Flamenco Ramon Monegal for women and men

Very synthetic. Smells like a very sweet cough syrup.
Gives me headache.
I hate it👎🏻

To me? 100% dupe of Angel Nova at 3x the price. I own AN and just got a decant of Flamenco and cannot tell the difference. I love them both btw...

Insanely good- I habe Ole' and Siesta- as well... Ramon Monegal makes masterpieces.

Where to find batch code on bottle ?
I own a 100 ml flamenco

Great Friday, my fragrant family, my wonderful friends!

Today, we are going to virtually visit Spain 🇪🇸, the homeland of Maestro Ramon Monegal,
Maestro Ramon Monegal did a such a good job of capturing the melody and rhythm of the Flamenco dance and placing it in such a faceted bottle with red glass, personifying the passionate performance of the Spanish dance, the result was one very bright: loud fruity-floral aroma with woody notes and a caramel shade.
The start is magnificent - lush orange blossom, the sweetness of raspberries, smoothed by apple sourness.
I really like Flamenco - because it meets the eternal requirements for niche fragrances - longevity, incredible sillage and fruitiness, a real colorful dance......

I have Siesta from Mr. Ramon and like it a lot. Heard a lot about Flamenco so got a decant. Don't think I've smelled something like this and I've smelled a lot of perfumes. My problem was it leaned a bit too feminine. Still, I kept smelling my decant and spraying it once on my arm when lazying around at home. Finally got a bottle...couldn't get the smell out of my mind. It is very uplifting, vibrant, vivacious and colorful. It is loud and unapologetic. Very long lasting. I don't think a shy or reserved person can wear this. Very pleasant raspberry and also sexy. If I had the same nose I did 5 years ago I would never be able to wear this. Now, I wear unisex smells easily and truly do not believe smells have gender. I understand if you can't handle this as a male person but give it time. Smells amazing!

Another Ramon Monegal that I can’t quite get behind unfortunately. Extremely strong and overbearing pine note. You might enjoy it if you like rose.

Definitely not a safe blind buy.

There is something so screechy in the opening, I think it’s the musk. I almost got a gasoline, nail polish remover note in the opening. Before anyone asks, yes it was genuine and direct from the brand. I’ve seen other people get the same from the reviews below. You either get that screechy opening or not. Those who don’t can probably enjoy this one. Shame as the notes were promising for me

A sweet synthetic raspberry opening. Very quickly, there's more synthetic: a pungent metallic note that makes me feel nauseous, like Atomic Rose or Delina Exclusif. I have applied a spray half an hour ago and I now have to go scrub it because it gives me a headache.

Fruity and woodsy for classy people! Perfect for anti Sephora folks like me, those scents that everyone has 🤣. Not this, this is niche quality goodness.

Reef is a Saudi house that did this almost 99.9% , the fragrance is called Reef 33, they have it in 15ml,50ml and 100ml at a fraction of the price.

I liked it. It feels dynamic, sweet, solid, floral but sweet, with raspberry apparently.
I perceived it floral-sweet. In far background though, my nose detected masculine edge, too harsh for me - as if lacquered wood and saw dust. Might be too big dosage of cedar.

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

A playful tone cantered around red fruits and dazzling sweetness (that’s not childish).

Has the fruity sparkle vibe of erba pura, but maybe less synthetic.

Oh my God, I have Angel Nova and Flamenco does not smell like it. They kind of are in the same scent profile, but no... Angel Nova smells delicious to me, but its kinda simple: is raspberry woody rose, thank you, that's it. Angel Nova is like a catchy pop song, and Flamenco is Ode to Happiness by Beethoven, a full orchestra of well blended fruity, flower, woody and even green notes. It smells mature, not juvenile like Angel Nova, and it's not really playfull but elegant and sophisticated. I must say it's quite synthetic though, but it projects beast mode and lasts for hours, I'm on almost 9 hours and it still smells quite clear.

I'm beginning to conclude that spanish perfumes are among the best in the world. Ronsendo Mateu, Ramon Monegal, Carner Barcelona... They are all beast mode, they last for hours and have original, well blended, quite marvellous scents. Kudos to spanish perfumers.

Angel Nova with bit more raspberry chemical note. Can t understand the price...really...
Cannot be weared by a man, maybe a teen, eventually.
Nope from.me,.hard pass.

Felamingo opens loud with sweet syntethic fruity notes. raspberry and apple can be mouth watering tart and sweet but not here. they remind me of the fruity scent of a shower gel not the real natural fruits. the rose is nice and it must be violet which gives it a bit of powdery vibe.I don't detect cedar,pine tree,cypress or anything green or really woody.it reminds me of Lancome Midnight Rose except that Midnight Rose has a syrupy and stronger berry note. it also reminds me of Al Rehab Tooty Musk which reminded me of berry flavoured amoxicillin syrup for kids. albeit I find Felamingo better than those two because I hate Lancome Midnight Rose and Al Rehab Tooty Musk but I don't hate Felamingo. I don't like it either. but I don't find it unpleasant. just a sweet, girly shower gel or shampoo like scent. longevity and sillage are really good though.
فلامینگو با یه رایحه بلند و تقریبا جیغ جیغوی میوه ای سنتتیک شروع میشه. تمشک و سیب اصلا یادآور میوه های واقعی نیستن. یادآور بوی تمشک و سیب تو یه شامپو بدن میوه ای یا یه همچین چیزی هستن. رز هم کاملا محسوسه و راستش بنظر من رز بدی نیست. بنفشه و زنبق رو بعنوان نت مجزا حس نمیکنم اما همون حس و حال لوازم بهداشتی طور عطر احتمالا زیر سر همین بنفشه باشه. ضمنا من هیچ نت چوبی یا سبزی مثل سدر و کاج و.. حس نمیکنم.
فلامینگو واسم یادآور لانکوم ترزور میدنایت رز هست منهای اون تمشک غلیظ میدنایت رز. ضمنا یادآور الرهاب توتی ماسک هم هست که خود توتی ماسک من رو یاد شربت آموکسی سیلین اطفال با طعم تمشک مینداخت. اما بنظر من فلامینگو از هردوشون بهتره چون من از اون دوتا خیلی بدم میاد(لانکوم میدنایت رز و الرهاب توتی ماسک) اما از فلامینگو بدم نمیاد. خوشمم نمیاد. بنظرم بوی بدی نداره. فقط یه بوی دخترونه و شیرین شامپوبدن طوره واسه من که وجود رز و پودر یکم جالترش کردن.این سبک بو رو من از یه بادی میست ارزون دخترونه انتظار دارم نه یه عطر یونی گرون! اما انصافا موندگاری و پخش بوی خیلی خوبی داره

Angel Nova may be loud, but Flamenco is SHRILL. I can see the resemblance, but Flamenco is so sharp it literally hurts to spray it.

It's a sweet pungent and screaming synthetic raspberry+rose scent almost smells like a nail polish.
Opening was so harsh to my nose, felt nausea and drowsiness right away.
Dry down is a bit subtle but still loud and pungent.
It's strong silage and long lasting ability could become an additional problem so only one or two sprays are enough.
It was a full bottle blind buy and I'm so disappointed with that.

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.

Another Montale Intense Cafe perfume on my skin.

On paper this smells of raspberry and jasmine/iris but on my skin I dont note any raspberry/iris/jamine and turns quickly into an anamalic rose similar to Intense Cafe. I was disappointed only because I have done a large perfume haul recently and have had a few with this same general scent and had higher hope for this being a little more unique given the notes or iris, jasmine, and cypress.

Gorgeous bottle that does capture flamenco but the perfume doesnt for me. I do live in Spain so I really wanted to love this one and tout its praises and be reminded of passionate flamenco-filled nights.


I did try this one mixed with baccarat rouge to make it more interesting and it certainly mixes well and gets really yummy!


Edit: Since Flamenco did not "wow" me I almost wrote off the house completely. I tried a few more perfumes based on a recommendation and have to say I am impressed with the Alhambra oud (truly special) and Faisa. This is now a perfumer on my radar and dont want to miss anything from him. If I based my opinion on this blind purchase of Flamenco, I would have missed out on the true jewels of the collection.

got a free sample of this with a purchase and tried it out today. opening is juicy and gorgeous. dry-down is very reminiscent of a fresh cut rose in a densely woody forest (too woody, green, aromatic, and slightly masc for me). not interested in adding this FB to my vast collection at this time. i can appreciate this as an offering, however, and can easily see how it has an audience!

This is great for those days you'd like to smell like nail polish, unfortunately that's never for me! I only got a sample, good thing! This smells very similar to Tresor Midnight Rose, which I also dislike. I don't get the similarity with Tooty Musk by Al-Rehab which is fruitier, sweeter and much wearable scent without the pine tree and cypress that IMO are killing this perfume.

An extremely sweet rose that is vivacious, warm, boisterous, and unrepentant. Apple, rose, and cypress make for a really reviving opening. It soon becomes really delicious. The rose scent lingers strongly throughout the day, and it has a very sweet aroma. It is a rose-sweet candy that is sweeter than roses, and I adore it. Sillage and longevity are excellent. I feel happier because of this scent. Mesmerizing!

I like this fragrance. however, the dry down is too similar to Tresor midnight rose. i would save my money and purchase midnight rose.

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

suuuuper similar to angel nova. a light but pretty scent very nice dry down. not much projection but still a really nice fragrance

testing a sample vial: I very much agree with some of the 'reminds me of' fragrances mentioned, but overall, there is a strong nail polish vibe to Flamenco that lasts quite a while.

@mrsoutlaw seriously try a sample of DEVIANT by WESKER. It's in the same scent family but, more feminine and longlasting. It was love at first sniff for me. I had the same experience with FLAMENCO and sold my bottle.

I wanted to love this fragrance. But it fell tragically short. Flamenco starts off incredibly loud. Not bold, but loud. It screams at you with it’s artificial fruity notes. After waiting for the initial kick to dry down I was left with the smell of a children’s cherry cough syrup. Still, wanting to love this fragrance, I resisted the urge to simply scrub it off of my arm and give up on the fragrance. It did fade down a bit more as time passed and ended still smelling of cough syrup, but not quite as cloying as it had been earlier along with an added layer of woodiness. From start to finish, I found no part of this fragrance enjoyable. I found that to be incredibly disappointing.

A pleasant sweet fruity rose fragrance with hints of woodiness. It begins with a sweet fruitiness like strawberry jam and transitions into a captivating rose. Longevity is very good, projection is average for me. It is slightly feminine leaning but a man can pull this off.

For the price, there are probably cheaper alternatives available.

Nothing but ambroxan with a little sweetness to me. I'm really sensitive to this note and it takes over every perfume it's in for me.

First opening and maybe the first hour or so, I get a strong Herbal Essences vibe. I don't know if they still make that, but I'm referring to those late 90s early 00's bottles with the super-strong raspberry scent. This is a mega sweet-tart combo. I like the halfway point more, then it develops into a slightly woody/earthy scent. I think the name fits it perfectly; it's sharp, red, strong, bold, unapologetic. Name notwithstanding, I would have preferred a smoother, rounder, softer, and a more refined approach to this; but that's just my taste :)

Beautiful fruity rose scent!! One of the best roses i've smelled! The rose is jammy, fruity, it has some woody undertones and a touch of pine and chypress.. In my opinion this leans a lot on the feminine side but i would totally wear it. I would love it on a woman! Performance is really good.. There is nothing to complain about, if you are searching for a beautiful rose scent put this on your checking list!

To my nose this one smells like Izia by Sisley

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.

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.

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.

Spoiler Alert: I do not like this fragrance.

I not only dislike this fragrance, but I absolutely hate it. I’ve tried it twice now and just can’t. There are not many fragrances I don’t like or at least handle. This one (to me) opens up like burning rubber. Like extremely intense burning rubber. It makes me sharply jerk my head away in offense. That’s rubber smell dies down after about 10-15 min and then what’s left is not any more pleasing or tolerable to my nose. I’m honestly not sure what it is exactly that truly repulses me but something in this blend does-smells synthetic and makes me nauseous. Maybe I have a bad sample?

I’m not one to use such strong negative reactions to fragrances but I’m interested to see if anyone else has had a similar experience. First time I sprayed it on my wrist I had to scrub off. Second time I sprayed on a test strip, left it in my bathroom and when I re-entered my bathroom later that day, I was wondering what is that awful smell. Then I remembered…I wanted to love it for the name and the gorgeous bottle. 😫

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 kind of a weird unisex perfume, because the opening is quite "feminin" and the drydown is rather "masculine".

I had high hopes for this one with the raving reviews I had seen. But this one falls short on the dry down and was not sensual like most have proclaimed. Instead Flamenco is a light, fruity rose and romantic scent with an earthy drydown. In the same ball park as Delina with a raspberry twist in the beginning.

I have to disagree with others here. I really don’t like the blending of these notes in this fragrance. When you first take a sniff it’s soft and bland then out of nowhere you get a ninja kick to the brain of something fruity and slightly tart. Which I’m guessing is a mix of the Apple and Raspberry. I don’t know....I just personally don’t like it and probably would never recommend it either.

On my skin, the raspberry and apple were the first to the party. Rose stayed in the crowd for about 30-minutes and made herself the star for the balance of the wear. However, I was surprised by the almost immediate presence of the Cypress, Cedar and Pine notes. This opened very fruity, mildly sweet (compared to other perfumes) and sour, but at the same time "cold," if that makes sense. I suspect it was the woody base notes. Over time, it started to warm up a little.

On the whole, not a bad fragrance, but not one of which I'd buy a FB. If you love fragrances like Lancome Tresor Midnight Rose or Parfums de Marly Delina, this might also be in your wheelhouse. It's NOT a dupe for those fragrances, but instead in the spirit of those fragrances.

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!

Playful and interesting! Raspberries are especially dominant on my skin. They are quite noticeable. It has a slight chemical scent that doesn't bother me at all, as it's only in the beginning, but for some people it can be problematic. The rose is fresh and not dominant. I like the scent, I wear it with pleasure in the spring.

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!

اول تجربه ليا من الدار دي ولأني من محبي نوته الورد
واحد من اجمل عطور الورد
والنوتات معموله بطريقه جميله
عطر ناعم زي الحرير
ينفع لكل الفصول
كل نوته فيه اجمل من التانيه عطر امااان

I mean, it's not bad by any means. Smells pleasant. Nice actually. That said there is nothing particularly special about this. At $240 for a 50ml this is grossly overpriced. No idea where the hype is coming from.

Poisonous rose.

A combination of raspberry and apple create this kind of almost synthetic scent that is somehow dangerous and attractive. The base is rose and wood. Reminds me of the chemical scent at a petrol station.

This is not a scent for chilling at home in front of the tv. I think it is suitable for creating a unique and distinguished aura around the wearer in the darkness of a nightclub or such. Lasts forever on skin.

this is a fragrance journey in art about how scents develop and mature into the indescribable.

If you like overbearing raspberry sweet scents this is for you.
Silage is great, lasts forever. It's still on my skin 24 hours later, even after a few attempts at scrubbing it off hard. Oddly, its a much more pleasant tamer scent now.

Pretty linear, what you get from the start is what you get til the end. It can be very cloying to my senses, sometimes too nauseating.

I don't get the links to flamenco, this is probably the opposite of what I'd imagine.

I'm not one to push frags into either gender, but I can't help but feel this is something a young, loud, in your face, overtly cheery, young adult female would wear. Someone i'd definitely want to avoid.

There are definitely cheaper alternatives out there that achieve almost the same scent.

Flamenco by Ramon Monegal

The deep woody scent kicks in before the rather sharp top note of raspberry kicks in. The scent itself reminds me of the shizandra berry tea I enjoyed when I was young. Although I usually hesitate to wear perfumes with floral notes, (Floral notes are way too 'feminine') flamenco is definitely one of a kind; note of rose is well covered by the tartness of the raspberry, and the deep cedarwood. Overall, Flamenco is an extremely mesmerizing, sweet, yet oriental perfume, that is fit for all genders. The price is a little high, but is definitely worth the price.

-Sweet, Impetuous, Intense

Longetivity-9/10 (~8hrs)
Sillage- 8/10

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...

A truly fiery, woody yet fruity creation withw raspberry, apple on top - and beautiful woods in the base. Sweet, but not too tart like and not overwheling at all.

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

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 think this stuff is beautiful. Before I go on - I’d consider it strongly anchored in feminine territory.

At its heart, it’s a fruity floral.

The raspberry is tart and noticeable - and it almost feels like theirs a sour oud note in the background - which I’m not sure why I’m feeling that. I’d consider this to be a high class women’s fragrance - distinguished and well thought out. It’s not overly sweet - more tart and bright from the florals - but it does have some backbone to it (a sour wood type - which is why I’m referencing oud).

I think it’s beautiful - and although I would t wear it, id love to smell it on someone else!

Not at all similar to tooty musk. I listened to those reviews that stated they were similar and bought a bottle of tooty and when compared side by side they smell nothing alike. Tooty is synthetic and stays fruity in a synthetic way. No wood, Amber or florals. I'll stick to the real thing until it becomes available again at Squirtz Aromatics.

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

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.

I had high hopes for my Ramon Monegal discovery set after sampling Impossible Iris and liking it.

Unfortunately my trial run with Flamenco is not going well. I’m close to 3 hours in and I don’t like any aspect of this scent: medicinal sweet opening through the synthetic drydown. There is a familiar DNA, similar to what I pick up in Montale/Mancera fragrances Just too hard to continue as it’s borderline headache material.

The overall scent profile makes me think of a mainstream department store perfume, full of sticky fruit and red flowers. Too much sweet, and too many notes bumping into each other.

Every perfume has synthetics, but I want some of those to smell natural and this does not. I can understand the mass appeal, but a strong pass and dislike from me.

This is a very nice raspberry rose fragrance. This is the first fragrance I've ever smelled that has a dominant rasberry note. The weird thing is this fragrance has a semi-masculine forest type of vibe. The rose is done very well. It's not sweet like you would assume, as I can't stand sweet fragrances. Beautiful fragrance.

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...

On me this is like a less sweet and more potent cedar sent very similar to MFK Baccarat Rouge 540.

Go easy on the trigger....sprayed more before bed and nearly choked my wife so in this case less is better.

Beautiful! Blind bought with no regret. Very sexy fragrance, perfect for date night or getting romantic. I love the raspberry background that is not too sweet. Very well done, highly recommended!

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!

‘Flamenco’ from Ramon Monegal’s Spanish Collection is the best selling of his range and SHOULD be everything I ever wanted in a fragrance. You see, I’m half Spanish and used to do flamenco dance. So I know what it is to be a hot-blooded señorita, as the duende (that’s the Spanish equivalent of the Jedi’s force) is strong with me... but I can’t relate to this one. It’s very fruity-sweet, as initially you get the pumping raspberry that’s unrelenting throughout. It reminds me of a quality version of Al Rehab’s ‘Tooty Musk’. Alas, I remain a (half) Spanish lady who can’t relate to this Spanish ladies fragrance. I’m sultry, not fruity, I’m passionate not sweet. This is the liquidised smell of the flamenco dance emoji mixed with fruity car air-freshener. This is the most generically feminine, of all of Ramon Monegal’s collection, and I’m wishing he’d have been more avant-garde, as Flamenco is morphing into a (much better) relative of ‘La Vie Est Belle’. The longevity is very good, as it’s still faintly on my skin the next morning.

Monegal describes ‘Flamenco’ as “my olfactory manifesto to the Andalusian character tattooed with fire on the soul of Spain. Intoxicating emotion expressed in song, guitar and dancing which, under the spell of the Alhambra, transcends in perfume: salty tears, like the southern dew, a fan of orange flower petals, rose and jasmine, interwoven with sandal and cedar wood with a base of voluptuous nectar of saffron stamens, amber and musk. Flamenco is a profound and passionate art... it’s a unique state of mind. It’s my forbidden hypnotic fruit!”

And to be fair, ‘Flamenco’’ is perfectly described as a “forbidden hypnotic fruit”. It’s an exotic, ruby-red, fruity fragrance - it’s just not for me. But... if you love lively, fruity, sweet scents, then look no further than to ‘Flamenco’, as everything Ramon Monegal does is of amazing quality with gloriously rendered concepts. I’ll just dance to my own palos (rhythm).

TOP
Raspberry, Violet, Orris

HEART
Red Rose, Jasmine, Rosewood

BASE
Cedarwood, Amber, Musk

Ole! Sorry to rush straight into stereotype, but sometimes it's the word you need - to react to an impressive, impetuous, swashbuckling show of force ... whether it's football or flamenco, the real players make themselves known, fast and unmistakeably with outrageous plays like this.

Looking for an astonishingly assertive, riotously red, thrillingly florid, relentlessly rosey rose scent? Voila ... here she is. Outstandingly strong and dramatic, pure, natural-yet-neon rose which is almost audibly of the grown-up-woman-of-the-world variety rather than any sort of more shrinking, bridal, delicate kind.

Flamenco is not shy at all - the projection and sillage and intensity and longevity are all crank-it-up-to-11 LOUD, which is fine if the smellscape works for you - but don't blind buy this, as you're unlikely to come around to it if you're unsure. It's pretty linear, so what you smell at first is what you'll get - it doesn't shape-shift much as it wears (it doesn't even quieten down much, to be honest). And there is no mistaking that it's rose, deep passionate red pillowy ultra-femme rose, all the way down.

That's not usually my kind of deal at all - the only other rose fragrances I've tried in this league of attack is Lutens Fille de Berlin, which is just too frigid-tough-girl for me, and Lancome Roses Berberanza, which is smoother but still too femme - but I do still like Flamenco a whole lot. It's a lot warmer and a good bit darker than FdB, for a start. The touches of other notes around the edge do great things for the central flower, and they also stretch the accord without dirtying it up as a dose of patchouli (as in Malle's Portrait of a Lady) might do. Feels organic and fleshy and absolutely bursting with life.

Maybe too much so - on me it's bursting with so much life it's practically bursting out of its underwear. It's almost embarassingly extrovert, such a hot fandango that it's almost on the verge of too much. This is a scent that practically flashes its eyes, bats its lashes, snaps its castanets and bares its teeth at you in its seductive assault (complete with a large red rose clamped between them, of course). It's Technicolour-blaring and almost camp in how unapologetic it is about being a GREAT BIG LOUD RED ROSE scent and nothing else.

For me just a tiny bit too bright and loud to be perfect (I think I'd like it just a notch more mellow and spicy and a hair less screechy), but worth a great big round of loud applause no matter what. Close to a definitive version of a classy, individual rose with no oud and no patchouli. Real hardcore rose fanatics will be in heaven, I think. I'm going to politely make my excuses and find a slightly quieter companion... but Flamenco will have leagues of admirers drooling at every lush curve and turn it presents, I'm sure.

[Apologies - was writing about something else entirely! Will post a proper review here when it's all sorted out.]

A VERY SWEET ROSE
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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.

4/10

This perfume gives me the joy of freedom& living and Spanish vibes.

When I think about flamenco the first things that come to mind are fiery spices, deep passionate red, masculinity/femininity interplay, and the tantalizing Spanish guitar. Based on @Q80's review I'd say they completely missed the mark for me... If it were up to me I'd use various spices (namely cinnamon & different peppers), carnation, Egyptian rose, and the famous Spanish labdanum.

Very fruitti sweet candy blend. Kind of like a sorbet with less roses and more of apples and raspberries. Orange blossom, cedar, and more sweets. Amber, & cedar is there, and no jasmine, iris, or violets are detected!

It's a fragrance that i have smelled plenty of times and i believe it has been created zillions of times and still people (mostly women) loves this take as it's quite a safe take.

It's overly sweet than to be considered as a rosy fragrance. Fare & not quite impressive.

Edit (1st July 2017) After a second try, it is quite sweet like kind of overly sweet, & it has been created many times but i think i am kind of getting attached to it since i don't mind some sweetness & it worked it's magic in the very worm weather which was quite impressive! beside the bottle color is mesmerizing. Let's have some 3rd test soon!

Edit (21st Aug 2017) the dry down of this fragrance is quite medicinal, medicinal patchouli with hints of sweets & that's the only drawback of it while the rest is quite impressive.

Flamenco- What do you think when you hear this word? Dance, music, Spain. This is Flamenco. The perfume is red like the color that dominates the clothes of the flamenco dancers. Flamenco is about red and passion for music, dance and tradition.
The perfume opens up with a juicy, zesty, wonderful raspberry smell. This magic smell remains on my skin for a long time before the green, forest notes of pine and cypress together take place. Here the perfume reminds me of Florabotanica by Balenciaga. The same smell on the skin: lovely but green like a forest pine.
Because Ramon Monegal uses materials of a very good quality the smell is strong, loud and magnificent. It touches your senses.
If you like perfumes with a hint of raspberry and with a green forest drydown, then you will fall in love with this one.