★★★★★
"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
YVES SAINT LAURENT · 2017
Y
Edt.
Family
woody
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Dominique Ropion
Released
2017
Vault arrival
September 2025
"The EDT Y — lighter, crisper, apple and bergamot over juniper and cedar."
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
ginger
apple
Heart
geranium
juniper
sage
Base
cedar
vetiver
ambergris
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
fresh
woody
aromatic
citrus
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
9.3/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Fall
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
3,508
wearings.
2,456 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
2,456.00 · 70%
Like
631.00 · 18%
Neutral
316.00 · 9%
Dislike
105.00 · 3%
§ 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.