What does Bujairami Bahebak smell like?
With only five notes and no pyramid, it helps to take the materials one at a time. Blackcurrant is the dark fruit: tart, green and slightly sulphurous, a bud-and-berry note that perfumers use to add a juicy sharpness. Cinnamon is warm and sweet-spicy, with a note of baked sugar, and it needs little to be noticeable.
Damask rose is the classic rose of perfumery, grown for its oil, and it smells rich, honeyed and slightly peppery, more petal than stem. Hibiscus is harder to pin down. The flower itself gives almost no oil, so the note is generally a built accord: tart, fruity, a little like cranberry or red berries, with a floral edge. Next to blackcurrant it echoes the same red and purple fruit, and next to rose it keeps the floral side from turning soft.
Ambrette is the fifth, and the quiet one. It is a seed from a plant of the hibiscus family, and its oil has a musky, skin-like, slightly fruity smell, sometimes described as like brandy and pear skin. That detail is why it sits comfortably in this list: ambrette and hibiscus come from related plants. The brand's data gives no order, so this guide cannot say what comes first or last, and it has not smelled the scent.
Who wears Bahebak
The brand tags Bujairami Bahebak for him and for her. This guide's own sorting from the notes, which is not the brand's, puts it in the floral family. It is an eau de parfum in 100 ml. The note list is untiered, so it reads as one flat set of five and not as a pyramid.
What style is Bujairami Bahebak?
The style of Bahebak is floral: soft and flowery.
Ambrette, blackcurrant and cinnamon lead its note list.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami No Limit, sharing blackcurrant.
Also near: Bujairami Ya Habibi.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
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 Bahebak in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
the scents here that overlap on paper do so thinly: Bujairami No Limit shares blackcurrant and rose, Bujairami Ya Habibi shares cinnamon and rose, and Bujairami Red Static shares rose alone, in a list of cherry, pink pepper and two roses.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Bahebak compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Bujairami Bahebak and Bujairami No Limit share blackcurrant and rose. No Limit builds a full pyramid around them, with mint, orange, lemon, basil, apricot, fig, dates and ambergris, so it is fresher and fruitier. Bahebak adds cinnamon, hibiscus and ambrette in a flat list of five. Both are eau de parfum.
Cinnamon and rose appear in both Bujairami Bahebak and Bujairami Ya Habibi. Ya Habibi is a long list, adding mandarin, saffron, frankincense, jasmine, oud, amber, sandalwood, vanilla and musk, so it is heavier and more resinous. Bahebak stays with five notes, including blackcurrant and hibiscus. Ya Habibi is an extrait; Bahebak is an eau de parfum.
Rose is the one note Bujairami Red Static has in common with Bujairami Bahebak, though Red Static lists two kinds, Bulgarian and Turkish, with cherry and pink pepper above and red fruits below. Bahebak has damask rose, blackcurrant, hibiscus, cinnamon and ambrette. Both are eau de parfum.