★★★★★
"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
VALENTINO · 2014
Uomo
Edt.
Family
Fougère
Wear
For Him
Concentration
EDT
Perfumer
Olivier Polge & Honorine Blanc
Released
2014
Vault arrival
February 2025
"Iris and cocoa over leather and woody musk — the Valentino man as a Garibaldi-era dandy."
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
lemon
grapefruit
Heart
iris
cocoa
lavender
Base
leather
sandalwood
patchouli
musk
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
iris
cocoa
leather
musk
§ III · performance
Longevity
7.5/10
Sillage
7.5/10
Projection
7.0/10
Value
9.5/10
Season
Spring
con.season.autumn
Hour
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
§ IV · the room speaks
5,325
wearings.
3,408 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
3,408.00 · 64%
Like
1,225.00 · 23%
Neutral
266.00 · 5%
Dislike
426.00 · 8%
§ 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.