What does Bujairami Phantom smell like?
Myrtle and bergamot open the scent. Myrtle is a green, herbal, slightly resinous plant, and it sets a clean, aromatic tone. Bergamot is a bitter citrus from the rind of a small fruit, and it adds a crisp, slightly bitter lift at the start.
The heart is hazelnut, leather and cedar, a nutty, dry, woody middle. The base is chocolate and roasted coffee beans, so the scent ends on the sweet and bitter notes of cocoa and roasted coffee. Roasted coffee is a dark, bitter, toasty material, and chocolate adds a sweet, dark counterweight, which is why the list reads more gourmand than leathery.
Who Phantom suits
Bujairami tags Phantom for him. This guide sorts it under gourmand, a family it derives from the chocolate, coffee and hazelnut of the notes, so the label is the guide's own. It is an eau de parfum. Seven notes in three tiers, with the cocoa and coffee base, make a list built for a dry, roasted character rather than floral sweetness.
What style is Bujairami Phantom?
Judged by its notes alone, Phantom is a sweet and warm gourmand scent.
Its list leans on myrtle, bergamot and hazelnut.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Spades, sharing bergamot and coffee.
Also near: Bujairami The Joker.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
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 Phantom in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
The three nearest scents in the guide are Bujairami Spades, which shares bergamot and coffee, with a calabrian bergamot top and a vetiver base; Bujairami The Joker, which shares bergamot and has sage and ambergris; and Bujairami Ivory Tower, which shares bergamot and adds lavender, wood and smoke. Phantom is the scent in this group with chocolate in its base, so compare the coffee first.
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How Phantom compares with similar scents
Bujairami Spades shares bergamot and coffee with Phantom, and both lists carry a coffee accent. Spades opens on calabrian bergamot and has coffee alone in its heart, with a vetiver base. Phantom opens on myrtle and bergamot and keeps hazelnut, leather and cedar in its heart, so its middle is nuttier and more woody, and its base adds chocolate beside the coffee.
Bujairami The Joker opens on bergamot, has sage in the heart and ambergris in the base. It shares bergamot with Phantom and nothing more. Phantom has myrtle beside its bergamot, a heart of hazelnut, leather and cedar, and a base of chocolate and roasted coffee, so the two lists differ after the first note.
Bujairami Ivory Tower also uses bergamot as its one top note, with lavender in the heart and wood and smoke in the base. Phantom's heart of hazelnut, leather and cedar is nuttier and more leathery, and its base of chocolate and coffee is sweeter and darker than the wood and smoke of Ivory Tower, a list that stays smoky rather than roasted.