Raw Gold

From the first sprays, you are somewhere else. Something gourmand hits you, sweet but not childish. It is sensual from the start, no question. You feel that seductive intent straight away.
Gradually the fragrance grows heavier and more cocooning. The feeling shifts from a sugary freshness to a warm intimacy. It is like moving from the moment you notice each other to the moment you touch. Everything calms, becomes softer, more comfortable. You feel the closeness, the warmth of skin against yours.
In the base, it all becomes denser. The fragrance wraps around you and will not let go. It is hypnotic, magnetic. You know everyone will smell it, but there is no avoiding it. What was sweet becomes sensual, what was light becomes heavy.
This is an after-midnight fragrance. Whispered secrets. For those who know exactly what they want and are not afraid to show it. Unforgettable on the skin. The one they ask about the next morning: 'What were you wearing last night?'

Thomas de Monaco is an independent perfume house founded in 2020 in Zurich by its eponymous creator, a Franco-Swiss artistic director and photographer. For more than twenty years, Thomas de Monaco shaped the visual language of the world’s leading luxury houses, Dior, Hermès, YSL, Armani, Cartier, and Rolex, while working in Paris, New York, and Zurich. It was his discovery of the Helmut Lang collection that marked a true turning point: a contemporary line, imbued with a subtle retro spirit, that continues to influence his work today. Perfume thus became another medium, the only one where the final image is not delivered by the creator but is constructed entirely in the wearer’s imagination. Based in the heart of a former Gustave Eiffel factory in Zurich, the house crafts its fragrances using artisanal methods, free from industrial constraints. Each fragrance is developed in close collaboration with perfumer Maurus Bachmann, under the creative direction of Thomas de Monaco. This is the essence of the house.” A designer house built on the conviction that fragrance is not simply worn, it complements the wearer.