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Reviews of Burberry London for Men by Burberry

There are 249 reviews of Burberry London for Men by Burberry .

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DMGMD
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Pleasant enough. Smells like cinnamon, leather and wood. Has a Christmas vibe and reminds me of scented candles burning during the holiday season. The top note is dominated by cinnamon.

All of this is irrelevant because the scent is literally gone in less than an hour. I have never experienced such poor longevity. Almost like it was designed to disappear. Unless you want to reapply this hourly, stay away.

AppleNerd
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Smells nice, pleasant, and masculine. Very boozy and smokey, so it smells like “old fashioned, old man” rather than something with a youthful or strong connotation. The smell is a double thumbs up but the 15 minutes longevity is inexcusable. There’s reason why this can be found for $20 for 100mL.

RedMint
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I love the smell of this fragrance – it’s a warm, fall/winter scent with lots of spices and tobacco. Quite similar really to Insurrection II Wild by Reyane Traditions, just minus the cherry or almond-heavy aspect to the tobacco. This is more of a straight-up light blonde tobacco, to my nose. Others say they really get the cherry or almond, but after smelling Insurrection II Wild, I can say that for me this is more just blonde tobacco. Spices are more dominant here, I get a ton of the cinnamon, which is so nice. Black pepper, bergamot, lavender all help round this out. And the drydown is nice as well, as some leather and opoponax (sweet myrrh) notes join in, and, as someone else described – I definitely get that ‘cigar humidor’ vibe from the drydown.

BUT (and it’s a big but) it’s a good thing I got a sample of this first, because this fragrance does not last on me at all. After only a minute or two (seriously) this has become a skin scent on me – I’ve asked people around me if they can smell the fragrance sillage within 5-10 minutes, and they cannot. And shockingly, I can’t even smell the fragrance where I sprayed it directly, like 30 minutes in! So that’s a huge bummer, and makes it a no-go for me, no matter how much I like the fragrance itself. Thankfully the Reyane Traditions offering outperforms this fragrance by a mile, and is close enough (though not quite as pleasant overall, it’s harsher, and that cherry/almond note in the tobacco really stands out. I prefer Burberry London, which is just… pleasant.)

If Burberry made London in an edp or an extrait, I’d grab that sucker in a heartbeat. Until then, I’ll just save the decant I got for the winter holiday months, when it’s most appropriate. As so many people have said, it’s a perfect Christmas scent, with that comforting warmth, and has earned its nickname “Christmas in a Bottle.” Speaking of bottles, I do think the plaid cloth that comes on the bottle is pretty cool, it’s certainly the thing that initially drew my attention to this fragrance – although in practical terms, I can see it getting dirty or messed-up rather easily. But it’s cool.

Redneck Perfumisto
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Orient spices
As Occident holidays
Recapitulate

Spice road time travel
Seen through a kaleidoscope
As flatland wonder.

AspicMyopic
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It’s a nice warm, spicy fragrance. Cinnamon and tobacco are the main notes that hit me. It goes on smelling like Christmas and dries down to smell like a cigar humidor. I enjoy wearing it, especially in the colder months. In my view it is a bit too spicy for an office friendly fragrance, but it is good for weekends and social occasions. It projects moderately well and lasts for most of the day on me.

ScentSensei
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Burberry London(2006)
Revisiting my review from a year ago. The common descriptor for this fragrance is ‘cherry tobacco’ or ‘boozy tobacco’. My impression leans towards the cherry note but ironically cherry is not a listed note and tobacco is listed in the base. Either way the top is extremely gorgeous and one of the best openings in perfumery. The tobacco dry down is also stunning and many consider perfect for it’s category and price. Longevity on me was not stellar, so I have a travel spray for portability so I could re-apply if I was out shopping or spending holiday time with extended family. This is a quintessential autumn/holiday fragrance. I can’t imagine wearing anything else(besides clothes of course) on Thanksgiving, and Christmas too. CK One Shock for Him is also in this category by the way, but London tends to earn the glory. London is so beautiful and perfect for the holiday months it takes up a greater percentage of my wears just due to it’s frequency of use in the months of Nov-Feb. Not overtly expensive so with the amount of reviews and if the notes appeal to you this would be FB and blind buy worthy. Thumbs up

DaveFriday
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I bought this one based on the notes…not the reviews. Got it dirt cheap. I could care less what the general public thinks.

This one is a winner. Smells warm, rich and masculine. It works in any situation. About as good as a men’s fragrance can get.

ClockworkAlice
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Beautiful beautiful boozy slightly spicy cinnamon on tobacco and some leather or resins. Very soft, sweet-ish, but in a nice and comforting way. Not very masculine to my nose, seems very suitable for a woman. I like how spices mingle with sweetness and booze, this feels and smells like Friday or winter holidays to me – Christmas in a bottle indeed. Would wear again and again and again. Unfortunately, longevity is very short on me – after 2 hours it’s only a faint skin scent, after 2,5 hours it’s almost completely gone.

notspendingamillion
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I often hear “Christmas in a bottle” I feel like it is “Autumn in a bottle” It misses the pine of Christmas. It smells great. Mulled spicy tobbaco leather. Smell is great. As a functional fragrance it misses the mark. The main problem being longevity. It is one of the quicker fading quality designers. Also, the plaid sleeve on this bottle is ugly and unwieldy. It is one fragrance that I hope gets reformulated someday to address the issues. Almost smells good enough to own though. Neutral.

Brooks Otterlake
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Burberry London follows closely in the footsteps of Remy Latour Cigar, trading the tropical fruit for spices. They’re both, in current form, equally synthetic, though Latour Cigar boasts the better blend; Burberry London feels a bit thin throughout, and is really only diverting for its opening few minutes.

It’s not terrible, but it’s hard to recommend when there are so many better options in its lane.

Varanis Ridari
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Burberry as a fashion brand sticks painfully close to their conservative pastiche of all things British to the point that you just feel the “Proper English” rolling off the brand’s clothing without even knowing the name. Likewise, one sniff of most masculine perfumes made by the house up until the release of Burberry London for Men (2006) communicated the same stiff feeling. Antoine Maisondieu had slowly been pushing boundaries within the this context when he made the violet-led Burberry Touch for Men (2000), then snuck in a little bit of rose to the otherwise prim Burberry Brit for Men (2004), but when Maisondieu composed Burberry London for Men, all dandyish or structured posturing was tossed aside for an earthly and fundamental kind of masculinity that Burberry wasn’t exactly known for and still really isn’t. Burberry London for Men is a tobacco fragrance at its core, a flavored pipe tobacco one with hints of Earl Grey tea to be exact, and brings home the feeling of old smoking rooms where Victorian men of importance blustered and rumbled their way through overgrown mustaches and woolly eyebrows discussing business. Burberry London is an altogether burlier and less-refined vibe than all the pale-skinned Y2K “dour and gray” Neo-Traditionalism-Chic hubbub that was getting the green light from Burberry before it came long, and is probably my favorite masculine of the house. Tobacco scents were all the rage in the 2000’s as the darker, richer alternative to all the clean aquatic blue and fresh fougère things clogging up the shelves since the 90’s. Tobacco really got a good revival in the 90’s with scents from Italian houses like Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme (1994) and Versace the Dreamer (1996), but had a slow uptick in interest just like gourmands as other 90’s genres like the ozonic died away before the mid-2000’s. By the time Burberry London for Men rolled along, tobacco was in full-swing and would carry on to a lesser extent through into the 2010’s as well, meaning Burberry London was just the right scent at just the right time.

Burberry London for Men opens with a really rich Earl Grey tea vibe right off the bat, carried out by bergamot, black tea, and English lavender. There is some cinnamon here and black pepper to make it appropriately gourmand in style (as per the fashion of the decade), but merging with the Earl Grey opening is the main tobacco accord, giving Burberry London for Men a countenance that puts it right at home around a fireplace in mid-winter, or a Christmas gathering with family. Many guys with experience using Burberry London for Men often call it “Christmas in a Bottle” and for good reason, but I feel this aesthetic works well in fall or cool early spring as well. The heart of chypre-like leather is flanked by mimosa flower and all its honeyed sweetness, mixing with a port wine note that is the cause of the “cherry” effect on the tobacco. By this middle phase, I am getting big recollections of Révillon French Line (1984) with it’s “cherry leather” accord afforded by rose and coconut, but here created with the port wine, leather, and mimosa flower instead. The tobacco is there from start to finish, and by the time we actually reach it loud and clear in the base, the rest of Burberry London for Men has simmered down leaving just that “cherry tobacco” feeling. Opoponax adds an incense-like sharpness in the base alongside guaiac wood, but the smooth tobacco and oakmoss assisted by a slight hint of tonka keep Burberry London for Men from ever being harsh. The overall effect is hours of that rich and sweet spicy tobacco leaf and wood, warmed over a soft leather that remains utterly masculine and inviting. Yeah, there is a bit of stodginess in the mix, but it wouldn’t be a Burberry if there wasn’t, and the feeling one gets when wearing Burberry London for Men is a feeling of comfort. Burberry London can get suffocating in hot or humid conditions, so this is strictly for cold or dry weather, and casual use since it has no seriousness outside it’s recollection of olden days. Wear time is easily over 8 hours but sillage is not wide, with Burberry London for Men behaving more like an eau de parfum with a tight concentrated envelope of smell mostly for the wearer to enjoy.

Mature men will likely love Burberry London for Men, and that very well may be the market Burberry was after with it, considering the bottle is even adorned with a tartan pattern sweater. It doesn’t get much more cozy than this folks. Fans of either Earl Grey tea or flavored pipe tobacco will love Burberry London, and getting to have them both mingle on skin simultaneously is an even bigger treat. Burberry tried playing the Calvin Klein game of seasonal special editions for several of its lines in the 2000’s, with Burberry London for Men receiving two such limited variants on the original theme, but neither are worth pursuing, considering how expensive tracking down limited editions years after their release can be. Burberry London for Men itself is so good, that anyone digging other tobacco fragrances like Calvin Klein cK One Shock for Him (2011), Jacomo Aura Men (2000), Vera Wang for Men (2004), or anything in this relative ballpark can almost blind buy Burberry London for Men and expect greatness. I normally don’t recommend such leaps of faith, but only under the pretense that one is well-versed in the genre at the designer price point, would I say that Burberry London for Men is a safe blind purchase. Easily the best of Antoine Maisondieu’s masculine work for the house, and maybe the best masculine from the house period, Burberry for Men is an essential for winter time and must-smell otherwise. This was instantly likeable for me, and my only bit of caution here is for people either on the fence about gourmands or tobacco scents, as this is literally both genres fused together, and not for people who don’t like sweetness, food notes, or heavy tobacco in their perfume. After the release of Burberry London for Men, Burberry masculines more or less fell back into the same boring trap they were in beforehand. Oh, and just for the record, some older variants of Burberry for Men (1995) also carried the title “Burberry London” before this scent debuted, but that’s another story. Two Thumbs straight up!

nishantdavid
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This fragrance along with Thierry Mugler Amen made me learn two Important lessons:

1) Never judge a fragrance in one wearing.
2) Fragrances smell different in different climates.

I tried Burberry London back home in India. It was summer time and London smelt very very cloying and medicinal. I rejected it there and then.

Fast Forward a few years…. I am now in Canada, Toronto. Its Christmas time with sub zero temperatures. I tried Burberry London today and it seems simply amazing. “Christmas in a Bottle” couldn’t agree more. Its an amazing scent which does invoke the memories of the Christmas Season, of precious Christmas memories from the years gone by.

Such a happy and Joyous Scent strictly meant for the Cold Weather.

Highly Recommended…..

mattandhiscat
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An absolute bargain for fall and winter, the fragrance has a lot of notes listed but mostly I get pine and tobacco with some spices and a bit of lavender. There is something making the whole composition slightly sweet which I enjoy in colder months..as reviewer’s say it really is Christmas in a bottle. The other thing that makes this a special fragrance is the expert blending of so many ingredients, this has been created with a careful nose, you never feel like one ingredient is over added, a really well balanced winter treat. Performance is average but can be helped with extra applying and spraying clothes. The only negative for me is the piece of material they put around the bottle that gathers dirt and constantly moves..easy to take off tho like I did.

Abbiss
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The opening of this one made me want to buy it directly. But the dry down was completely different and projecting too manly for a young woman like me.

polarhamster
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I go to my aunt Sue’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. Her husband Bob runs a craft store out of their home. I wear my plaid flannel because they have a strict dress code at my aunt’s house on Thanksgiving. Smooth jazz covers of PBS show theme songs fill the air. My cousin Jake does a shot of mulling spices and chases it by chugging a half-gallon of apple cider. Someone hands me a cinnamon pine cone from one of Bob’s baskets and I lick it without thinking. Uncle Gary forgets to light his pipe and instead pretends it’s a saxophone and plays along to the PBS songs. Someone spills the dish of toasted almonds. Everyone decides to hold Christmas instead of Thanksgiving, so we switch to eggnog. Then we switch to red wine. I pass out in a plaid wool blanket on a leather couch. It’s the best night of my life.

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TheDarkHorse
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I love this scent. Perfect cold weather scent. Spice, tobacco, leather, woods. Very pleasing and easy to wear. Gets tons of complements whenever I put it on. Can’t go wrong with this one. Great price point to boot.

vipersinthefield
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It’s an enjoyable tobacco fragrance but has very few notes.Smells like a natural cinnamon cased pipe tobacco with hints of leather and cherry wine note.Unfortunately it doesn’t remind me of a port…reminds of Night Train which is a cherry flavored bum wine.A cheap drink that that was found in any rural area gas station and the strongest buzz you could get since the closest liquor store was at least 70 miles away.

The cherry note isn’t depressing as it fits to the holiday and winter feel of Burberry London…it’s the wine part and the familiar cherry combined.It’s Christmas Eve and mom is sprinkling cinnamon on a mince fruit pie she just baked.Dad is found in the living room passed out,slouched in his leather chair and just finished his pipe.Beside his pipe on the side table you see a partial bottle of Night Train and an envelope.It’s a foreclosure notice from the bank on the farmhouse…Merry Christmas.

Aside from how this fragrance rubs one on it’s winter and Christmas memories…It’s pretty stripped down in notes and in projection it starts out decent and goes to low.By the 6th hour I can’t even smell it on me.Burberry London used to be pretty expensive which I would have gave it a thumb-downs easily at it’s $55-$60 price tag for a 3.3oz bottle years ago.I waited until it was acquirable at the $30-$35 price range and blind-bought it.It’s a mixed recommendation.

redharvey
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Warm, Earthy, Spicy.

Will forever be associated with fall colors and cooler weather later in the year, as it’s been my casual signature scent for the past two fall seasons. Difficult too because I whitetail hunt that time of year and I really shouldn’t be smelling like anything but it still gets the attention it deserves. The combination of cinnamon/nutmeg and that earthy undertone is really superb.

It’s another one of those scents that smells knockout awesome but doesn’t last more than an hour (Black Walnut, Millesime Imperial). Great thing its found cheap and easily though because you’ll need about 12 sprays throughout the day.

YKem
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Burberry London is a great scent. It’s sweet and spicy. It’s a warm scent. Imagine yourself in front of a fireplace smoking tobacco, your cinnamon and orange cookies next to you.
It’s dry down is sweet.
Scent
09/10
Longevity
06/10
Sillage
06/10

Great Christmas and Fall Scent.

Oviatt
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As warm as a wool-lined Burberry trench, this is a wonderful winter scent, truly evoking the scents of Christmas as so many have noted. Burberry London creates a Christmas where pipes are being smoked by fires in paneled rooms, with booze and fruit and mince pies on the groaning sideboard and a freshly cut fir decorated in its holiday finery. It is a romanticized Christmas, to be sure, but a warm and happy scent nonetheless. The best thing that I have smelled from this house since its original men’s fragrance so long ago. While I tend to wear it in the winter during the holiday season, this would be an excellent way to bring the festive season with you all throughout the year.

HouseOfPhlegethon
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I’ve had samples of this laying around, for quite some time. I’m glad I finally tried it. I love the way this smells on me. Slightly sweet and spicy, I could wear this all day.

I don’t detect any cinnamon leaf here. The spiciness for me is the combination of opoponax, lavender, bergamot, and mimosa. Yet, these blend into a sweet tobacco smoke with an undertone of leather and wood.

It’s just darn pleasant for me. It’s a smile in a bottle. It doesn’t come off as inexpensive even though one can buy this for next to nothing.

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fraglawyer
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Got a sample to see if Burberry London could be my new Fall scent. Like many have said–and I agree, BL is “Christmas in a bottle.” The scent is pleasant and smells of pine needles, sweet spices, and woods. For me, the leather note is not very prominent, but picking out notes is not my strong suit.

Though BL smells delightful, it flounders in versatility and performance. BL is a cool weather fragrance only. In fact, because of the close association of its pine needles and cinnamon notes with Thanksgiving and Christmas, the fragrance’s use might be best limited to November and December only. Performance, likewise, is not great. At best you can expect little more than an hour of projection and a few hours longevity.

All in all, despite its apparent limited use and mild performance, BL grows on you and is worth having in your collection. There really is no other fragrance quite like it.

Also, on a very personal note, my wife seems to like it a lot. Of my 30+ bottles, she has only really liked Sauvage, so her approval of BL is newsworthy (at least for me).

Scent 8/10
Longevity 4/10
Projection 5/10

Kaizen1972
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Definitely unlike the original Burberry London (classic) for men, this is completely new take that only shares the “London” name but has a wildly daring, different composition. This one is fresh, shimmering with several notes over time, leaving you wondering what’s to come but not with dread. I actually can sense the port wine and mimosa notes in it, unique and interesting! Must test out first before buying: It’s not like the linear, citrus original and may not suit all tastes or moods.

TBuns
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My favorite holiday scent, reached for often then and rarely during the rest of the year. Its a somewhat gourmand tart and sweet winner that I wouldn’t be without. My juice is current. It reminds me of several aspects of Burberry for men (which I also favor) with the added effect of strong olfactory association with the holidays, most notably Christmas.