What does Bujairami Mastermind smell like?
Start with the note that gives Bujairami Mastermind its character: creamy café latte. Coffee in perfumery is a roasted, bitter, slightly smoky accord, and the words creamy and latte tell us it is softened here with a milky sweetness, more cup of milk coffee than espresso. Patchouli, earthy and a touch chocolate-like, is a common partner for coffee because both have a dark, roasted depth.
The third heart note is the rare one. Longoza is a Malagasy name for a plant of the ginger family, usually identified in perfumery as a ginger lily, and its flower yields an extract generally described as warm and floral with a spicy edge. Above the heart, rose absolute is the rich, honeyed solvent extract of rose, cardamom is the cool green spice that is traditionally ground into coffee in the Middle East, and bergamot gives a bitter-fresh citrus start.
Vanilla and sandalwood make the base sweet and creamy, extending the milk in the latte. Blonde woods is a perfumer's phrase, not a species: it stands for pale, smooth, lightly ambery wood notes. Coffee, milk, rose and soft wood together explain why one scent lands in three of this guide's families.
What style is Bujairami Mastermind?
Mastermind reads as a dry and woody scent, filed here under woody.
Rose, cardamom and bergamot stand in front.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Date Night, sharing cardamom.
Next: Bujairami Bossman.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who is Bujairami Mastermind for?
Bujairami Mastermind is tagged for him and for her by the brand. Woody, floral and gourmand are the three families this guide attaches to it, by our own sorting: sandalwood, blonde woods and patchouli for the first, rose absolute and longoza flower for the second, café latte and vanilla for the third. It is an extrait de parfum. The list is a full three-tier pyramid of nine notes, three per tier, and unusually descriptive in its wording.
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 Mastermind in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
None of the three closest scents lists coffee. Nearest by shared notes are Bujairami Date Night, with cardamom, bergamot, patchouli, vanilla and sandalwood, and the fruitier pair Bujairami Bossman and Bujairami Emperor, which share bergamot, patchouli and vanilla.
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Picked by the notes they share.
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Mastermind compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Five notes of Bujairami Mastermind return in Bujairami Date Night: bergamot, cardamom, patchouli, vanilla and sandalwood. What eau de parfum lacks is the centre of Mastermind, the café latte, and the two flowers, rose absolute and longoza. It has apple, lavender, orange, violet, jasmine and pepper in their place.
Bujairami Bossman is an extrait with a six-note list, and half of it overlaps with Bujairami Mastermind: bergamot, patchouli and vanilla. The other half is fruit and resin, pineapple and berries on top and amber in the base. Mastermind has no fruit at all; its sweetness is milk coffee, vanilla and sandalwood.
The eau de parfum Bujairami Emperor uses the same six names as Bossman in another order, with berries in the heart and patchouli moved to the base. Bergamot, patchouli and vanilla are again the shared notes. Set against Bujairami Mastermind it is the simpler list: no spice, no flower, no coffee, no named wood.