★★★★★
"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
ARABIAN OUD · 2010
Kalemat
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Oriental Spicy
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
House
Released
2010
Vault arrival
July 2024
"Honey, dates, amber, sweet tobacco. Quintessential Gulf opulence."
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
Dates
Bergamot
Heart
Honey
Rose
Base
Amber
Vanilla
Tonka Bean
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Honey
84
Sweet
74
Warm Spicy
62
Vanilla
54
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.2/10
Sillage
7.8/10
Projection
7.4/10
Value
9.1/10
Season
Spring
52
Summer
36
Fall
92
Winter
96
Hour
Morning
36
Afternoon
54
Evening
94
Night
94
§ IV · the room speaks
6,164
wearings.
4,872 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
4,872.00 · 79%
Like
998.00 · 16%
Neutral
235.00 · 4%
Dislike
59.00 · 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.