Touch for Women

I finally got it! Very contradictory feelings at first and love at last. So I met this perfume about 5 years ago at Marshall's or Tj Maxx (don't remember exactly where) and there were half bottle of the juice left in the tester and no cap, so i surely couldn't purchase it and couldn't even understand if it was a male or female perfume back then, was just walking around and sniffing the bottle and really loving the unusual smell, however no luck, i didn't find the "for sale" bottle of it and left the store without the charming smell. So 5 years later I still remember the smell and the cozy feeling it gave me. It smelled like a magic house in the woods. Very cozy and very woody. You walking out of the house, the Autumn morning, the mist is all around you and the woods.... Tall, magical pine trees... ( I don't smell the pine trees now, but that's just the feeling it gave me). So eventually I remembered this perfume and started looking up the bottle (i did remember it good) and bingo it happened to be Burberry Touch. I just got my 100ml bottle delivered and couldn't wait to experience that cozy woody feeling again. However it opened up differently on my skin. At first (and im very sorry, the scent is gorgeous thou) i got a really cheap men cologne attacking my nose. That fresh one that they use as a bathroom refresher. Really bad. Why do people use the colognes at the bathrooms anyways? Could never get it) Then i sprayed again, this time on my clothes, and now I can smell the blackberries, black currant leafs and rainy forest and this is sooooo gorgeous and soooo comforting, so calming and cozy. Very beautiful smell indeed. This is my first review and even my dearest Si Lolita didn't inspire me to write one yet, but the Touch did. Really enjoying it this very moment. Update: i let it rest for a couple of hours, then sprayed on the skin and clothes and there you go- pure pleasure!!!! wet blackcurrant leafs, oakmoss and blackberries, little sour but just a tiny bit and that feeling... walking in a pair of rubber boots and a woolen sweater down the misty Autumn forest.... Very magical! Oh, how I'm in love!!! Surprisingly don't want to wear anything and smell anything but Touch. I feel it's going to be a binge. More than that! My friend gave me a giftcard to my local perfume store yesterday and I don't want to buy any other perfumes!!! Never happened to me before. I just don't want anything but this magical feeling the scent gives me. Miracle

You'll never read me saying - 'You're wrong, I'm right.' regarding any fragrance, ever. But...there are times when I'll say something akin to - 'I truly cannot understand what you guys are experiencing, and disagree with your perception entirely.' This is one of those times. I don't relate to any of the unsavory remarks about this perfume whatsoever. But, I was admittedly, more intrigued *because* of them (and not in spite of them). I went out to my car to check perfume sites and get a feel for what this might have in store for me before returning to Ross to purchase it. And FWIW, all of the perfume sites/resources I checked have conflicting notes (this is not an uncommon occurrence, but it's annoying...I have my suspicions as to which is more correct or incorrect, but I'm gonna stay quiet about that). All of this to say, reviews are all over about this, references disagree as to the notes, and it's seemingly a polarizing fiasco. Naturally, I was completely compelled and purchased it, hah! I love this. It's a seemingly incongruent batch of notes, but it works. It's not nearly as cedar-y or sharply woody as I anticipated, nor as fruity. In fact, I get barely any fruits whatsoever in the opening, and it goes STRAIGHT into a plushy, almondy, powdery sandalwood blend. I get NO pepper. No pink pepper. Nothing spicy and/or red. The entire composition feels 100% beige to me. People have claimed this is masculine. And...I vehemently disagree. I'm actually struck by how sensually femme it is. "Touch" is a FANTASTIC title. It's clean, feminine, dry (I'd love to wear this when it's rainy) and reminiscent of cleaned and lotioned skin. However, it's not a modern "your skin, but better" (I'm so sick of that phrase, gag me...), it smells dated (which isn't criticism, it's refreshing). Like lotion or body oils from the Y2K era. Weirdly, I don't find any references to orris, but it's what I would've bet money on it containing. This is the kind of scent I admired as a kid. I was either 8, 9 or 10 when this was launched (again, the sources on this are a mess and disagree). As a child though, I was exposed to this sort of thing, but never wore it. To to have this bottle now is a fabulous and nostalgic gift to myself (this was my bday present to myself). I'm very happy with this, had a great gut feeling about it, and I'm thrilled that I listened.

I have had this for over a year, and can't believe that I have not written a review yet. This is a very interesting scent. On me, it opens it a rather vetiver scent that tickles the nose. The oakmoss and cedar here, hard at work. That tickle in your nose is the pink pepper. I agree with many of the reviewers who say it is soapy-- as the cutting woods fade a little, the scent does take on a soap-like quality. But it is hard to capture in words what this perfume does. The flowers are blended so well that I can not pick any of them out. The soap-like aspect could be the tuberose. There is an underlying sweetness, the tonka and vanilla? Not overly sweet, but a sweet that draws you to it, like the way angelfood cake smells--when you are making it from scratch, or the way chocolate cookies smell when they have been in the oven for 5 minutes. 45 minutes after I spray this on, I can't get enough of it. For the first half an hour, it is too close to my nose, too fresh and strong. After the 30 minute mark, I notice the cedar retreating into the background and the warm floral scent coming forward. The pepper hangs around tickling my nose. In the summer, the cedar is more refreshing on humid days, while the rest of the scent is too heavy for humid weather, but together, it works. I am not sure when I like to wear this the most, it doesn't really change from season to season...If I am in the mood for this warm embrace, I can wear it any time it strikes me. I have many other scents that seem to be heat and humidity specific. If I can not figure out which scent I am in the mood for, this is the perfume I go to. It is warm, without being too warm, spicy with out burying me, and floral without making me fear bees ;) I love that about this scent--I am not locked into a season.

Green Summer Spice with a Woody Vintage Twist... Opens with a peppery burst of red-pepper, fruits & rose oil, that deepens into a fruity-floral heart that leans to white-floral, resting on a floral support base of cedar & oakmoss. The overall effect in the first stages here is a green floral, with some spiciness and some sweetness. As it dries down, the pepperiness fades a little, while the woods & dustiness of oakmoss is more evident, followed by the vanillic sweetening of almond-tonka bringing near-cherry tones that enhances the red-berry aspect. Alongside there's a faint vintage vibe where some will catch reminders of lightly spicy '90s scents like Allure Chanel, Truth Calvin Klein or Intuition Estée Lauder (although this isn't a dupe of anything). Overall: This has good projection for the first 3-4 hours, after which it becomes a skin scent for a few more hours, perfect for a light summer wearing experience. While some spicy scents can evoke the holidays, this one has a decidedly summertime feel, with a unique, beautiful & refreshing scent profile that's a great summer option for those who like spicy scents. It's a longtime love for me, and one of the best offerings from the House of Burberry. Enjoy! Update 07/04/24: Wearing this one today. The last few times I've worn this I've noticed it's really evolved in the bottle to become a lot sweeter & woodier with more pronounced reminders of some of the woody/woody-green based scents of the 90s although again it's not a dupe. Also now has a little bit stronger performance, and it's at the point where it could be worn year round. Still a love.

Touch is rather dry, powdery and woody. The opening is savory, mossy, slightly sour with a hint of red fruit which makes a counterpoint to the woody and peppery notes. I can also smell a generous shower of bitter citrus and a bit of rose for the first half an hour or so. The citrus and red fruit mingle with cedar, vanilla and god knows what else, it's an entire forest. Strangely enough no tonka bean mentioned by Burberry, but they cannot trick me into thinking its just cedar and vanilla. This dry down is very different from the cedar-vanilla of Burberry for Women. It's powdery woods and (not the baking type) vanilla, topped with moss and sour-sweet berries. I would have never guessed there are so many floral notes, they must have gotten lost in the woods, tangled in the berry bushes and covered with damp moss. If it was music, it would be Metronomy's Everithing goes my way (plus the video to the song). Touch was certainly not a love at first sniff, but I missed it to the point of adding it to my wardrobe. It is reserved and calming after the invigorating opening. The sillage is moderate to skin scent at the end of the day, with excellent longevity. Not one to be over-applied. Could be a year-round fragrance, but I see it geared towards autumn/winter, with its cozy dry woody notes. Versatile enough for any occasion. And just to state the obvious, the bottle is so nice to look at, with its wooden stopper and basic lines. The simple Burberry for women remains my favorite, but Touch provides me with a break from its ambery juicy softness.