★★★★★
"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
MEMO PARIS · 2015
African Leather
Edp.
Family
Leather Oriental
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Clara Molloy
Released
2015
Vault arrival
January 2025
"Skin-warm leather over oud and spice — a night flight from Nairobi that lands in an attar shop in Cairo."
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
cinnamon
cardamom
Heart
rose
oud
incense
Base
leather
sandalwood
amber
musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
leather
oud
spice
incense
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.5/10
Sillage
9.0/10
Projection
9.0/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
con.season.autumn
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,861
wearings.
1,302 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
1,302.00 · 70%
Like
298.00 · 16%
Neutral
149.00 · 8%
Dislike
112.00 · 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.