What does Bujairami Night Out smell like?
Grapefruit sets the tone of Bujairami Night Out. It is the bitter, sparkling citrus, with a faintly sulphurous sharpness that reads as cold. Bergamot rounds it off, and ginger, listed here as a top note, adds a peppery, lemony zing. All three are brisk; none is sweet.
The heart is where the list becomes aromatic. Water notes are an aquatic accord, the airy, slightly salty impression of sea or rain that entered perfumery with synthetic materials. Sage and rosemary are kitchen-garden herbs, camphor-tinged and dry. Geranium in perfumery is an oil from the leaf: green, minty and rosy at once. Water plus herbs is a familiar fresh construction.
What lies under it is less usual. Ambroxan is a single synthetic molecule, the modern stand-in for ambergris, dry, mineral and musky-woody. Amber is the warm, sweet resin accord, and labdanum is the leathery rock-rose resin on which amber accords are built. Listing both amber and labdanum gives the base more warmth than the top would suggest, which is why oriental appears among the families.
Bujairami Night Out: style and character
The style of Night Out is fresh: clean and airy.
Grapefruit, ginger and bergamot carry most of the list.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Psycho, which shares grapefruit, ginger and bergamot.
Next: Bujairami Perfect Life.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who is Bujairami Night Out for?
The brand marks Bujairami Night Out for him. It is an eau de parfum, and the listing mentions no size. In the brand's best-seller order it was number 40 when this guide read it. The families fresh, citrus and oriental are this guide's sorting from the notes, in that order of weight: seven of the ten notes are citrus, ginger, water or green herbs, and three are warm. The pyramid is complete, with three, four and three notes.
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 Night Out in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Three other scents in this guide share parts of the list. Bujairami Psycho has the whole top: grapefruit, ginger and bergamot. Bujairami Hectic shares ginger, bergamot and ambroxan, and Bujairami Perfect Life shares grapefruit, geranium and amber.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Bujairami Night Out next to similar scents
Bujairami Psycho publishes three notes, and all three are the top of Bujairami Night Out: grapefruit, bergamot and ginger, with the ginger placed in the heart. Psycho, an extrait, names no base at all. Night Out carries on where that list ends, with water notes, sage, rosemary and geranium, and then ambroxan, amber and labdanum.
Grapefruit on top, geranium in the heart, amber in the base: that is the common ground between Bujairami Perfect Life and Bujairami Night Out. Perfect Life is fruitier, with apple and blackcurrant, and woodier, with patchouli, sandalwood and musk, and its herb is lavender. Night Out uses ginger and bergamot, sage and rosemary, water notes and ambroxan.
Bujairami Hectic gives origins for nearly every note, from Calabrian bergamot to Nigerian ginger, and ends on ambroxan like Bujairami Night Out. Those three notes are shared. Hectic then goes towards cinnamon, neroli, guaiac wood, olibanum and Chinese black tea. Night Out stays cooler in the middle, with water notes, sage, rosemary and geranium, and warmer below, with amber and labdanum.
