★★★★★
"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
VERA WANG · 2002
Vera Wang
Edp.
Family
Floral Oriental
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Sophie Labbé
Released
2002
Vault arrival
January 2025
"Tuberose and gardenia over lily and amber — the bridal floral reimagined as something a real woman wears."
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
gardenia
tuberose
iris
Heart
lily
rose
heliotrope
Base
amber
sandalwood
vanilla
musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
tuberose
gardenia
amber
lily
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.0/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
6.5/10
Value
8.9/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,883
wearings.
1,206 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
1,206.00 · 64%
Like
301.00 · 16%
Neutral
75.00 · 4%
Dislike
301.00 · 16%
§ 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.