What does Bujairami Smoke of Damascus smell like?
The opening is dry and smoky. Incense is a resin-based material that reads as smoke with a churchlike warmth, and elemi, a soft resin, adds a clear, faintly citrus and piney lift beside it. Ink usually comes as an accord, and here it gives the first minutes a cool, papery dryness.
The heart turns to damask rose, a rose with a deep, honeyed and slightly fruity character, and the incense returns next to it. Rose and incense have long been paired in oriental perfumery, where the rose softens the smoke and the smoke stops the rose from turning soapy.
The base is myrrh, a resin with a bitter, balsamic and faintly medicinal edge. Sandalwood is creamy and woody, vanilla adds warmth and sweetness, and cedar is dry and pencil-like. Together they make a resinous finish with a woody and gently sweet edge.
Bujairami Smoke of Damascus: style and character
Judged by its notes alone, Smoke of Damascus is a warm and rich oriental scent.
Incense, ink and resins and balsams carry most of the list.
Nearest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Luster.
Next: Bujairami Resolution.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Smoke of Damascus for you?
Bujairami lists this scent for men and women, which is the brand's own audience tag. This guide's own sorting places it in the oriental and woody families, working only from the notes: resins, incense and woods carry most of the list. It is an eau de parfum. The note list has three tiers, which gives it a clear opening, heart and base rather than a single flat accord. Treat the family as this guide's own sorting, not the brand's.
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 Smoke of Damascus in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Among the scents of this guide, Bujairami Luster keeps myrrh and sandalwood and adds cardamom, iris and a longer resinous base. Bujairami Resolution overlaps on incense, myrrh and vanilla, but opens on bergamot and pink pepper rather than incense and ink. Bujairami Obsidian is the extrait in this group, and it carries incense, myrrh and sandalwood with leather and agarwood smoke in its base.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
How Smoke of Damascus compares with similar scents
Both lists are built on myrrh and sandalwood, and both sit in the resin and wood family. Luster starts with cardamom and iris and has a much longer base, with ambrarome, cypriol, benzoin, labdanum, styrax and tonka bean. Smoke of Damascus is shorter in the base and leans on incense, ink and damask rose.
Resolution shares incense, myrrh and vanilla with this one. Its top is citrus and spice, with bergamot, cardamom and pink pepper, where Smoke of Damascus opens on incense and ink. Its base adds patchouli to the cedar and vanilla that both lists carry.
Obsidian is the extrait in this group, and its heart and base run longer. It shares incense, myrrh and sandalwood with this scent, but adds leather, agarwood smoke and patchouli to the base, where Smoke of Damascus uses vanilla and cedar. Its heart also carries iris, amber and cistus, which this list does not show.
