Bujairami Perfumes UK: The Complete Scent Guide

Bujairami is an Australian fragrance house that makes inspired-by perfumes, scents built to echo luxury designer originals at a fraction of the cost. Founded around 2020 by perfumer Adam Bujairami, the brand sells mostly 100ml extrait de parfum at roughly £38.99 to £49.99, and it has become one of the most talked-about names in UK fragrance thanks to TikTok.

Here is the question almost nobody answers properly. Which designer is each Bujairami scent actually inspired by?

Search the brand and you get long product lists with no attribution, or a review of three bottles from a catalogue of over a hundred. So we did the work. What follows maps the popular Bujairami range to the fragrances that inspired it, tells you what each one honestly smells like, and flags where the resemblance is close and where it drifts. We tested these on skin before listing them, so the performance notes come from wearing them, not from a spec sheet.

What is Bujairami?

Adam Bujairami built the brand on a simple idea: take the DNA of expensive designer and niche perfumes, and rebuild it in a high-concentration formula that most people can afford. The house is based in Sydney, though the founder’s roots run through Dubai’s perfume trade, and that shows in the warmth of the compositions.

Two things set Bujairami apart from the usual clone houses. First, nearly the whole range is extrait de parfum, the strongest everyday concentration, which is why longevity is a recurring talking point. If concentration is new to you, our guide to extrait de parfum concentration explains where it sits on the fragrance concentration scale. Second, the brand is unusually open about what each scent references, which is why an accurate inspired-by map is possible at all.

The catalogue is large and still growing, with new drops landing regularly. This guide focuses on the scents UK shoppers actually search for.

The Bujairami inspired-by map

Start here. This table covers the twelve most-searched Bujairami scents and what each one is built to resemble. Full profiles follow underneath.

*Red Static and Vice City: the brand names the reference exactly as written here. We could not independently confirm the designer house behind those two names, so we quote the brand rather than guess.

One pattern jumps out. Louis Vuitton shows up more than any other house, five times across the popular range alone. If you have quietly admired the LV Les Colognes line but not the LV price, Bujairami has become the shortcut.

Fresh and citrus scents

Hectic (inspired by Louis Vuitton Imagination)

The one that built the brand’s UK reputation. Hectic opens on a bright rush of citron, Calabrian bergamot and Sicilian orange, then a real hit of Nigerian ginger and Ceylon cinnamon gives it spine. Underneath sits Chinese black tea, guaiac wood and olibanum over ambroxan. It is genuinely close to Imagination, close enough that it is the reference point every other Imagination clone gets measured against. Fresh, a little spicy, extremely easy to wear, and the safest blind buy in the range.

Houdini (inspired by Louis Vuitton City of Stars)

A citrus firework. Houdini opens with lime, lemon, bergamot, blood orange and blood mandarin, then softens into a creamy tiare-and-sandalwood base with a powdery finish. It reads brighter and more lemon-forward than City of Stars, and it out-projects the original by a fair margin. If you want that clean, sunny LV freshness without the outlay, this delivers, though the polish of the original is a step above.

Ocean Eyes (inspired by Louis Vuitton California Dream)

More mandarin-forward than the scent it echoes. Ocean Eyes pairs mandarin and pear up top with a musky, ambrette-seed heart and a soft benzoin base. It is a clean citrus-musk that stays close to the skin, the kind of thing you reach for when you want to smell fresh and expensive without announcing it. As an extrait, it lasts longer than a fresh scent has any right to.

Sweet and gourmand scents

Too Damn Good (inspired by Byredo Bal d’Afrique)

A 2026 release that sold out fast, and deservedly. Too Damn Good runs bergamot, blackcurrant and lemon into a heart of musk, praline and violet, then lands on black amber, vetiver and cedarwood. It is the fresh-floral-gourmand Byredo signature done with real richness, sweeter and more resinous than you expect from the top notes. Sillage is loud for the style. One of the strongest value picks Bujairami has released.

Vice City (inspired by City Rhythm Miami)

Holiday in a bottle. Vice City opens with coconut, lime and saffron, moves through sugar cane, ylang-ylang, jasmine and osmanthus, and finishes on rum, tobacco leaf, tonka, ambergris and cedar. It is a tropical gourmand with a boozy tail, warm and sweet without turning sickly. Best in summer evenings, though the tobacco base gives it enough weight to work year-round.

City Life (inspired by Xerjoff La Capitale)

The boozy-gourmand crowd-pleaser. City Life captures La Capitale’s rum, honey, tobacco and cinnamon with a leathery undertone, rich and moreish and grown-up. This is a cold-weather scent, a dark-bar-in-December scent, and it is one of the range’s most complimented. If you like your gourmands with a cocktail edge rather than a dessert edge, start here.

Spicy, amber and statement scents

Mafia Boss – Inspired By Clive Christian Blonde Amber

The most complex thing in the popular range. Mafia Boss stacks rum, olibanum, bitter orange, cardamom, pink pepper and ginger over a heart of dried fruits, white tobacco, saffron, tuberose and jasmine, then a deep base of tonka, myrrh, vanilla, labdanum, patchouli and vetiver. It is an opulent, mature amber, evening wear for cold months. Against a Clive Christian original it gets you a good part of the way for a tiny slice of the price, and honestly, few people will ever cross-check.

Kingsman – Inspired by Creed Aventus

Every dupe house makes an Aventus. Kingsman is Bujairami’s, and it hits the familiar pineapple-and-birch fruity-chypre with a smoky, patchouli-and-oakmoss dry-down. Aventus is the most cloned fragrance on earth for a reason, and Kingsman is a solid, confident take on it, pitched at the man who wants the Aventus effect on a weekday without wearing his good bottle to the office.

Gladiator – Inspired by Argos Triumph of Bacchus

A niche reference most clone houses skip. Gladiator chases Argos Triumph of Bacchus, a sweet, fruity, characterful scent, and the fact that Bujairami bothered to interpret something this specific tells you the range goes deeper than the obvious designer hits. Worth a look if you already know the original and never wanted to pay niche money for it.

Psycho – Inspired by Louis Vuitton Symphony

The community verdict on Psycho is blunt: it smells almost exactly like Symphony, close enough to replace a famously overpriced bottle. It carries that bright, floral-citrus LV signature with the clean, radiant quality the originals are known for. Another entry in Bujairami’s deep Louis Vuitton bench, and one of the closest.

Woody and versatile scents

Executor – Inspired by Ex Nihilo Blue Talisman

Bujairami built Executor on the Blue Talisman extrait rather than the standard version, which is why it comes across heavier, muskier and sweeter than the EDP most people know. Pear and bergamot open it, orange blossom and jasmine sambac fill the heart, and sandalwood, amberwood, vanilla and Ambrofix ground the base. That classic clean-blue DNA is all there, just denser and darker. A very good alternative to a bottle that runs close to £300.

Red Static – Inspired by Rouge Trafalgar Esprit

A playful, fruity rose. Red Static leads with cherry and pink pepper over Bulgarian and Turkish rose, with a jammy red-fruits base. It leans feminine and it is unapologetically fun, the sort of cheerful cherry-rose that gets noticed. The brand names its reference as Rouge Trafalgar Esprit de Parfum; we quote that as stated rather than assign it a house we cannot confirm.

The rest of the range worth knowing

Beyond the headline twelve, plenty of the wider catalogue is worth your attention. These are the ones UK shoppers ask about most, with their references verified against Bujairami’s own listings.

A few more sit in the range without a confirmed reference: Enforcer is a fresh woody with pear, ginger and akigalawood; Perfect Life is a fruity-aromatic with apple, blackcurrant and lavender; Madness is a spicy leather with clove, cinnamon and tonka; Silent Halo is a clean fougère with juniper, lavender and cypress. We list these by character rather than pin an inspiration we cannot verify, because guessing a dupe target you are not sure of helps nobody.

Note on “The Rock”: your search may have been for The Rock Intensely, which echoes Stronger With You Intensely. There is a separate flanker, The Rock Powerfully, based on the Powerfully version. Two different scents, two different originals.

How Bujairami perfumes perform

This is where the extrait concentration earns its keep. Across the range, most scents last 7 to 12 hours on skin and noticeably longer on clothing, which for a sub-£40 fragrance is genuinely strong.

Performance is not uniform, though, and the marketing “7 to 12 hours” flattens a real difference. The ambers and gourmands are the powerhouses. Mafia Boss, City Life and Too Damn Good project hard for the first few hours and hang on all day. The fresh citrus scents, Houdini, Ocean Eyes, No Limit, sit at the lighter end, closer to seven hours, which is normal for the style and still better than most designer freshies manage.

Projection follows the same logic. Expect a strong opening from almost everything, then a settling into a closer skin scent after the first two or three hours. If you like the whole range, our wider Arabian fragrances guide covers where these performance-first houses sit against each other.

How many sprays, and how to wear them

Because these are extrait-strength, they need a lighter hand than a typical eau de parfum. Two to three sprays is the everyday setting for most of the range. Four gives you a strong scent bubble for an evening out. The ambers reward restraint most of all: over-spray Mafia Boss or City Life in a warm room and you will regret it, and so will the room.

One spray on clothing plus the rest on skin gets you the best of both, since the extrait formula clings to fabric for days. As with any fragrance, don’t rub your wrists together after spraying. It bruises the opening.

How Bujairami compares to other inspired-by houses

Bujairami is not the only game in town, and it helps to know where it sits. Against a value house like the ones in our best Lattafa perfumes guide, Bujairami targets pricier niche and designer references (Byredo, Ex Nihilo, Xerjoff, Clive Christian) rather than mainstream designers, and it leans harder into extrait concentration. Against the French Avenue brand guide range, which chases big designer names, Bujairami feels more niche-literate and more citrus-and-gourmand weighted.

Put simply: if the originals you covet are expensive niche bottles rather than department-store designers, Bujairami is often the closer match.

Are Bujairami perfumes worth it?

For the money, yes, with realistic expectations. At around £38.99 for a 100ml extrait, the value is hard to argue with, and the best of the range (Hectic, Too Damn Good, Mafia Boss, City Life) punch well above the price.

Two honest caveats. These are inspired-by fragrances, so they capture the character of the originals, not every last nuance, and the gap usually shows in the dry-down and in raw material polish. And quality does vary across such a big catalogue, which is exactly why we test before we stock rather than list the whole range blind. Buy the scents with a track record, not the ones with the most exciting names.

Where to buy Bujairami perfumes in the UK

Buy from a UK seller that stocks the range properly and stands behind it, so you get domestic shipping, UK consumer rights and a clear authenticity position. That matters more with a viral brand, because viral brands attract fakes.

Perfumeo stocks the Bujairami perfumes collection at 100ml with free UK delivery. If you are new to the brand, start with Hectic for fresh-spicy, Too Damn Good for sweet, or Mafia Boss for a cold-weather statement, then work outward from there.

The verdict on Bujairami

Bujairami has earned its moment. A big range of extrait-strength scents, built to echo mostly niche and luxury originals, at a price that makes experimenting painless. The performance is real, the value is real, and the inspired-by map above turns a confusing wall of product names into an actual shopping list.

Go in knowing what each one references and what it honestly smells like, buy the proven performers first, and the Bujairami perfumes range is one of the most rewarding value plays in UK fragrance right now.

Frequently asked questions

What are Bujairami perfumes?

Bujairami is an Australian fragrance house founded around 2020 by perfumer Adam Bujairami. It makes inspired-by fragrances, scents built to echo luxury designer perfumes at a fraction of the price, mostly as 100ml extrait de parfum priced around £38.99 to £49.99 in the UK.

What is Bujairami Hectic inspired by?

Bujairami Hectic is inspired by Louis Vuitton Imagination. It shares the bright citrus, ginger and black-tea structure over a warm ambroxan and guaiac-wood base, and is widely rated one of the closest interpretations of that scent at the price.

Are Bujairami perfumes long-lasting?

Most last 7 to 12 hours on skin and longer on clothing, helped by the extrait de parfum concentration. Longevity varies by scent: the ambers and gourmands last longest, while the fresh citrus ones sit nearer the seven-hour mark.

Are Bujairami perfumes designer clones?

They are inspired-by fragrances, built to resemble designer originals rather than sold as counterfeits. The brand openly references houses like Louis Vuitton, Creed and Byredo. A good Bujairami captures the character of the original at roughly a tenth of the cost, not an identical copy.

How many sprays of Bujairami should I use?

Because these are extrait-strength, two to three sprays is usually enough. Four gives a strong scent bubble for evenings. The ambers and gourmands especially reward restraint, so start low and build up rather than over-applying.

Where can I buy Bujairami perfumes in the UK?

Several UK retailers stock Bujairami. Buy from a UK seller that states its authenticity position so you get domestic shipping and consumer rights. Perfumeo stocks the range at 100ml with free UK delivery.

Are Bujairami perfumes unisex?

Most are marketed as unisex. Some lean masculine (Kingsman, Mafia Boss, Executor) and some lean feminine (Red Static, Too Damn Good), but the majority wear comfortably across genders since the compositions read as warm and versatile rather than strictly gendered.