What does Bujairami Montana smell like?
Five of the eight notes in Bujairami Montana are base notes, and that proportion is the story. Oud is resinous heartwood, dark, leathery and slightly animal. Tobacco here means the cured leaf: dry, hay-sweet, a little honeyed. Vetiver is an earthy, smoky root. Oakmoss, a lichen that grows on oak bark, smells damp and inky, like a forest floor. Sandalwood is the one soft member of the group, creamy and smooth.
Against that floor the heart is a surprise. Lily-of-the-valley is a green, watery, clean white flower; its scent cannot be extracted from the blossoms, so perfumers always rebuild it from other materials. On paper, one fresh flower between spice and dark wood is like a window in a panelled room.
Saffron and black pepper sit on top. Saffron smells leathery and bitter-sweet, with something of dry hay and iodine, and it is a frequent partner of oud. Black pepper is sharper and drier than the pink kind, a clean, woody heat. Neither is sweet. In fact nothing on the list is: no vanilla, no amber, no fruit.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Montana?
Montana reads as a warm and rich scent, filed here under oriental.
On paper it is built around saffron, pepper and lily of the valley.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Executor, which shares sandalwood.
After that: Bujairami Cartel.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Montana for you?
The brand marks Bujairami Montana for him and for her and sells it as an extrait de parfum. Oriental and woody are the families that come out of this guide's own sorting of the notes; the brand's listing shows none. The list is unevenly built, two top notes, one heart note and five base notes, and all eight are specific materials. Bujairami The Sheikh is another list in the range with saffron, oud and oakmoss.
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 Montana in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Of the other scents in this guide, Bujairami Cartel is the nearest list, with saffron, tobacco and oud.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Montana compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Sandalwood is the single note Bujairami Montana shares with Bujairami Executor. Otherwise the lists run in opposite directions: Executor has pear, bergamot, orange blossom, jasmine, vanilla and musk, a bright floral frame, while Montana has saffron, pepper, oud, tobacco and oakmoss.
Bujairami Cartel is five notes long, and three of them are in Bujairami Montana: saffron on top, tobacco, and oud in the base. Cartel fills the rest with rose and amber, which is the warmer choice. Montana puts lily-of-the-valley where the rose would be and swaps amber for vetiver, oakmoss and sandalwood, so its list is greener and drier.
No note is common to Bujairami Montana and Bujairami Enforcer. Enforcer is an eau de parfum listed in general terms, pear, mandarin and citrus over aromatic and spicy notes, with vanilla and woody notes below. Montana names eight specific materials and none of them is a fruit. The link is the stated house, which is the same for both.