What does Bujairami Carnival smell like?
Gardenia, carnation and jasmine make the opening. Gardenia is a rich, creamy white flower with a green edge, carnation brings a spicy, clove-like sharpness, and jasmine adds its familiar sweet, indolic depth. Three florals at the start make the scent more floral than fruity.
Patchouli, flowers, sandalwood and sea notes come next. Patchouli is an earthy, dark herbal material that gives florals a grounded backbone, and sandalwood adds a creamy woody line. "Flowers" is a general entry rather than a single material, and sea notes is a generic marine effect that usually reads cool and mineral rather than as a particular plant.
Caramel and coffee form the base. Caramel gives a warm sugared sweetness, and coffee adds a roasted, slightly bitter edge that keeps the sugar from sitting flat. Against the floral heart, the base is the gourmand part of the scent, and that is one reason this guide sorts it as gourmand as well as floral and woody.
Who wears Carnival
Bujairami Carnival is tagged for him and for her by the brand. This guide sorts it under floral, woody and gourmand, a sorting drawn from the notes and presented as its own. It is an eau de parfum in 100 ml. The notes are given as three layers with nine named materials, and the top holds three florals, which is why the floral family comes first.
Bujairami Carnival: style and character
Carnival is a floral scent, soft and flowery in character.
The notes that define it on paper: caramel, carnation and coffee.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Gotham, which shares caramel.
Also near: Bujairami Manhattan.
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 Carnival in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
The closest scents of this guide by note are Bujairami Gotham, Bujairami Manhattan and Bujairami Sun Kissed. Gotham shares jasmine, patchouli and caramel, Manhattan shares jasmine and caramel, and Sun Kissed shares jasmine, sandalwood and a marine note. Gotham and Sun Kissed each share three materials, Manhattan two, and Gotham's top of violet leaf and blueberry has nothing in common with the florals here.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Carnival and its closest neighbours
This scent and Bujairami Gotham share jasmine, patchouli and caramel. Here jasmine opens the scent beside gardenia and carnation, while in the other it sits in the heart with cedar and cinnamon. Patchouli is in the heart of this scent and in the base of the other, where oakmoss, suede and amber come with it. Caramel closes both lists, though the other also adds vanilla and a violet leaf top.
This scent and Bujairami Manhattan share jasmine and caramel. Manhattan's jasmine sambac sits in its heart with cedar, and its top is hazelnut and cocoa, which this scent does not have. Caramel here is in the base beside coffee, while in Manhattan it sits beside ambroxan and moss at the bottom. The two scents differ most at the top.
This scent and Bujairami Sun Kissed share jasmine, sandalwood and a marine note. The other scent opens on pistachio and almond and has heliotrope and jasmine in its heart, so its start and middle differ from the florals here. Both have caramel at the base, where Sun Kissed adds vanilla and salt and this scent adds coffee.