★★★★★
"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
INITIO PARFUMS PRIVéS · 2018
Oud for Greatness
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Woody Aromatic
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Maxence Moutte
Released
2018
Vault arrival
February 2025
"Saffron, oud, patchouli — beast-mode performance."
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
Saffron
Lavender
Nutmeg
Heart
Oud
Patchouli
Base
Musk
White Honey
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Oud
88
Woody
82
Warm Spicy
74
Lavender
58
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.0/10
Sillage
8.6/10
Projection
8.4/10
Value
9.0/10
Season
Spring
58
Summer
42
Fall
92
Winter
94
Hour
Morning
46
Afternoon
62
Evening
96
Night
94
§ IV · the room speaks
6,497
wearings.
4,158 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
4,158.00 · 64%
Like
1,234.00 · 19%
Neutral
260.00 · 4%
Dislike
845.00 · 13%
§ 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.