Burberry for Women is the house's original eau de parfum for women, launched in 1995. Some stores list it as the Burberry Classic perfume.

Five fruits open it: peach, apricot, black currant, pear and green apple. The heart pairs moss and jasmine with sandalwood. Musk, vanilla and cedar make up the base, and that is where the warmth comes from.

Look at where the sandalwood sits. Most fragrances keep sandalwood in the base, where it anchors the last hours of the wear. Here it sits in the heart beside moss, which means the wood turns up early while the fruit is still on your skin, and it leaves jasmine as the only true flower in the entire pyramid. The label says fruity floral, but two of the three heart notes are not floral at all, so on skin it reads more fruit and wood than bouquet. Anyone after a sandalwood perfume that shows its wood early will get that. Then musk, vanilla and cedar take over. Soft finish.

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