What does Bujairami Matador smell like?
Pomegranate opens with a tart, slightly winey fruit. Its sweet-sour juiciness is the only top note, so it gives the opening a clean edge before the resin arrives.
Labdanum and amberwood carry the rest. Labdanum is a resin from rockrose shrubs, dark, sweet, leathery and amber-like, while amberwood is a synthetic woody amber that reads as dry and mineral. Together they give a resinous, woody drydown that stays with the fruit only at the start.
Bujairami Matador: style and character
Judged by its notes alone, Matador is a warm and rich oriental scent.
Its list leans on pomegranate, labdanum and amberwood.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami His Secret comes closest, with labdanum in common.
Also near: Bujairami Purple Haze.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Matador suits
Bujairami Matador carries the brand's tag for him and for her. This guide's own sorting puts it in oriental, a family derived from its labdanum and amberwood, and not a term the brand uses. The concentration is eau de parfum, the brand lists one size, 100 ml, and the list is one note per tier.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: eau 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 Matador in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
The closest scents of this guide are Bujairami His Secret, which shares labdanum and amberwood and adds damask rose, grapefruit and sage, Bujairami Purple Haze, which shares labdanum with ginger and sandalwood, and Bujairami The Wanted, which shares amberwood with cardamom and toffee. None of the three has pomegranate.
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Bujairami Matador next to similar scents
Bujairami Matador and Bujairami His Secret share labdanum and amberwood, which are the heart and base of Matador. His Secret is a single list of damask rose, grapefruit, amberwood, sage and Spanish labdanum, so the rose and grapefruit come forward where Matador has only pomegranate. Matador keeps the resin and wood as its whole structure.
Bujairami Matador and Bujairami Purple Haze overlap on labdanum alone. Purple Haze has ginger in both the top and heart, then sandalwood and labdanum in the base, so it is spicier and woodier than Matador, whose top is pomegranate with no spice. Matador's amberwood base has no counterpart in the other list, which keeps its drydown drier and more amber-like.
Bujairami Matador and Bujairami The Wanted share amberwood. The Wanted opens on cardamom, carries a toffee heart and ends on amberwood, so its sweetness comes from the toffee rather than the resin, and it has no labdanum. Matador's pomegranate is fruity and sharp where The Wanted's opening is spiced, and its labdanum heart gives a resinous middle that the other list lacks.