★★★★★
"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
DIOR · 1999
J'adore
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Floral
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Calice Becker
Released
1999
Vault arrival
October 2024
"Ylang-ylang, rose, jasmine — the modern white-floral diplomat."
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
Pear
Melon
Magnolia
Heart
Jasmine
Rose
Ylang-Ylang
Base
Musk
Vanilla
Cedar
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
White Floral
86
Floral
78
Fruity
48
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.6/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
6.8/10
Value
8.2/10
Season
Spring
92
Summer
78
Fall
74
Winter
58
Hour
Morning
78
Afternoon
86
Evening
78
Night
58
§ IV · the room speaks
5,720
wearings.
3,604 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
3,604.00 · 63%
Like
572.00 · 10%
Neutral
343.00 · 6%
Dislike
1,201.00 · 21%
§ 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.