INTERVIEW with... Ramón Monegal, Master Perfumer. Monegal Store, Barcelona, Spain. January 2024
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Content
0:00 Intro
1:30 R. Monegal's vocation
3:30 Bottle design
4:26 Perfume as olfactive story
5:35 What's a perfumer?
6:00 Olfactive sense animals / humans
7:00 Pheromones and perfume
8:10 Origins of perfume
10:00 Perfume and seduction
11:18 Perfume and emotions
12:40 Human pheromones in perfume: False
14:40 Perfume in history
15:50 Power, liturgic / sensual seduction
16:25 Fashion and meaning in perfume
17:10 Ingredients: natural / synthetic
17:55 Restricted ingredients and allergies
20:00 Gender in perfumery
22:40 Importance of ingredients
25:30 Iris, orris, vetiver, fruits...
27:55 Adolfo Domínguez
30:50 First personal perfume?
37:00 Magic of perfume
38:50 Monegal's book and novel
41:55 Conclusion