What does Bujairami Royal Life smell like?
Bergamot, coffee, osmanthus and Madagascan pepper open the list. Bergamot is a bitter-fresh citrus that gives a clean start, and coffee adds a roasted, bitter-brown edge. Osmanthus is a fruity, apricot-like flower with a leathery side, and the pepper, by its name a pepper from Madagascar, brings a dry, peppery sharpness. The opening is unusual, with four notes that each pull in a different direction.
The heart is carnation, iris and almond. Carnation has a spicy, clove-like warmth, iris is a powdery, buttery floral, and almond is sweet and nutty. Between them they move the scent from sharp toward soft.
The base is the longest part of the list, with vanilla, cedar, musk, patchouli, ambergris and caramel. Vanilla and caramel make it sweet, cedar and patchouli give it a dry, woody frame, and musk and ambergris add a skin-like, salty depth. The base runs gourmand and woody at once, and that mix is what gives the list its three families.
What style is Bujairami Royal Life?
In plain words, Royal Life is sweet and warm: a gourmand scent.
On paper it is built around bergamot, coffee and osmanthus.
By notes, Bujairami The One and Only is the closest Bujairami scent.
Also near: Bujairami Blood Suede.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Royal Life for you?
This guide sorts Bujairami Royal Life under gourmand, floral and woody, which is its own reading of the notes. The brand tags it for both him and her. The concentration is eau de parfum and the brand lists no size. The notes come in three tiers with the longest list at the base, and the three families here come from the caramel and vanilla below and the iris and bergamot above.
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 Royal Life in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Bujairami The One and Only shares bergamot, coffee and iris, with violet on top and patchouli and vanilla below. Bujairami Blood Suede shares bergamot, osmanthus and iris, with raspberry and cinnamon on top and leather, vanilla, oud and patchouli in the base. Bujairami Apple Crumble shares bergamot, iris and vanilla, and its list runs through milk, caramel, peach and orchid.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Royal Life and its closest neighbours
Bujairami The One and Only shares bergamot, coffee and iris with Royal Life, three materials in all. Its top is bergamot and violet, a simpler opening than the four-note top here. Its heart is coffee and iris alone, and its base is patchouli and vanilla. Royal Life has carnation and almond in the heart and a longer base, so its list is the fuller of the two.
Bujairami Blood Suede shares bergamot, osmanthus and iris with this scent. It opens on raspberry and cinnamon before the bergamot, so its top is fruitier and spicier than the coffee and pepper here. Its heart is iris, osmanthus and cedar, and its base adds leather and oud, which Royal Life does not have. Royal Life's base is softer and sweeter, built on vanilla, caramel and ambergris.
Bujairami Apple Crumble shares bergamot, iris and vanilla with this scent. Its top has milk, caramel and peach beside the bergamot, so it opens sweeter and creamier than the coffee and pepper start here. Its heart is orchid, iris, a gourmand accord and patchouli, and its base is sandalwood, tonka bean, vanilla and musk. Royal Life's carnation and almond heart is spicier and nuttier by comparison.
