Fragrance Notes
Cedarwood
CypriolHero
Smoke and dry wood and nothing else: Burberry Hero Parfum 50ml is about as short a composition as you will find on a counter, and this is the right size of bottle in which to find out whether that suits you.
Cedarwood provides the frame. It is dry and clean with a slight rasp to it, the smell of wood shavings in a cold workshop, and it is by some distance the more polite of the two materials here, giving the scent a recognisable shape before the other one takes over. Cypriol provides everything else. It is an earthy root with a genuinely smoky character, dry and bitter and faintly tarry, closer to burnt grass than to any kind of timber, and at parfum strength it is unmistakable. Laid over the cedarwood it produces something dark, mineral and slightly harsh, in a way that reads as deliberate rather than cheap.
Expect the scent to settle quickly and then hold. With two materials there is nothing waiting to emerge later, so what you decide in the first twenty minutes will be your view of it for the whole wear. It lasts well, keeps fairly close to the body, and suits cold weather and evenings. Two sprays is the most anyone needs at this concentration, and on a jumper or a coat collar it will still be detectable the following day, which is worth knowing if you share a small car or a small office. On a cold still evening it carries further than two materials have any right to. The house itself dates from 1856 and built its name on weatherproofed British coats, with the check becoming its most recognisable mark; it moved into larger London premises in Haymarket in 1913. Perfume has always been licensed out rather than made at home, and Coty is the current partner.
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