★★★★★
"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
MAISON FRANCIS KURKDJIAN · 2017
Baccarat Rouge 540
Extrait de Parfum.
Family
Amber Floral
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
Extrait
Perfumer
Francis Kurkdjian
Released
2017
Vault arrival
July 2024
"Saffron, jasmine and ambergris fused at the molecular edge of warmth and air."
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
Saffron
Jasmine
Heart
Amberwood
Ambergris
Base
Fir Resin
Cedar
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Amber
94
Warm Spicy
78
Sweet
68
Woody
58
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.0/10
Sillage
8.8/10
Projection
8.6/10
Value
9.0/10
Season
Spring
72
Summer
62
Fall
92
Winter
92
Hour
Morning
52
Afternoon
70
Evening
94
Night
94
§ IV · the room speaks
1,946
wearings.
1,070 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
1,070.00 · 55%
Like
253.00 · 13%
Neutral
117.00 · 6%
Dislike
506.00 · 26%
§ 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.