★★★★★
"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
DAVIDOFF · 1988
Cool Water
Edt.
Family
aquatic
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Pierre Bourdon
Released
1988
Vault arrival
March 2025
"Lavender and sea notes over sandalwood — the defining aquatic of the 80s."
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
sea notes
bergamot
lavender
Heart
jasmine
geranium
rosemary
Base
sandalwood
cedar
musk
amber
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
aquatic
fresh
aromatic
woody
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
9.6/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
6,499
wearings.
4,679 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
4,679.00 · 72%
Like
910.00 · 14%
Neutral
325.00 · 5%
Dislike
585.00 · 9%
§ 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.