What does Bujairami Check Mate smell like?
Rose water is a light, watery form of rose, and it opens the scent beside blackcurrant, a dark, juicy berry with a slightly sharp edge, and peony, a soft, fresh-petalled floral. The top is brighter than the rest of the list.
The heart turns rosy and warm. May rose is a fuller, more velvety rose than rose water, coffee brings a roasted, bitter-brown counterpoint, and violet keeps a powdery, green-floral thread running through. Coffee against rose is an unusual pairing, and it is what sets this list apart from a plain rose.
The base is resinous and dark. Incense and myrrh are both resins with a smoky, balsamic character, ebony gives a deep, dry woody note, and panettone adds a sweet, bready, dried-fruit accord. Panettone is an Italian sweet bread, so the name points to a baked, sweet character, and in perfumery a note like that is usually an accord rather than one material.
What style is Bujairami Check Mate?
Think warm and rich: Check Mate sits in the oriental family.
Blackcurrant, ebony wood and incense stand in front.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Cherry Reign, sharing rose.
Also near: Bujairami Paragon.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Check Mate suits
Check Mate carries the brand's for-her tag, and this guide sorts it into floral and oriental. That is the guide's own sorting from the notes: rose, peony and violet carry the floral side, while incense, myrrh and ebony give the oriental side. The concentration is eau de parfum, the size is 100 ml, and the list is a full three-tier pyramid of ten notes.
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 Check Mate in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Among the three closest scents of this guide, Bujairami Empress has the most exact matches with Check Mate: may rose, myrrh, peony and violet. Bujairami Cherry Reign and Bujairami Paragon both sit in the rose family, with rose and violet leaves in one and rose and longoza in the other.
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How Check Mate compares with similar scents
Set beside Bujairami Cherry Reign, the overlap is in the rose family and in violet: rose water and may rose here, rose and violet leaves there. Cherry Reign opens on cherry, violet leaves and chamomile, and closes on amber, blonde woods and cedar, while this list goes into incense, myrrh and ebony. The rose sits in both hearts, but the bases hardly meet.
Bujairami Paragon has a much shorter list, three notes against ten here: rose at the top, longoza in the heart and vanilla at the base. The rose is the only thing the two share, rose water and may rose on this side. Where this scent adds coffee, violet and incense, Paragon stays with rose and vanilla.
Bujairami Empress has the most exact matches with this scent: may rose, peony, violet and myrrh, four notes named the same way. Empress opens on black cherry, saffron and pink pepper, which this list does not have, and it adds cashmere wood, ambroxan and frankincense where this one has coffee and ebony.