What does Bujairami Black Empire smell like?
Bujairami Black Empire starts on three cool things. Cardamom is the green pod spice, and in perfume it smells less of cooking than of eucalyptus and lemon peel around a warm core. Bergamot is the bitter-fresh citrus that gives Earl Grey tea its smell. “Green notes” is a general term; the brand does not say which, and it usually stands for crushed leaves or cut stems.
Lavender carries the heart. It is an aromatic herb, clean and slightly camphorous, with a hay-like sweetness underneath. Sandalwood gives it a creamy, milky wood to lie on. Cypriol is the unusual name here: an oil distilled from the roots of a sedge that grows along rivers in India, also called nagarmotha. It smells earthy, woody and a little smoky, and perfumers use it to darken a wood accord.
In the base, tonka bean brings the almond-and-hay sweetness of coumarin, musk softens the edges and vetiver adds a dry, rooty bitterness. Lavender, bergamot and tonka bean together are the outline of what perfumery calls a fougère, the barbershop structure. Vetiver and cypriol supply its earthy part here, which is why Black Empire reads as woody as well as fresh.
Bujairami Black Empire: style and character
Black Empire reads as a clean and airy scent, filed here under fresh.
Cardamom, bergamot and green notes stand in front.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami City Life, sharing bergamot.
Next: Bujairami Chubby.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who is Bujairami Black Empire for?
The brand tags Bujairami Black Empire for him. Going by the notes alone, this guide sorts it under fresh and woody; that sorting is ours, not the brand's. The type is extrait de parfum, the more concentrated of the two types in the range. The list is a full pyramid with three notes on each level: herbs, spice and citrus above, woods and roots below. Bujairami Noctis Blue follows a related outline with cedar in place of sandalwood.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: extrait 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 Black Empire in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Among the other scents in this guide, Bujairami City Life is nearest on paper, with bergamot, lavender, musk and vetiver in common. Bujairami Chubby shares sandalwood, tonka bean and musk, and Bujairami Date Night shares cardamom, bergamot, lavender and sandalwood.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Bujairami Black Empire next to similar scents
Bujairami City Life is the shorter list: bergamot and mint, lavender, then vetiver and musk. Four of those five notes are also in Bujairami Black Empire. What Black Empire adds is spice and depth: cardamom on top, sandalwood and cypriol around the lavender, tonka bean in the base. City Life has mint where Black Empire has green notes, and it is an eau de parfum.
Bujairami Chubby and Bujairami Black Empire meet in the lower half: sandalwood, tonka bean and musk appear in both. Above that they part ways. Chubby opens on caramel and ends on vanilla, a sweet list from top to bottom, while Black Empire puts cardamom, bergamot, lavender and vetiver around the same three notes. Both are extraits.
Bujairami Date Night shares cardamom, bergamot, lavender and sandalwood with Bujairami Black Empire, but arranges them differently: its lavender and bergamot sit on top with apple and orange, and its cardamom is in the base with vanilla, pepper and patchouli. Black Empire has no fruit, no flowers and no vanilla; its base is tonka bean, musk and vetiver.
