★★★★★
"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
CALVIN KLEIN · 2005
Euphoria
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Oriental Floral
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Carlos Benaim · Loc Dong
Released
2005
Vault arrival
April 2025
"Pomegranate, black orchid, mahogany. Decadent and dark."
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
Pomegranate
Persimmon
Green Notes
Heart
Black Orchid
Lotus
Champaca
Base
Mahogany
Black Violet
Amber
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Fruity
74
Oriental
66
Floral
58
Sweet
52
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.4/10
Sillage
7.2/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
8.7/10
Season
Spring
62
Summer
48
Fall
88
Winter
86
Hour
Morning
42
Afternoon
62
Evening
92
Night
90
§ IV · the room speaks
4,192
wearings.
3,096 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
3,096.00 · 74%
Like
831.00 · 20%
Neutral
227.00 · 5%
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.