★★★★★
"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
ESCENTRIC MOLECULES · 2019
Escentric 05
Edp.
Family
woody
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Geza Schoen
Released
2019
Vault arrival
June 2025
"Cashmeran and vetiver — warm, cosy molecular skin-scent."
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
lime
bergamot
Heart
cashmeran
woods
Base
vetiver
musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
woody
musk
warm
cosy
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.0/10
Sillage
6.5/10
Projection
6.5/10
Value
8.3/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
5,603
wearings.
3,949 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
3,949.00 · 70%
Like
1,281.00 · 23%
Neutral
320.00 · 6%
Dislike
53.00 · 1%
§ 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.