Burberry launched Body on September 1, 2011, in more than 150 countries. Michel Almairac composed a modern rose: green absinthe, peach and freesia at the top; rose absolute, iris and sandalwood for the heart; cashmeran, vanilla, amber and musk in the base. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, photographed by Mario Testino in a satin trench coat, was its first face.
Chant Wagner (The Scented Salamander, 2011) praises an English rose free of cliché, one that quotes Yves Saint Laurent’s Paris while sounding new, between bitter absinthe and a resinous base.
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The Scented Salamander: a new rose
Chant Wagner, in September 2011, counts Body among the most interesting launches of the fall. Almairac draws a distinctive rose from the most classic of flowers: a tea-rose opening, accents of mace, then absinthe, which disorient without unsettling.
She hears in its structure an echo of Yves Saint Laurent’s Paris, Sophia Grojsman’s rose, but finds Body new, more linear and more multifaceted. A dark, resinous, spicy vein, close to myrrh, surfaces at times and gives it secret layers.
For her, the fragrance pushes a demanding idea as far as it can go for a perfume meant for the many, without giving in to rose jam, and remains a discreet beauty, close to the body, as its name announces.