What does Bujairami Masaya smell like?
Sea salt opens the scent with a mineral, faintly marine edge. In perfumery it is a clean, saline accord rather than a note with a single smell, and it keeps the florals from reading as purely sweet from the first moment.
The heart is built on jasmine sambac, ylang-ylang, neroli and tuberose. Jasmine sambac is a rich, slightly green white floral, ylang-ylang is creamy and fruity, neroli is the bitter orange blossom with a fresh, green sparkle, and tuberose is heavy, creamy and white. Four white florals in one heart make a dense, full middle.
Peach is the only listed base note, so the drydown rests on a single fruity, soft accord. Peach gives a juicy, creamy and slightly woody sweetness that settles under the florals. The base has no musk, woods or resins listed, so its structure stays simple.
Bujairami Masaya: style and character
Judged by its notes alone, Masaya is a soft and flowery floral scent.
Marine notes, jasmine and ylang-ylang stand in front.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Peach Mist, which shares jasmine and peach.
After that: Bujairami Glamorous.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Masaya for you?
Bujairami Masaya carries the brand's for-her tag. This guide's own sorting puts it in floral, a family it derives from the notes and not one the brand uses. The concentration is eau de parfum, the brand lists a single size, 50 ml, and the notes come in three tiers.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: eau de parfum.
- Size listed by the brand: 50 ml.
- 10 ml samples: the samples page lists the scents in the shop's Sample Service. Samples and sizes
Where to buy Bujairami Masaya in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Bujairami Peach Mist is the closest on paper, sharing jasmine and peach, though it adds whipped cream and vanilla to the base where this one stays with peach alone. Bujairami Glamorous and Bujairami Ahla Sabiyeh both carry ylang-ylang or tuberose in their hearts, Glamorous with violet and plum at the top, Ahla Sabiyeh with a long white floral heart and musk and cedar in the base.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Masaya and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Masaya and Bujairami Peach Mist share jasmine and peach, but the other notes pull them apart. Peach Mist is built on peach at the top, jasmine in the heart, and whipped cream and vanilla at the base, a sweet and creamy finish. Masaya's heart is a white floral group of jasmine sambac, ylang-ylang, neroli and tuberose, and its base is peach alone, so the two lists go in different directions.
On this side, Bujairami Masaya and Bujairami Glamorous overlap on ylang-ylang and tuberose, both in the heart. Glamorous opens on violet, mandora and litchi, adds plum to the heart, and finishes on patchouli, vanilla and vetiver, so its base is woodier and its top fruitier. Masaya has sea salt alone at the top and no patchouli or vetiver, and its base is peach alone.
Bujairami Masaya and Bujairami Ahla Sabiyeh share jasmine, tuberose and peach. Ahla Sabiyeh has a much longer list, with pear, melon, magnolia, mandarin and bergamot up top, lily-of-the-valley, freesia, rose, orchid, plum and violet in its heart, and musk, vanilla, blackberry and cedar in the base. Masaya is shorter: sea salt, a white floral heart and peach alone at the base.