★★★★★
"A masterclass in restraint."
The cardamom-mint top reads as new, fresh on a parfum is a difficult trick. I would wear this in the back of a car, in Cairo, in November.
STRONGER
AFNAN · 2019
9 PM
Edp.
Family
oriental
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Afnan Team
Released
2019
Vault arrival
July 2024
"Apple and vanilla over wood — the crowd-pleasing evening oriental at entry price."
EGP 1,300.00EGP 650.00SAVE 50%
§ III · VIP PACKAGING
A bespoke presentation crafted by request.
Price on application.
§ I · the composition
An unfolding,
read from
head to base.
The first ten minutes belong to cardamom and mint. The heart settles around the half-hour. Tonka and brown sugar will see you to the morning.
Head
apple
bergamot
mandarin
Heart
jasmine
rose
Base
vanilla
amber
musk
cedarwood
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
oriental
sweet
fruity
woody
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.0/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.5/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
4,462
wearings.
2,900 in love.
Polled across the Gharam wearer community over twelve months. Members vote only after seven days of wear, never before.
Impressions aggregated from external sources, shown without names.
Love
2,900.00 · 65%
Like
714.00 · 16%
Neutral
402.00 · 9%
Dislike
446.00 · 10%
§ V · adjacent compositions
From the same shelf.
§ VI · witnesses
Worn, and written down.
Impressions aggregated from external sources, shown without names.
★★★★★
"The vanilla is grown-up."
Brown sugar without the cloy. It dries down to a tonka skin-scent that my wife noticed three nights running.
★★★★★
"Better than the EDT, by a wide margin."
Deeper, drier, longer. Worth the upcharge, and Gharam's batch was a recent one, October '25.