Hero Burberry 2021 Eau de Toilette

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A perfume by Burberry for men, released in 2021. The scent is woody-spicy. It is being marketed by Coty.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Fresh

Synthetic

Citrus

Fragrance Notes

Juniper

Atlas cedar

Himalaya cedar

Virginia cedar

Black pepper

Bergamot

Perfumer

Aurélien Guichard

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Ratings

Scent

7.1380 Ratings

Longevity

6.4336 Ratings

Sillage

6.1332 Ratings

Bottle

7.0322 Ratings

Value for money

6.6289 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 11.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is actor Adam Driver, filmed by Jonathan Glazer and photographed by Mario Sorrenti.

Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/02/2021

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 7
Scent

Leimbacher
421 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 16

Hero of the proletariat

"Hero" by Burberry is quite a solid craftsman. Woody, synthetic, usable.

Faux leather. Brown antique cacophony. Very straight, very smooth, very office-appropriate. Geza Schön without fire in the poppes. "Eau de Cade" in more mainstream. I don't want to talk about Cedars. Because I basically like it. Classics are different. Heroic even more so. Still, very unexciting, modern and off-the-shelf done right. The brown suit to spray on. Between the future and the 70s. Olfactory prefab.

Flacon: angular and great + magnetic head
Sillage: totally sufficient mediocrity
Durability: 6 hours, then it gets thin

Conclusion: Not My Hero Academia - but as a very solid, woody "Workhorse" (in both senses) thinkable!

11/06/2021

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
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MajorTom
97 Reviews

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MajorTom

Helpful Review 5

We don't need another hero....

Hero - the hero. With such a name, of course, you arouse desires, you stir up expectations and last but not least, you also convey a message to the potential buyer in the direction of "with this fragrance you become a (women?) Hero!"

Since all previous Burberrys, which I know, rather a heavy, sweetish or oriental component in itself, so actually have nothing to do with the Empire or the United Kingdom, I suspected a continuation of this track. But far from it, the prelude surprises me quite positively. Almost tangy and fresh run the first seconds, before then relatively briskly the bergamot makes its way.

Nevertheless, bothers me - and the longer the more - some aftertaste, which prevents the bergamot - successfully - to unfold its full effect. Some others may find this composition beautiful, I as a fundamental fan of bergamot do not. Maybe it's the pepper, which makes life difficult for the bergamot with its sharpness, maybe it's the juniper, maybe both together.

Woods: I had to grin when I troubled the fragrance pyramid to get an idea of what slightly woody shines through. Quite honestly, I wouldn't have thought of the variations of cedar listed there in a million years, but then I'm not a professional perfumer. I love the smell of my cedar shoe trees, but here I have a really hard time smelling cedar as such.

At least, over time, the pepper at least warps to where it grows, giving the bergamot a chance to survive. In addition, the woody touch gradually takes over the stage and lets the bergamot fade, but not completely disappear. At the end, and this is then so after about five hours, the hero says goodbye with a slightly woody wave, although the finale somehow smells very artificial and synthetic to me.

The bottle is okay, nicely done, but visually now not reinvented the wheel. The magnetic closure I find good, suggests at least high quality.

Sillage: At the beginning strong, unfortunately just as strong decreasing. Since just separates the wheat from the chaff. Where high-carat fragrances project for hours, the hero unfortunately lets the wings hang too quickly.

Similarly, it is about the durability. After five to six hours is really only in direct nose contact something perceptible, even there is the (albeit more expensive) competition better positioned.

The fragrance itself fits perfectly into the year 2021, appealing and modern, but at the same time somehow arbitrary and interchangeable. And that's exactly the point I want to make here: not a bad part, there are rows of clearly worse examples, but just not good enough to tear me from the stool and trigger an immediate purchase stimulus.

Test recommendation for those who are looking for a fragrance as a Christmas gift, because you do nothing wrong with it.

10/15/2021

Duftnaomi
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Duftnaomi

Helpful Review 7

Accident or fate?

I accidentally sprayed this men's perfume generously on my wrists during my visit to Karstadt after some testing. Already when leaving the store I noticed the striking sillage that left the store with me. I found the top notes to be slightly sweet and fresh on me. Quite quickly, the cedars joined in. Even late in the evening, the woody smell could be smelled - the fragrance definitely lasts a long time on the skin.
Since I've been into woody and spicy scents for a few months anyway, this oversight was honestly not at all unfortunate! I felt the fragrance is not too "masculine", but by its fresh note he can quite - in my opinion, also go through as unisex!

07/29/2022

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

HugoMontez
71 Reviews

HugoMontez

Helpful Review 5

It's more than it seems

I reached Burberry Hero with no expectations, when it was released. And it didn't gave me good impressions. I wrote in a statement that it is very boring and generic cedar-iso e super smell and that Encre Noire is a better woody experience.
Well, i still think that Encre Noire is better but, this is actually good. Not great, not fantastic, but decent and well blended.

Aurélien Guichard is a great perfumer and has done some classics by now, so it's not a surprise that this would be good. The combination of juicy and fresh bergamot with the aromatic and dry woody base is very appealing and masterfully well blended. It didn't convinced me in my first impressions because it seemed very vulgar but, for a fragrance in the mainstream world, where everything has weird sweetness all over, this is really chic and sophisticated.

As it dries down, the cedarwood (the combo of 3 different types, in fact) is what makes this fragrance a good one and not a cheap and generic one. Because of the high quality of these materials, the drydown is actually good and long lasting, and don't became cheap like many other offerings.

This is not revolutionary, neither a great and must have fragrance, but it's a really nice, well blended scent, that makes a good office scent, or a causal everyday type of fragrance. If you want something versatile, masculine and polite, this is a contender, along with Encre Noire, Terre d'Hermes of even Bleu de Chanel.

The bottle is nice and the magnetic cap it's a nice touch. I don't like the new fond in the name of the brand and the name Hero it's not that accurate, but what matters it's the fragrance itself, so, if you want something new and not sweet, young and fun, but want something masculine and with nice quality for a good price, this could be your next purchase.

3/5

09/21/2021

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Smora
155 Reviews

Smora

Helpful Review 4

Do We Need Another Hero? (Aurelien Guichard, 2021)

Scentrack: Tina Turner – We Don’t Need Another Hero

I was excited when Burberry announced the release of the new masculine line. Although a little bit concerned because of the name – Hero. Unfortunately, my concerns were justified. Burberry Hero is just another 2020’s fragrance. Inoffensive, easy to wear and politically correct male fragrance. Still, it possesses some pale interesting woody nuances that Aurelien Guichard replayed from his earlier creations like This is Him by Zadig & Voltaire or Bois Noir by Robert Piguet. Hero starts with, nowadays very popular, bergamot, some metallic undertones and a nice creamy touch that morphs into a full-blooded cedar heart. The cedar accord is really made of a fresh Virginian variety and a sweeter Atlas one. The composition is extremely contemporary woody, yet not overly synthetic. It has some nice woody and masculine undertones which I can associate with the classic Burberry brand. However, too weak, and bland. Hero is not a bad composition. It smells good, it is versatile, and easy to wear. Not so heroic, but a perfect ticket for newcomers to enter the serious niche woody game. Still, do we need another Hero? No Burberry, we don’t.

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