Fragrance Notes
Burberry
Dating from 1995, Burberry Eau de Parfum comes from a period when a feminine perfume was expected to have a structure rather than a single hook, and it smells like it in the best sense.
Blackcurrant and green apple give it an opening that is tart and crisp at once, the blackcurrant dark and faintly leafy, the apple sharper and lighter, almost astringent. Jasmine follows and is the heart of the thing, warm and full and a little indolic, the kind of white flower that reads as perfume rather than as a garden.
Underneath there are three materials doing the grounding, and they are what give it its age and its quality. Cedarwood is dry and upright, like the inside of a wooden box. Sandalwood is the opposite, creamy and soft and slightly milky. Musk blurs between them, and vanilla sits at the very bottom as a smooth sweetness that never becomes a dessert. The move from sharp fruit through flower to warm wood is the whole architecture, and it is done with real economy.
Michel Almairac composed it. At eau de parfum strength it has genuine staying power and more presence than most modern equivalents, so two sprays will be plenty; it is also warmer than the current fashion, which makes it better in autumn and winter than in heat. It reads as classic and quite formal, which suits evenings, occasions and the wearer who finds today's sweet fruited launches thin by comparison.
The company's story begins in 1856 in British clothing, and the trench is what the world actually knows it for. Perfume has never been run from inside the business at all: it is licensed, and Coty holds that licence now.
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