★★★★★
"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
TOM FORD · 2006
Black Orchid
Edp.
Family
floral
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Pierre-Yves Castel
Released
2006
Vault arrival
December 2025
"Dark glamour — truffle and orchid over black chocolate and patchouli."
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
truffle
ylang-ylang
bergamot
Heart
orchid
lotus
dark plum
Base
patchouli
sandalwood
dark chocolate
vetiver
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
floral
sweet
fruity
dark
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.0/10
Sillage
8.5/10
Projection
8.0/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
4,939
wearings.
3,914 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
3,914.00 · 79%
Like
792.00 · 16%
Neutral
186.00 · 4%
Dislike
47.00 · 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.