★★★★★
"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
PARFUMS DE MARLY · 2018
Percival
Edp.
Family
fresh
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Julien Rasquinet
Released
2018
Vault arrival
October 2025
"Bergamot and pear over vetiver — a crisp, equestrian 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
bergamot
pear
blackcurrant
Heart
lily of the valley
jasmine
Base
vetiver
musk
sandalwood
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
fresh
floral
citrus
woody
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
8.1/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
2,674
wearings.
1,818 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
1,818.00 · 68%
Like
588.00 · 22%
Neutral
241.00 · 9%
Dislike
27.00 · 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.