What does Bujairami Independent Woman smell like?
Raspberry is the whole top. It is a red, slightly tart berry with a jammy edge, and on its own it gives the scent a bright, fruity start before the florals come in. The list adds nothing else at the top, so the opening rests on that single fruit.
The heart is hazelnut, rose and jasmine. Hazelnut gives a toasted, nutty roundness that sits between fruit and wood, rose adds a soft, powdery petal note, and jasmine a lush white floral. The nut is the unusual choice here, because it lets the florals sit on something warm rather than airy.
The base is honey, cashmere wood, sandalwood and cedar. Honey gives a waxy, golden sweetness, cashmere wood a soft, ambery woodiness, sandalwood a creamy, milky wood, and cedar a drier pencil-shaving edge. The base is where the woody side comes from, and the honey keeps the wood from feeling bare.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Independent Woman?
Judged by its notes alone, Independent Woman is a dry and woody woody scent.
Raspberry, hazelnut and rose stand in front.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Divine Amberosia, which shares jasmine.
Next: Bujairami Golden Boy.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Independent Woman suits
The brand tags Bujairami Independent Woman for her. This guide's own sorting files it under woody, gourmand and floral: the honey and hazelnut carry the gourmand side, the cashmere wood, sandalwood and cedar the woody side, and the rose and jasmine the floral side. It is an eau de parfum with eight notes in three tiers, and the brand lists no size for it.
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 Independent Woman in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Among the scents of this guide, Bujairami Divine Amberosia shares jasmine, cashmere wood and sandalwood with Bujairami Independent Woman while opening on water jasmine and green mandarin, Bujairami Golden Boy shares sandalwood and cedar and leans on cardamom and cinnamon, and Bujairami Starlit shares jasmine and sandalwood with a mango and bergamot top.
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Picked by the notes they share.
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Independent Woman and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Independent Woman and Divine Amberosia both carry cashmere wood and sandalwood, which gives them the closest woody base of the three. Divine Amberosia opens on water jasmine, green mandarin and ginger flower, so it starts greener and more floral than the raspberry of this one. Its heart is vanilla and salt, where Independent Woman has hazelnut, rose and jasmine, and its base adds ambergris.
Bujairami Independent Woman shares sandalwood and cedar with Golden Boy, and the two finish on woods. Golden Boy opens on mandarin and cardamom, where this scent has raspberry, and its heart of cinnamon and cedar is spicier than the hazelnut, rose and jasmine here. Golden Boy's base is sandalwood alone.
Bujairami Independent Woman and Starlit share jasmine and sandalwood. Starlit opens on mango and bergamot, a fruit and citrus pairing where this scent opens on one raspberry. Its heart is jasmine and incense, which drops the hazelnut and rose for a resinous note, and its base is vanilla and sandalwood, a simpler base than the honey, cashmere wood, sandalwood and cedar here.
