What does Bujairami Sultan smell like?
Spice and citrus share the top of Bujairami Sultan. Cardamom is cool, green and aromatic, nutmeg warm and dry, and saffron has a leathery, honeyed, faintly metallic quality. Mandarin brings juicy sweetness, and neroli, distilled from bitter orange flowers, adds a clean, slightly bitter floral note. That is already a mix of kitchen and garden.
The heart is the busiest part of the list. Kulfi is named after the Indian frozen dessert, so it points to milk, cardamom and nuts; the brand gives no more detail. Rose and jasmine are the classic pair of perfumery flowers, and orange blossom echoes the neroli above it, only sweeter and more honeyed. Mastic and lentisque are one tree, the mastic tree, whose resin is dry, green and faintly pine-like. A resin and a sweet dairy accord in the same tier is an unusual pairing.
Vanilla, amber, sandalwood and a general woody note close it out. Vanilla and amber are warm and sweet, and sandalwood is smooth and milky. Taken together, the pyramid moves from spiced citrus to a dense floral and resin middle and then to a creamy, woody warmth. The guide files it as oriental, floral and woody.
Bujairami Sultan: style and character
The style of Sultan is oriental: warm and rich.
On paper it is built around orange blossom, resins and balsams and cardamom.
Closest within Bujairami, by notes: Bujairami Oud Money, which shares spices and vanilla.
Also near: Bujairami Dirty Money.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who Sultan suits
Bujairami Sultan carries the brand's for him tag. Oriental, floral and woody are the families this guide derives from the notes, a sorting of its own and not the brand's. The concentration is eau de parfum and the listed size is 100 ml. The list is fully tiered and long, with fifteen materials, and the heart is the largest tier.
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 Sultan in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
For spice and a warm base, three extraits in this guide come closest. Bujairami Oud Money shares spices, amber, sandalwood and vanilla. Bujairami Dirty Money shares spices, jasmine and amber. Bujairami Smokilla has spices, vanilla and woody notes, with cocoa and tonka bean in its heart.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Sultan and its closest neighbours
Bujairami Oud Money shares amber, sandalwood, spices and vanilla with Bujairami Sultan. Where Sultan runs through saffron, rose, kulfi and orange blossom, Oud Money has oud in the heart and tonka bean and vetiver at the base. It is an extrait with a shorter, woodier list.
Spices, jasmine and amber are the three overlaps with Bujairami Dirty Money. Bujairami Sultan surrounds them with cardamom, saffron, neroli, rose, vanilla and sandalwood; Dirty Money keeps it to four notes, adding leather. Sultan is the eau de parfum, Dirty Money the extrait.
Bujairami Smokilla has spices, vanilla and woody notes, which Bujairami Sultan also lists. Its tobacco leaf, cocoa, tonka bean, tobacco blossom and dried fruits have no counterpart in Sultan, whose weight lies in saffron, rose, jasmine and mastic. Smokilla is the extrait.
