My Burberry Black Burberry perfume – a fragrance for women 2016

The only perfume I’ve ever stockpiled. I won’t tell you how many bottles I have because it’s kinda obscene.

It’s an intoxicating fragrance and a rapturous work of art.

Over the past year I amassed as many as I could (focusing on the limited edition with silver caps, mostly).

This is my favorite perfume on the planet. I don’t mention it much on this site because I covet it.
But when you love something you want to talk about it.
So, finally, I am saying something.

Very pleased to know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s so totally striking, I love the idea that only a few women will be wearing this in the coming years.

I wear this perfume more than any other. It’s maybe too fancy for daily casual wear, but I care not!

People fall over themselves when I wear this.

Gushing compliments. From both sexes and every age bracket. My 83 year old mother loves this, my sister loves it, my boyfriend loves it, I get compliments everywhere I go. Young, old, male, female.

Lasts and projects even into the next day, and strongly (this is, hands down, the longest lasting fragrance I own). But it’s never cloying, even when I overspray (and I often do because I am passionately in love with it).

A fruit and flower garden in the humid summer heat, under dark thunder clouds. A coming summer storm. It really conveys that type of rare and strange weather.
Which makes this perfume a work of fine art. (When I was buying my bottles over the last year I felt like I was stealing art from the louvre, because the price was an absolute steal for what this is).

Alternatively, it brings to mind peach gummy rings dipped in the smoothest most exclusive melted caramel. A bit of licorice (no one mentions this, but I always smell black licorice in this). And roses.

Zero granulated sugar. This has no gritty sugar. It’s all smooth as can be.

Best way to describe it:
Peach gummies being mixed into a vat of melting caramel, all of it melting together. A bouquet of fresh roses and jasmine on the table nearby. A nibble of black licorice.

Heaven in a bottle.
A magic potion. Decadent. But in no way a typical gourmand. I do in fact detect hints of BR in this, at its base. So this explains the rich, mouthwatering, caramel vibe, and airy texture.

The one time a fragrance has been discontinued that I have zero regrets about, because I prepared for it. A rare experience for me.

My only slight regret is that I missed out on the Elixir de Parfum. I would have loved to test it. However I’ve heard it is not stronger (as if it even needs to be), just slightly different… so I am probably not missing much.

I could see how people would say this is a winter only fragrance, but because it’s not cloying at all, it works in any weather. It smells delicious at any time in any weather, at least to me.

It is, after all, representative of a warm, summer, thunder storm, in a summer garden. So it certainly fits summer, especially summer evenings.

It took me until age 48 to find my ultimate signature.