★★★★★
"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
PACO RABANNE · 2008
1 Million
Eau de Toilette.
Family
Leather Spicy
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Christophe Raynaud · Olivier Pescheux · Michel Girard
Released
2008
Vault arrival
April 2024
"Cinnamon, rose, leather. The loud nightclub gold bar."
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
Grapefruit
Blood Mandarin
Mint
Heart
Cinnamon
Rose
Base
Leather
Amber
Patchouli
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Leather
78
Warm Spicy
72
Sweet
64
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.4/10
Sillage
7.6/10
Projection
7.6/10
Value
8.7/10
Season
Spring
50
Summer
40
Fall
80
Winter
82
Hour
Morning
34
Afternoon
52
Evening
88
Night
86
§ IV · the room speaks
3,012
wearings.
2,075 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
2,075.00 · 69%
Like
682.00 · 23%
Neutral
227.00 · 8%
Dislike
28.00 · 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.