★★★★★
"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
HERMèS · 2004
Eau des Merveilles
Edt.
Family
woody
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Ralph Schwieger
Released
2004
Vault arrival
February 2024
"Ambergris and cedar beneath orange and elemi — strange, bewitching, marine."
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
orange
elemi
pepper
Heart
log wood
bark
Base
ambergris
cedar
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
amber
fresh
spicy
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
9.0/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,969
wearings.
1,201 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
1,201.00 · 61%
Like
413.00 · 21%
Neutral
79.00 · 4%
Dislike
276.00 · 14%
§ 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.