What does Bujairami Long Way Home smell like?
Bujairami Long Way Home begins with smoke and gold. Incense, the resin burned in churches and temples, smells cool, peppery and faintly lemony. Saffron is leathery and a little metallic, with a honeyed dryness. Mandarin is the only bright thing in the top: sweet, soft citrus peel that lightens the two heavier notes.
The heart is one of the oldest pairings in Middle Eastern perfumery, rose with oud, and jasmine joins them. Turkish rose is the damask rose grown around Isparta, deep, honeyed and slightly spicy; the word absolute that follows it in the listing would make it a solvent extract, which stays closer to the living flower than a distilled oil does. Jasmine absolute is rich, sweet and animalic. Oud accord means a perfumer's rebuilding of agarwood's dark, leathery woodiness from several materials.
Below that, the list turns contemporary. Sandalwood is creamy. Georgywood is a trade-named woody molecule, dry and cedar-like with an ambery warmth. Ambrofix is likewise a trade name, for an ambergris-type molecule that smells mineral and softly salty. Suede is the gentle form of a leather note, velvety where leather is smoky, and musk closes the base. Resin and flowers above, clean woods and suede below.
Is Long Way Home for you?
The audience tag from the brand reads for him and for her. In this guide Bujairami Long Way Home sits in two families, oriental and floral; we derive those ourselves, the first from incense, saffron and the oud accord, the second from Turkish rose and jasmine absolute. Its type is extrait de parfum. The note list is long and technical, mixing flower absolutes with trade-named molecules across three full tiers.
What style is Bujairami Long Way Home?
The style of Long Way Home is oriental: warm and rich.
The notes that define it on paper: incense, mandarin and saffron.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Ya Habibi, sharing incense.
After that: Bujairami Mad Love.
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 Long Way Home in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Three other extraits in this guide work with the same saffron, rose, incense and oud. Bujairami Ya Habibi adds mandarin and jasmine to them, Bujairami Mad Love suede leather and musk, and Bujairami Imperial Oud sandalwood.
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Long Way Home compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Six names connect Bujairami Long Way Home with Bujairami Ya Habibi: mandarin, saffron, rose, jasmine, oud and the incense that Ya Habibi lists as frankincense. Sandalwood and musk are in both bases as well. Ya Habibi then goes warm and sweet with cinnamon, amber and vanilla, while Long Way Home goes dry and soft with Georgywood, Ambrofix and suede.
Bujairami Mad Love has the suede. It lists suede leather, incense and rose in its heart, saffron on top and oud wood with musk in the base, all of which have a match in Bujairami Long Way Home. Its own accents are raspberry, geranium, birch wood and benzoin balm; Long Way Home answers with mandarin, jasmine absolute and sandalwood.
Saffron, rose, incense, oud and sandalwood: five of the eight notes of Bujairami Imperial Oud recur in Bujairami Long Way Home. Imperial Oud keeps the classic frame, with spices, amber and patchouli as its other three. Long Way Home trades those for mandarin, jasmine absolute, suede, musk and two modern molecules, and so has the longer base.
