★★★★★
"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
COMME DES GARçONS · 2008
2 Man
Edt.
Family
Aromatic Fougère
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Antoine Maisondieu
Released
2008
Vault arrival
February 2024
"Ink, cedar, and cardamom in a spare, intellectual arrangement — the scent of a concept store at 6 a.m."
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
grapefruit
cardamom
Heart
cedar
vetiver
sandalwood
Base
musk
labdanum
birch
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
ink
cedar
cardamom
wood
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
9.1/10
Season
Spring
con.season.autumn
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
4,285
wearings.
3,042 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
3,042.00 · 71%
Like
857.00 · 20%
Neutral
257.00 · 6%
Dislike
129.00 · 3%
§ 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.