What does Bujairami Velvet Petals smell like?
Cinnamon and nutmeg open the list, two warm spices that are sharp at first and then round out. Cinnamon brings a sweet, hot bark edge and nutmeg a nutty, faintly camphorous warmth, so the start is spiced and the rest of the list keeps close to wood.
The heart is wood. Guaiac wood is smoky and balsamic, sandalwood is creamy and smooth, Virginia cedar is dry and pencil-like, and papyrus is a dry, faintly sweet woody material. Four woods together make a dry, wooded middle, and the list gives that tier no flower at all.
The base is sweet and resinous. Vanilla and coumarin bring a soft, hay-tinged sweetness, tobacco blossom adds a dry, leathery sweetness, French labdanum is a dense, leathery resin, and musk rounds off the bottom. With labdanum and tobacco blossom in it, the base is the richest part of the list.
What style is Bujairami Velvet Petals?
The style of Velvet Petals is oriental: warm and rich.
Cinnamon, spices and guaiac wood stand in front.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Yellow Stone, sharing cinnamon.
After that: Bujairami Amplify.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Velvet Petals for you?
The brand tags Velvet Petals for her. This guide files it under oriental, woody and gourmand, three families assigned from the notes because the brand gives none. It is an eau de parfum, and the note list is the three-tier kind with eleven materials: two at the top, four in the heart and five in the base. That makes it one of the fuller lists in this guide.
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 Petals in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Three scents of this guide share its spice and wood. Bujairami Yellow Stone also opens on cinnamon and nutmeg, with guaiac wood and sandalwood in its lower layers, though it adds oud. Bujairami Amplify shares cinnamon, sandalwood and vanilla, on a list that opens on rum and passionfruit. Bujairami Oud and Gold matches cinnamon, sandalwood and cedar, with oud and lily-of-the-valley in its frame.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Bujairami Velvet Petals next to similar scents
Yellow Stone opens on oud, cinnamon and nutmeg, so it shares the spiced start with Velvet Petals and puts oud in front. Its heart is jasmine and sandalwood, against the woods and papyrus of Velvet Petals. Its base is amber, vanilla, guaiac wood, musk and cedar. Guaiac wood, cinnamon and nutmeg are common ground, and the oud is the main difference.
Amplify has rum, passionfruit, bergamot and geranium at the top, a fruit-and-citrus start where Velvet Petals opens on spice. Its heart is patchouli, cinnamon, leather and rose, and its base is caramel, vanilla, tonka bean, sandalwood, labdanum, ambergris and musk. Velvet Petals shares cinnamon, sandalwood and vanilla with it, and the rest of the lists part ways.
Oud and Gold starts with palisander rosewood, lavender, cinnamon and apple, then gives its heart to rose, cedar and lily-of-the-valley. Its base is oud, sandalwood, vanilla and amber. Velvet Petals shares cinnamon, sandalwood and cedar with it. Where Velvet Petals has papyrus, tobacco blossom and labdanum, Oud and Gold has rose, lily-of-the-valley and an oud base.
