What does Bujairami Old Money smell like?
Two peppers and a rose make up the upper half of Bujairami Old Money. The peppers are unrelated plants. Pink pepper is a dried berry with a bright, slightly fruity, rosy smell; black pepper is the true peppercorn, drier and sharper, with a woody bite. Rose stands alone in the heart, and with pepper on one side and wood on the other it is more likely to read as dry and spiced than as soft or jammy.
The base is where the list becomes particular. Balsam fir is a North American conifer, and its extract smells of needles and sap with a sweet, almost jam-like depth. Atlas cedar comes from the mountains of North Africa and is warmer and rounder than the pencil-shavings cedar of most pyramids. Labdanum is the sticky resin of the rockrose shrub: leathery, ambery, slightly animal. A tree, another tree and a resin, so the family this guide gives it is simply woody.
Who wears Old Money
Woody is the only family this guide derives for Bujairami Old Money, and with fir, cedar and labdanum in the base the notes leave little room for another; the sorting is ours. The brand tags it for him and for her. It is an extrait de parfum with no size stated in the listing. Six notes, each one a specific material and two of them named down to the species: a short list, but not a vague one.
Bujairami Old Money: style and character
Old Money reads as a dry and woody scent, filed here under woody.
The notes that define it on paper: pink pepper, pepper and rose.
The closest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Red Static.
Next: Bujairami 2000.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: extrait 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 Old Money in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Nothing else in this guide has the fir or the labdanum. The nearest lists are Bujairami Red Static and Bujairami Tempted, which both pair pink pepper with rose, and Bujairami 2000, which has black pepper on top and cedar in the base.
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Old Money compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Pink pepper and rose are the shared ground with Bujairami Red Static, which doubles the rose as Bulgarian and Turkish and wraps it in cherry and red fruits. Bujairami Old Money has no fruit. It adds black pepper to the top and sets its one rose on balsam fir, Atlas cedar and labdanum, so the base is wood and resin where Red Static's is fruit.
Bujairami 2000 and Bujairami Old Money meet at black pepper in the top and cedar in the base. The eau de parfum 2000 surrounds them with bergamot, lemon, lavender, violet leaf, musk and amber, a fresher, more aromatic list. Old Money has neither citrus nor lavender; its other notes are pink pepper, rose, balsam fir and labdanum.
As in Bujairami Old Money, pink pepper sits above a rose heart in Bujairami Tempted. Tempted also has ginger and dark berries on top, jasmine beside the rose, and a base given broadly as woods, musk and amber. Old Money names its woods exactly, balsam fir and Atlas cedar, adds labdanum, and lists no fruit, jasmine or musk.