Top Notes 
Grapefruit
Ginger
Wheat
Heart Notes 
Marine notes
Juniper berry
Red ginger
Base Notes 
Musk
Amber
Cedar
04/27/2013
Silverfire
131 Reviews
Silverfire
Helpful Review
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More Than Sport
Burberry Sport goes on with a realistic fresh grapefruit scent mingled with orange; it has the zing of grapefruit and the heart of orange. Within ten minutes, spices come out to support it, and it smells great! The spices are well-blended with the grapefruit, so much so that you'd think that a spice-laden grapefruit had fallen off some tree, instead of two separate notes meeting for business somewhere. With a little sweat and time applied, it smells a bit astringent, more spicy-animalic.
It loses its medium projection after about an hour or so, and by 4-5 hours, it is a skin scent. At times, Burberry Sport reminds me of a more mature John Varvitos; fortunately, it has conquered JV's horrific short-gevity. After 5 hours, it comes up around me now and again in an ethereal wafting way, much like Burberry for Men. Odd.
As a skin scent, it's a spicy-grapefruit-animalic-aromatic deal with the grapefruit predominant. The animalic vibe is genuine; at the end of the day, one of my cats is licking my wrists right where this scent was applied. It lasts at least eight hours.
I've not followed the sports fragrance market, so I can't speak with any authority on what they are supposed to do or not do; my general impression is that they are supposed to smell fresh and clean, and cover up light workouts. In this, Burberry Sport does a good job, although I'm hesitant to call it a pure sports fragrance, due to its interesting evolution. I would say it's a sporty fragrance, but it's not stereotypical or ordinary.
The overall effect it has is one of energy, youthfulness, "in" without being snobby, a little daring, and masculine without being overbearing. Finally, the bottle -- although it's plastic, it's one of the most visually appealing and engaging bottles I own. It invites you to open it and hold it.
All around, Burberry Sport is a class act.
It loses its medium projection after about an hour or so, and by 4-5 hours, it is a skin scent. At times, Burberry Sport reminds me of a more mature John Varvitos; fortunately, it has conquered JV's horrific short-gevity. After 5 hours, it comes up around me now and again in an ethereal wafting way, much like Burberry for Men. Odd.
As a skin scent, it's a spicy-grapefruit-animalic-aromatic deal with the grapefruit predominant. The animalic vibe is genuine; at the end of the day, one of my cats is licking my wrists right where this scent was applied. It lasts at least eight hours.
I've not followed the sports fragrance market, so I can't speak with any authority on what they are supposed to do or not do; my general impression is that they are supposed to smell fresh and clean, and cover up light workouts. In this, Burberry Sport does a good job, although I'm hesitant to call it a pure sports fragrance, due to its interesting evolution. I would say it's a sporty fragrance, but it's not stereotypical or ordinary.
The overall effect it has is one of energy, youthfulness, "in" without being snobby, a little daring, and masculine without being overbearing. Finally, the bottle -- although it's plastic, it's one of the most visually appealing and engaging bottles I own. It invites you to open it and hold it.
All around, Burberry Sport is a class act.
