★★★★★
"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
RALPH LAUREN · 2017
Polo Blue
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Aromatic Aquatic
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Jacques Cavallier · Carlos Benaim
Released
2017
Vault arrival
November 2024
"Aquatic with a sage-amber base. Office-safe, never offensive."
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
Cucumber
Mandarin
Basil
Heart
Sage
Geranium
Base
Amber
Musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Aromatic
74
Aquatic
66
Amber
56
Woody
50
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.4/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
8.7/10
Season
Spring
86
Summer
86
Fall
72
Winter
52
Hour
Morning
88
Afternoon
86
Evening
66
Night
46
§ IV · the room speaks
1,936
wearings.
1,461 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
1,461.00 · 75%
Like
285.00 · 15%
Neutral
171.00 · 9%
Dislike
19.00 · 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.