What does Bujairami Rendezvous smell like?
Five notes crowd the top of Bujairami Rendezvous, and they fall into three kinds. Pear and tangerine are the fruit: one watery and mild, the other a sweet citrus of the mandarin family. Ginger and black pepper are the spice, the first lemony and hot, the second dry and prickly. Cocoa stands alone. It is a dusty, bitter, powdery note, far from milk chocolate, and it is rare to find it this high in a pyramid.
Quince chutney is the most particular name on the list. Quince is a hard, fragrant fruit, between apple and pear with a honeyed, rose-like perfume; chutney implies it cooked down with sugar, vinegar and spice. As a perfume note it can only be an accord, and the name points to a tart, spiced fruit preserve. Peach adds soft, velvety flesh. Then two white flowers: Moroccan jasmine, the name signalling jasmine grown in Morocco, rich and sweet with an animal warmth, and orange blossom, honeyed and green.
The base mixes old and new materials. Indonesian patchouli is the earthy, dark leaf oil from its main country of origin. Vanilla and benzoin, a resin with a vanilla-like sweetness, form the sweet part. Cashmeran is a synthetic with a soft, musky, slightly spicy woodiness, and ambroxan is a clean, mineral amber molecule modelled on ambergris. Spiced fruit above, flowers in the middle, patchouli and vanilla below: this guide files that under gourmand, floral and woody.
Who Rendezvous suits
The brand marks Bujairami Rendezvous for him and for her. Gourmand, floral and woody are the families this guide derives from its notes, which is a sorting done here and not by the brand. The concentration is extrait de parfum. It is a long, detailed list: fourteen notes, two with a named origin (Moroccan jasmine, Indonesian patchouli), two modern molecules (cashmeran, ambroxan) and one accord that reads like a recipe.
What style is Bujairami Rendezvous?
Think sweet and warm: Rendezvous sits in the gourmand family.
Pear, ginger and mandarin carry most of the list.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Executor, which shares pear and jasmine.
After that: Bujairami Red Eclipse.
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.
- 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 Rendezvous in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Of the other scents in this guide, Bujairami Executor is closest by notes, with pear, orange blossom, jasmine, vanilla and an ambroxan-type material. Bujairami Red Eclipse shares jasmine, orange blossom and vanilla. Bujairami Date Night shares pepper, jasmine, patchouli and vanilla.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Rendezvous and its closest neighbours
Pear, orange blossom, jasmine and vanilla appear in both Bujairami Rendezvous and Bujairami Executor, and Executor's ambrofix is a material of the same ambergris type as the ambroxan in Rendezvous. Executor is the simpler list, with bergamot, amberwood, sandalwood and musk. Rendezvous adds spice, cocoa, quince chutney, peach, patchouli and benzoin, a much busier pyramid. Each is an extrait.
Bujairami Red Eclipse and Bujairami Rendezvous share jasmine, orange blossom and vanilla, and each has a mandarin-family citrus on top. Red Eclipse pairs its citrus with raspberry and adds freesia, akigalawood and amber. Rendezvous has pear, ginger, black pepper and cocoa above, quince chutney and peach in the middle, and patchouli, cashmeran, ambroxan and benzoin below. Rendezvous is the extrait, Red Eclipse the eau de parfum.
With Bujairami Date Night, Bujairami Rendezvous has pepper, jasmine, patchouli and vanilla in common. That eau de parfum opens on apple, lavender, bergamot and orange, has violet with its jasmine and puts cardamom and sandalwood in the base. Rendezvous is fruitier and sweeter on paper, with quince chutney, peach, cocoa and benzoin, and it is an extrait.
