★★★★★
"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
MAISON MARGIELA · 2013
Replica Jazz Club
Eau de Toilette.
Family
Oriental Woody
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Marie Salamagne
Released
2013
Vault arrival
December 2024
"Rum, tobacco leaves, vanilla. A Brooklyn jazz bar in 1962."
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
Pink Pepper
Neroli
Lemon
Heart
Rum
Java Vetiver
Clary Sage
Base
Tobacco Leaf
Vanilla
Styrax
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Tobacco
78
Warm Spicy
66
Sweet
60
Boozy
54
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.4/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
6.8/10
Value
8.0/10
Season
Spring
62
Summer
46
Fall
88
Winter
92
Hour
Morning
30
Afternoon
50
Evening
94
Night
94
§ IV · the room speaks
6,881
wearings.
5,161 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
5,161.00 · 75%
Like
1,083.00 · 16%
Neutral
573.00 · 8%
Dislike
64.00 · 1%
§ 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.