What does Bujairami Magnifica smell like?
Fruit comes first in Bujairami Magnifica. Peach is a velvety, creamy fruit note, built in perfumery from lactones. Blood orange is the sweet-tart citrus with a slight berry tint. Cardamom adds a cool, green spice. Heliotrope is the surprise in the top tier: a flower that smells of almond and vanilla, powdery and soft, which already hints at the base.
Then the list turns to the drinks cabinet. Rum notes are sweet and molasses-like; cognac is fruitier and drier, with a suggestion of the cask. Davana is a herb from southern India whose oil smells of dried fruit and liqueur, so it fits between the two spirits as if it were a third. Jasmine is the one plain flower in the heart.
Nine notes fill the base, and they fall into three groups. The sweet ones are vanilla, tonka bean with its almond-and-hay character, and benzoin, a balsamic resin with a vanilla tone. The dark resins are styrax, leathery and slightly smoky, and labdanum, ambery and thick. The woods and earth are Indonesian patchouli leaf, creamy sandalwood, dry rooty vetiver and cashmeran, a synthetic with a soft, musky-woody smell. This is where the oriental, gourmand and woody labels on this page all come from.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Magnifica?
In plain words, Magnifica is warm and rich: a oriental scent.
Its list leans on peach, orange and cardamom.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Oud Money comes closest, with vanilla in common.
Next: Bujairami Smokilla.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who is Bujairami Magnifica for?
Seventeen notes make the pyramid of Bujairami Magnifica a very full one, and more than half of them are base notes. The brand tags it for him and for her and sells it as an extrait de parfum; the listing gives no size. The three families shown here, oriental, gourmand and woody, are assigned by this guide from the notes: resins first, then vanilla and tonka bean, then sandalwood, patchouli and vetiver.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: extrait 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 Magnifica in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
From this guide, Bujairami Oud Money shares four base notes, vanilla, tonka bean, sandalwood and vetiver. Bujairami Smokilla has the vanilla and tonka with tobacco and cocoa, and Bujairami Dirty Money shares just the jasmine, set against leather.
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Magnifica and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Magnifica and Bujairami Oud Money meet in the base, where both list vanilla, tonka bean, sandalwood and vetiver. Oud Money pairs them with oud and amber under unnamed spices, seven notes in total. Magnifica has no oud. It has ten more notes, and spends them on fruit, spirits and resins: peach, blood orange, rum, cognac, benzoin, styrax and labdanum.
Bujairami Smokilla is a tobacco list, with tobacco leaf and tobacco blossom, cocoa, dried fruits and woods. What it shares with Bujairami Magnifica is vanilla and tonka bean. Magnifica names no tobacco and no cocoa. Its fruit is fresh peach and blood orange, not dried, and its dark side comes from styrax, labdanum and patchouli leaf.
Jasmine alone links Bujairami Dirty Money to Bujairami Magnifica on paper. Dirty Money is a four-note extrait of spices, jasmine, leather and amber, dry and compact. Magnifica is its opposite in scale and in direction: seventeen notes, with fruit and spirits around the jasmine and a sweet, resinous base in place of leather. Of the three it stands furthest away.