What does Bujairami X's n O's smell like?
The opening is rum, vanilla orchid and jasmine. Rum gives a dark, sugary warmth, vanilla orchid reads as a creamy, slightly floral vanilla, and jasmine adds a white, lifting floral that stops the sweetness from sitting flat.
Vanilla returns in the heart beside creme brulee, a caramelised, custard-like note with a burnt-sugar edge, and spicy notes, a general term that suggests warm spice without naming a material. Tonka bean adds a hay-like, almond sweetness, leather a smoky dryness, and rose a soft, petal-like finish.
Patchouli is earthy and faintly camphorous, brown sugar and sugar deepen the sweetness, oud adds a dark resin, amber a warm, resinous glow and musk a soft, skin-like close. The base holds the most sugar and the most resin in the list, and the patchouli and oud keep it from tipping into plain dessert.
Bujairami X's n O's: style and character
In plain words, X's n O's is sweet and warm: a gourmand scent.
Vanilla, sugar and rum carry most of the list.
Within the Bujairami range, Bujairami Miss Vanilla comes closest, with vanilla in common.
Next: Bujairami Shortcake.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Who is Bujairami X's n O's for?
The gourmand, oriental and floral families come from this guide's reading of the notes, not from a label the brand uses. The brand tags the scent for her. It is an eau de parfum, and its list runs in three tiers of three, six and six notes, so the heart and base carry most of the detail on paper.
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 X's n O's in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Nearest on the note list are three scents of this guide. Bujairami Miss Vanilla is an extrait de parfum that shares vanilla orchid, jasmine and tonka bean with X's n O's, and it builds a base of amber, amberwood, musk and patchouli. Bujairami Shortcake shares those three notes too, in an eau de parfum with sugar in the heart. Bujairami Rosinova keeps vanilla and jasmine, and brings rose and red apple to the top.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Bujairami X's n O's next to similar scents
From the Bujairami X's n O's side, Bujairami Miss Vanilla opens on vanilla orchid and jasmine, which X's n O's also opens with, but it skips rum and moves to brown sugar and tonka bean in its heart. Its base of amber, amberwood, musk and patchouli leaves out the oud and the sugar of the X's n O's base.
Bujairami Shortcake shares vanilla orchid and jasmine in the top with Bujairami X's n O's, and tonka bean in the heart. It has no rum, and its heart is sugar, patchouli and tonka bean, a shorter list than the six notes of the X's n O's heart. Its base of amber, amberwood and musk is lighter than the amber, musk, oud and sugar base of X's n O's.
Bujairami Rosinova opens on rose petals and red apple, where Bujairami X's n O's opens on rum, vanilla orchid and jasmine, so the two start in different places. Both reach jasmine and vanilla. Rosinova's heart of May rose and jasmine sambac sits over a base of patchouli, amber and vanilla, while X's n O's carries rose in its heart beside creme brulee and spicy notes.
