★★★★★
"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
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER · 1995
Le Male
Eau de Toilette.
Family
Aromatic Fougère
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Francis Kurkdjian
Released
1995
Vault arrival
November 2025
"Lavender, mint, vanilla — Kurkdjian's breakthrough hit."
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
Cardamom
Mint
Heart
Lavender
Cinnamon
Orange Blossom
Base
Tonka Bean
Vanilla
Sandalwood
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Vanilla
78
Lavender
74
Aromatic
68
Warm Spicy
56
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.2/10
Sillage
7.4/10
Projection
7.2/10
Value
8.6/10
Season
Spring
72
Summer
62
Fall
82
Winter
80
Hour
Morning
52
Afternoon
68
Evening
86
Night
82
§ IV · the room speaks
4,225
wearings.
3,331 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
3,331.00 · 79%
Like
691.00 · 16%
Neutral
162.00 · 4%
Dislike
41.00 · 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.