If Women's Wear Daily is to be believed, Burberry has more Facebook followers than any other luxury brand.1 And I'd guess their fragrance line does quite well, thank you, despite not being the darling of perfumistas everywhere. Body, their latest fragrance and reportedly their biggest launch ever, is sure to sell like gangbusters even if only for the cool bottle design and the image of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley — reportedly the first of a proposed series of bodies— under the Burberry trench in the advertising.
So I'm sure they won't mind if I confess that Burberry Body has not exactly bowled me over. It's better than Burberry London, mind you — I tried to review Burberry London but couldn't think of what to say. It's in keeping with the spirit of Burberry Brit and Burberry The Beat (although I don't like it as well as either, and I'm guessing it isn't geared quite so young): it's cheerful and clean, and it carefully avoids making any big statements. It's supposedly inspired by Britain — eh? — and it's meant to encompass "all the modernity and heritage of this British brand today, reflecting all the facets that make up the Burberry world", if any of that helps you.2
It's either a fruity chypre or a floral woody amber, take your pick (there's nothing chypre-ish about it to me, even in the 'modern chypre' sense). The top notes are loudly FRESH, with a short-lived peach note and a goodly wallop of FRESH, green-tinged freesia on steroids. If you dislike loud synthetic fresh notes as much as I do, the first few minutes of Burberry Body will be like taking a spike to the brain. My advice is to try it on paper, and let it calm a bit before you sniff — I really only smelled the opening twice, after that, I was careful to skip the earliest stage.
The heart is a rose-y blended floral, still very fresh and clean, if perhaps less insistently so than earlier on. There is a slight undertone of "absinthe" — it's really very slight, and it just reads as a green herbal note; you will have to strain hard to notice the anise. The base is a musky woods, slightly warm but more pale than not, with a velvety-soft finish and just a touch of vanilla. It's only mildly sweet in the later stages.
Other than the spiky opening, I found nothing memorable or distinctive about Burberry Body, then again, other than the spiky opening, I found it reasonably wearable too. I'm quite willing to believe Burberry's creative director, Christopher Bailey, when he says they spent years developing it, but if you told me they decanted from the vat marked "rose-y blended floral" and then threw in the screechiest freesia note they could find plus a dollop of absinthe, and then the absinthe got voted down by a focus group so they removed most of it, I'd believe that too.
The lasting power is quite good.
If anyone has tried the Intense version, do comment.3
Burberry Body was developed by perfumer Michel Almairac; the notes include absinthe, peach, freesia, rose absolute, iris, sandalwood, cashmeran, vanilla, amber and musk. It is available in 35, 60 and 85 ml Eau de Parfum ($55-95). The Eau de Parfum Intense is in 60 and 85 ml ($85-115).
1. Women's Wear Daily, 8/18/2011.
2. Quote via Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey, from the press release.
3. I should mention that I liked the Intense version of The Beat much better than the regular, and so I probably should have sought out the Intense version of Body. On the other hand, if they've intensified the fresh notes in the opening, it might well kill me.
I sampled this yesterday, and “might well kill me” pretty much described my reaction to it. I should have waited a little longer, obviously, for the more wearable stage.
I find the opening really off-putting, but given that all these dept store houses design to attract you on a scent strip in the first 30 seconds, they must think it’s a more attractive opening than I do. And they’re probably right, since I rarely know what will sell.
Robin, I was laughing hysterically at your description of this fragrance. I sniffed this today, and i was actually insulted by this fragrance. HA! I have trouble with sweet synthetic florals, and this was no exception. I love Burberry Classic, but found this to be ick!
So we’ll both have to wait now, and see if it sells! Maybe *we’re* the oddballs!
I saw the bottle in person yesterday, and it’s pretty impressive. Weighs a ton, looks like it holds a gallon of juice (but it doesn’t) and looks like it MUST be stored on it’s side, because it’s heavy and doesn’t look too stable on it’s end.
The saleswoman at Burberry said it smells like “skin” to which I sort of gagged and couldn’t even give it a spray to see if she was right or wrong. I don’t know why, it was just a total turn off to hear someone describe a scent as “skin”.
It’s an odd comment anyway, since it doesn’t smell like skin at all — nor is it what I think of as a “skin scent”, nor does it have one of those solar/sun-warmed-skin musk notes. So — odd.
That’s how it’s been promoted here in the UK. ‘Smells like skin’
LOL! @ ‘inspired by Britain’. Burberry is so uncool here. Who wears Burberry’s stuff (not perfume)? As far as I can tell, only Japanese women and men.
I took a class at the sadly-now-defunct National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth in Canterbury when I was 13. In an attempt to impress my peers, I decked myself out in head-to-toe (fake) Burberry. Imagine my surprise when I was informed that I “looked like a bloody chav”.
*snicker* I was waiting for the chav comments to show up! Knew there’d be at least one or two!
Even here in the US, many people associate “Burberry” with “chav” – or maybe just people I know do.
“Inspired by Britain” just cracked me up. I do think Burberry is perhaps held in higher esteem outside of Britain than in? I really need to make some fashionista friends so I can check these things.
Before its incorporation into the chav lifestyle, Burberry always seemed rather frumpy, something one’s sensible grandmother would wear. Now the company seems to be pitching itself entirely to people who just want a famous name (and would probably be just as happy to wear a fake).
Yes — I think of it as a frumpy brand, but that’s still quite different from how it’s seen in the UK, right?
A lot of people buy Burberry stuff actually, it’s not the most “liked” page of any luxury fashion brand on Facebook for nothing. I remember reading that it’s the no.1 most sold brand overall in Nordstroms across the US (in all departments, clothing, accessories, so forth). That’s why they decided to create a beauty line (which is pretty great by the way in terms of quality, color palette, texture) and that’s why it is exclusive to Nordstrom in the US. I wasn’t impressed with the Body fragrance either, it’s wearable, but nothing to write home about. Now, their Beauty line is another story. I fell in love with everything.
I wouldn’t have thought they were the best selling line at Nordstrom, wow! But sounds like I’m right that they’ve kept more cachet here than in Britain. Thanks.
I think that many people are not aware yet of how much the brand has changed in the recent years, since Christopher Bailey was hired as creative director. Burberry was basically dying a slow death and Bailey brought it back to life and turned it into one of the most profitable luxury brands in the last few years. I look at their clothing and accessories collections now and I often find myself wanting stuff, which didn’t really happen before. And like I said, the makeup line is outstanding. They’re getting rave reviews for it.
I pulled a link for you, with one of their new collections of trench coats and stuff. How pretty are these? I love them!
http://fashiongonerogue.com/burberry-nude-fall-2011-collection-cara-delevingne/
I am aware of it only because of what I read about him in WWD in relation to the perfumes…so I do know that part, and I know the brand is making money again, I just don’t know how it’s seen in the US.
The trench coat as a style does not interest me…have never worn one & no desire to start now. But admit that lacy coat is darned pretty.
(and besides the point, but that first picture looks just like Susan Dey when she was young)
OH, and should have said — thanks for the link and all the fashion help!
No problem, always happy to help !
Yes, a lot of people buy Burberry stuff, but they’re not British.
In the States, I see mostly older men sporting the raincoat – business executives, financial managers, and college professor-types. Guess maybe it’s favored among the “old money” sets?
That could be!
I think the Spanish government must issue Burberry beige checked scarves to every citizen and mandate their wear. You can’t walk two feet in Madrid without running into one.
LOL!
Which part of Madrid do you live? I live here since 2003 and never saw that profussion of Brb scarves
and sort of well to do ex-Yugoslavians, like Croatians, Serbs, Bosnians and Slovenians like myself who come to London on a shopping spree and a museum cum theatre entertainement. I know, I’m their tour leader frequently. Burberry fares well among us. Lol!
I indulge in self-irony so please do not take this comment the politically incorrect way!
Please indulge in all the irony you want 🙂
Burberry is uncool in the UK? I didn’t know that – how funny!
I’m not gonna lie, that’s really weird. Whatever you do, don’t ask where she keeps the bodies.
I just gave this a passing sniff on a blotter the other day. The far dry-down could, I think, be called a skin scent. It’s light-woody, pleasantly musky, a little vanilla. I didn’t enjoy the opening quite as much, but I was not in the best of moods when I tried it, so I may give it another go based on my “huh! THAT’S nice” reaction to the scent strip I found in my pocket hours later.
I’ve got the far dry down on right now, and I still wouldn’t call it a skin scent, or at least, no more so than anything that dries down to a pale musky woods. Still, sounds like it might be worth a 2nd try, why not?
I tried this on in Bloomies last weekend. It took 4 *vigorous* scrubbings with a washcloth and Dial soap no less, to get this thing off of me; honestly, it smelled so bad it was like a living thing. Ugh. What I noticed most was the synthetic note in the drydown, which I am finding in most “fresh” perfumes that have been launched in recent years. I used to think it was ozone, but I now have no idea what it is; all I know is it is everywhere in the department store new releases that are not gourmands or orientals. I am not buying much new perfume lately, sadly.
Guessing it is a musk aromachemical that you don’t like. Try unscented deodorant to remove perfume.
Thank you for that tip Robin!
I noticed this wore FOREVER on my skin. I could still smell it over 24 hours (and two showers) later. :S What kind of devil magic is that?
Perhaps they have such a following in facebook because about a month ago they sent out requests via coupon sites that if you “liked” their page you would get a free sample of Body. 🙂
The WWD article was just about the same time, so hard to say if that had a prior effect. As of today, they have 8.3 million followers — that’s a hefty number of FB followers no matter how you got them.
I find Body quite a big scent, especially towards the beginning. I think of it as full-bodied, which may be ironic given the slender dimensions of the model. I *like* its rose note – apparently there are 50 roses in each bottle, or so a member of makeupalley (or fragrantica) claims. The rose note seems somewhat apple-ish to my nose though apple is not listed. I’m not exactly smelling apple so much as getting a sort of ruddy, red-apple freshness to the rose. Its not really nuanced enough to interest me for very long. There is something a bit brash and one dimensional there. I tried it next to Sensuous Nude (a totally different frag) and definitely preferred S.nude…
Glad you like the rose note! Can’t really say it works for me — I know they say they used real rose absolute, but gosh, they did a stellar job, IMHO, of making it smell like the whole thing came out of a test tube. It reminds me of the “rose” note in Chloe, which is also Michel Almairac.
Agree it’s big — it’s big in the modern sense, w/o any real sense of richness; the bigness is all from the diffusiveness of the synthetic fresh notes. To me, “full-bodied” implies a richness that is lacking in Body, but that’s semantics, right?
And yes, we’ll both take the Sensuous Nude 🙂
“Big” is exactly the right word for it! It gave me the sense of being smacked in the face with a broomstick, really. It was just SO MUCH with the roses and I picked up an apple-ish kind of note too. It’s not the most disgusting thing I’ve ever tried, but it’s really not for me.
Oh, for those keeping track, finally got to try Oh Lola! down here in Aust – really quite dull, I was expecting something far more exciting.
I actually liked Sensuous Nude. Surprised myself.
Ditto!
Burberry Body was strangely hairspray-ish. I don’t like Rosie H-W as a model and I wish I didn’t have to see her everywhere. Thanks to her role in Transformers, she now strikes me as the ultimate embodiment of what us wimmenz are expected to be, so her presence in their ads makes me even less likely to buy an already unpleasant perfume.
And by “role in Transformers”, I mean “walking blow-up doll”.
I heard she did not wow anybody with her acting ability, but I didn’t see the movie. I would agree with hairsprayish, or shampooish, or anything like.
I really disliked this one.
It is one of my least favorites this year.
Oh, help. I quite liked it.
Yay, and so glad you’re telling us! I’m sure it has more fans & hope they’ll come out of the woodwork.
I didn’t like it at first, but a week later or so tested Intense, and I am enjoying it a lot! Is not a masterpiece, I won’t lie to you, but is strong and easy to wear at the same time! The peach is yummy, I join you!
Don’t like the bottle that almost everyone loves so much, is like a baseball bat and really heavy; I always fear it craxhes in my carpet!
The Intense version is a beautiful ambery rose, I didn’t expect to love it as much as I do!
Oh good, thanks! I was surprised at how much better the Intense version of The Beat seemed (better than the regular, I mean), so I should really go back and try this one.
Did not like Burberry Body. There was sth irritating to it, very synthetic.
maybe it is not bad, but would not work for me.
Ah well, plenty more out there, right?
I generally do not like perfumes from Burberry (except Burberry Touch) because they generally have this plasticky, hairsprayish drydown on me. The same is true for Estee Lauder (at least for a number of its fragrances). So when I read someone here commented and used the term “Estee Lauderish” I knew exactly what she meant.
Interesting. I think of them as so different!
Different bottle; I liked it so much; seems to be a loooong one, like Kenzo Flower’s. Now, the new fashion colloquialism for fragrances: the “Modern chypre”. I’d like too much to know what they want to tell with this classification. Burberry Brit is one of the best from the brand. So funny to see how the brands are saw in each country. Despite the social class that uses Burberry, they have beautiful and very well-done pieces.
The Brit Gold was really nice, I wish they’d kept making it.
A fruity chypre will usually have a dry base w/ a fair amount of patchouli, but this one doesn’t feel like even a modern chypre to me.
Again… My nose must work totally different than everyone else here… I found this scent SPECTACULAR! Love the Peachy-Rose Opening and the so called “Synthetic” and “Screechy” side of the fragrance i have never experienced!!!! It’s very sensual and womanly and sexy and yes it does dry down to a skin scent in my opinion… it rather reminds me much of Gucci Guilty for women with the added depth of Violet and the Powdery feeling of Iris… it is one of my absolute faves of the year in fact. I guess i am just in the minority yet again… i find nothing at all to criticize in this fragrance and to me it smells as Bailey said as if they spent considerable time making it, it comes off very classy and sophisticated to my nose… just guess it takes all kinds…. A Home Run in my book!
As An Aside… I also LOVE Burberry London… Amazing Scent!
Oh, the original Burberry London was my first love . . . I actually went through several bottles of it, which is something I no longer do since I’m so busy trying out so many new things. Anyway, I was glad to see your comment because it gives me incentive to try Body. I was feeling rather discouraged by the other comments. Thanks! I really needed the excuse to try something new. 😉
My humble advice: never be discouraged by reviews or comments. People are always more likely to comment if they agree with the review, so fans of this one will not be proportionately represented in the comments.
But of course it takes all kinds, and so glad to see another fan weigh in!
Smelling Burberry made me wonder if their target group is people with too few olfactive cells, or indeed anosmics.
The fragrance packs a loud, screechy wallop and is a serious contender for the SCRUBBER OF THE YEAR award.
I couldn’t wait to take it off and it required a long time and multiple scrubbings to disappear.
Have not tried the Intense – are you kidding? Couldn’t get away from this one fast enough.
In general do not like either amber or rose on me (but I might on other people), but if I had to choose an ambery rose – or is it musky? I’d rather go for Stella McCartney’s Rose Absolute. That one is very well done and manages to feel young.
Sorry, should have said “Burberry Body”
Some of their older fragrances are not too bad, especially “Brit”
In the case of The Beat, I got the distinct impression that they spent more on the materials for the Intense, and just generally made a “better” fragrance. So that could turn out to be the case for Body, who knows?
Possibly. I have not seen Burberry Body Intense yet, but if I do, I’ll give it a try.
Or perhaps some of us out there don’t have as highly tuned senses of smell and sense this fragrance perfectly fine…. sans screech!
When I go to work in the morning, I can tell which of my colleagues are already at work by the scent trail they left in front of the elevator. Some of these people are early risers and arrive at work 10 minutes before myself – and I can still sense them three floors down.
Now Burberry Body – I could follow this across town, I’m pretty sure of that.
LMAO! That’s would qualify as SCREECHY! LOL! 🙂
Spike to the brain just about summed it up for me.
🙂
This thing about bberry being perceived as chav in the uk is something new too me! Here in Argentina (and in the states, where I am fortunate to be visiting once a year for the last 4 years) it is perceived as slightly upscale and “aspirational”… You know Robin, kind of Ralph Lauren for those with anglophilia… 😉
I like their stuff but I was never compelled to actually BUY something… You know, when everybody else is going to be walking down the street with something on the same plaid print, and you cannot tell if they paid 10 or 500 for it… I guess the idea of something “exclusive” and “cool” is totally lost,no ?
About the review… Well hehehe I loved it. I will seek the fragrance over here, and report back, specially if I find the intense one. My sis loves freesia, so perhaps this will work for her.
I knew the Burberry = Chav thing, but don’t know why I did. But it’s even in the Wikipedia page for Burberry! Much, I’m sure, to Burberry’s dismay.
Burberry Body is a copy of last year’s Miss Dupont – they even have the same set of notes. I’m sure nobody here tried Miss Dupont because it has an extremely limited distribution, but believe me – they are particularly identical. Maybe Inter Parfums who owns both Dupont and Burberry licenses gave the composition trial runs (on Dupont) before its globally launching on Burberry. Anyway Body is no way unique fragrance.
It is a big basket of candied peaches on a creamy woody a bit rosy (but I don’t feel many roses here) base. I think the fragrance is more “young” than “grown up” – the mature audience will find it too fruity or even too light-minded. Pleasant scent, but nothing iconic. And this is not the smell of body to me.
Interesting…and quite right, I never tried Miss Dupont and never saw a word about it on the blogs I read.
S.T. Dupont is a French brand with tradition since 1872. They are famous for elegant writing instruments, belts, jewellery and smoking accessories. They try to pass as niche – and they are, but the marketing is aristocratically subdued. No wonder you haven’t heard of them.
The fragrance is in no way remarcable. I have seen Miss Dupont in a number of mainstream shops and if they hoped it would sell itself, they were wrong. The flacon is very blah – looking like second-league brands the likes of Tommy Hilfiger or something made by Coty. They aim for a young look but the young have so many choices it is hard to believe Dupont makes an impact.
Other brands in their situation – Charriol. La Prairie, even Sisley – at least go for the mature market and make an impact.
it seems so interestingly lemming-like that when one someone here dislikes something… all the rest chime in with exactly the same blah faux-insouciant remarks of disengagement about a fragrance and virtually no one speaks out and says… “Wait a Bloody Sec…” and expresses anything resembling a opinion based in anything other than the sentiment of the room… if One or two people speak out about how bad a fragrance is then EVERYBODY chimes in with malcontented remarks about out Dreck-ful the scent is… if someone LOVES it (like anything Amouage or Frederic Malle or NICHE) then the whole room is falling all in love with it like a long lost and missed lover… the horrible disengagement of mainstream fragrance here seems rather snarky and elitist… that’s just my view and i say that because i have seen this behavious over and over and over!!! most are so unwilling to give a fragrance a chance and dismiss it as unintersting or boring or not worthy that most here afterward i am convinced go in with those blinders attached before they smell a fragrance and just agree or even perhaps more worse,,, wait for the comments here to make their mind up for them… even if they may perhaps liks something a little bit once the tide of the comments is in the negative they feel disinclined to go against the pack. maybe it’s just me… i dunno…
It’s human nature — people would rather agree than disagree. A few people who don’t agree will always comment, but by & large most people aren’t going to go against the tide.
But I disagree with your niche vs mainstream conclusion. Just look at the recent reviews of Serge Lutens Vitrol d’Oeillet & Prada Candy — it isn’t always niche=good and mainstream=bad. If I gave a “good” review to Diesel Loverdose & Estee Lauder Sensuous Noir and a “bad” review to Burberry Body & Vera Wang Lovestruck, what is snarky and elitist about that? And seriously, I don’t think it’s at all “elitist” that many perfumistas, myself included, feel more fondness for Frederic Malle (to take just one example) as a perfume brand, than Burberry (again, to take one example) as a perfume brand. Frederic Malle invests more money in the juice, and makes a higher quality (and more interesting artistically) product, than Burberry, in the opinion of nearly everyone who makes it their business to try a large portion of the new perfumes that come out every year, and notably, in the opinion of nearly any perfumer that I’ve ever heard write on the subject. There are plenty of niche brands these days that do *not in fact* make a higher quality product, or a more artistic product, mind you.
But you have made similar complaints before, and I have answered you similarly before, so we will both just have to live with our own prejudices 🙂
I have absolutely no qualms disagreeing with *everyone* about anything – and often do. LOL!
Your lovely post (as always) proves my point to be honest… that most people, to me it would seem, and this is just my view, would rather go with the tide of popular opinion than form their own and in that instance there is no sense of spirited debate or in depth analysis… just a lot of seeming congratulatory patting on the back on how all seem to agree and how happy that makes everyone to agree… many times there have been fragrances that are really quite nice (IMHO) and just get put through the wringer.. not that in is unjustified but all the “Follow The Leader” assimilation of one opinion negates a real debate on said values of that fragrance because everyone just agrees on the populous sentiment and (i have no proof of course) agree without truly giving a scent due inspection, you know…??? Well… Burberry Body Sucks and is screechy and “Spike to The Brain” and when one looks nearly all the same complaints about the fragrance are the same, not as if perhaps they smelled it with their own opinion but are simply influenced by the throng. again, this is only MY VIEW, it does not reflect anything more than how things SEEM to me… I have no need of defence of Burberry or Gucci or anyone really because they don’t need it and here isn’t the place for me to soapbox for them anyway, i just am saying that perhaps if more of the crowd went in with open minds rather than already formed opinions there would be a little more diversity of opinion…
as for Loverdose, haven’t smelled it yet and have no clue of it as for Sensuous Noir… i like it but prefer the original Juice and DEFINITELY the “Nude” juice to it. speaking of Lovestruck… i have smelled that extensively and it sucks! genuinely… it’s Dreck-Ful. i mean i am a perfumnista from way way way WAYYYY back (i used to sneak sniffs of my Mom’s “Estee” on her dresser when i was like 6-7 years old and to this day remains my favorite scent of all time because every time i smell it i think of my mom and the good times of my youth) and in my more halcyon days i kept a LIST, HANDWRITTEN, mind you, of every fragrance that was currently on the market (Dilys by Laura Ashley was my fave back then, if that dates me any!) So believe you me… i have smelled damn near every journey through the fragrance looking glass and have smelled some total masterpieces and some dangerously awful stuff in my time… so i don’t just comment to go against the grain or simply to be contrarian and opposite, just that i have smelled A LOT and have a pretty good nose i might add… so don’t think me devisive, just trying to inspire more… shall we say… individualism. maybe i should not and just speak my mind and let it be and not worry, but again, fragrance is something i am unbelivaby passionate about and it inspires vigourous feelings in me… sometimes that makes me prolix to the point of infuriating, but i simply don’t know how to be any less verbose or impassioned!
Personally I have tried Burberry Body three times over the course of a week, with one day between each try. I made sure I went to the fragrance store absolutely unscented. I tried it on my wrist, on clothes and one most unfortunate time, behind the ears. Each time it was an absolute scrubber but I just could not believe it was THAT bad and kept going back. So when I say it’s screechy and I did not like it, these are my own thoughts and my own opinion.
I do not know why the others wrote what they wrote, but there is a tiny bit of chance they disliked it just as much as I did, despite all efforts to the contrary.
As a mere contributor, it’s nice to be able to devote as much or as little time as I have to my opinion, and leave it to Robin and the other gifted reviewers to go about the fragrance in detail. I never felt pressured to describe my own testing in detail or testify in front a jury, eventually with witnesses, that I really think my own thoughts before I speak and really test a fragrance thoroughly before putting pen to paper, or rather fingers to keyboard.
I am also passionate about perfume, as are many of these contributors, and if Robin and the others do not see fit to act as the fragrance police, I don’t see why should we submit to other self-appointed inquisition only on account of – passion for fragrance? How do you measure who has more and who has less?
This entire notion is just absurd.
Well, my meaning was different — I meant that people who disagree often don’t bother to comment, not that those who are in fact commenting change their opinions to suit the tide.
Also true that if the fragrance industry wants people to keep open minds, they perhaps ought to stop making over 1000 fragrances a year. As it stands, people who are seriously interested in perfume have to find a way to pick and choose what they’re going to try — they can’t try everything.
Often when someone joines an already very long thread, they do not read all replies – mostly those at the beginning and at the end. This happened in my case. After reading all the accusations I did comb the entire thread and was surprised at the amount of similar opinions. I am not sure though that people wrote like sheep – simply we were in agreement a lot.
PJ O’Rourke writes about veal: “veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it’s cute but boring and expensive.” Those three attributes “cute, but boring and expensive (for the quality)” just about sum up my general opinion of mainstream fragrance for the very young market. How can a perfumista expect deep and passionate discussions about products that are neither is beyond me.
I have to admit that I have not read all the comments but most I have read I have to say I completely disagree and this is why I have decided to post a comment. In general, I am a huge fan of the Burberry brand but to date have not been into their perfumes as I generally prefer heavier, more exotic scents. Although this scent seemed like one I would not like I was very surprised to find that I have fallen more and more in love with it. Again, I find it odd that though this perfume has gotten very positive reviews on other perfume blogs, here it was really put down.
Now I must say that I sampled and bought the Intense version. It is a scent that I find really hard to resist and really hard to forget. Yes, it is slightly similar to, what I find boring, fruity scents but a lot more complicated and different from them at the same time and its lasting powers are awesome as well.
Since I went in the store to check out their nude collection (limited edition launched together with the fragrance) and wanted to look at a pair of snake sandals, I did not even think about sampling the perfume. I finally put some on when the salespeople showed it to me and I was really surprised because later at the office every single person commented on how great I smelled and asked what I was wearing. It is a very sexy perfume but yet wearable, perfect for a date night. To me the combination is just about perfect even though different from what I normally wear.
Since I was not entirely convinced due to normally going for more woody, musky scents I put it on for two more days and then I felt so enamored that I had to go out and get it right away.
I have to agree that the regular version is nothing like the intense so I do understand the comments. The regular version is a much cooler and sharper scent and a lot less interesting in general. I think most people will go for that as it is so wearable but I would understand why the connoiseurs on here commented negatively on that version. Although not bad either in my opinion, it is not like the intense, which I am passionate about.
I still need to go try the Intense, thanks for the reminder!
How interesting that Burberry is still perceived as a chav brand!! I remember reading about it years ago, when there was a sudden influx of checkered scarves on the street, of a phenomenon called prole drift, whereby high-end brands are adopted/hijacked by lower-class buyers. The problem for Burberry was that 90% of those scarves were imitations. I remember thinking it would be a good thing, as it would force innovation (though of course certainly not good for revenue!) but perhaps that is not such an issue for a brand that markets classicism. Also, the people that I have met that own authentic Burberry products are very upper-middle class, highly educated, fairly young (20-30) and generally a little conservative. I can’t claim to be all (any?) of these but I own a Burberry coat and it is my pride and joy! Ah winter sales…I just love trench coats. They make you stand tall.
I finally tried this today in Debenhams.
the bottle is a collosal size, and heavy too. I thought it was like a giant tester to save on glass or something but it was the 85ml. I’m sure it’s just like those trick glasses cups where it looks like there is more liquid in than there is, because the glass is so thick.
I smelled this – bearing in mind I knew it was just the marketing that said this is a skin scent and not to be fooled – but I actually think it does smell like a skin scent, it’s not very floral, it’s vanilla-y and, well, skin-y.
it is a lot nicer than the rest of the Burberry scents because the packaging ties in with the Burberry’s makeup line, and so does the scent. Burberry have done what Versace have done, launched a more expensive “luxury” fragrance ( I didn’t reckon much to the Versace either).
it does smell nice, but it’s not adventurous. it’s quiet too, it doesn’t travel far from the skin and you have to press your nose to your arm in order to smell it. but it lasts a long time.
all-in-all = nice, but not worth the money in my opinion.
I really do not care about the model who screams to me I am sexxxy and stoooopid! and I care even less for the scents.
Burberry as a brand ist cool though and they have a great make-up line. But their perfume stuff smells like everything else on the market.
The top note reminded me of some fragrance from 80s – in a good way, so I liked the top note (maybe it’s because of rose – my favorite note 🙂 ) But it became really bland and boring very quickly. Five minutes after putting it on my hand I entered some shop and the sales woman said: “what fragrance you wearing? it’s so good! it’s strong!” And I said: “It’s Burberry Body, I hardly smell it…” I don’t know, maybe my sense of smell worsened because I smoke, and I actually *need* a fragrance to be screechy in order to smell it at all 😉 I feel that I haven’t really smelled it, so maybe I should try it one more time…
The only Burberry fragrance I really like is London for men.
It definitely is pretty loud, so maybe your sense of smell Lenika but I smoke too and am often the same way so I tend to overuse frags a bit:))) People did compliment me a lot on this one as well and it was after that I got the Intense which I much preferred to the regular. However, I am so disappointed about that stupid bottle, my 90 ml got all ruined in two weeks. If you do get it please know that you gotta be extremely careful with that top heavy bottle. After mine broke in the ladies restrooms at the office I cannot stand this scent anymore since a rotten version of it lingered around the entire office for two weeks and imagine in 80 ml concentration.
OVincze, I’m sorry it ended like this…
I tried it one more time and didn’t like it at all and it didn’t resemble any 80-s frag anymore. I didn’t try the Intense version, I’ll try it, of course, when I see it, as I try almost everything new i see in stores.
And the bottle – I don’t like it either, it’s too big and heavy and not elegant enough. Maybe the small one looks better..