What does Bujairami Limonana smell like?
The word limonana is used for a lemonade blended with mint, and the first two notes of Bujairami Limonana are exactly those. Mint is cool and green, with the menthol lift everyone knows from the leaf. Lemon is the sharpest and cleanest of the citrus fruits. Basil and thyme join them on the top line: basil is sweet, green and a little anise-like, thyme drier and more medicinal. Four top notes, three of them kitchen herbs, describe an opening that is crushed and leafy more than sugary.
The heart keeps the herbs coming. Rosemary is camphor-fresh and resinous, lavender clean and aromatic with a soft floral side; the two are the backbone of classic aromatic perfumery. Blackcurrant is the odd one out, a tart, green fruit note with a slightly sharp edge that sits well next to mint. Jasmine is the only flower, and a single flower among so many green materials usually works as a rounding note, not as a bouquet.
Lemon verbena in the base is unusual, since it is a light material: the leaf of a shrub that smells of lemon peel and fresh-cut grass. Listing it there carries the citrus theme down to the bottom of the pyramid. Musk, soft and clean, is the only conventional base note. There is no wood, amber or vanilla on the list, which explains this guide's two families for it, fresh and citrus.
Is Limonana for you?
The brand lists Bujairami Limonana for him. Fresh and citrus are the families this guide derives from the notes, its own sorting, based on the mint, the herbs and the two lemon materials. It is an eau de parfum, and when this guide read the brand's best-seller order it stood at number 33. The note list is a ten-item pyramid weighted to the top and heart, with only two names in the base.
What style is Bujairami Limonana?
Limonana reads as a clean and airy scent, filed here under fresh.
Lemon, mint and basil stand in front.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Mojito Splash comes closest, with mint in common.
After that: 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: 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 Limonana in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Mint, lavender and musk also appear in two other scents in this guide, the extrait Bujairami Mojito Splash and the eau de parfum Bujairami City Life. Bujairami Glorious shares lemon and musk and goes on to pear, melon, peach and pineapple.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Limonana compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Bujairami Mojito Splash is a four-note extrait: citrus fruits and mint, lavender, musk. Bujairami Limonana contains that whole outline, with lemon as its named citrus, and then adds six more notes: basil, thyme, rosemary, blackcurrant, jasmine and lemon verbena. So the Limonana list is the more herbal and detailed of the two, in the lighter eau de parfum type.
Mint, lavender and musk are the notes Bujairami Limonana has in common with Bujairami City Life, another eau de parfum. City Life takes bergamot as its citrus and has vetiver in the base, a dry root that Limonana does not list. Limonana in turn has lemon, lemon verbena, three more herbs, blackcurrant and jasmine, none of them on City Life's list.
The link between Bujairami Limonana and Bujairami Glorious is thin: lemon on top and musk in the base. Glorious is a fruit scent on paper, with orange and bergamot beside the lemon, a heart of pear, melon, peach and pineapple, and vanilla and amber below. Limonana has no sweet fruit beyond blackcurrant and no vanilla or amber; herbs fill the space instead.