Touch for Men
Burberry Touch for Men opens with a tart, almost metallic greenness from violet leaf, a piercing top note that feels both fresh and slightly synthetic in a way typical of early-2000s releases.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Musky70
- Woody60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Artemisia
- Violet Leaf
- Violet Leaf
- Mandarin Orange
- White Pepper
- Cedar
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBurberry Touch for Men opens with a tart, almost metallic greenness from violet leaf, a piercing top note that feels both fresh and slightly synthetic in a way typical of early-2000s releases. It's crisp without being citrus-based, lending an unusual brightness that soon yields to warmer territory.
The heart brings soft cedar and a nutmeg dusting that smooths the initial sharpness into something gentler and more approachable. This is where Touch settles into its defining character: clean, woody, quietly spiced. The cedar never goes full pencil-shavings; it stays blurred and polite.
White musk and tonka eventually anchor everything in a sweet, skin-like drydown with vetiver adding just enough earthiness to keep it from floating away entirely. The result is an office-safe woody musk that wears close, aimed at men seeking something inoffensive and easygoing rather than bold or memorable.
Scent twins
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