What does Bujairami The Drifter smell like?
Geranium leads the list of Bujairami The Drifter. Its leaf oil smells rosy, green and minty, close enough to rose that perfumers use it as a sharper, leafier stand-in. Pink pepper has a rosy side of its own, bright and slightly fruity, so the two reinforce each other. Citrus, named without a fruit, adds general zest.
Red peony continues the rose theme in the heart. Peony gives no extract, so the note is always a perfumer's construction: fresh, airy, petal-like, somewhere between rose and a watery green. Cardamom cools it and saffron warms it, the first green and lemony, the second leathery and dry with a metallic gleam. Saffron is also the classic bridge to oud.
And oud is where the base begins. Agarwood is dark, woody and leathery. Cypriol, also called nagarmotha, is the root of an Indian sedge with a smoky, earthy, slightly leathery smell that perfumers often use to reinforce oud. Patchouli is damp earth, vetiver dry roots and smoke, and musk is the one soft note. Rosy and peppery on top, rooty and smoky below: that spread is why the scent sits in three families in this guide.
Who wears The Drifter
Bujairami The Drifter is listed for him and for her. Oriental, floral and woody: three families, each traceable to part of the list, and all three assigned by this guide from the notes and not by the brand. Saffron and oud give the first, geranium and red peony the second, cypriol, patchouli and vetiver the third. It is an extrait de parfum. The pyramid is complete and specific, eleven notes with only the citrus left unnamed.
What kind of scent is Bujairami The Drifter?
The style of The Drifter is oriental: warm and rich.
Cardamom, citrus fruits and cypriol lead its note list.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Concentration and sizes
- Concentration in the brand's catalogue: extrait 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 The Drifter in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Three other scents in this guide stand nearest: Bujairami Oud Money, an extrait with oud and vetiver and the same stated house, and Bujairami Tigris and Bujairami Wild Side, which both list citrus fruits, vetiver, musk and patchouli.
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How The Drifter compares with similar scents
Bujairami Oud Money shares the stated house and two materials with Bujairami The Drifter: oud and vetiver. From there it goes sweet and creamy, with sandalwood, amber, tonka bean and vanilla. The Drifter goes the other way, towards flowers at the top and towards cypriol and patchouli at the bottom, and it lists no sweet note.
Citrus, vetiver, musk and patchouli are common ground between Bujairami The Drifter and Bujairami Tigris, an eau de parfum with six notes. Tigris has unnamed spices where The Drifter names cardamom, saffron and pink pepper, and amber where The Drifter has oud and cypriol. Tigris lists no flowers; The Drifter has geranium and red peony.
Bujairami Wild Side is an extrait like Bujairami The Drifter and prints the same six names as Tigris: citrus fruits, spices, musk, vetiver, amber and patchouli. Four of them overlap with The Drifter. Missing from Wild Side are the rosy notes, geranium and red peony, and the darkest part of the base, oud with cypriol.
