What does Bujairami Midnight Call smell like?
Several names in the pyramid of Bujairami Midnight Call are perfumers' inventions more than raw materials, so it helps to take them one at a time. Mandarin nectar suggests mandarin at its sweetest: the juice more than the peel, with little bitterness. Blackberry is a dark, tart berry note, usually made from fruity molecules with a slightly musky, jammy tone. A sweet citrus and a dark berry make a top that is juicy and not sharp.
None of the three heart notes is pressed or distilled from a plant. Violet is the most established: perfumers recreate it with ionones, molecules that smell powdery, sweet and faintly woody, like the old-fashioned sweets named after the flower. Pink orchid is a fantasy note, since orchids give perfumery no oil; the name indicates a soft, creamy, lightly sweet floral, and the listing says no more. Bamboo is an accord too: green, watery and clean, the smell of a cut stalk. Between powder and cream it is the cool note.
Black amber leads the base. Amber is a warm, resinous, slightly sweet accord, and the word black usually signals a darker, smokier version of it; what goes into this one is not stated. Musk softens, sandalwood adds a creamy wood. This guide derives a single family from the list, floral, because the heart is where most of the named notes point. The fruit above and the amber below frame it.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Midnight Call?
The style of Midnight Call is floral: soft and flowery.
Mandarin, blackberry and orchid stand in front.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Dead Serious comes closest, with violet in common.
Next: Bujairami Ya Habibi.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Midnight Call for you?
Him and her are both named in the brand's tag for Bujairami Midnight Call. Floral is the family this guide gives it, a label of our own making that follows from the notes. It is an extrait de parfum. The note list is short, eight names in three tiers, and leans on fantasy notes: mandarin nectar, pink orchid, bamboo and black amber all describe an effect more than a single raw material.
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 Midnight Call in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Closest among what else this guide lists: Bujairami Dead Serious, with violet, amber, musk and sandalwood; Bujairami Ya Habibi, with mandarin, amber, musk and sandalwood in a spicier, oud-based list; and Bujairami 2000, which has violet leaf, amber and musk.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Bujairami Midnight Call next to similar scents
Violet, amber, musk and sandalwood appear in both Bujairami Midnight Call and Bujairami Dead Serious, which makes this the nearest list in this guide. Dead Serious opens with ambrette seed and sapote, a musky seed and a creamy tropical fruit, and has magnolia and cedarwood. Midnight Call has mandarin nectar, blackberry, pink orchid and bamboo, and calls its amber black. Both are extraits.
Bujairami Ya Habibi shares mandarin, amber, musk and sandalwood with Bujairami Midnight Call, but its centre of gravity is elsewhere: cinnamon and saffron on top, frankincense, rose and jasmine in the heart, oud and vanilla in the base. Midnight Call has none of the spice, resin or oud. Its heart is orchid, bamboo and violet. The two are listed as extrait de parfum.
The link between Bujairami Midnight Call and Bujairami 2000 is thin: amber, musk and a violet note, which is violet leaf in 2000 (green, watery) and violet flower in Midnight Call (powdery). 2000 is otherwise a citrus and lavender list with black pepper and cedar. Midnight Call is fruit, orchid and bamboo on black amber. 2000 is an eau de parfum.
