★★★★★
"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
NAOMI GOODSIR · 2011
Bois Farine
Edp.
Family
Woody Gourmand
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Julien Rasquinet
Released
2011
Vault arrival
April 2025
"Flour, iris, and cedar — the smell of a bread bakery filtered through a cold forest. Genre-defying."
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
iris
vetiver
Heart
cedar
sandalwood
flour
Base
patchouli
musk
oakmoss
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
flour
iris
cedar
wood
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.5/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
9.8/10
Season
con.season.autumn
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
3,243
wearings.
1,881 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
1,881.00 · 58%
Like
746.00 · 23%
Neutral
259.00 · 8%
Dislike
357.00 · 11%
§ 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.