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Key Notes
- Notes
- Bois de cèdre, Cypriol
- Longevity
- Long Lasting
- Sillage
- Moderate
- Brand
- Burberry
Two materials, both of them wood or close to it, make Burberry Hero Parfum 100ml the starkest thing in this range, and that austerity is the point rather than an oversight.
Cedarwood is the first half. Dry, pale and faintly peppery, it has that clean splintery quality you get from a planed board, with no cream and no sugar anywhere in it, and at parfum strength it is much denser than the same material in a toilette. Cypriol is the second half and the reason to try this. It is a root rather than a wood, and it smells like one: smoky, earthy, slightly tarry, with a dry grassy bitterness underneath the smoke. Against the cedarwood it reads almost like a bonfire at the edge of a field, and it gives the scent a darkness that nothing else in the Hero family has.
There is no development to follow. A two material composition announces itself and then stays, deepening and quietening over the hours rather than changing, which some wearers find reassuring and others find dull. It is worth knowing before you buy rather than after. At parfum concentration it lasts a long time and sits reasonably close to the body, so one spray will do and two is already a statement. Cold weather and evenings suit it, the marketing points it at men, and it will appeal most to anyone who has grown tired of sweet masculine launches and wants something plainly dark instead. Test it on skin rather than on card, because smoky materials read very differently on each. Burberry is a British luxury fashion house of 1856, famous for its coats and for the check, and its perfumes are made under licence by other companies, as they always have been.
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