★★★★★
"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 · 2013
Invictus
Edt.
Family
fresh
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Olivier Polge
Released
2013
Vault arrival
June 2024
"Sea salt and grapefruit over guaiac wood — the conquering freshness."
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
sea notes
mandarin
Heart
bay laurel
jasmine
guaiac wood
Base
oakmoss
ambergris
patchouli
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
fresh
aquatic
woody
citrus
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.0/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
8.7/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,718
wearings.
1,082 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
1,082.00 · 63%
Like
206.00 · 12%
Neutral
69.00 · 4%
Dislike
361.00 · 21%
§ 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.