It’s July, and I’m wearing GRAND BEAU by Thomas De Monaco Parfums.
The ultimate Bad Girls Mermaid Summer time BEACH fragrance.
For me, Grand Beau is not the mermaid IN the sea.
She’s the mermaid BESIDE the sea
And she knows how to make things happen.

After dreaming all day behind the dunes with Thomas De Monaco Grand Beau
She’s ready to go where the people go

And create her 0WM magic
With the softly sensual fragrances of sea breezes
That filter their way along and above sea and sand
The green ness of
Sea grasses, resinous pines, and waves.
Soft sensual notes of olibanum and ambrette
Sweetness of almonds
Minerality of seaweed and sea foam

Tart sweetness of juniper berries and gin notes.
Dry Sand and salt

Our little mermaid is wearing her favorite and ONLY green striped T because of course, she lost her suitcase when she washed ashore….
There is Soft sweetness in her eyes
And the fishy minerality
Of Her TAIL which is now part of legend and her TALE.

Could GRAND BEAU be the fragrance of your dream beach holiday?

Don’t let this little mermaid get away

Wrightsville Beach, NC

NOTE
Grand Beau is one of a trilogy of fragrances in the first fragrance collection of Thomas De Monaco Parfums.
I met Thomas De Monaco for the first time in October 2022 in Cannes, France during the Tax Free World Association trade fair.
In April of 2023 I interviewed him at the Esxence Niche fragrance trade fair in Milan.

I wrote this about Thomas De Monaco and his fragrances in an article for Beauty Matter.com
https://beautymatter.com/articles/top...

Rising Star - Thomas De Monaco
Everything is brilliant and burnished about Thomas De Monaco—the vision, the fragrances, the packaging. Thomas De Monaco, the man and his work, embody what one might dream of when crossing the threshold to the rarified world of truly artistic niche fragrances: source energy channeled through immense artistic talent, honed through meticulous work with first-class raw materials, and attuned to the human dimensions of desire and sensuality.

The Thomas De Monaco story is also the real thing. Based in Zürich and Paris, Thomas De Monaco is a photographer and artist, as well as Creative Director of Thomas De Monaco Parfums. In the three short years since the 2020 launch of Raw Gold in a limited first edition by perfumer Fredrik Dalman, the fragrance and the brand have risen to cult status among perfumistas worldwide. Inspired by sharp-edged, sometimes aching memories of the late ’60s / early ’70s, an unbridled desire for absolute personal and sexual freedom, and by Michelangelo Antonioni’s equally sharp-edged 1970 film Zabriskie Point, Raw Gold is a highly seductive take-no-prisoners fragrance. Thrilling and intense in its opening, Raw Gold, like its wildly sensual inspiration, delivers a profound and carnal perfume experience through notes that include leather, lipstick, civet, and opoponax, and which like the fleeting moments of its inspiration, never looks back and is gone before dawn.

In the autumn of 2022, Thomas De Monaco launched two more fragrances, Eau Coeur and Grand Beau, both by perfumer Maurus Bachmann, and both offering a softer sensuality than Raw Gold. Eau Coeur, grounded, reassuring, sensual like honey, and warm like softly pulsing skin, seems destined, as its name suggests, to be worn close to the heart. As for Grand Beau, less integral and more outgoing and social than Eau Coeur, it still feels intimately connected, like the life experiences and people whom over time I can claim as my own, and who, unlike Raw Gold, will still be with me in the morning.