Burberry Brit EDP Review

 There are many perfume houses that I used to pay attention to but don't anymore and there are perfume houses that I haven't paid much attention to from the get go. I used to be an avid follower of Amouage, Serge Lutens, Chanel and a couple others but there came a point to where I mainly stopped avidly following some perfume houses. Amouage after Beloved, Serge Lutens after De Profundis and I can't remember when I really kind of lost interest in Chanel. I haven't been keeping tabs on Andy Tauer offerings either; probably when a lot of his line got the axe.

There are too many perfumes houses out there and they release so many perfumes a year and Burberry is one house that I never paid attention to. I have no real idea why. Maybe because the line up didn't impress me too much or just wasn't interested. It could be that I was too wrapped up in either vintage or niche to really take a look. Now that I have taken a little bit of time to explore Burberry, I have Brit to review.

But speaking of reviews, while I was reading reviews from Sephora and Ulta, along with reading the product descriptions, I had to laugh. People kept saying that this was a sexy perfume and I'm thinking about how horrified they would be if the actually smelled vintage BaV or Shalimar. Those are sexy perfumes if not outright slutty. I guess laundry musk with fruit notes is sexy.

I am used to wearing complex or demanding perfumes and Brit was pretty undemanding. For a while, Brit was demanding my attention and couldn't figure out why. I knew I smelled something similar to it and owned something similar and couldn't place it. Then I realized I was strongly reminded of the original Hedonist. Yes, Brit is a striped down dupe. It's Hedonist without the booze and maybe a little too much tonka. For all of my wearing I couldn't get Hedonist out of my head and tonka out of my nose. I can be a little iffy on tonka. It's the whole trying to be vanilla and something akin to almonds. The lasting power for my little roller ball is pretty much 8 hours and I am okay with that. For me, a perfume that lasts only an hour or two on skin isn't really worth wearing. I think that I am just going to stick to having just a roller ball for reference and not go for a full bottle.