★★★★★
"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
PENHALIGON'S · 2016
The Tragedy of Lord George
Edp.
Family
Leather Floral
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Alberto Morillas
Released
2016
Vault arrival
June 2024
"Leather and rose in a catastrophe of aristocratic excess — the olfactory equivalent of a ruined estate."
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
pepper
cardamom
Heart
rose
iris
geranium
Base
leather
sandalwood
vetiver
musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
leather
rose
iris
wood
§ III · performance
Longevity
9.0/10
Sillage
8.5/10
Projection
8.5/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
con.season.autumn
Winter
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
5,897
wearings.
3,479 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
3,479.00 · 59%
Like
1,120.00 · 19%
Neutral
472.00 · 8%
Dislike
826.00 · 14%
§ V · adjacent compositions
From the same shelf.
N°02
Paco Rabanne
Black XS L'Excès
Leather Oriental
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
N°03
Roberto Cavalli
Roberto Cavalli
Floral Oriental
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
N°04
Yves Saint Laurent
Y
woody
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
N°05
Maison Francis Kurkdjian
Baccarat Rouge 540
Amber Floral
EGP 60.00 – 650.00SAVE 50%
§ 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.