★★★★★
"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
HERMèS · 2009
Terre d'Hermès
Parfum.
Family
Woody Spicy
Wear
For Him
Concentration
Parfum
Perfumer
Jean-Claude Ellena
Released
2009
Vault arrival
November 2025
"Mineral grapefruit and flint over cedar. Ellena's most quoted composition."
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
Flint
Heart
Pepper
Geranium
Base
Cedar
Vetiver
Benzoin
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Woody
84
Citrus
70
Earthy
64
Mineral
56
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.6/10
Sillage
7.6/10
Projection
7.4/10
Value
8.8/10
Season
Spring
80
Summer
68
Fall
86
Winter
72
Hour
Morning
74
Afternoon
86
Evening
82
Night
66
§ IV · the room speaks
4,002
wearings.
2,241 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
2,241.00 · 56%
Like
520.00 · 13%
Neutral
240.00 · 6%
Dislike
1,001.00 · 25%
§ V · adjacent compositions
From the same shelf.
N°02
Paco Rabanne
Invictus
fresh
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
N°03
Maison Francis Kurkdjian
Baccarat Rouge 540
floral
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
N°04
Mancera
Coco Vanille
Oriental Vanilla
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
N°05
Maison Francis Kurkdjian
Baccarat Rouge 540
Amber Floral
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
§ 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.