This is very similar to garden privet but if you find an obvious privet bush with lanceolate, un-serrated leaves growing on basic soils then the chances are that it is wild (L. vulgare) not garden privet (L. ovalifolium). Both have white flowers which smell the same and have black berries.
Gaitbarrows 12th June 2004
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Added on December 13th 2004