★★★★★
"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
VIKTOR & ROLF · 2012
Spicebomb
Edt.
Family
spicy
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Olivier Polge
Released
2012
Vault arrival
July 2024
"Pink pepper and cinnamon detonate over vetiver — the grenade bottle detonates."
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
pink pepper
grapefruit
Heart
cinnamon
saffron
Base
leather
vetiver
tobacco
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
spicy
woody
tobacco
leather
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.0/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.5/10
Value
9.9/10
Season
Fall
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
4,808
wearings.
3,441 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
3,441.00 · 72%
Like
1,037.00 · 22%
Neutral
283.00 · 6%
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.