What does Bujairami Bad Romance smell like?
Red berries and mandarin come first. Red berries are a mixed fruit accord, sharp and jammy at once, and mandarin is a soft, sweet citrus with little of the bitterness of its cousins. Together they give the opening a juicy, slightly tart brightness, the fruit half of the picture rather than the sweet half.
Vanilla, cocoa and rose make the heart. Vanilla is the familiar warm sweetness of the pod, cocoa adds a dry, roasted bitterness that keeps the sweetness from going flat, and rose is a soft, faintly powdery floral that sits between them. A cocoa note set beside a rose is a common route to a dessert-like floral, and this list takes it.
The base is sugar, tonka bean, amber and musk. Sugar gives a caramel-like sweetness, tonka bean a hay-like warmth from its coumarin, amber a resinous softness and musk a skin-like close. The list ends on sweetness and warmth, so the fruit at the top and the musk at the bottom read as one line.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Bad Romance?
Think warm and rich: Bad Romance sits in the oriental family.
On paper it is built around amber, cocoa and mandarin.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Lovely, which shares amber, cocoa and mandarin.
Next: Bujairami Skin2Skin.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Bad Romance suits
For him and for her is the tag the brand gives this 100 ml scent. This guide's own sorting places it in gourmand, a family we assign from the notes, because sugar, vanilla, cocoa and tonka bean carry most of the list. It is an eau de parfum rather than an extrait, and the list has a top, a heart and a base, so the order of the notes is the brand's own.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: eau de parfum.
- Size listed by the brand: 100 ml.
- 10 ml samples: the samples page lists the scents in the shop's Sample Service. Samples and sizes
Where to buy Bujairami Bad Romance in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Bujairami Lovely shares red berries, mandarin, vanilla, cocoa, rose, tonka bean, amber and musk with this list, and adds spicy notes and woody notes. Bujairami Skin2Skin keeps only the vanilla, sugar and tonka bean in one untiered list. Bujairami Miss Vanilla is the extrait of the three, and shares the vanilla, sugar and tonka bean with a patchouli and amberwood base.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
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Bad Romance and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Lovely opens on sugar, red berries and mandarin, where Bad Romance keeps sugar in its base. The two share red berries, mandarin, vanilla, cocoa, rose, tonka bean, amber and musk. Lovely adds spicy notes to its heart and woody notes to its base, and Bad Romance has neither.
Bujairami Skin2Skin is one untiered list of six notes: Tahitian vanilla, cane sugar, almond milk, tonka bean, white musk and amber. Bad Romance shares its vanilla, sugar and tonka bean, but the list gives Skin2Skin no fruit and no cocoa. Its almond milk has no counterpart in Bad Romance, and Bad Romance's red berries and rose are missing from it.
Bujairami Miss Vanilla is an extrait de parfum with vanilla orchid and jasmine at the top and amberwood and patchouli at the base. It shares vanilla, sugar and tonka bean with Bad Romance. The opening differs: flowers where this scent has red berries and mandarin, and no cocoa or rose anywhere in its list.