★★★★★
"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
MUGLER · 2005
Alien
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Oriental Floral
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Dominique Ropion · Laurent Bruyère
Released
2005
Vault arrival
January 2024
"Jasmine sambac, cashmeran, white amber. A monolith."
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
Jasmine Sambac
Heart
Cashmeran
Base
White Amber
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
White Floral
90
Jasmine
84
Amber
68
Woody
52
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.6/10
Sillage
8.0/10
Projection
7.8/10
Value
9.3/10
Season
Spring
62
Summer
46
Fall
86
Winter
84
Hour
Morning
40
Afternoon
58
Evening
92
Night
92
§ IV · the room speaks
5,469
wearings.
3,992 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
3,992.00 · 73%
Like
766.00 · 14%
Neutral
383.00 · 7%
Dislike
328.00 · 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.