★★★★★
"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
GIVENCHY · 1998
Pi
Edt.
Family
oriental
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Jacques Cavallier
Released
1998
Vault arrival
August 2025
"Mandarin and anise over sweet woods — mathematically seductive."
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
mandarin
anise
bergamot
Heart
geranium
jasmine
rose
Base
vanilla
benzoin
sandalwood
§ 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
woody
aromatic
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.5/10
Sillage
8.0/10
Projection
7.5/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
3,599
wearings.
2,015 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
2,015.00 · 56%
Like
684.00 · 19%
Neutral
144.00 · 4%
Dislike
756.00 · 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.