Mine is exactly the shape she describes, but it is now about 12ft high after 20 years.

Another with vertical stems and therefore a narrow shape is the scented winter flowering Viburnum bodnantense. It will eventually get too tall but it will take a long time doing it.

My guelder rose (V opulus) also has much of the same habit (the few spreading stems can be chopped out) but grows much more quickly. And some mock oranges - although others are very spreading.