It is very cool actually, I never thought that colour info would be passed from the fractal to the cloud layer at all, so I've never even tried that, only ever used a black/white fractal, I always thought it acted just like a colour 'function' to the cloud layer's existing colours, that's excellent. Just tried it out now for myself and, thank you very much, Monsieur Lemmon.
Using much more muted colours, along with the existing cloud node colours opens up many more options, good one, man!
Not to drag Ulco's thread away from the initial post too much, but I think this is a pretty relevant point.