★★★★★
"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 MARGIELA · 2015
Replica By the Fireplace
Eau de Toilette.
Family
Oriental Woody
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Marie Salamagne
Released
2015
Vault arrival
February 2025
"Chestnuts, guaiac wood, vanilla. Smoke that smells like comfort."
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
Pink Pepper
Orange Blossom
Clove
Heart
Chestnut
Juniper
Gaiac Wood
Base
Vanilla
Cashmeran
Peru Balsam
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Smoky
84
Woody
74
Sweet
62
Warm Spicy
54
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.6/10
Sillage
7.0/10
Projection
6.8/10
Value
8.3/10
Season
Spring
42
Summer
26
Fall
90
Winter
98
Hour
Morning
40
Afternoon
56
Evening
94
Night
96
§ IV · the room speaks
6,381
wearings.
3,956 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
3,956.00 · 62%
Like
1,085.00 · 17%
Neutral
319.00 · 5%
Dislike
1,021.00 · 16%
§ 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.