★★★★★
"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
ROJA PARFUMS · 2006
Aoud
Edp.
Family
oud
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Roja Dove
Released
2006
Vault arrival
November 2025
"Pure oud over rose — the definitive Western interpretation of Arabic tradition."
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
rose
Heart
oud
rose
incense
Base
sandalwood
musk
amber
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
oud
rose
smoky
oriental
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.5/10
Sillage
9.0/10
Projection
8.5/10
Value
9.5/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,733
wearings.
1,248 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
1,248.00 · 72%
Like
277.00 · 16%
Neutral
69.00 · 4%
Dislike
139.00 · 8%
§ 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.