What does Bujairami Heatwave smell like?
Dates open the scent with a dark, honeyed, slightly fruity sweetness, and cinnamon brings a warm woody spice that suits it well. Incense is listed in the top too, a smoky resin that gives the first impression a dry, smoky quality.
The heart is sandalwood and vetiver. Sandalwood adds a creamy, smooth woodiness that rounds off the spice, and vetiver adds an earthy, grassy, faintly smoky root character that stays dry. The two woods move the scent from its sweet top toward a drier middle.
The base is amber and labdanum. Amber in perfumery is a warm, resinous accord, usually soft and sweet, and labdanum is a leathery, balsamic resin with a darker edge. Together they give the bottom of the list its depth and keep the woods from turning thin.
Is Heatwave for you?
Bujairami tags Heatwave for him. This guide's sorting places it in the oriental and woody families, because incense, labdanum and amber lead the feel of the list, and sandalwood and vetiver carry the woody side. It is an eau de parfum with seven notes split over three tiers, as the brand lists them.
Bujairami Heatwave: style and character
In plain words, Heatwave is warm and rich: a oriental scent.
Dates, cinnamon and incense carry most of the list.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami The Ruler, which shares cinnamon and amber.
Also near: Bujairami Oud Money.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: eau de parfum.
- No size in the listing; the brand gives 100 ml as its standard bottle (bujairami.com.au).
- 10 ml samples: the samples page lists the scents in the shop's Sample Service. Samples and sizes
Where to buy Bujairami Heatwave 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 are Bujairami The Ruler, Bujairami Oud Money and Bujairami Woody Oud. The Ruler shares cinnamon, incense and sandalwood with Heatwave, and it adds cardamom, black pepper, myrrh and jasmine to its list. Oud Money is an extrait de parfum that shares sandalwood, vetiver and amber, with oud in its heart. Woody Oud also shares those three, and its list is a single tier of eight materials.
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Heatwave and its closest neighbours
The Ruler and Heatwave share cinnamon, incense and sandalwood, three of the materials that shape Heatwave's top and heart. The Ruler opens on cardamom, cinnamon and black pepper, and its heart brings myrrh, labdanum, jasmine and leather. Heatwave has dates in the top where The Ruler has pepper, and its base is amber and labdanum rather than musk and vanilla.
Oud Money is an extrait de parfum that shares sandalwood, vetiver and amber with Heatwave. Its top is spices, and oud appears in its heart where Heatwave has incense in the top. Its base adds tonka bean and vanilla, which Heatwave does not list.
Woody Oud shares sandalwood, vetiver and amber with Heatwave, and those three make up much of Heatwave's heart and base. Woody Oud puts oud, Brazilian Rosewood, cardamom and vanilla into one list of eight materials, with tonka bean as well. Heatwave has no oud or rosewood and keeps dates, cinnamon and incense in its top, so the openings are different.