★★★★★
"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 · 2018
Bleu de Chanel
Parfum.
Family
woody
Wear
For Him
Concentration
Parfum
Perfumer
Olivier Polge
Released
2018
Vault arrival
July 2025
"The Parfum Bleu — cedar and sandalwood at full depth, incense glowing beneath."
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
lemon
grapefruit
pink pepper
Heart
sandalwood
cedar
labdanum
Base
incense
vetiver
white musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
woody
spicy
fresh
aromatic
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.0/10
Sillage
8.0/10
Projection
8.0/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
4,644
wearings.
3,586 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
3,586.00 · 77%
Like
828.00 · 18%
Neutral
184.00 · 4%
Dislike
46.00 · 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.