★★★★★
"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 · 2011
Royal Oud
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Woody Aromatic
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Olivier Creed
Released
2011
Vault arrival
February 2025
"Lemon, pepper, oud, cedar. A polite, Westernized oud."
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
Bergamot
Pink Pepper
Heart
Galbanum
Angelica
Base
Oud
Cedar
Sandalwood
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Woody
84
Citrus
62
Oud
56
Aromatic
50
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.8/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
6.8/10
Value
7.8/10
Season
Spring
82
Summer
70
Fall
88
Winter
78
Hour
Morning
66
Afternoon
82
Evening
86
Night
70
§ IV · the room speaks
6,265
wearings.
4,599 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
4,599.00 · 73%
Like
1,092.00 · 17%
Neutral
517.00 · 8%
Dislike
57.00 · 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.