What does Bujairami Ruthless Vanilla smell like?
Vanilla is written twice in the pyramid of Bujairami Ruthless Vanilla, once in the heart and once in the base, and that repetition is the clearest thing the listing says about the scent. The pod's smell is creamy and sweet with woody, smoky and slightly boozy sides, so it has enough range to play two parts.
The top prepares it with dark rum and apple. Dark rum is molasses, oak cask and alcohol warmth, a note that makes vanilla smell like something poured from a bottle. Apple is crisp and juicy and gives the opening its one fresh element. In the heart, caramel adds burnt sugar and butter, and nutmeg adds a dry, warm, faintly peppery spice of the kind grated over a milk pudding. Rum, caramel, nutmeg, vanilla: the list reads like the ingredients of a dessert.
The base adds wood to the sweetness. Musk is soft and clean. Sandalwood is creamy and milky and blends easily with vanilla. Woody notes, given without detail, indicate a general dry timber effect, and nothing more specific can be drawn from the term. Sweetness over wood is what leads this guide to file the scent under gourmand and woody.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Ruthless Vanilla?
Ruthless Vanilla is a gourmand scent, sweet and warm in character.
The notes that define it on paper: vanilla, rum and apple.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Chubby, which shares caramel, vanilla and musk.
Next: Bujairami Legacy.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who wears Ruthless Vanilla
For him is the brand's tag for Bujairami Ruthless Vanilla, and it ranked number 23 in the brand's own best-seller order when this guide read it. Gourmand and woody are the families this guide assigns from the notes, by its own sorting. The type is eau de parfum. The list has nine entries with vanilla counted twice and mixes exact names (dark rum, nutmeg) with a general one (woody notes).
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 Ruthless Vanilla in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Sweet scents on a soft wood base in this guide: Bujairami Chubby, with caramel, vanilla, musk and sandalwood; Bujairami Legacy, with caramel, spices, vanilla and musk; and Bujairami Too Damn Clean, drier, with spices, musk and sandalwood.
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How Ruthless Vanilla compares with similar scents
Bujairami Chubby shares caramel, vanilla, musk and sandalwood with Bujairami Ruthless Vanilla, four of its five notes. The fifth is tonka bean. What Chubby leaves out is everything that gives Ruthless Vanilla its edge on paper: dark rum, apple and nutmeg. Chubby is an extrait de parfum and has caramel on top; Ruthless Vanilla is an eau de parfum and keeps caramel in the heart.
Caramel, vanilla and musk are in both Bujairami Ruthless Vanilla and Bujairami Legacy, and the nutmeg in one answers the unspecified spices in the other. Legacy opens with bergamot, a citrus, and has amber in its base. Ruthless Vanilla opens with dark rum and apple and has sandalwood and woody notes where Legacy has amber. Legacy is the extrait of the pair.
The overlap between Bujairami Ruthless Vanilla and Bujairami Too Damn Clean is in the dry parts: a spice note, musk and sandalwood. Too Damn Clean has only four notes and its heart is rose, with nothing sweet named at all. Ruthless Vanilla puts rum, caramel and two mentions of vanilla around the same musk and sandalwood. Too Damn Clean is an extrait.