★★★★★
"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
JIMMY CHOO · 2015
Illicit
Edp.
Family
oriental
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Olivier Polge
Released
2015
Vault arrival
June 2025
"Peach and freesia over vanilla — illicit desire in feminine florals."
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
raspberry
jasmine
peach
Heart
freesia
tuberose
Base
vanilla
sandalwood
amber
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
oriental
floral
sweet
fruity
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
9.4/10
Season
Fall
Spring
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,821
wearings.
1,311 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
1,311.00 · 72%
Like
255.00 · 14%
Neutral
164.00 · 9%
Dislike
91.00 · 5%
§ 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.