What does Bujairami Prima Donna smell like?
Saffron, osmanthus and magnolia open the list. Saffron is dry, leathery and honeyed, osmanthus is a fruity, apricot-like floral with a tea-like warmth, and magnolia is creamy and white-floral. The opening is therefore a floral with a spiced, slightly leathery edge.
The heart is passionfruit, tuberose, patchouli and oud. Passionfruit adds a tart, tropical brightness, tuberose is rich and creamy, patchouli is earthy and dark, and oud is a resinous, woody material with a strong, animalic character. Four heart notes make a dense middle, with the fruit set against the dark woods.
Madagascar vanilla, ambroxan, musk, myrrh, incense and cedar form the base. Vanilla is sweet and round, ambroxan is a warm, ambery and smooth material, musk and cedar are soft and dry, and myrrh and incense are resinous. The base is the longest tier at six materials, and it is where the scent is most resinous.
What style is Bujairami Prima Donna?
Judged by its notes alone, Prima Donna is a warm and rich oriental scent.
Oud, Ambroxan and cedar carry most of the list.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Empress comes closest, with ambroxan in common.
Next: Bujairami Imperial Oud.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who wears Prima Donna
The guide's own sorting puts Prima Donna under oriental, floral and woody. Those are families drawn from the note list, not the brand's labels. The audience tag is for her. The concentration is eau de parfum at 100 ml. Thirteen materials are spread across three tiers, three at the top, four in the heart and six at the base, so it is among the longer lists on this guide.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: eau de parfum.
- Size listed by the brand: 100 ml.
- 10 ml samples: the samples page lists the scents in the shop's Sample Service. Samples and sizes
Where to buy Bujairami Prima Donna 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 Empress, Bujairami Imperial Oud and Bujairami Kingsman. Empress shares saffron, ambroxan and musk with this one, with black cherry and May rose among its notes. Imperial Oud, an extrait de parfum, shares saffron, patchouli and oud, with a spiced top and a rose and incense heart. Kingsman, also an extrait de parfum, shares patchouli, ambroxan and musk, but its list is fruit-led, with bergamot, blackcurrant and apple at the top.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Prima Donna compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Bujairami Prima Donna and Bujairami Empress share saffron, ambroxan and musk. Empress opens on black cherry, saffron and pink pepper, a dark-fruit start where this scent opens on saffron, osmanthus and magnolia. Its heart of May rose, peony, violet and cashmere wood is a rose-and-woods middle, and its base of musk, ambroxan, myrrh and frankincense lacks the vanilla and cedar of this scent.
Bujairami Imperial Oud shares saffron, patchouli and oud with this scent, and it is an extrait de parfum where this one is an eau de parfum. Imperial Oud opens on two notes, saffron and spices, and its heart is rose and incense. Its base is oud-led and sandalwood-rich, where this scent's base leans on vanilla and resins.
Bujairami Kingsman shares patchouli, ambroxan and musk with this scent, and it is also an extrait de parfum. Its top is fruit and citrus, with bergamot, blackcurrant, apple, lemon and pink pepper, where this scent opens on saffron and osmanthus. The heart is pineapple, patchouli and Moroccan jasmine, a tropical middle, and the base of birchwood, musk, oakmoss, ambroxan and cedarwood is drier and greener than the vanilla-led base here.
