What does Bujairami Velvet smell like?
The top note is whipped vanilla, a vanilla that has been aerated so it reads creamier and lighter than a dense vanilla extract. Vanilla is the sweetest of the three layers here, and it sets a dessert-like softness as the first impression. The heart is cashmere musk. Musks are the soft, skin-like materials with a faint powdery edge, and the cashmere in the name points to the brushed, woolly feel the brand has in mind.
The base is sueded amber. Amber in perfumery usually means a warm, resinous and faintly sweet structure, and the suede word suggests the rounded, dry-soft finish of the material rather than a sharp resin. With only three notes on the list, the three layers do most of the work, and the scent reads as a simple progression from vanilla to musk to amber.
Bujairami Velvet: style and character
Judged by its notes alone, Velvet is a sweet and warm gourmand scent.
Vanilla, musk and amber stand in front.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Dreamscape comes closest, with vanilla in common.
Also near: Bujairami Madagascar.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who wears Velvet
The brand puts Velvet in its for him and for her group, so it is not sorted by gender. This guide files it under gourmand, a family it assigned from the notes because the brand names no family. It is an eau de parfum, and its note list is the three-tier kind with one note in each tier. A three-note list is short, so the family rests almost entirely on the vanilla.
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 Velvet in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
The closest scents of this guide are Bujairami Dreamscape, Bujairami Madagascar and Bujairami Epic Moments. Dreamscape also opens on whipped vanilla, and both carry musk and amber in their lower layers. Madagascar meets Velvet on vanilla, musk and amber too, but it adds warm spices and opoponax. Epic Moments is an extrait that shares only vanilla and amber, and it opens on floral notes instead.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
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Bujairami Velvet next to similar scents
Dreamscape also lists a whipped vanilla at the top, but it adds santal flower in the heart and a base of sheer amber and bare musk. Velvet keeps its top to the whipped vanilla alone and carries cashmere musk through the heart. The two share vanilla, musk and amber, so the difference sits in the heart and in the extra musk in Dreamscape's base.
Madagascar opens on warm spices alongside vanilla, where Velvet opens on vanilla alone. Its heart is opoponax, a resinous and balsamic material, and its base is golden amber with musk. Velvet has a cashmere musk heart and a sueded amber base. The shared trio is vanilla, musk and amber, so the spices and the opoponax are the main points of difference from Velvet's side.
Epic Moments is an extrait with floral notes at the top, amber in the heart and vanilla at the base. From Velvet's side, it leaves out the musk, and it puts floral notes first where Velvet puts whipped vanilla. The two meet on vanilla and amber, so the differences are the concentration, the opening and the missing musk.