understandably may feel it requires a little bravery to wear. For me the best Monegal so far...

Flamenco, içerisindeki yoğun ahududu,elma, menekşe ve portakal çiçeği notalarıyla etrafındaki alanı yavaşça dolduran çok zengin meyveli-çiçekli bir başlangıçla açılır. Ardından kehribar ve odunsu notalarla çevrelenmiş yoğun bir gül kokusu sizi sarar. Kuruma esnasında menekşe notası ona tozlu bir hava katsa bile, meyve notalarından gelen dengeli tatlılık ve ekşilik, kehribar ve odunsu notalarla sarmalanmış gülle birlikte kokunun son anına kadar devam eder. Bana Nishane evinden Zenne’ yi anımsatsa da Flamenco’ nun daha tatlı bir ilerleyişi var. Flamenco her mevsim kullanılabileceğini düşündüğüm bir koku ancak ben ilkbahar ve yaz mevsimlerinde kullanmayı tercih ediyorum. Kalıcılık ve yayılım ise muazzam. Kalıcılık için 8 saat üstü demem yanlış olmaz. Yayılım ise gerçekten çok güçlü. Parfümü sıktığınız andan itibaren bir koku baloncuğu sizi sarıyor ve kalıcılık süresi boyunca hem siz hem de çevreniz bu kokunun keyfini çıkarıyorsunuz

Flamenco is an impressive and quite a shape-shifting fragrance. It starts deceptively light in a fruity fashion: apple, red fruits, the "expensive plastic" feeling of crisp orange blossom, the nail polish hint of jasmine. Soon enough though it goes deeper. Violet takes the main part paired with calm and dark woody notes. Iris and violet, usually a powdery makeup couple, are hereby painted in earthy tones, and it's the rose-colored raspberry note that becomes the red line in the composition, providing a deeply emotional accent. I recently reviewed Bravo by the same line, called it "blackcurrant juice with ashes". There is a slight smoky aspect here too and I can see the connection. While Bravo may represent the pure masculine aspect of destruction, here it is more about that simultaneous mourning and celebration of life that flamencas are so capable of, both tristeza and alegria. Don't be fooled by the "fruity" tag.

Oh boy This girl is sweeeeeeetttt! If you're a guy wearing this, you are confidence personified!! Gorgeous presentation sweet and woody profile that lasts and lasts! Personally, reach for this when you want to amp up the rose or sweetness in your dark scents. I added this to Baronda and WHAT A COMPLIMENT MAGNET! Did the same thing to Black Phantom and holy guacamole Ramon Monegal shinessssss! There is a flanker to this a warmer darker version...that ones more of a stand alone for the guys that don't want to have to exude confidence to exude confidence. On a woman...this is an absolute show stopper. It's sweet it's fun and the late into the wear it turns down right sultry! My 3rd Ramon Monegal and I must admit this scent like the rest never suffers from longevity or sillage issues. Def worth the price.

"That you wouldn't drink from your well That you wouldn't swear at the gate That you wouldn't look with me At the spring moon Next to you Always next to you Always next to you Until I die for you" Defining Flamenco as a musical genre would be highly reductive: it is a dance of emotions, love, melancholy, and passion, and if it could be painted with a color, it would probably be red. Monegal's Flamenco is a fragrance that immerses itself in the red juice of raspberry, which, along with other fresh and fruity notes, offers a carefree, bubbly opening that is then covered by floral petals and takes on powdery nuances thanks to a wonderful Iris. It is sensual yet joyful at the same time, with a beautiful evolution. I liked it a lot in the central part. "Red and White" painted by Munch.

A VERY SWEET ROSE ______________________________________________________ Until today, I had never heard of Ramon Monegal - and it's a pity. I didn't know what to expect from a fragrance called Flamenco, so I tried it. I was surprised of how sweet it turned out to be. It opens very refreshing with apple, rose and cypress. After around 2 minutes it turns very sweet (maybe the jasmine and the amber(?). The rose remains throughout the entire day (because it lasts 12 h) quite strong, but, just as others described, is very candy-like. It is more sweet, than rose - it is a rose-sweet-candy - and I love it. Longevity: - 10/10 Sillage: - 8/10 All in all: 10 out of 10 subjective points -> because i love it and it reminds me of another sweet-rose fragrance: 'Parfait de Roses' by Lancome.

1st the reviews that compare this to Tooty. They don't resemble at all. Tooty smells similar to the fragrances that little girls used to wear that came with their dolls, cheap, synthetic and one dimensional. Flamenco smells high end with woody/ambery notes that follow the all too real raspberry opening. Sexy on women but too feminine for masculine men until the woody dry down starts. I find this and Delina to be very sexy on women, so much so that I even ask women to wear it if I know they have it because it seems to brighten up my day. If you can't tell by now, I'm a rose guy especially Bulgarian Rose since it's the most expensive smelling note in fragrance industry PERIOD. This is why rose and Oud seem to go hand and hand in so many frags.

This is quickly becoming an all-time favourite of mine with such an overwhelmingly positive reaction from everybody I've worn it around. Its a super fun raspberry-bomb fragrance... a hidden gem for sure. I'm glad that theres not too many Youtubers talking about this. Not sure whether it was from testing too many perfumes at once but it wasn't a love at first sniff but now its an adore at every sniff haha. Personally I find it perfectly unisex although I understand the comments saying leans feminine. Either way I'll be wearing it. Would I buy: Yes its due tomorrow in the post Recommended: Absolutely... but lets keep it our little secret!

I went to see a flamenco night in Seville, Spain and it was like nothing I've ever seen before:warm, passionate, loud, unapologetic. Us, spectators, could not stop but watch it mesmerised, liked it or not. The same way you cannot stop a train in its tracks, the same way you cannot stop the dance and this perfume either if one likes it or not. Loud rose, loud raspberry, loud pine tree, so loud that a point it becomes a bit screechy, as mentioned below, loud and sweet and warm with an oomph. It's almost an art manifesto and you have to be in a certain mood to appreciate it fully. Longevity and sillage are stellar.

Flamenco is a B2F2 fragrance. It's Beautifully Blended Fruity Fragrance! That is how it's coming off on my skin. The fruitiness is certainly not synthetic and I really enjoy that aspect. The Raspberry, Apple, Violet and Orange Blossom at the top is so well done you don't depict them separately to say one is stronger than the other. Then the rest of the notes join in after a few minutes - Florals and woodiness with the fruits. Great combination. And after over 8 hours, I can still catch whiffs of Flamenco and it has not soured. Still putting a smile on my face. This may be in my Top 10 of all time!

Oh, wow, this is stunning. It's a jammy, vibrant rose, that opens up with a citrus light blast that is gone within seconds, and dies down in a strawberry like rose that makes you want to eat yourself. I know other perfumes do this, but this does it in an elevated and supremely elegant way. It's very well balanced, despite the blast like whiffs of gorgeousness you'll catch in yourself. It has that signature elegant "old money" vibe that Ramon Monegal's perfumes exude. A must for the rose lover, and a must for anyone looking for an elegant yet easy to wear rose perfume.

Complex fragrance that makes me think of a fruity, woodier BR450. Unfortunately I am of the camp that gets the burnt rubber accord from BR450, and also from this one. That must be something subjective though, because my friend didn’t smell it and she loves BR450, too. This was my preferred out of Ole, Cotton Musk and Faisa. Quality is there, moderate-heavy sillage and awesome longevity. Try it if you love BR450! If you struggle with BR450; definitely test before buying.

raspberry central then lots of rose and very sweet but not jammy because of an odd quality that is a bit sharp and balanced by the cedar and cypress, the pine is there balancing the fragrance but not in a Christmas tree forward way; love this; it is huge and powerful, a little goes a long way; on the drydown it has this kind of rubber quality and in the base it turns a powdery candied violet and rose that you want to eat, just love love love this one