Body

Soft Peach-Chypre with a TEA & HONEY drydown. A classic "your skin but better" scent that projects, this scent is perfectly pitched at the changing of the guard from deep-peach scents of the 1990s and early 2000s, like Tresor Lancome, to contemporary rose scents, like Idole Lancome & Chloe EDP Chloe. Signed by perfumer Michel Almairac (Gucci Rush), this beauty opens with a burst of soft, peach chypre and dries down to dew drops, honey and cashmere. In the air I get a well blended "your skin but better" vibe of dew drops and honey that is difficult to pick out individual notes, and on the skin I get honey, tea & pencil shavings. Contrast to Body by Burberry EDT: Also composed by Michel Almairac, these are very similar, although the EDT is slightly less sweet, and the tannic component is more obviously a tea note. Both are well above average performance-wise. Contrast to Body Tendre by Burberry: Also composed by Michel Almairac, these are very similar, although Body Tendre is more rose forward. Both are well above average performance-wise. Contrast to Chloe EDP Chloe: These are different, especially in the openings where Chloe EDP is more about fresh rose, but the drydown of Body EDP reminds me of Chloe EDP with the sweet tea vibe. Roughly equivalent performance. Contrast to Tresor Lancome: Although these have been compared, I find them quite different. However, there are some similarities in the final drydown of Body Burberry, after the tannic component fades, I get a lingering whiff of the 'hug-me accord' made famous by perfumer Sophia Grojsman (Tresor Lancome, Exclamation Coty, Volupte Oscar de la Renta) which shows itself in many of her compositions, Tresor Lancome included. Contrast to Gucci Rush Gucci: With its cult following, it's difficult to compare anything to Gucci Rush, and while these are very different scents. both are composed by Michel Almairac and there are some similarities with both being a peach chypre. Body by Burberry I only detect peach chypre in the opening whereas with Gucci Rush I get more of a peach chypre throughout with a prominent Lily of the Valley note that isn't present in Body by Burberry. I personally find the performance of Gucci Rush underwhelming (likely due to reformulation) unlike Body by Burberry which always exceeds my expectations of longevity and sillage. Overall: Well above average performance that becomes beast mode when layered over its matching body lotion. It's a longtime love for me!

I tried a sample size of this today and I really like it a lot. It's soft, warm, sweet, sexy and cozy all at once and a touch candyish in a good way. I realize everyone's body chemistry and their olfactory senses affect how they perceive and react to a fragrance, but I don't get the hate and I certainly don't get the ever so rude and repetitive "old lady" vibe from it. ( Sooo tired of hearing that )To me it's a very modern and young vibe but truthfully it reminds me a lot of Burberry Her, and makes me wonder if that is a reintroduction and reconfiguration of this because this is discontinued and they smell very similar. I'm surprised no one noticed that. I've said this before, but I can't help but wonder if the fragrances were tried without knowing the actual notes beforehand would they come out with things like " it's the wormwood that killed it for me"lol, really? Is anyone that familiar with the scent of wormwood ? Perfume like a song, is a compilations of notes, focusing on specific notes is like saying, I really thought I would like this song but the c flat killed it for me lol,or I don't hear the B flat in this at all lol. Perfume is a scent symphony to be taken in at once and appreciated for all the different stages of the song as they both have an opening, a middle and wind down. I feel like some people actually stress about a fragrance rather than enjoy it. Take it all in instead of picking it apart and enjoy it,not just this fragrance but any. You will either like it or not, but you don't need to hate on it like you want everyone else to hate on it too. I will give my opinion of a perfume I don't like without using insulting terms or trying to make everyone else who likes it feel like they are crazy. Lighten up, it's really not that serious.

Hot damn. Sometimes I'm wrong. I *hated* this fragrance when I first smelled it. I found it to be a bizarre combination of nail vanish and plastic rose that settled into an unappealing Mumsy scent. This perfume then went on sale, and I - because I'm a trash person - went out and bought a bottle. I started wearing it that day. Then again on the next day. Then again on the following day. Then a full week went by, and I realised: Sometimes I'm wrong. It has this gentle, yet low-key glamourous vibe to it. It's elegant rose with cold peach, and a easy woody-musky base. Actually - a PERFECT day-time / work fragrance. This does not mean it's boring. It means it's classic, pleasing, delicate, well-blended, and clean. OH! The LONGEVITY, people. Only since "Eternity" by Calvin Klein has a day-time fragrance impressed me with its longevity. It's crazy awesome. I still have to disagree with all those that say this is a scent perfect for winter. I feel it's still a scent you wear to cool you down in the blistering heat! When summer comes, and I'm foolishly working like a chump - I'll be wearing this. This packaging, though, is something else. Initially, I thought it was boring. So...colourless. Again, I'm just wrong on this. I feel it's more elegant now, and - oh, the variety - that it can stand up or lie down on your dresser / vanity. This bottle is both a jewel and a weapon. Seriously, try wielding this thing against your mortal enemies. :P *** Kitty rating: 8.5/10.

When i first received my fb edp and my perfume oil of Body, the wormwood was just way too sour and in your face! Now im learning that all the best fragrances take time to develop and unfold. I decided to give this one another try and just let the sour wormwood die down ( which it didnt seem to do when i first tried it). First i noticed that heat and humidity brought out some peachy sweetness. this was early spring but then still in spring, too sour. Fast forward to now, crisp fall, after summer heat and humidity. The weather warmed this concoction up and now the gorgeous sensual rose and sandalwood are the star notes! I cant get enough of this now! There's the peach and the rose mingling with the slightly there back up dancer absinthe upon a sandalwood stage clothed in warm vanilla and cashmere! This is a delight to my senses! This is up there with Spellbound! Which is exactly what i thought when i first caught a whiff of the body edt sample... This is everything spellbounds daughter would be! And i promptly ordered a full bottle of the edp! And now, finally, that beauty has returned! After some suffering through the seasons trying to find when this girl likes to perform i finally get the whole show and it is remarkable!

This was my favourite perfume before I started getting into more complex, masculine type fragrances. I still really love it, and I might keep buying it if I run out, just to have it in my collection for nostalgia's sake. Plus it isn't very expensive and gets discounted at drug stores quite often. This scent is a bit hard to describe. It's extremely well-balanced. I can't really pick up any of the notes it says it has. It's both floral and fruity without being outright either of those things. I agree that it is powdery but in a refined kind of way, not something that reminds you of talcum. It's just fresh and bright and sparkly and very, very pretty in a demure and not-overly-feminine way. Also, I don't know how to explain it, but I feel like the packaging it comes in is the perfect embodiment of what the scent is. It's like a physical manifestation of the fragrance. The soft peach colour and the slender, luxuriously hefty glass bottle and the rose-gold check-patterned cap. I don't know. Packaging is very important to me. There's a lot of great fragrances out there but I want to have the whole experience, you know? I like looking at pretty things and having pretty things on display.