★★★★★
"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
LE LABO · 2006
Bergamote 22
Edp.
Family
citrus
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Frank Voelkl
Released
2006
Vault arrival
July 2024
"Bergamot over grapefruit — a laser-focused citrus, bright and brief."
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
bergamot
grapefruit
neroli
Heart
petitgrain
iso e super
Base
musk
cedar
amberwood
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
citrus
fresh
woody
clean
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.0/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
6.5/10
Value
7.1/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
4,551
wearings.
3,413 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
3,413.00 · 75%
Like
592.00 · 13%
Neutral
273.00 · 6%
Dislike
273.00 · 6%
§ 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.