What does Bujairami Top Tier smell like?
Saffron comes first on the list of Bujairami Top Tier, and it is a good guide to what follows. The spice has a dry, leathery, slightly metallic smell, so it anticipates the leather in the heart. Pink pepper is brighter, a rosy, fizzy spice that in turn anticipates the rose. Bergamot supplies the bitter-fresh citrus that most pyramids start with.
The heart holds three notes with three different textures. Violet leaf is green and watery, with a cucumber-like, faintly metallic coolness; it is a different material from the sweet, powdery violet flower. Leather is a smoky, dry accord. Rose is the full floral note between them. Rose with leather and saffron is one of the established combinations in modern perfumery, and violet leaf is what makes this version greener.
Patchouli starts the base with its earthy, slightly camphorous depth. Oak is an uncommon entry that suggests dry, tannic cask wood. Vanilla bean, named as the pod and not as plain vanilla, implies the darker, woodier side of vanilla. One sweet note against two dry ones: the base stays on the woody side.
Bujairami Top Tier: style and character
The style of Top Tier is oriental: warm and rich.
On paper it is built around saffron, pink pepper and bergamot.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Powerful Lady comes closest, with saffron in common.
After that: Bujairami 2000.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Top Tier for you?
Bujairami Top Tier carries both halves of the brand's tag, for him and for her, and comes as an extrait de parfum in one listed size, 100 ml. Oriental and floral are the two families this guide derives from the notes: saffron, leather and vanilla bean on one side, rose and violet leaf on the other. That is our sorting, not the brand's. The note list is a regular three-by-three pyramid.
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 Top Tier in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Among the scents for sale, Bujairami Powerful Lady comes nearest, with saffron, bergamot, rose and patchouli. Bujairami 2000 shares bergamot and violet leaf, and Bujairami Chroma just the bergamot, over jasmine, musk and cedar. All three are eaux de parfum.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Top Tier compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Bujairami Powerful Lady and Bujairami Top Tier both run saffron and bergamot into rose and finish with patchouli. From there Powerful Lady goes soft and floral, with jasmine, citrus fruits, amber and musk. Top Tier goes the other way: pink pepper, violet leaf and leather around the rose, then oak and vanilla bean. One is an eau de parfum, the other an extrait.
Two notes tie Bujairami 2000 to Bujairami Top Tier, bergamot and violet leaf. The rest of 2000 is an aromatic list with lemon, black pepper, lavender, musk, cedar and amber. Top Tier has no lavender and no musk. Its heart is leather and rose, its spice is saffron with pink pepper, and its woods are patchouli and oak.
With Bujairami Chroma the overlap is a single note, bergamot. Chroma is a light list of citrus fruits, jasmine, musk and cedar. Bujairami Top Tier is denser in every tier: saffron and pink pepper on top, leather, rose and violet leaf in the middle, patchouli, oak and vanilla bean below.