What does Bujairami Cold Crush smell like?
Two citrus fruits make up the top. Bergamot is the bitter-fresh one, with a floral, slightly peppery side that makes it the standard opening for scents with flowers in the heart. Mandarin is rounder and sweeter, closer to the juice than to the peel. In Bujairami Cold Crush they give a clear, bright start without the sourness of lemon or the bitterness of grapefruit.
The heart is where the listing becomes specific. Orange flower absolute is the solvent extract of bitter orange blossom, and it smells deeper than the distilled oil from that flower: honeyed, warm, faintly animalic. Jasmine grandiflorum is the large-flowered jasmine of classic perfumery, rich and fruity with a narcotic undertone. Rose sits between the two and adds a fresher, petal-like quality. Naming the extract and the jasmine species points to a heart with real floral weight, not a generic bouquet.
Amber and musk close the list. Amber is not one material but an accord of resins and vanilla-like notes, warm and slightly sweet. Musk is soft and skin-like. As a pair they are a familiar base, and here they leave the flowers as the main subject. Nothing on the list is icy or minty, so the cold in the name is not something the notes account for.
What style is Bujairami Cold Crush?
In plain words, Cold Crush is bright and zesty: a citrus scent.
Bergamot, mandarin and orange lead its note list.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Powerful Lady, which shares bergamot and rose.
Next: Bujairami Shinko.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Cold Crush suits
The audience tag on the listing of Bujairami Cold Crush reads for him and for her. Sorting by notes, this guide places it in two families, citrus and floral: two of the seven notes are citrus fruits and three are flowers. That grouping is ours, not the brand's. As an extrait de parfum it belongs to the more concentrated of the two types Bujairami makes. The note list is a compact classical pyramid of two, three and two.
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 Cold Crush in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
other scents in this guide with overlapping notes: Bujairami Powerful Lady, with bergamot, rose, jasmine, amber and musk; Bujairami Shinko, with bergamot, jasmine, amber and musk; and Bujairami Dirty Money, which shares jasmine and amber.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Bujairami Cold Crush next to similar scents
Five notes are common to Bujairami Cold Crush and Bujairami Powerful Lady: bergamot, rose, jasmine, amber and musk. The differences are at the edges. Powerful Lady adds saffron and unnamed citrus fruits on top and patchouli in the base, which Cold Crush does not list; Cold Crush has mandarin and orange flower absolute instead. Powerful Lady is an eau de parfum.
Bujairami Shinko is a shorter list, five notes against seven. It shares bergamot, jasmine, amber and musk with Bujairami Cold Crush, and its fifth note is spices in the heart. What it lacks from Cold Crush's side is the mandarin, the rose and the orange flower absolute, so on paper it is the less floral of the two. It is an eau de parfum.
Only jasmine and amber link Bujairami Cold Crush to Bujairami Dirty Money. Dirty Money opens on spices and ends on leather, and it lists no citrus at all, whereas Cold Crush starts with bergamot and mandarin and has no leather.