★★★★★
"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
CREED · 2002
Himalaya
Edp.
Family
woody
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Olivier Creed
Released
2002
Vault arrival
October 2024
"Mountain clarity — bergamot and grapefruit dissolving into sandalwood and ambergris."
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
lemon
Heart
sandalwood
vetiver
woods
Base
oakmoss
ambergris
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
fresh
citrus
clean
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.0/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.5/10
Value
8.3/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Fall
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
5,845
wearings.
4,033 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
4,033.00 · 69%
Like
1,403.00 · 24%
Neutral
292.00 · 5%
Dislike
117.00 · 2%
§ 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.