What does Bujairami Booz Extreme smell like?
The list for Bujairami Booz Extreme opens with a single note, and it is a drink. Cognac in perfumery is an accord built around the smell of aged grape brandy: fruity like raisins and baked apple, warm, a little sharp, with the vanilla-and-wood tinge a spirit takes from its cask. Natural cognac oil, distilled from wine lees, has that same winey, fruity bite. With nothing else beside it on the top line, the boozy impression has the opening to itself.
The heart explains the cask. Oak is a dry, tannic wood, the smell of barrel staves and sawdust more than of forest, and it gives the cognac something to have been aged in. Cinnamon brings sweet, bark-like heat, the spice most people know from baking. Tonka bean, rich in coumarin, smells of almond, hay and soft vanilla, and usually works as a bridge between spices and sweet bases.
Underneath sit three smooth materials. Vanilla needs little introduction; praline is the confectioner's version of sweetness, caramelized sugar with roasted nuts; sandalwood is a creamy, milky wood that rounds edges off. Read from top to bottom, the pyramid moves from glass to barrel to dessert plate, which is why this guide files Booz Extreme under gourmand even though two of its seven notes are woods.
Bujairami Booz Extreme: style and character
Judged by its notes alone, Booz Extreme is a sweet and warm gourmand scent.
The notes that define it on paper: cinnamon, cognac and oak.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Chubby, which shares sandalwood.
Also near: Bujairami G'DAY.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Booz Extreme for you?
The brand tags Bujairami Booz Extreme for him and for her. Gourmand is this guide's own sorting, derived from the praline, vanilla, tonka bean and cognac on the list. The concentration is eau de parfum, the lighter of the brand's two types. It stood at number 47 in the brand's own best-seller order when this guide read it. The pyramid is short and complete: one top note, then three in each tier below.
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 Booz Extreme 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 G'DAY shares cinnamon, tonka bean, vanilla and sandalwood and has rum for its spirit note, while Bujairami Chubby and Bujairami Oud Money share the tonka, vanilla and sandalwood base.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Booz Extreme and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Chubby is an extrait with five notes: caramel, musk, tonka bean, sandalwood and vanilla. Bujairami Booz Extreme shares the last three and swaps the rest. Where Chubby's sweetness comes from caramel and its softness from musk, Booz Extreme gets its sugar from praline and adds cognac, cinnamon and oak, none of which Chubby lists.
Of the three, Bujairami G'DAY has the most in common with Bujairami Booz Extreme on paper: cinnamon, tonka bean, vanilla and sandalwood appear in both. Each also has a spirit, rum there and cognac here. G'DAY then turns to sugar, labdanum, coffee and cacao, while Booz Extreme keeps to oak and praline. G'DAY is an extrait; Booz Extreme is an eau de parfum.
Bujairami Oud Money meets Bujairami Booz Extreme only in the base materials: tonka bean, vanilla and sandalwood. Around them it builds a different scent, with unnamed spices on top, oud in the heart and amber and vetiver below. Booz Extreme has no oud, amber or vetiver; its dark element is oak, and its sweetness is praline under a cognac opening.