★★★★★
"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
COMME DES GARçONS · 2010
Wonderwood
Edp.
Family
Woody
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Antoine Maisondieu
Released
2010
Vault arrival
December 2025
"Ten woods in concert with no florals, no fruit, no sweetness — radical material honesty from Rei Kawakubo's nose."
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
cedar
petitgrain
Heart
sandalwood
guaiac wood
Base
vetiver
patchouli
birch
musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
cedar
sandalwood
vetiver
birch
patchouli
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.5/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
con.season.autumn
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
1,919
wearings.
1,113 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
1,113.00 · 58%
Like
288.00 · 15%
Neutral
173.00 · 9%
Dislike
345.00 · 18%
§ 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.