★★★★★
"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
SWISS ARABIAN · 2018
Shaghaf Oud
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Woody Spicy
Wear
Unisex
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
House
Released
2018
Vault arrival
August 2024
"Saffron, rose, oud, agarwood. Beast-mode for the price of dinner."
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
Saffron
Heart
Rose
Agarwood
Base
Oud
Praline
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Oud
88
Woody
82
Warm Spicy
70
Rose
62
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.6/10
Sillage
8.2/10
Projection
8.0/10
Value
10.0/10
Season
Spring
42
Summer
26
Fall
92
Winter
98
Hour
Morning
28
Afternoon
46
Evening
96
Night
98
§ IV · the room speaks
3,906
wearings.
3,008 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
3,008.00 · 77%
Like
508.00 · 13%
Neutral
156.00 · 4%
Dislike
234.00 · 6%
§ 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.