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BUKHARA

BUKHARA

Eau de Parfum

Regular price £70.00 GBP
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  • Caraway, pear, coriander, bergamot
  • Iris/orris, ambrette, clove, apricot, osmanthus, jasmine
  • Benzoin resin, saffron, amber, musk  
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For our UK customers:

Local pick up:

Local pick up is free and your order can be collected from our shop-studio at The Factory, 21-31 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, Hackney, London, E8 2DA

Monday - Thursday 11am-6pm. Friday 11am-3pm

UK Standard delivery (4-6 working days) costs £5.00 for orders below £120.00.

Free shipping on all orders over £120 & for the Nomad Discovery set

Please understand that working days don't include Saturday and Sunday, or national holidays, and we process orders the day after we receive them.

For individual sample orders, we don't send on a tracked service.

For our customers in the EU (orders are shipped from The Netherlands)

Standard Delivery will take between 5 and 10 working days. (Not including Saturdays and Sundays or national holidays) 

NB : for the Republic of Ireland, orders may take up to 14 working days

Our EU orders are shipped from The Netherlands 

Free shipping on all orders over £120 & Nomad Discovery set

We deliver to the following countries:

For £7.50 to:

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • France 
  • Germany
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Luxembourg
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Slovakia

 For £10 to:

  • Bulgaria
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Monaco
  • Portugal (excluding the Açores and Madeira)
  • Romania
  • Slovenia
  • Spain (excluding the Canary Islands, and Ceuta and Melilla)
  • Sweden

For our customers in continental USA: (orders shipped from New Jersey)

Standard delivery (4-6 working days) costs £5.00 for all orders below £120.00.

Free shipping on all orders over £120 & the Nomad Discovery set

Unfortunately, we're not able to deliver to P.O boxes or APO/FPO addresses, military states or U.S territories.

Please understand that working days don't include Saturday and Sunday or national holidays.

For our customers in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) : Express shipping from the UK

Express International delivery (approx 10 working days) costs £35.00 for all orders including the Nomad Discovery set.

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Delivery for Nomad discovery set is free for UK, EU & USA but a shipping charge will be applied if other items are added to the order.

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Rest of the World  

Why can't we ship to other countries ?

We'd love to be able to ship to more countries around the world, but fragrance is deemed 'hazardous, dangerous goods' and I'm afraid that makes it complicated and difficult to export to many places we'd love to be able to send it to.

 

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We hope you'll love your GALLIVANT fragrance. It's been made with a lot of thought, love and attention. However, if you’re not happy, we offer a refund, exchange or replacement provided your product is returned to us within 30 days of receipt. They must be in their original packaging, completely unopened and undamaged.

To refund your purchase, please get in touch with us via the contact form with your order number. When we receive your returned products we will refund the purchase price. 
We will only refund your postage cost if the goods are faulty or we have sent you the wrong thing.

Only products purchased through our website may be returned in this way. If you have bought a GALLIVANT fragrance from one of our authorised stockists or retailers, please return it to them. That's then a question of the returns policy of the retailer where you bought it.

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Unisex perfume Bukhara by Gallivant

from gallivant founder nick steward

The Bukhara story

“I was incredibly inspired by my journey across Central Asia, and by the Silk Road cities of Uzbekistan in particular.

An extraordinary and memorable adventure. Bukhara is the jewel in the crown, a magical place. A city of artisans, an architectural wonder, a beautiful and ancient crossroads and melting-pot.

Historically, the Silk Road (between Europe and East Asia) was built on spices that served as condiments, dyes and bases for perfumes, so I was very fortunate to go there, just as this fascinating but unknown country opens up again to the outside world …

Cotton fields, the arid earth brought to life with irrigation canals. Dry and crumbling city walls. Minarets and madrassas, peaceful inner courtyards. The trickle of water in fountains. Deserted alleys, white houses with pale blue doors, bleached by the sun and heat. Dust in the narrow streets. Children laughing, playing in the shade. A kaleidoscope of faces: Uzbek, Tajik, Turkic, Persian, Chinese, Mongol, Russian, …. evidence of a melting-pot culture – this is no backwater. A chalk-pale city, clay and brick houses whitewashed to guard against the sun. A thousand shrines, and turquoise tiles. Old Soviet books being sold alongside silks and spices and the traditional karakul fur (think Astrakhan hats and coats). Private patios, vines overhead. Mulberry trees. The pleasures of the table – apricots, pears, and the local specialty – called ‘shurdanak’ - roasted and salted apricot seeds. Cucumbers and carrots in the markets. A convivial, open city of artisans and workshops. A feeling of the vastness of Central Asia, the endless horizons of Uzbekistan, this double-landlocked country. And a sense of the desert beyond the city, and the promise of adventure …”

The perfume notes:

Bukhara is woody-floral, spicy and earthy perfume, composed around the enigmatic iris / orris – one of perfumery’s most prized (and expensive) raw materials

Top: Opening with caraway, pear, coriander and bergamot

Mid: iris / orris, ambrette, osmanthus and a touch of jasmine – the latter a nod to the Persian influences in this part of the world. Clove and apricot enrich the colours and textures

Base: benzoin resin, saffron, amber, wood and cotton-soft musks

And for an extra touch of magic, add Ralf's transparent silk accord (one of the first things he ever created at perfume school!)

Meet the maker

To create the Bukhara fragrance, founder Nick Steward worked with his friend of many years, New York-based star perfumer Ralf Schwieger.

Says Nick “I’m so happy Ralf worked with us to bring this perfume to life. He’s obviously famous, especially for his work for Frederic Malle and HERMÈS, so I feel very proud that he agreed; as we’re a smaller, independent artisan brand. I’ve always appreciated Ralf’s sense of humour, his relaxed approach to his craft (and his evident talent), married with his precision, as well as his impish sense of fun and curiosity.”

Adds Ralf “Of course I was intrigued and curious – I love to travel, but I didn’t know Uzbekistan or Bukhara – so it’s been a total journey of discovery for me too”