What does Bujairami Harbour Tea smell like?
Tea gives Bujairami Harbour Tea its name and its opening. A tea note in perfume is dry, leafy and slightly tannic, and the brand's listing does not say whether black or green tea is meant. Bergamot stands right next to it, the same match as in Earl Grey, which is black tea scented with bergamot peel. Pear, peach and apricot turn it into a fruit tea: pear watery and crisp, peach and apricot soft, velvety and a little lactonic, meaning creamy in the way ripe stone fruit is.
Six entries make up the heart, and all of them are floral. Gardenia is a creamy, heady white flower with a faint mushroom-like undertone in nature. Jasmine appears twice, once as jasmine and once as “jasmine white”, which reads as emphasis more than as a second material. Freesia is light, peppery and dewy. Orange blossom is sweet, honeyed and clean. The remaining entry is simply “floral”, a description and not a note. Taken together it is a white bouquet, and it is why this guide's sorting gives Harbour Tea one family only: floral.
The base is short and soft. Vanilla sweetens, amber adds a warm resinous glow, and cedar is the dry, pencil-shaving wood that keeps a floral base from going flat. The brand writes “musky” where other listings say musk; it points to the clean, skin-like musks found under most modern florals. Nothing dark or smoky is listed anywhere in the pyramid.
Is Harbour Tea for you?
By this guide's own sorting, which looks at nothing but the notes, it is a floral: six of the fifteen entries are floral, and the fruit and tea sit on top of them. It is an extrait de parfum. The pyramid is complete and long, though three of its entries (“jasmine white”, “floral” and “musky”) are descriptions more than materials.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Harbour Tea?
Harbour Tea reads as a warm and rich scent, filed here under oriental.
On paper it is built around amber, apricot and bergamot.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Executor, sharing bergamot.
Also near: Bujairami Glorious.
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 Harbour Tea in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Three other scents in this guide overlap with it. Bujairami Executor shares bergamot, pear, jasmine, orange blossom, vanilla and musk. Bujairami Glorious shares the pear and peach along with bergamot, vanilla and amber. Bujairami Red Eclipse has the freesia, jasmine and orange blossom heart.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
How Harbour Tea compares with similar scents
Six notes link Bujairami Harbour Tea to Bujairami Executor: bergamot, pear, jasmine, orange blossom, vanilla and musk. Both are extraits de parfum that go from pear and bergamot into white flowers. Executor then puts its weight in the base, with amberwood, sandalwood and Ambrofix. Harbour Tea puts it higher up: tea, peach and apricot on top, gardenia and freesia in the heart.
Bujairami Glorious is the fruit-forward neighbor. It shares bergamot, pear, peach, vanilla, musk and amber with Bujairami Harbour Tea, but its heart is all fruit (pear, melon, peach, pineapple) with no flower named. Harbour Tea is the reverse: fruit in the top tier only, then six floral entries. Glorious is an eau de parfum and lists no tea.
The heart of Bujairami Red Eclipse, freesia, jasmine and orange blossom, sits inside the heart of Bujairami Harbour Tea, and both bases have vanilla and amber. The tops differ: raspberry and mandarin orange there, bergamot, tea and stone fruit here. Red Eclipse replaces cedar with Akigalawood, a peppery wood material derived from patchouli, and is an eau de parfum.
