★★★★★
"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
SERGE LUTENS · 2002
Gris Clair
Edp.
Family
fresh
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Christopher Sheldrake
Released
2002
Vault arrival
February 2024
"Lavender and iris in grey clarity — clean, spare and austere."
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
bergamot
lavender
Heart
iris
styrax
Base
musk
cedarwood
ambrette
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
fresh
powdery
lavender
woody
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
8.1/10
Season
Spring
Fall
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,786
wearings.
1,331 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
1,331.00 · 75%
Like
286.00 · 16%
Neutral
152.00 · 9%
Dislike
17.00 · 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.