Almost every house in this corner of the market leaves you guessing. You buy something, you smell something familiar, and you spend an evening reading forum threads trying to work out what it was built from. Bujairami does the opposite. It puts the original in the product name.
That one decision tells you more about the brand than any amount of marketing copy, and it is also where the complications start. Here is who they are, what the naming actually means, and the one thing in it that is not what it looks like.
Who Bujairami are
Bujairami describes itself as an Australian-headquartered fragrance company specialising in inspired-by perfumes, with operations in the United Arab Emirates and Canada. It states that its range is Australian owned and manufactured.
The part you can check without taking anyone’s word for it is the shopfront. Bujairami runs eight physical stores across Australia: the flagship on Guildford Road in Sydney, kiosks at Wetherill Park, Macquarie Centre and Bankstown, and further stores in Moonee Ponds, Mermaid Beach, Stones Corner and Northbridge. Four states, eight doors. That is a working retail business rather than a label that exists only on a website, which is more than can be said for a lot of houses in this corner of the market.
The brand does not publish a founder or a founding date anywhere on its own site. Adam Bujairami is credited as the perfumer behind the range, so the name is attached to the actual work and not just the company registration.
Of the twenty one we currently stock, sixteen are extrait de parfum and five are eau de parfum. That ratio is unusual. Most houses working this way default to eau de parfum because it is cheaper to make.
The thing that makes them different
Bujairami publish the fragrance each scent was built from, in the product title itself, on their own storefronts.
This matters more than it sounds. When a retailer tells you something smells like a designer fragrance, that is the retailer’s opinion. When wearers on a forum agree about it, that is consensus, which is better but still guesswork. When the manufacturer prints it on the listing, the comparison stops being anybody’s interpretation and becomes the brand’s own claim about its own product.
Compare this with most of the category, where houses go out of their way to avoid naming anything. One major range we also sell uses inspired-by language on thirteen products and never once names a perfume or a house, only a theme. Bujairami naming originals outright is genuinely rare.
The catch, and nobody else is telling you this
Several Bujairami listings read along the lines of “Ombre Nomade Louis Vuitton – Extrait” or “Althair Parfums De Marly – Extrait”. It is natural to read that as pointing at an extrait version of the original.
There is no extrait version of those originals. The word describes Bujairami’s own concentration, not a product the other house has ever released.
| How the listing reads | What the original actually is |
|---|---|
| California Dream Extrait from Louis Vuitton | Louis Vuitton sell California Dream as eau de parfum only |
| Ombre Nomade Louis Vuitton – Extrait | Ombre Nomade is eau de parfum only |
| Pacific Chill Louis Vuitton – Extrait | Pacific Chill is eau de parfum only |
| Althair Parfums De Marly – Extrait | Althair is eau de parfum only. A real flanker exists, Althair Exclusif, and that is eau de parfum too |
| Bal d'Afrique Absolu Byredo – Extrait | The Absolu is real, but Byredo call it Absolu de Parfum and have never used Extrait |
So read those names as two separate pieces of information stuck together. The designer name tells you what the scent was built from. The concentration tells you about the bottle in your hand, not about anything the original house sells.
This is worth getting right in both directions. If you go looking for Louis Vuitton Ombre Nomade Extrait to compare against, you will not find one, because it does not exist. Louis Vuitton’s main line is eau de parfum, sold only through their own boutiques and never wholesale. Their Les Extraits collection is seven separate fragrances with their own names, not stronger versions of existing ones.
The range we stock, and what each one is built from
Eighteen of the twenty one carry a stated inspiration. Three do not, and we have left those blank rather than inventing one.
| Bujairami | Concentration | Inspired by, in the brand's own words |
|---|---|---|
| Ocean Eyes | Extrait | Louis Vuitton California Dream |
| Mad Love | Extrait | Louis Vuitton Ombre Nomade |
| Madness | EDP | Louis Vuitton Ombre Nomade |
| Next Level | Extrait | Louis Vuitton L'Immensite |
| Non Stop | Extrait | Louis Vuitton Pacific Chill |
| Houdini | Extrait | Louis Vuitton City of Stars |
| Hectic | Extrait | Louis Vuitton Imagination |
| Psycho | Extrait | Louis Vuitton Symphony |
| Ya Habibi | Extrait | Louis Vuitton Ambre Levant |
| Kingsman | Extrait | Creed Aventus |
| Ibiza | Extrait | Creed Virgin Island Water |
| Legacy | Extrait | Parfums de Marly Althair |
| Executor | Extrait | Ex Nihilo Blue Talisman |
| Mafia Boss | Extrait | Clive Christian Blonde Amber |
| Miss Vanilla | Extrait | Kayali Vanilla 28 |
| Too Damn Good | Extrait | Byredo Bal d'Afrique Absolu |
| Safari Squeeze | EDP | Memoirs of a Perfume Collector Tales from Zanzibar |
| Drip No. 7 | Extrait | Narcotica Limonata |
| Vice City | EDP | Not stated by the brand |
| Chic Wood | EDP | Not stated by the brand |
| Nice and Nude | EDP | Not stated by the brand |
Nine of the twenty one trace back to Louis Vuitton alone, which is close to half the stocked range coming from a single house. Since Louis Vuitton do not sell through any third party at all, there is no cheaper official route to those scents. That is a large part of why this particular range moves.
Two names, one original
Mad Love and Madness are both built from Louis Vuitton Ombre Nomade. This is not a duplicate listing or a mistake. Mad Love is the extrait and Madness is the eau de parfum, so you are choosing a concentration rather than a different scent.
The extrait will sit closer to the skin at first and last considerably longer. The eau de parfum opens brighter and projects harder early on. Neither is the better one in the abstract. If you want it to still be there at the end of a working day, take the extrait. If you want people to notice it when you walk in, take the eau de parfum.
The three with nothing stated
Vice City, Chic Wood and Nice and Nude carry no stated inspiration from the brand, and all three are eau de parfum.
We are not going to guess on their behalf. If Bujairami have not named an original, any claim you read about what these three are modelled on is somebody’s nose and nothing more. Treat them as the house’s own work until the brand says otherwise.
Where to start
If you already know an original you love and cannot justify its price, use the table above and go straight to the row. That is the whole point of a brand that names its sources, and it is a far better starting point than browsing blind.
If you are coming to this fresh, the extraits are where the range is strongest, simply because that is where most of the catalogue sits and where the concentration does the most work.
One honest caution. A stated inspiration tells you what a fragrance was built from. It does not promise the two are indistinguishable, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling you something. Materials, proportions and how a scent behaves on skin all differ. Expect a recognisable interpretation rather than a swap.
Every comparison on this page describes scent profile only and reflects Bujairami’s own published product naming. Each fragrance named as an original is the trade mark of its respective owner, and each Bujairami fragrance is the house’s own composition in its own bottle and packaging, distinct from the original in every respect. Bujairami Scents is an independent UK retailer and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any of the houses named here.
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