What does Bujairami Overdrive smell like?
Bujairami Overdrive opens with an unusual quartet. Neroli is the oil of the bitter orange blossom, floral, green and faintly honeyed. Black pepper is dry and sparkling, and cardamom adds a cool, lemony spice. Carrot seeds are the odd one: the oil is earthy, woody and slightly sweet, with a dusty, rooty character that has more to do with orris than with the vegetable. Together they make a spiced, aromatic start with a floral thread through it.
The heart is where the powdery side begins. Iris, grown for its dried rhizome, smells of cold cream, suede and lipstick, a soft and slightly rooty powder. Violet adds a related sweetness, a green, sugary petal. Geranium is minty-rose and green, a herbal floral that tends to cool a blend. Mate, the leaves of the South American tea plant, brings a dry, tea-like, smoky green. Four materials, all of them on the dry or powdery side of floral.
Amber, cedar, sandalwood and patchouli finish the list. Amber is the warm resin accord, cedar the dry pencil wood, and sandalwood the creamy one. Patchouli is earthy and slightly damp, with a chocolatey edge in some qualities. This guide sorts the list under floral, woody and oriental, which is the order the heart, the base woods and the amber suggest.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Overdrive?
In plain words, Overdrive is soft and flowery: a floral scent.
The notes that define it on paper: orange blossom, pepper and cardamom.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Date Night, sharing pepper.
Next: Bujairami 2000.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Overdrive suits
Bujairami Overdrive is tagged for him by the brand, and its eau de parfum concentration comes without a listed size. Floral, woody and oriental are the families this guide derives from the notes; that sorting is the guide's own. The list is a full pyramid of twelve notes, four in each tier, which makes it a balanced three-part structure.
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 Overdrive in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Nothing this guide lists matches the list exactly, but a few lists overlap. Bujairami Date Night shares cardamom, black pepper, violet, sandalwood and patchouli. Bujairami 2000 shares black pepper, violet, cedar and amber. Bujairami Dead Serious has violet, cedar, sandalwood and amber in its list.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Overdrive compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Bujairami Overdrive and Bujairami Date Night share cardamom, black pepper, violet, sandalwood and patchouli. Overdrive adds neroli, iris, geranium, mate, cedar and amber, while the other list brings further materials to the same spice-and-wood frame. Both are eau de parfum.
Four notes link Bujairami Overdrive and Bujairami 2000: black pepper, violet, cedar and amber. Overdrive gets its character from neroli, cardamom, iris, geranium and mate, none of which are in the 2000 list. Both are sold as eau de parfum, and both open with a peppery spice.
Bujairami Dead Serious overlaps with Bujairami Overdrive on violet, amber, cedar and sandalwood, all in the dry, woody part of the pyramid. The citrus, spice and iris notes up front in Overdrive are its own. Dead Serious is an extrait de parfum, Overdrive an eau de parfum.