London

OH ok...first impressions: I'm running through the forest by my house as a kid. Im going to see if the honeysuckles have bloomed yet and I think I already smell them blooming off in the distance. I run by a freshly bloomed rose bush on the lawn as Im heading into the forest and I pause to smell the one new rose thats bloomed, then I keep running. I immediately pull the snack I brought in my pocket out and start to eat an perfectly ripe orange/tangerine as the juice runs down my hand. I run by a field of jasmine and like Dorothy does in the field of poppys, I pass out in the jasmine. When I wake up I finish eating my orange, but the honeysuckle vine is calling my soul. I then get up and keep running...that honeysuckle was the reason for this whole adventure in the first place. I finally arrive at the honeysuckle vine. I spend hours upon hours pulling the honeysuckle flowers off and eating the one drop of honeysuckle juice in each one. It smells beautiful. It tsstes beautiful. Then as I walk home covered in the smell of honeysuckle juice I pass a freshly fallen sandalwood limb that has ever so slightly disrupted the dirt when it fell (this is the patchouli, and I despise patchouli unless its Chanel's patchouli, but not to worry because a master perfumist like Ropion knows women don't want to smell like a headshop and obliques us with just a touch of it to round this vision out). This scent reminds me of my childhood (though by no means a child's perfume), running wild and free through my parents lawn and then into the forest next to their property. Paynight below me is right. For me, honeysuckle is the dominant note. Then orange and Jasmine then a hint of rose/peony (my nose picks up peony as just a sharper, fresher rose) in the back. This one reminds me of when I'd shove my face into a vine of honeysuckle towards the end of summer as they're falling off the vine they're so ripe. This is a piece of art...this is a Dominque Ropion. Must love flowers, the olfactory fragrance pyramid, and very well rounded perfumes as opposed to the random ingredients for baked goods spilled on yourself all at once to form a linear gourmand. I love both. But when I want to smell like the queen of the forest fairies🧚🏼? I'd wear this. I'd put this firmly in the "wifey", MILF, elegant, classy, sexy, grown woman category. I'd wear this all year around, day or night. Edit: compared to perfumes today? The longevity is eternal and the sillage? My husband can smell me across the room (and he likes what he smells). It's been a LONG time since I could spray a perfume in front of me and walk through it and that last me all day but this is one. This 3.4oz will last me so long it'll probably be passed down to my daughter when I die it performs so well. Most perfumes today have to be oversprayed directly on your person for them to last til the end of dinner. Even the super expensive ones. Not this one. I do not remember the girls wearing this when it first came out in 2006. Hell no. I remember Juicy Couture, Britney Spears' Curious (if you couldn't afford, or didn't know about, the far superior Ralph Lauren Blue for women in its hayday before reformulation), Victoria's Secret Love Spell body mist, so many other VS body mists, and if you were a prep with a lil money, Clinique Happy. But, not this...a newly released Burberry by Ropion may have been too expensive for the teen girls in my public high school. It doesn't spell like something a child/teenager would want to wear though. Not sweet like food enough like JC and not aquatic enough like Aqua Di Gio at all to put it in that era's fragrance fad. Save yourself the $140 they're charging for this 19 year old perfume on Amazon, and by God use an outlet fragrance retailer like perfumelux or The Perfume Fragrance Empire on eBay, FragranceNet, and pay $30USD. Trust you will get the authentic product those 3 retailers. They have been in business about 20 years, have over a 1.5 million reviews and sit at an over 99% satisfaction rate. TLDR: a Burberry is a Burberry and Dominque Ropion is a master artist at his craft.

I can see partially why people compare Burberry London for women to Pure Poison, since they are both white florals and they both have citrusy nuances to them. Burberry London for women though isn't as woody or as citrusy as Pure Poison is to me. I mostly smell both jasmine and honeysuckle in this fragrance, with honeysuckle being the more predominant note of the two. I get a hint of citrus from the tangerine and the clementine in this but not a lot of it and I can't really smell the rose, peony or sandalwood in this at all. I also have to say that I've never smelt tiare flowers before so I can't comment if I smell it here or not, though I have heard people say it's apparently similar in smell to jasmine? This fragrance also becomes slightly more citrusy towards the drydown on me. I find this perfume very feminine, elegant and youthful in an innocent kind of way. I could imagine a beautiful late medieval French princess in a wildflower garden wearing this in the spring while all of the flowers are in bloom and the sweet bees and beautiful irridescent hummingbirds are pollinating the flowers. The princess would be wearing a blue dress with a fleur de lys pattern and an ermine fur trim and she'd be plaiting her long wavy strawberry blonde hair, while decorating it with small honeysuckle and jasmine flowers. I got about 8 1⁄2 hours of wear on my skin and I had moderate sillage, giving me a very nice scent bubble. I got this perfume for a song and it was a very good blind buy at Chemist Warehouse of this discontinued perfume... there was no tester at all but I was able to buy it for $50 AUD! I really wanted a perfume that actually smelt like honeysuckle flowers and though not a soliflore, this comes fairly close to it. Because of all of that, I'd give this perfume an excellent 9/10. It's a beautiful white floral and honeysuckle girl's dream come true!

Imagine jasmine wrapped in a hazy fog of tiare flower, and when your nose goes searching for the jasmine you knew was there (because you just smelt it, didn't you?), you find it disappeared in a licorice-y pool outside the English Gardens while you were drinking orange pekoe... Clean, plush & opulent jasmine... I've come back to this one after awhile, and I had forgotten how good it is - another Dominique Ropion gem (signed by DR & Jean Marc Chaillan). I was craving a scent like this, looking forward to spring. The white-florals are blended so beautifully here - I'm a fan of the way Mr. Ropion blends white-florals. Opening with a bright burst of honeysuckle & tangerine with hints of rose, but already the buttery & succulent tiare-jasmine combo is swelling through. As it transitions to the heart, the white-florals come even more forward with peony adding to the velvety plushness & clementine boosting the fruity-citrus facets. At this stage it takes on a more opulent white-floral feel, and the tiare here is not quite beachy but still buttery, while jasmine is clean & citrus-y. This all rests on a sandalwood, musk & patchouli base that keeps the plush white-florals going for well beyond average performance with gorgeous projection. This isn't a dupe of anything, but at times I catch reminders of other Dominique Ropion white-florals. This is a must-try for lovers of white-florals, and a longtime love for me. Enjoy! Update 07/20/24: sprayed this on the back of one of my hands this morning. It's just as beautiful as ever. Classic, gorgeous, multi-faceted jasmine scent that's at the same time traditional & contemporary. Beautiful, velvet-y sillage aided by peony. Still a love.

Burberry London is such a gorgeous fragrance! It's bright and feminine, uplifting and lasts well. A wonderful harmonious balance of fruity and flowery . She's juicy, with the gorgeous sparkly brightness Tangerine brings to any fragrance, along with a very nicely rounded Clementine without the sharpness it sometimes imparts. These citrus have a wonderfully creamy, almost cashmerian presence. Playing an equal and oh so feminine part of the main show are the artistically balanced white florals. Good quality Jasmine and Frangipani like Tiare flowers of excellent quality are the lead sisters here, rich and sweet but by no means sickly. The patchouli is absolutely muted under the rich blanket of long lasting fruity florals. I like patchouli, but for those who don't, worry not, as it is balanced well and plays fair with the sweet musk and rounded sandalwood, making for a fairly linear fade out, although the Rose makes a little more noise here than at the juicy start. A beautiful fun sweet juicy white floral without being sugary, without being gourmand, without smelling done or generic, and is absolutely not cloying. It's a bright happy go lucky fragrance. I have it and love it so much I bought it for my niece, who also loves it. I think Burberry London is a safe blind buy for a feminine fruity white floral summer/spring fragrance. A crowd pleaser with real character and uniqueness. Definitely safe to buy for a woman with a bright youthful personality, and at a great price point.

Not usually the type of fragrance I would choose but have been trying to step out of my comfort zone. This is a new, blind buy for me and I already know that I need to stock up on this. The opening is strong and lovely, the florals smell authentic but longevity and projection isn’t great. Yet it was love at first sniff! Why? My mum lives in tiny village, in a beautiful home named Garden House. She lives at the opposite side of the country to me and for health reasons I haven’t visited her home for 4 years. Due to the current pandemic, we haven’t seen each other since February last year. Anyway, a couple of sprays of this transported me...Never before have I had such an emotional reaction to a perfume! In one of the gardens she has a table with a perfect view of a bird feeder, which is frequently occupied by wild songbirds and of whole garden. Honeysuckle and Jasmine are planted either side of it, that cover the walls and in summer they intertwine their beautiful blooms in an arch, creating the most gorgeous scent cocktail. Nearby are velvety red and white rose bushes, with a Hawthorn between them. This is where this scent takes me. My mum’s garden ❤️ It may not be ground breaking, or have the greatest longevity or be the best projecting scent ever. For me however, this is magical. My happy place in a bottle.