★★★★★
"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
GIVENCHY · 2018
L'Interdit
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Oriental Floral
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Dominique Ropion · Anne Flipo · Fanny Bal
Released
2018
Vault arrival
May 2025
"White flowers over vetiver and patchouli. The dark version of a tuberose bouquet."
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
Pear
Orange Blossom
Heart
Tuberose
Jasmine
Base
Patchouli
Vetiver
Ambroxan
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
White Floral
84
Vanilla
58
Woody
54
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.6/10
Sillage
7.4/10
Projection
7.2/10
Value
8.3/10
Season
Spring
68
Summer
54
Fall
86
Winter
84
Hour
Morning
46
Afternoon
62
Evening
92
Night
88
§ IV · the room speaks
4,424
wearings.
3,097 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
3,097.00 · 70%
Like
619.00 · 14%
Neutral
177.00 · 4%
Dislike
531.00 · 12%
§ 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.