★★★★★
"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
AESOP · 2017
Hwyl
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Woody Aromatic
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Barnabé Fillion
Released
2017
Vault arrival
February 2024
"Cypress, vetiver, hinoki, smoke. The forest at the edge of a temple."
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
Frankincense
Mastic
Heart
Hinoki
Vetiver
Base
Cypress
Tobacco
Sandalwood
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Woody
84
Smoky
66
Aromatic
62
Earthy
54
§ III · performance
Longevity
6.8/10
Sillage
6.4/10
Projection
6.2/10
Value
6.8/10
Season
Spring
66
Summer
48
Fall
92
Winter
86
Hour
Morning
60
Afternoon
78
Evening
92
Night
80
§ IV · the room speaks
5,591
wearings.
4,374 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
4,374.00 · 78%
Like
941.00 · 17%
Neutral
221.00 · 4%
Dislike
55.00 · 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.