★★★★★
"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
CHANEL · 2014
Bleu de Chanel
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Woody Aromatic
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Jacques Polge
Released
2014
Vault arrival
January 2025
"Citrus opening into pink pepper, ginger, sandalwood, labdanum. The corporate diplomat."
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
Grapefruit
Lemon
Mint
Pink Pepper
Heart
Ginger
Jasmine
Iso E Super
Base
Sandalwood
Labdanum
Incense
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Woody
78
Citrus
72
Aromatic
66
Amber
58
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.0/10
Sillage
7.4/10
Projection
7.2/10
Value
8.5/10
Season
Spring
80
Summer
62
Fall
84
Winter
78
Hour
Morning
70
Afternoon
82
Evening
82
Night
72
§ IV · the room speaks
3,436
wearings.
2,459 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
2,459.00 · 72%
Like
693.00 · 20%
Neutral
252.00 · 7%
Dislike
32.00 · 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.