What does Bujairami Final Boss smell like?
The opening of Bujairami Final Boss follows the old barbershop habit of pairing citrus with lavender. Bergamot is bright and slightly bitter. Lavender from Provence, the region most associated with the plant, is herbal, clean and a little camphorous. The third top note is the odd one: Ambroxan is usually a base material, a dry, mineral, ambergris-like molecule, and listing it on top suggests a salty, woody shimmer over the herbs from the first moment.
One note holds the heart, Vietnamese oud. Oud is agarwood, the resinous wood of infected aquilaria trees, and it smells dark, woody and leathery. The country in the name indicates the origin the brand refers to; more than that the listing does not explain.
Four materials make the base, all of them dry. Virginia cedarwood is the pencil-shavings wood, clean and sharp. Atlas cedar, from the mountains of Morocco, is warmer and slightly sweet, with a resinous depth. Indonesian patchouli is the earthy, dark leaf, and Madagascan vetiver the smoky, rooty grass. There is no vanilla, amber or musk on the list to soften them. Lavender and bergamot above, oud in the middle, four woods and roots below: on paper this is a fresh aromatic that turns austere.
Who wears Final Boss
Bujairami Final Boss carries the brand's for-him tag. Woody is the single family this guide gives it, by our own reading of a list in which the heart and the whole base, five notes of eight, are oud, cedar, patchouli and vetiver. The type is extrait de parfum, and 100 ml is the size the brand lists. The list is unusually specific about geography: Provence, Vietnam, Virginia, the Atlas, Indonesia and Madagascar all appear in eight lines.
What style is Bujairami Final Boss?
The style of Final Boss is woody: dry and woody.
On paper it is built around cedar, bergamot and lavender.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Boss Life comes closest, with bergamot in common.
Also near: Bujairami City Life.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
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 Final Boss in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Closest in what else this guide lists: Bujairami Boss Life and Bujairami Mafia Boss, two extraits that share bergamot, cedar, patchouli and oud, and Bujairami City Life, an eau de parfum with bergamot, lavender and vetiver.
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Final Boss compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Bujairami Final Boss and Bujairami Boss Life have bergamot, cedar, patchouli and oud in common, and both are extraits. The difference is in the middle. Boss Life warms its cedarwood with tobacco, amber, spices and leather; Final Boss has lavender and Ambroxan instead and lists no sweet or smoky note at all.
Bujairami City Life is the short, fresh relative on the other side: bergamot and mint, lavender, vetiver and musk, five notes in an eau de parfum. Bujairami Final Boss shares the bergamot, the lavender and the vetiver, then adds what City Life leaves out, namely oud, two cedars and patchouli, and has Ambroxan where City Life has musk.
On paper Bujairami Mafia Boss lists agarwood, which is another word for oud, along with cedar, patchouli and bergamot, so four names line up with Bujairami Final Boss. Mafia Boss fills the rest with spices, lemon, tobacco, amber and leather. Final Boss has none of those; its remaining notes are lavender essence from Provence, Ambroxan, Atlas cedar and Madagascan vetiver.
