★★★★★
"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
BY KILIAN · 2015
Black Phantom
Edp.
Family
gourmand
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Sidonie Lancesseur
Released
2015
Vault arrival
May 2024
"Dark rum and coffee over musk — a memento mori in every drop."
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
rum
black coffee
Heart
sugar cane
bourbon coffee
Base
musk
sandalwood
caramel
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
gourmand
sweet
coffee
tobacco
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.0/10
Sillage
8.5/10
Projection
8.0/10
Value
9.0/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
3,785
wearings.
2,914 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
2,914.00 · 77%
Like
492.00 · 13%
Neutral
341.00 · 9%
Dislike
38.00 · 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.