★★★★★
"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
ESCENTRIC MOLECULES · 2006
Escentric 01
Edt.
Family
citrus
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Geza Schoen
Released
2006
Vault arrival
September 2024
"Iso E Super surrounded by pink pepper and lime — the full escentric composition."
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
lime
pink pepper
Heart
iso e super
orris
Base
woody notes
musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
citrus
woody
spicy
green
§ III · performance
Longevity
6.5/10
Sillage
6.5/10
Projection
6.5/10
Value
7.8/10
Season
Spring
Summer
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
3,406
wearings.
2,384 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
2,384.00 · 70%
Like
743.00 · 22%
Neutral
248.00 · 7%
Dislike
31.00 · 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.