★★★★★
"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
FREDERIC MALLE · 2010
Portrait of a Lady
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Floral
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Dominique Ropion
Released
2010
Vault arrival
February 2024
"Turkish rose, patchouli, sandalwood. Aristocratic and intense."
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
Raspberry
Blackcurrant
Clove
Heart
Turkish Rose
Cinnamon
Base
Patchouli
Sandalwood
Incense
White Musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Rose
90
Floral
78
Patchouli
74
Warm Spicy
62
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.0/10
Sillage
8.6/10
Projection
8.4/10
Value
9.0/10
Season
Spring
62
Summer
42
Fall
92
Winter
94
Hour
Morning
42
Afternoon
62
Evening
96
Night
94
§ IV · the room speaks
5,053
wearings.
2,981 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
2,981.00 · 59%
Like
758.00 · 15%
Neutral
253.00 · 5%
Dislike
1,061.00 · 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.