Burberry
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
A bracing volley of pomegranate and tart green apple, sharpened by lemon zest that almost stings. The top notes feel deliberately astringent, like biting into barely-ripe fruit, with no sweetness to soften the blow.
The geranium emerges with peppery insistence, wrestling the composition away from pure fruitiness. Rose integrates slowly, bringing a cool, slightly soapy character that intertwines with the lingering apple—suddenly you're smelling something closer to floral cosmetics than fresh produce. The sweetness (76% accord) becomes increasingly apparent here, though never cloying.
The musk and sandalwood settle into a soft, powdery base that feels curiously insubstantial. Jasmine and wisteria float atop this fuzzy foundation like watercolours bleeding into wet paper. The fragrance becomes increasingly abstract and transparent, eventually fading to little more than a gentle, slightly soapy warmth on the skin.
My Burberry Blush arrives as a peculiar contradiction: a fragrance that wants simultaneously to be a crisp morning in an orchard and a powdered boudoir. Francis Kurkdjian has constructed something genuinely caught between two worlds, and therein lies its modest charm.
The opening salvo of pomegranate and apple creates a tart, almost cidery freshness—there's real juiciness here, not the synthetic fruit-candy approach many fragrances adopt. Lemon arrives as sharp punctuation, preventing the composition from becoming saccharine. But almost immediately, you sense the floral machinery stirring beneath: geranium brings a peppery green edge that keeps everything taut and slightly angular, whilst rose attempts to soften the fruit's acidity.
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