{"title":"Ramon Monegal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e (born Barcelona, 1951) is a fourth-generation Spanish master perfumer and the author of every fragrance in the house that carries his name. He entered the family firm Myrurgia in 1972 and completed his training with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris — a lineage that connects him directly to the classical French school while keeping him rooted in Spanish materials and Spanish imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe served roughly three decades as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, composing Alada in 1979 and later working for Adolfo Domínguez, Antonio Miró and Massimo Dutti. After the company changed hands in 2000 he left industrial perfumery and began composing independently under his own name, and he continues to formulate and oversee production himself in Barcelona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis signature is a willingness to build a composition around one difficult material and then make it comfortable: the cumin at the centre of Matador, the twin Assam and Padong Laos ouds in Soul of Oud, the burnt sugar under the vanilla in Yummy Jam. He cites literature as his primary inspiration after nature, designed the house's inkwell flacon himself while writing a novel, and published a book of his own, La Perfumista, in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrowse the fragrances composed by Ramon Monegal and available at Redolia Perfumery below.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ramon-monegal-soul-of-oud","title":"Ramon Monegal Soul of Oud Extrait de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal Soul of Oud is an amber-woody extrait de parfum and one of the two pillars of the house's My Ouds quartet. It opens on cashmeran, nutmeg and coriander — an unusual top for an oud fragrance, because cashmeran is not a fresh material at all. It is a musky, woody, faintly ambery synthetic that behaves like a warm cashmere blanket, and starting there means Soul of Oud never has a bright phase. Nutmeg and coriander add a dry, dusty spice over the top, more like an opened spice drawer than a curry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart is where the money is: two distinct ouds, Assam and Padong Laos, alongside rose. Assam oud is the Indian style — leathery, animalic, slightly barnyard, deep. Padong Laos oud is drier, sweeter and more resinous, with a honeyed woodiness. Layering the two gives the heart a dimensionality a single oud cannot, and the rose sits across both, adding jamminess and lifting the animalic edge into something floral. Wearers commonly report a chocolate facet at this stage, which comes from the way the dark oud resin reads against the rose and the vanilla waiting below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is vetiver, amber and vanilla: earthy roots, warm resin, sweet cream. As an extrait, this projects strongly for the first two or three hours and then settles into a dense skin scent that is still clearly present twelve hours later, and on clothing for days. One spray is a decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoul of Oud was composed by \u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e and released in 2017 as part of My Ouds, a four-fragrance set in which he works through agarwood from different angles — Soul of Oud, Oud on Fire, Ocean Oud and Alhambra Oud. His own note for it reads as a fable: wild oud wood planted in damp earth of musk, nourished with chocolate sap and held up by vetiver roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe describes the result as powerful, imaginative and sensual, and calls it the quintessence of oud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for people who already know oud and want a European interpretation of it. It is not a Middle-Eastern-style mukhallat and it is not a designer \"oud\" with a token woody note — it is a genuine two-oud composition built in the Western pyramid tradition, which makes it richer than most and more structured than a traditional attar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you like rose-oud but find them thin, this is the dense version. If you are new to oud entirely, start with a sample: the Assam facet is animalic and takes acclimatisation. It is unisex, though the weight of it skews slightly masculine in wear. Note also that Soul of Oud and Oud on Fire share an opening — the house's own framing is that Soul of Oud then turns chocolatey and floral while Oud on Fire turns smokier and woodier, so choose accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoul of Oud is a cold-weather, night-time fragrance. Winter and late autumn suit it best; in summer heat the oud and amber can become overwhelming within minutes. It is made for dinners, evenings out, special occasions and any setting where a heavy fragrance is appropriate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApply sparingly: one spray to the chest or a single dab at the wrist is enough for a full evening. Because it is an extrait de parfum, the concentration does the work, and over-application is the most common complaint people have about fragrances of this density rather than a fault of the composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal is a Barcelona perfume house founded by the fourth generation of Spain's most important perfuming family. His great-grandfather's drugstore led to the founding of Myrurgia in 1916, and Ramon trained inside the family company from 1972 before studying with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris. He spent some thirty years as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, and when the company was sold in 2000 he stepped away from corporate perfumery to work independently, launching his eponymous house later that decade. Literature is his stated inspiration after nature, which is why every fragrance is housed in the same faceted inkwell flacon with his monogram embossed on the flip-top cap: one vessel, many stories. Soul of Oud Extrait de Parfum is available at Redolia Perfumery as a full 50 ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ramon Monegal","offers":[{"title":"1.7 oz (50 ml)","offer_id":54459703623996,"sku":"8436543920383","price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/ramon-monegal-soul-of-oud-white-1.jpg?v=1790431601"},{"product_id":"ramon-monegal-dopamine","title":"Ramon Monegal Dopamine Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal Dopamine is a floral-fruity eau de parfum built to behave like the chemical it is named after: a fast, bright hit up front that settles into something warm and steady. It opens on mango, raspberry and pineapple — a tropical trio that could easily turn into candy, but Monegal keeps the fruit juicy rather than jammy. The pineapple supplies the fizz, the mango the pulpy body, and the raspberry a tart red edge that stops the opening from going syrupy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart is where it earns its place. Ylang-ylang brings a creamy banana-and-jasmine richness, cyclamen adds a cool watery green floral, and helional — an aroma material that smells of cut grass and sea air — throws the whole heart open. The effect is a fruit basket left outdoors: still sweet, but aired out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is vanilla musk, oakmoss and ambroxan. Oakmoss is the surprise, and it is what gives Dopamine a chypre-ish spine under all that fruit: dry, inky, slightly bitter. Ambroxan supplies the modern mineral-amber lift that makes the drydown radiate, and the vanilla musk softens the landing. Expect five to seven hours on skin, with the strongest projection in the first ninety minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDopamine was composed by \u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e, the fourth-generation Barcelona perfumer behind the house. It is part of Katharsis, the 2026 collection he created with the artist Miguel Caravaca, in which each of the six fragrances is tied to a single state of mind. Dopamine's is euphoria: the brand describes it as an emotional activator rather than a rational one, a chemical discharge turned into perfume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house line for it is simply \"Don't think: act\", and the composition follows that brief literally — the fruit hits before you have decided what you think of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for people who want a fruity fragrance with some structure underneath. If you like tropical openings but find most of them collapse into sugar within the hour, the oakmoss-and-ambroxan base here is the reason to try Dopamine. It also suits anyone who wears ylang-heavy florals and wants a brighter, less powdery version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unisex, though the fruit and ylang give it a slightly feminine lean in practice. If you prefer woods, smoke or leather, this will read as too cheerful. If you want a mood-lifter that still smells like perfume rather than shower gel, it works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDopamine is a spring and summer fragrance, and a daytime one. Warm weather pushes the fruit forward and the airy helional heart keeps it from becoming cloying in heat, which is exactly where many tropical scents fail. It is well suited to everyday wear, daytime outings and warm evenings out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn cold weather the top notes shorten and the drydown arrives faster, which is not a disaster — the oakmoss base is pleasant on its own — but you lose the best part. Three or four sprays are reasonable; this is an eau de parfum that rewards a generous hand more than most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal is a Barcelona perfume house founded by the fourth generation of Spain's most important perfuming family. His great-grandfather's drugstore led to the founding of Myrurgia in 1916, and Ramon trained inside the family company from 1972 before studying with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris. He spent some thirty years as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, and when the company was sold in 2000 he stepped away from corporate perfumery to work independently, launching his eponymous house later that decade. Literature is his stated inspiration after nature, which is why every fragrance is housed in the same faceted inkwell flacon with his monogram embossed on the flip-top cap: one vessel, many stories. Dopamine Eau de Parfum is available at Redolia Perfumery as a full 75 ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ramon Monegal","offers":[{"title":"2.5 oz (75 ml)","offer_id":54459703656764,"sku":"8436543928075","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/ramon-monegal-dopamine-white-1.jpg?v=1790431626"},{"product_id":"ramon-monegal-lucky-spray","title":"Ramon Monegal Lucky Spray Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal Lucky Spray is an amber-floral eau de parfum that puts a rose-and-oud heart inside a clean, watery shell — an unusual arrangement, and the reason it does not smell like anything else in the Katharsis line. It opens on bergamot, coconut water and cascalone, a melon-fresh aroma material, and the first impression is cool and almost transparent: citrus peel, the thin milky water inside a young coconut, a slice of melon. There is no sugar in the opening at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the heart arrives and changes the temperature. Damask rose comes in full and jammy, jasmine grandiflorum adds an indolic, slightly animal white-floral depth, and oud sits underneath as a dry woody resin rather than a barnyard blast. Monegal uses oud here as a shadow behind the rose, not as the subject, which is what keeps the fragrance wearable in daylight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is an amber pearl accord and what the house calls a pheromonal musk cocktail: warm, skin-like, faintly powdery, the sort of drydown that reads as your own skin on a good day. Expect five to seven hours with a soft but persistent trail. The distance between the cool opening and the warm close is the whole point — the fragrance behaves like a charm that works slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucky Spray was composed by \u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e, the fourth-generation Barcelona perfumer who founded the house. It is one of six fragrances in Katharsis, the 2026 collection made with the artist Miguel Caravaca, each tied to a single idea. Lucky Spray's is luck: the brand frames it around positive superstition, the rituals people still build to influence their fortune in an age of technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe outer tube carries Caravaca's hand-drawn artwork, while the perfume itself stays in Monegal's standard inkwell flacon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for people who want a rose-oud fragrance without the weight that usually comes with one. If Middle-Eastern-style rose-oud compositions feel too dense or too sweet to you, Lucky Spray is the aired-out version: same heart, but opened up with melon and coconut water and finished on skin musk rather than resin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unisex and genuinely so — the rose is not sugared and the oud is not smoky, so it sits in the middle. If you want a loud oud or a classic powdery rose, look elsewhere. If you want something that smells expensive and close to the skin, this delivers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucky Spray works best in spring and summer, and it crosses from day into evening more easily than most rose-oud scents. The watery opening makes it viable in heat where a heavier rose would suffocate, and the musky base gives it enough presence for an evening out or a date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn cold weather it still performs, but the fresh top notes disappear quickly and you arrive at the rose-musk heart within minutes. Two to three sprays is the right dose; the sillage is moderate, designed to be discovered at conversational distance rather than announced across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal is a Barcelona perfume house founded by the fourth generation of Spain's most important perfuming family. His great-grandfather's drugstore led to the founding of Myrurgia in 1916, and Ramon trained inside the family company from 1972 before studying with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris. He spent some thirty years as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, and when the company was sold in 2000 he stepped away from corporate perfumery to work independently, launching his eponymous house later that decade. Literature is his stated inspiration after nature, which is why every fragrance is housed in the same faceted inkwell flacon with his monogram embossed on the flip-top cap: one vessel, many stories. Lucky Spray Eau de Parfum is available at Redolia Perfumery as a full 75 ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ramon Monegal","offers":[{"title":"2.5 oz (75 ml)","offer_id":54459703787836,"sku":"8436543928037","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/ramon-monegal-lucky-spray-white-1.jpg?v=1790431652"},{"product_id":"ramon-monegal-matador","title":"Ramon Monegal Matador Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal Matador is a floral-woody-musk eau de parfum that smells like the inside of a bullfighter's suit of lights: warm skin, dressing, silk and flowers, with something faintly dangerous underneath. It opens on rosewood, cumin and incense. Cumin is the note that decides whether you will love this or leave it — used carelessly it reads as sweat, used well it reads as warm human skin, and Monegal keeps it on the right side of that line by wrapping it immediately in rosewood's soft rosy timber and a thread of dry incense smoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart is a proper floral bouquet: jasmine, rose and magnolia. Magnolia is the lightest of the three and gives a lemony-creamy lift; jasmine supplies the indolic richness; rose is the connective tissue. Against the cumin still humming underneath, the effect is the leather-and-flowers contrast that Fragrantica's community reads as the fragrance's dominant accord even though there is no leather material listed in the pyramid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is musk, coconut and sandalwood. The coconut is not tropical — it is the lactonic, slightly waxy sort that behaves like suede — and with sandalwood and musk it produces a drydown that is soft, creamy and very close to the body. Expect seven to nine hours with strong projection in the first two, then a persistent skin scent that lasts into the next day on fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatador was composed by \u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e and released in 2025 as part of the house's Spanish collection, the series in which he works through his own country's imagery — Flamenco, Siesta, Olé, Bravo, Faïsa. The house motto for this one is \"goosebumps are for the brave\": a tribute to people who dare to smell victory before it is within reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is presented in the same inkwell flacon as the rest of the line, here in a deep pink glass, with the gold-and-crimson outer tube that echoes the embroidery of a traje de luces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for people who like skin scents with tension in them. If you wear cumin-forward or animalic florals, or if you enjoy leather fragrances but want one built from flowers instead of birch tar, Matador is worth your time. It is also a good entry point for anyone curious about Monegal's work, because it shows his habit of putting one potentially divisive material at the centre and then building comfort around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unisex with a slight masculine lean in the opening and a slight feminine lean in the heart. If cumin bothers you, skip it — there is no version of this fragrance without that first ten minutes. If you want something polite and office-safe, this is the wrong bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatador belongs to autumn and winter and to the evening. Cool air keeps the cumin in check and lets the sandalwood-coconut base bloom slowly; heat pushes the animalic side forward faster than most people want in public. It suits dinners, nights out, dates and occasions where you want to be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne or two sprays is genuinely enough. This is a fragrance with real projection for its first couple of hours, and over-applying is the most common way people end up disliking it. Applied to the chest under a shirt, it warms up gradually through the evening rather than arriving all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal is a Barcelona perfume house founded by the fourth generation of Spain's most important perfuming family. His great-grandfather's drugstore led to the founding of Myrurgia in 1916, and Ramon trained inside the family company from 1972 before studying with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris. He spent some thirty years as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, and when the company was sold in 2000 he stepped away from corporate perfumery to work independently, launching his eponymous house later that decade. Literature is his stated inspiration after nature, which is why every fragrance is housed in the same faceted inkwell flacon with his monogram embossed on the flip-top cap: one vessel, many stories. Matador Eau de Parfum is available at Redolia Perfumery as a full 50 ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ramon Monegal","offers":[{"title":"1.7 oz (50 ml)","offer_id":54459712012604,"sku":"8436543920550","price":285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/ramon-monegal-matador-white-1.jpg?v=1790431678"},{"product_id":"ramon-monegal-oud-on-fire","title":"Ramon Monegal Oud on Fire Extrait de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal Oud on Fire is an amber-woody extrait de parfum that takes agarwood and does to it what the name promises: sets it alight. It opens on cinnamon, black pepper and geranium. The cinnamon is the dry bark kind rather than the bakery kind, black pepper supplies a crackling sharpness, and geranium — rosy, green, slightly metallic — keeps the spices from turning into mulled wine. The first minutes genuinely read as heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart is built on oud steam and Oud Padong Laos, alongside patchouli. \"Oud steam\" is Monegal's own term for the smoky halo that rises when agarwood is burned rather than distilled, and that distinction is the whole idea of the fragrance: this is not the oil, it is the smoke. Padong Laos oud underneath is drier and sweeter, resinous rather than animalic, and patchouli adds a damp earthy weight that grounds the smoke so it does not simply float away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is cedarwood, tonka and vanilla. Cedar extends the woody structure into something pencil-sharp and clean, tonka brings almond-hay sweetness, and vanilla rounds the finish. As an extrait it projects strongly for two to three hours and remains legible on skin well past the twelve-hour mark, with a smoky-sweet trail that clings to wool and leather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOud on Fire was composed by \u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e and released in 2017 within My Ouds, his four-part study of agarwood. His own text for it describes oud wood that spreads a halo of aromatic smoke when burnt, sublimated with patchouli leaves and rose petals, seasoned with balsam fir, black pepper, cinnamon and cashmeran — fire as the thing that triggers the spell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe characterises the finished perfume as provocative, powerful and bohemian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for people who want smoke more than they want animalics. If incense, burning wood and dry spice are what you reach for, Oud on Fire is the more direct of the two Monegal ouds; if you want rose, chocolate and depth, its sibling Soul of Oud is the one. The house's own comparison is useful: the two start out similar, then Soul of Oud turns chocolatey and floral while Oud on Fire turns smokier and woodier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unisex and leans masculine in wear, mostly because of the pepper-and-cedar spine. If you find oud fragrances medicinal, this is a gentler introduction than most — the smoke reads as a fireplace rather than a hospital. If you want anything fresh, transparent or office-appropriate, look elsewhere entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOud on Fire is a winter and late-autumn fragrance, and an evening one. Cold air is what it was built for: the spices stay crisp, the smoke carries, and the cedar-tonka base holds all night. It is right for dinners, evenings out, dates and occasions that call for presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn summer the cinnamon and pepper can turn abrasive in the first half hour, so if you wear it in heat, apply one spray and let it go straight to the drydown. As with any extrait, restraint is the correct technique — a single application to the chest will still be with you tomorrow morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal is a Barcelona perfume house founded by the fourth generation of Spain's most important perfuming family. His great-grandfather's drugstore led to the founding of Myrurgia in 1916, and Ramon trained inside the family company from 1972 before studying with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris. He spent some thirty years as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, and when the company was sold in 2000 he stepped away from corporate perfumery to work independently, launching his eponymous house later that decade. Literature is his stated inspiration after nature, which is why every fragrance is housed in the same faceted inkwell flacon with his monogram embossed on the flip-top cap: one vessel, many stories. Oud on Fire Extrait de Parfum is available at Redolia Perfumery as a full 50 ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ramon Monegal","offers":[{"title":"1.7 oz (50 ml)","offer_id":54459712045372,"sku":"8436543920390","price":320.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/ramon-monegal-oud-on-fire-white-1.jpg?v=1790431703"},{"product_id":"ramon-monegal-heritage-drops","title":"Ramon Monegal Heritage Drops Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal Heritage Drops is a citrus-aromatic eau de parfum built on a cologne structure, and it is the most classical thing the house makes. It opens on bergamot, mandarin and lemon — the traditional citrus triad of eau de cologne, but at eau de parfum concentration, so the opening has weight instead of evaporating in ten minutes. Mandarin gives it a sweeter, rounder edge than a straight lemon cologne; bergamot supplies the bitter-floral top that holds everything together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart turns herbal and Mediterranean: petitgrain, rosemary and thyme. Petitgrain is distilled from the twigs and leaves of the bitter orange tree, so it extends the citrus theme while introducing a green, slightly woody bitterness. Rosemary and thyme bring the camphorous, sun-warmed scrubland quality that makes this smell specifically Spanish rather than generically fresh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is geranium, amber and neroli. Geranium adds a rosy-minty sharpness, neroli returns to the orange tree one last time with its honeyed white-floral facet, and amber quietly warms the floor so that the drydown is soft rather than austere. This is where Heritage Drops departs from a real cologne — a true cologne fades to nothing, and this one leaves something behind. Expect four to six hours, which for a citrus composition is good, with moderate projection in the first hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeritage Drops was composed by \u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e and released in 2022 in the house's Kaleidoscopic collection. Its story is the reason it exists: in 1919 the first perfumer in the Monegal line created the family's private perfume, and every generation since has modified it, adding something of its own. Heritage Drops is the first time that private formula has left the family atelier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house sums it up as \"not all jewels are made of gold\", and describes the finished scent as vital, romantic and cheerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for people who wear classical colognes and want one with more staying power. If your shelf includes Mediterranean citrus-aromatics, eau de cologne styles or herbal fougères, Heritage Drops slots straight in. It is also an easy recommendation for anyone who finds modern niche perfumery too heavy: this is the rare full-bottle purchase you can wear to work without a second thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unisex and leans traditionally masculine in the way all colognes do, but nothing in it is gendered. If you want projection, complexity or a dramatic drydown, this is not that fragrance. If you want to smell clean, groomed and quietly expensive, it is exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeritage Drops is a spring and summer fragrance and a daytime one. Heat is its friend — citrus and herbs lift off warm skin, and the composition never becomes sour the way lighter colognes can. It is well suited to the office, everyday wear and warm-weather days from morning through late afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt works in cold weather too, just more quietly, and the amber-neroli base becomes more prominent. Because it is a citrus structure, it rewards re-application: spray generously in the morning, and carry it if you want the freshness back after lunch. The 100 ml bottle is sized for exactly that habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal is a Barcelona perfume house founded by the fourth generation of Spain's most important perfuming family. His great-grandfather's drugstore led to the founding of Myrurgia in 1916, and Ramon trained inside the family company from 1972 before studying with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris. He spent some thirty years as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, and when the company was sold in 2000 he stepped away from corporate perfumery to work independently, launching his eponymous house later that decade. Literature is his stated inspiration after nature, which is why every fragrance is housed in the same faceted inkwell flacon with his monogram embossed on the flip-top cap: one vessel, many stories. Heritage Drops Eau de Parfum is available at Redolia Perfumery as a full 100 ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ramon Monegal","offers":[{"title":"3.4 oz (100 ml)","offer_id":54459712110908,"sku":"8436543924435","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/ramon-monegal-heritage-drops-white-1.jpg?v=1790431776"},{"product_id":"ramon-monegal-yummy-jam","title":"Ramon Monegal Yummy Jam Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWhat it smells like\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal Yummy Jam is an amber-vanilla eau de parfum that treats gourmand perfumery as an adult pleasure rather than a dessert. It opens with bergamot over coffee and cocoa, and the bergamot matters: without it the coffee would read as sweetened syrup, and with it the first ten minutes are bitter, roasted and bright at the same time. Coffee here is the dark roasted kind, closer to an espresso crema than to a coffee liqueur, and the cocoa underneath is unsweetened, dusty and slightly chalky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe heart brings coumalactone, a creamy caramellic lactone that smells of warm milk crust and hay, and it is the hinge of the whole composition. Around it sit musk and tonka bean, tonka adding its almond-and-hay sweetness, musk adding skin. This is where Yummy Jam stops being a coffee fragrance and becomes a texture: soft, spreadable, jam-like, which is where the name comes from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is sandalwood, burnt sugar and vanilla. Burnt sugar is caramel taken one step past comfort, with the faint smokiness of sugar that has caught in the pan, and it keeps the vanilla from turning into a cupcake. Sandalwood underneath gives the whole thing a creamy woody floor so the drydown stays warm rather than sticky. Expect around six to eight hours on skin with moderate-to-strong projection for the first two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho made it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYummy Jam was composed by \u003cstrong\u003eRamon Monegal\u003c\/strong\u003e, the fourth-generation Barcelona perfumer who founded the house that carries his name. It belongs to Katharsis, the collection he built with the artist Miguel Caravaca and describes as an olfactory ritual of disinhibition. Each Katharsis fragrance is tied to one idea, and Yummy Jam's is pleasure: the brand's own line is that pleasure is a brief alteration of monotony, constantly sought and rarely confessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased in 2026, the collection also gave the house a new visual language — the hand-drawn Caravaca artwork that wraps the outer tube — while keeping Monegal's signature inkwell flacon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is for people who like gourmand fragrances but have grown tired of sugar. If you wear coffee, cocoa and tonka scents, or if vanilla-and-sandalwood drydowns are your comfort zone, Yummy Jam will feel like a more grown-up version of that idea. The bitterness in the top and the burnt edge in the base are what separate it from the sweeter mainstream gourmands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unisex and skews warm rather than fresh. If you dislike coffee notes, or want something light and transparent, this is not it. If you want a fragrance with a soft, edible aura that stays close to the body after the first hour, it is a strong pick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhen to wear it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYummy Jam belongs to autumn and winter, and mostly to the evening. Cold air suits it: the coffee and cocoa read as cosy rather than heavy, and the burnt-sugar base carries well in low temperatures. It works for dinners, nights out and cold-weather days when you want something enveloping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn heat, the sweetness can build quickly, so treat summer use as a one-spray proposition. Two sprays on the chest is enough for most wearers; the trail is noticeable without being loud, and it lingers on scarves and knitwear for a day or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRamon Monegal is a Barcelona perfume house founded by the fourth generation of Spain's most important perfuming family. His great-grandfather's drugstore led to the founding of Myrurgia in 1916, and Ramon trained inside the family company from 1972 before studying with Artur Jordi Pey at Firmenich in Geneva, Marcel Carles in Grasse and Pierre Bourdon in Paris. He spent some thirty years as Myrurgia's in-house perfumer, and when the company was sold in 2000 he stepped away from corporate perfumery to work independently, launching his eponymous house later that decade. Literature is his stated inspiration after nature, which is why every fragrance is housed in the same faceted inkwell flacon with his monogram embossed on the flip-top cap: one vessel, many stories. Yummy Jam Eau de Parfum is available at Redolia Perfumery as a full 75 ml bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ramon Monegal","offers":[{"title":"2.5 oz (75 ml)","offer_id":54459712143676,"sku":"8436543928099","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/files\/ramon-monegal-yummy-jam-white-1.jpg?v=1790431802"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/7078\/0476\/collections\/perfumer-ramon-monegal.jpg?v=1790354577","url":"https:\/\/redolia.com\/collections\/ramon-monegal-perfumer.oembed","provider":"Redolia Perfumery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}