Weekend for Men

1998 CITRUS & Near-Mint Scent with Oakmoss, Sandalwood & Musk by Michel Almairac. In the first couple of minutes before the spray dries, I can feel the mandarin with ivy swelling through. Once the spray dries and the sillage starts to open up, I get a collage of citruses with aromatic, green & ozonic tones swelling through from ivy & oakmoss. The effect here in the opening is citrus & nearly-mint, and is reminiscent of another scent likely by Michel Almairac, Roma Laura Biagiotti, but diverges as it's drying down. As it transitions to the heart a gorgeous sandalwood also emerges as support for the citrus, followed by musky amber-honey as it's drying down. The longer it dries down, the muskier it gets, and closer to scents like CK One Calvin Klein & Chrome Azzaro. Contrast to CK One Calvin Klein: These are different, but there are similarities with lemon, bergamot, mandarin, pineapple, green notes, oakmoss, sandalwood, musk & amber. The openings are quite different, but into the dry down, these two become more and more similar, Both have a light average performance for spring-summer wear. Overall: citrus & near-mint scent that becomes a musk scent in the late drydown. average performance for a light summer wearing experience. This would also be great for layering on top of deeper scent in fall & winter. Enjoy!

After reading several reviews of this frag i had to go and look for my bottle which i had not seen for some time. My wife just loves to tidy stuff away in the most perculiar places lol, finally found it. Good job she is on holiday in philippines seeing family as i have some tidying up to do after my search. I had forgotten just how good and unique this stuff is, for me this is all about the Ivy mixing with the citrus. with ivy out front and centre, i find it quite linear and thats good because i do like linear fragrances. its has very good performance and this is my 2nd bottle having had the original for a xmas present back in 97, didnt make the same mistake as i did with Yardly original which was my signature scent before it and did not get a backup bottle then only to find yardley had gone bust and not a drop i could find:( so weekend became my signature scent. iv just ordered a 3rd bottle just to make sure of having it around.. good warm weather frags are hard to come by and i do find the modern summer frags loaw there smell quickly for what they cost. So if you are looking for something that has good performance for the spring summer and autumn you could do a lot worse. and lets face it is good value at aroung the £20 pound mark for 100ml, dont buy if you like sweet frags as this definately not sweet.

I'm one of those that like Weekend, in spite of its weakness. And because of this weakness/lightness, I'm really shocked that so many people could find it so terrible, as opposed to just generic. It's like a subtle but expensive lemon soap, very natural-smelling, that leaves a light green skin musk afterwards, with a drop of honey. It's really calming to use like an Eau de Cologne on the hottest days, and I think it would be very hard to overspray this stuff. I'd place it in the same family as the ever popular Live Jazz (i.e. unsweet citrus with herbs and greenery for the base) but it's less heavy on the herbs. Thus, Weekend might be good if you can't take the cilantro in Live Jazz. Or you might even think of it as a lemon counterpart to Eau d'Orange Verte. I've been on a recent body wash kick, and Weekend's is very refreshing...it "translated" better into the body wash than many of the others that I bought. Overall, Weekend has an old-fashioned EdC-like feel to me, but not the odd and archaic sense that some of the really old EdCs (Caswell-Massey #6) give me. It's among the more "english gentlemanly" of its type among the recent ones, but still feels contemporary.

This is my all time favorite scent. Make a list and it is a number 1. Here's why. I personally buy perfume based on my feelings, not on the scent or how they perform. When i was young, like very very young, my friend's sister used this one. Yes, the for men version. She is very pretty but her style is free-spirited and fearless/carefree personality. I adored her so much and this Burberry weekend and Tommy girl are always on her vanity. I saw her spraying one or two before she's going out. She is always smelling so good. And this is the first scent that made me into the world of fragrance. Every time I wear this, it's always bring back to my childhood. A good memory. A loving past. How many weekend bottle i used? 7 and I still have two 100ml as a backup. I love Citrusy fragrance so this is the number one, all the time. I don't care about whether the weather is hot or cold. But however, I might have 20 bottles to wear based on the occasions, but if it is weekend, this is one, there is no other.

I love this one. Found a small bottle at Marshall's for 25 bucks. Liked it so much I ordered a bigger bottle. Burberry Weekend will never be the darling of the critics, but for what it is, it's a rather pleasant surprise. Yes it's light and citrusy. Yes it's a department store fragrance. But, it is most certainly not an aquatic clone. It's far better than D&G's Light Blue and Light Blue Living Stromboli. And it's far better than much of the Gatorade garbage masquerading as sport flankers. I like this more than any of the other Burberry offerings, which to me are so ordinary and lacking in imagination that they surely must have been designed by a committee of mail room clerks. Update 2015 Two years later and this little gem brings me no end of joy. On my third bottle. It's so incredibly cheery that it never fails to lift my mood. It's sophisticated in a very gentle way. It's bright, sunny, and friendly. I just love this endlessly charming, endearing little treasure.