What does Bujairami Zafra smell like?
Indian saffron is the sole top note. It is a warm, honeyed and faintly leathery spice drawn from crocus stigmas, and the name gives no further detail on the material, so the opening sets the tone on its own.
Rosemary sits in the heart as a green, camphorous herb with a clear, resinous edge, and oud closes the list as a dense, dark wood. The scent moves from a spiced herb through a green lift into a heavy wood, and with one note per tier each step is easy to follow.
Bujairami Zafra: style and character
Zafra is a oriental scent, warm and rich in character.
Saffron, rosemary and oud stand in front.
The nearest Bujairami scent by notes is Bujairami Serpent Hiss, sharing saffron.
Next: Bujairami Breathless.
This is the guide's own wording of the family and notes, not a test.
Is Zafra for you?
The one family this guide finds in the three notes is oriental, a sorting made from the notes rather than from anything the brand states. The brand tags it for him and for her. It is an eau de parfum listed at 100 ml, and the list gives one name per tier, which leaves very little to sort it by.
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 Zafra in Europe
FragranceGems is an authorized seller of Bujairami in the EU.
Its Bujairami collection shows what is available.
Nearest on the list are Bujairami Serpent Hiss, which shares saffron and oud with Zafra and adds patchouli in one untiered line. Bujairami Breathless and Bujairami Cartel are both extraits that keep saffron at the top and oud at the base. Breathless adds rose and incense to the heart, and Cartel adds rose and tobacco.
Bujairami scents with similar notes
Picked by the notes they share.
Carriers per country and what to check before ordering
Zafra compared with three similar Bujairami scents
Bujairami Zafra and Bujairami Serpent Hiss share saffron and oud. Serpent Hiss puts oud, saffron and patchouli in one untiered line, so its patchouli is an earthy, camphorous extra that Zafra does not list. Zafra spreads its saffron and oud across three tiers, with rosemary between them, which gives its list a clearer top-to-base reading.
Bujairami Zafra and Bujairami Breathless both open on saffron and end on oud, with Breathless adding amber to the base. Breathless is an extrait de parfum built as saffron over rose and incense, then amber and oud. Zafra's middle is rosemary, a green herb, where Breathless carries rose and incense, so the two diverge in the heart.
Bujairami Zafra and Bujairami Cartel share a saffron top and an oud base. Cartel is an extrait de parfum with rose and tobacco in the heart and amber under the oud, so its middle reads warmer and more tobacco-led than the rosemary of Zafra. Zafra has no rose and no tobacco among its three notes.