What does Bujairami Silk Chocolate smell like?
Clove and black pepper open with a sharp, warm spice. Clove is a dry, nail-like warmth with a sweet edge, and black pepper adds a dry, woody bite that keeps the start from being only sweet. The first impression is spicy rather than dessert-like.
The heart is where the chocolate sits. Rum rounds it with a dark, boozy sweetness, and honey adds a golden, slightly floral warmth. Rose softens the middle, and smoky tea gives a tannic, dry-smoke line that ties the sweetness back to the spice.
The base is patchouli, smoke and warm spices. Patchouli brings earthy, dark woodiness, smoke adds an ashy, dry note, and the warm spices keep the finish close to the opening clove and pepper. Together they make the ending darker and drier than the chocolate in the heart suggests.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Silk Chocolate?
Judged by its notes alone, Silk Chocolate is a warm and rich oriental scent.
Spices, smoke and pepper carry most of the list.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Tonka Skin, which shares spices and cocoa.
Also near: Bujairami Smoking Gun.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Silk Chocolate for you?
Bujairami lists Silk Chocolate for him and for her, as an eau de parfum in 100 ml. This guide files it under oriental and gourmand, sorted from its own reading of the notes rather than from a family the brand gives. The list is tiered, and its gourmand side comes from chocolate, honey and rum, while the oriental side comes from patchouli, smoke and warm spices.
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 Silk Chocolate in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Bujairami Tonka Skin shares spices and cocoa with this scent, but is built around tonka bean and vanilla, with no rum or smoke. Bujairami Smoking Gun also has spices and honey in common, and like this one it opens with honey and clove. Bujairami Boujee is the most compact of the three, with spices, patchouli and chocolate in its notes.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Silk Chocolate and its closest neighbours
Tonka Skin, looked at from here, shares spices and cocoa with Silk Chocolate. Its list runs through tonka bean, vanilla, bitter almond and coumarin in one untiered row, so it reads as a sweet, almond-tinged vanilla scent. Silk Chocolate brings a clove and pepper opening and a smoky patchouli base, neither of which Tonka Skin lists.
Smoking Gun shares spices and honey with this scent, and both carry clove. Its list leans on honey, cloves, vanilla, tonka and sandalwood, and its tobacco note gives a dry, smoky character that sits closer to this scent's smoke than to its sweetness. Silk Chocolate places chocolate and rum in the heart, a pairing Smoking Gun does not list.
Bujairami Boujee shares spices, chocolate and patchouli with Silk Chocolate. Boujee has a shorter list: spices at the top, patchouli in the heart and chocolate at the base. Silk Chocolate adds clove, black pepper, rum, honey and smoke, so it has more layers, while Boujee holds its chocolate at the base where this scent holds it in the heart.
