What does Bujairami Luster smell like?
Cardamom gives the opening a sharp, sweet spice, and iris adds a powdery, rooty note that is cooler than most florals. Together they set up a dry start rather than a sweet one.
The heart brings sandalwood, cedar and patchouli. Sandalwood is a creamy, smooth wood, cedar is drier and pencil-like, and patchouli adds an earthy, slightly dark edge that links the woods to the resins below.
The base is the resinous part of the list. Myrrh and labdanum bring balsamic, incense-like warmth, benzoin and styrax add a sweet, vanilla-tinged balsam, and tonka bean and vanilla round it off. Cypriol, an earthy material from a sedge root, and ambrarome, which the name suggests is an amber-type material, give the base its depth.
Who wears Luster
Sorted from its notes, Bujairami Luster falls in the oriental, woody and gourmand families, a reading that belongs to this guide and not to the brand. The brand lists it for him, and it is an eau de parfum. Its thirteen notes sit in three tiers and are mostly resins and woods, with benzoin and tonka bean supplying the sweetness. No size is listed for it in this guide's data.
Bujairami Luster: style and character
In plain words, Luster is warm and rich: a oriental scent.
Cardamom, iris and sandalwood carry most of the list.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Smoke of Damascus, which shares sandalwood.
Also near: Bujairami Resolution.
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 Luster in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Bujairami Smoke of Damascus shares sandalwood, cedar and myrrh with this one, which makes it the closest on the resins. Bujairami Resolution shares cardamom, cedar and patchouli, so the opening spice links the two. Bujairami Obsidian, an extrait de parfum, carries iris, sandalwood and cedar, and is the closest of the three on iris.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Luster and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Luster and Bujairami Smoke of Damascus share sandalwood, cedar and myrrh. Smoke of Damascus opens on incense, ink and elemi, then builds a damask rose and incense heart, so its character is smokier and more rose-led. Luster keeps cardamom and iris on top and adds cypriol and labdanum to its base.
Bujairami Luster and Bujairami Resolution meet on cardamom, cedar and patchouli. Resolution opens brighter, with bergamot and pink pepper, and its heart is frankincense, myrrh and juniper berries. Luster has an iris and cypriol side that the other list does not list, so the drydown separates the two most clearly.
Bujairami Luster and Bujairami Obsidian share iris, sandalwood and cedar, and both put iris in the heart. Obsidian is an extrait de parfum with rosemary and violet leaves on top, plus leather and agarwood smoke in the base, so it reads drier and more smoky. Luster is an eau de parfum with a sweeter base of vanilla, benzoin and tonka bean.