What does Bujairami Woolloomooloo smell like?
The top of Bujairami Woolloomooloo has two notes with little in common. Bergamot is the bitter-fresh citrus that opens countless perfumes. Watermelon is a modern, watery note: sweet, green and cool, closer to cucumber and melon rind than to sugar. Together they make a wet, bright start.
Blue cypress is the entire heart, and it is the unusual material here. The oil is distilled from the wood and bark of a cypress pine and is known for its blue colour, which develops during distillation. Its smell is dry and woody, faintly smoky, with a honeyed, balsamic softness that ordinary cypress lacks. As the single heart note between fruit and base, the wood has the middle of the pyramid to itself.
Five entries form the base. Sandalwood is given the same country of origin as the cypress in the listing; that regional species is drier and more resinous than the creamy Indian kind. Moss adds the damp, earthy smell of a forest floor. Ambergris, a material of marine origin that perfumers now mostly recreate, is warm, salty and skin-like. Vanilla is the one sweet note, and the musky entry softens the rest. The listing spells two of these “Musky” and “Ambergis”; this guide reads them as musk and ambergris. Blue cypress, sandalwood and moss are why it is sorted under a single family, woody.
What kind of scent is Bujairami Woolloomooloo?
Think dry and woody: Woolloomooloo sits in the woody family.
Sandalwood, cypress and bergamot stand in front.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Legacy comes closest, with bergamot in common.
After that: Bujairami Ya Habibi.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who wears Woolloomooloo
Bujairami Woolloomooloo is one of the scents the brand lists as its own creation, and the audience tag is for her. This guide places it in the woody family; that sorting is ours, taken from the blue cypress, sandalwood and moss. It is an extrait de parfum in the brand's 100 ml listing. The note list is an uneven pyramid, two notes on top, one in the heart and five in the base, with two entries misspelled in the source.
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 Woolloomooloo in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Nothing else in this guide lists blue cypress or watermelon. The overlaps are in the frame: Bujairami Ya Habibi and Bujairami Executor each share bergamot, vanilla, musk and sandalwood, and Bujairami Legacy shares bergamot, vanilla and musk.
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Picked by the notes they share.
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How Woolloomooloo compares with similar scents
Bujairami Legacy shares bergamot, vanilla and musk with Bujairami Woolloomooloo, and it lists amber where this scent lists ambergris, two notes this guide groups together. The centre differs completely: Legacy has caramel in the heart and spices on top, a sweet build. Woolloomooloo puts blue cypress in the heart and adds watermelon, moss and sandalwood. Both are extraits.
Bergamot, vanilla, musk and sandalwood are on both lists, and Bujairami Ya Habibi has amber against the ambergris of Bujairami Woolloomooloo. Ya Habibi is the richer pyramid, with cinnamon, saffron and mandarin, frankincense, rose and jasmine, and oud in the base. Woolloomooloo has no spice, flower or oud; watermelon, blue cypress and moss set it apart.
Bujairami Executor opens with pear and bergamot, has orange blossom and Arabian jasmine in the heart, and ends on amberwood, sandalwood, vanilla, Ambrofix and musk. The notes it shares with Bujairami Woolloomooloo are bergamot, sandalwood, vanilla and musk. Executor is a white-floral list with a modern ambery base; Woolloomooloo has no flowers and relies on blue cypress and moss instead.