What does Bujairami Dark Desire smell like?
Rum and bitter almond open the scent. Rum brings a dark, molasses-like sweetness with a faint boozy warmth, and bitter almond adds a sharp, marzipan-like tone that stops the top from being simply sweet. Cherry follows in the heart, lifted by that almond note.
Cherry and coffee form the heart. Cherry is fruity and slightly tart, and coffee brings a roasted, bitter-dark contrast that offsets it. Vanilla and white musk make the base, with vanilla giving a creamy, rounded sweetness and white musk adding a soft, clean, skin-like finish. Because the base is so plain, the drydown keeps the sweet, creamy character of the top.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Dark Desire?
Judged by its notes alone, Dark Desire is a sweet and warm gourmand scent.
Rum, almond and cherry lead its note list.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Cherry Riot, which shares almond and cherry.
Next: Bujairami Milky Rose.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Dark Desire suits
The brand tags Bujairami Dark Desire for him and for her. This guide files it under gourmand, a sorting taken from the note list and not from the brand. It is an eau de parfum with six notes in three tiers, two in each, and none of them comes from the woody or citrus groups, which keeps the scent gourmand from top to base.
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 Dark Desire 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 to Bujairami Dark Desire are Bujairami Cherry Riot, Bujairami Milky Rose and Bujairami Sexy Rouge. Cherry Riot shares cherry, almond and vanilla with it, and its base is oud, ambergris, vanilla and musk. Milky Rose shares almond, vanilla and musk, but its top is rose milk and its heart is meringue and almond. Sexy Rouge also shares almond, cherry and vanilla, and it opens on black cherry and bitter almond with rose and tuberose in the heart.
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Picked by the notes they share.
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How Dark Desire compares with similar scents
Dark Desire and Bujairami Cherry Riot have almond, cherry and vanilla in common. Cherry Riot opens on cherry and bitter almond, moves into saffron, vetiver and rose, and rests on oud, ambergris, vanilla and musk. Dark Desire has no oud, no saffron and no vetiver, and its heart is cherry and coffee.
Almond, vanilla and musk link Bujairami Milky Rose to Dark Desire. Milky Rose opens on rose milk alone, its heart is meringue and almond, and its base is vanilla, musk and sandalwood. Dark Desire opens on rum and bitter almond, so the two differ most in the heart, where Milky Rose has meringue and almond and Dark Desire has cherry and coffee.
Bujairami Sexy Rouge is also an eau de parfum, and its almond, cherry and vanilla all appear in Dark Desire. Its top is black cherry and bitter almond, its heart is rose and tuberose, and its base is vanilla and cocoa. Dark Desire has rum at the top and coffee in the heart, and no rose or tuberose at all.
