What does Bujairami Mood Swings smell like?
Passionfruit is the note that sets Bujairami Mood Swings apart from the oud lists nearest to it in the range. It is a sharp, tangy tropical fruit, and in perfumery its accord carries a sulphurous, almost sweaty edge that makes it smell ripe instead of sugary. Fruity notes, listed without detail, round it out. Rose shares the top tier with saffron, higher than a rose is usually placed. Saffron is leathery, dry and slightly medicinal; rose gives a red, jammy floral tone. Together those two are the classic preface to oud.
And oud is the first name in the heart. It is the resinous heartwood of agarwood trees: dark, woody, animalic, with a medicinal bite. Indonesian patchouli leaf specifies both the origin and the part of the plant. Patchouli oil is distilled from the dried leaves and Indonesia is its main source, so the long name describes ordinary patchouli precisely: earthy, damp, camphor-tinged. Benzoin, a vanilla-scented resin, softens the two.
Four notes close the list. Leather is a constructed note with a tanned, smoky, slightly bitter character. Akigalawood is a modern material derived from patchouli oil, peppery and dry-woody, so it echoes the patchouli above in a cleaner register. Amber and vanilla bring warmth and sweetness. The whole pyramid therefore sets a sour-sweet tropical fruit against wood, resin and leather. Oriental and woody are the families this guide derives from it.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Mood Swings?
In plain words, Mood Swings is warm and rich: a oriental scent.
Passion fruit, fruity notes and rose lead its note list.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami G Oud, sharing rose.
After that: Bujairami Sacred Order.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Mood Swings for you?
Bujairami Mood Swings carries the tag for him and for her, and it was number 26 in the brand's own best-seller order when this guide read it. Oriental and woody are the two families this guide works out from the notes; the labels are not the brand's. It is an eau de parfum. The list is a full three-tier pyramid of eleven notes, mostly precise, with one loose entry (fruity notes) and one named origin (Indonesian patchouli leaf).
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: eau de parfum.
- No size in the listing; the brand gives 100 ml as its standard bottle (bujairami.com.au).
- 10 ml samples: the samples page lists the scents in the shop's Sample Service. Samples and sizes
Where to buy Bujairami Mood Swings in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
If the rose, saffron and oud core is what interests you, three other scents in this guide have it. Bujairami G Oud adds amber, tonka bean and vanilla. Bujairami Sacred Order has leather and berries. Bujairami Imperial Oud has patchouli, incense and sandalwood. None lists passionfruit.
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Picked by the notes they share.
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How Mood Swings compares with similar scents
Bujairami G Oud has the centre of Bujairami Mood Swings without the fruit: saffron, rose, oud, amber and vanilla are in both. G Oud adds tonka bean and stops at six notes. Mood Swings surrounds the same five with passionfruit, patchouli leaf, benzoin, leather and akigalawood. G Oud is an extrait de parfum, Mood Swings an eau de parfum.
Five notes overlap between Bujairami Mood Swings and Bujairami Sacred Order: rose, saffron, oud, leather and amber. Each also has a fruit on top, berries in Sacred Order and passionfruit in Mood Swings, so the two outlines run parallel. Sacred Order ends on tonka bean; Mood Swings on vanilla, with patchouli, benzoin and akigalawood besides. Sacred Order is an extrait.
Rose, saffron, oud, patchouli and amber are common to Bujairami Mood Swings and Bujairami Imperial Oud. Imperial Oud is the drier list: spices with the saffron, incense with the rose, sandalwood in the base, and no fruit or vanilla. Mood Swings has the passionfruit top and the sweeter resins, benzoin and vanilla, plus leather. Imperial Oud is listed as an extrait.
