What does Bujairami Notorious smell like?
Calabrian bergamot and pepper open the scent. Bergamot is a bitter, fresh citrus pressed from the rind of a fruit grown mainly around Calabria, and in perfumery it gives a bright lift without much sweetness. Pepper, which in a list like this usually means black pepper, adds a dry, slightly woody sting that sits close to the skin.
The heart is the busiest part of the scent. Sichuan pepper brings a tingling, citrus-edged spice that numbs slightly on the tongue, pink pepper a softer, rosy sharpness, and lavender a herbal, camphorous freshness. Vetiver and patchouli add earthy, dark-green tones beneath them, while geranium and elemi bring a rosy-green and a clear, resinous note.
The base is ambroxan, cedar and labdanum. Ambroxan is a synthetic material in the ambergris family, valued for a warm, mineral, skin-like quality. Cedar gives dry, pencil-like wood lines, and labdanum a leathery, balsamic resin. Together they give the spices a dry, woody frame.
Bujairami Notorious: style and character
In plain words, Notorious is dry and woody: a woody scent.
Its list leans on pepper, bergamot and lavender.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Final Boss comes closest, with bergamot in common.
Next: Bujairami Renegade.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Notorious suits
The brand tags Notorious for him. This guide sorts it under woody and oriental, a grouping made here from the notes and not a label from the brand. It is an eau de parfum. The brand gives no size for it, so this page cannot report one. The twelve notes are the basis for both groupings, and the note list is the place to start reading.
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 Notorious 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 Renegade, which shares bergamot, pepper and lavender with Notorious, and Bujairami Final Boss, an extrait with bergamot, lavender and vetiver in common. Bujairami Nightfall matches on bergamot, pink pepper and patchouli. Each pairing is read from the two note lists alone, and the bases are where they part most clearly.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Notorious and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Final Boss is an extrait with a top of bergamot, lavender essence and ambroxan, a single Vietnamese oud heart, and a woody base of cedar, patchouli and vetiver. From Notorious, the shared pieces are bergamot, lavender and vetiver. Notorious has pepper and geranium where Final Boss has oud, and the two lists part ways in the base.
Bujairami Renegade opens on a single bergamot, with a heart of Sichuan pepper, star anise, nutmeg and lavender over one ambroxan note. Seen from Notorious, bergamot, pepper and lavender are the common ground. Notorious has a larger heart, with pink pepper, vetiver and labdanum that Renegade lacks, and its base adds cedar.
Bujairami Nightfall opens on bergamot and grapefruit, with a damask rose and pink pepper heart over ambergris, guaiac wood, cedar and patchouli. Notorious shares its bergamot, pink pepper and patchouli. Where Nightfall brings grapefruit, damask rose and ambergris, Notorious goes to lavender, vetiver and ambroxan.