What does Bujairami Velvet Desires smell like?
Bitter almond is the first material the list names. It gives a marzipan-like, sweet and slightly nutty edge that is sharper than plain sugar, and it reads closer to almond sponge or marzipan than to the raw nut. The heart is vanilla with floral notes, so the sweetness is shaped and lifted by flowers rather than left as one syrupy line.
The base is where the scent gets its weight. Vanilla absolute is the richer, more resinous form of vanilla, and ultravanil is a vanillin-type aroma chemical with a strong, clean sweetness. Tonka bean adds a coumarin warmth with a hay-like, almond-tinged edge, and sandalwood gives a creamy woody line underneath. Four base materials in a row make the base sweet and layered rather than thin.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Velvet Desires?
The style of Velvet Desires is gourmand: sweet and warm.
On paper it is built around vanilla, almond and floral notes.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Oud Money, sharing vanilla.
Next: Bujairami Woody Oud.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Velvet Desires for you?
The brand tags Velvet Desires for him and for her, which places it with the unisex scents of the line. This guide files it under gourmand, a family it assigned from the notes, since the brand names no family. It is an eau de parfum, and the list is the three-tier kind: bitter almond at the top, vanilla and floral notes in the heart and four materials in the base.@buy
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 Velvet Desires in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Three scents of this guide sit nearest to Velvet Desires by note. Bujairami Oud Money is an extrait that shares vanilla, tonka bean and sandalwood, though its list leans on oud and vetiver. Bujairami Woody Oud carries the same three materials in one untiered list that also has oud and cardamom. Bujairami Dragonfly shares the trio in a shorter list, with vanilla absolute at the top.
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How Velvet Desires compares with similar scents
Oud Money is an extrait with spices at the top, oud and sandalwood in the heart, and amber, tonka bean, vanilla and vetiver in the base. From Velvet Desires' side, it trades bitter almond and floral notes for spice and oud, and it adds vetiver. The shared materials are vanilla, tonka bean and sandalwood, which is the sweet base the two lists have in common.
Woody Oud is one untiered list: oud, Brazilian rosewood, cardamom, sandalwood, vanilla, vetiver, tonka bean and amber. Velvet Desires gives its notes in three tiers, and it opens on bitter almond, which Woody Oud does not list. The overlap is vanilla, tonka bean and sandalwood, and the rest of Woody Oud's list is wood and spice.
Dragonfly is an eau de parfum with three tiers, vanilla absolute at the top, tonka bean in the heart and sandalwood at the base. Velvet Desires has the same vanilla absolute, tonka and sandalwood trio, but it opens on bitter almond and adds vanilla and floral notes in the heart, plus ultravanil in the base. Dragonfly is the shorter list of the two.
