Weekend for Women

I first discovered this fragrance while in school back in the early 2000's from a friend. It was a beautiful floral fragrance that you could smell on yourself throughout the day. I don't know how to describe it but it was like fresh green sparkling iris but also nectarine/peach with a very inoffensive musky background. Back then, it garnered lots of compliments and left a nice light fragrance trail that not only others could smell but myself as well which is what I really like in a perfume. I couldn't wait to get my own bottle by saving up and when I did, I felt just as special as the first time I borrowed a few sprays from my friend. I loved wearing it and kept wearing it until other sparkling fragrances had captured my attention that contain notes I love such as lotus, magnolia, peony, green notes, or aquatic types captured my attention that I started to save for such as Curious by Britney Spears. I bought this in the recent past hoping for that same beautiful smell and somehow giving in to my fantasy that it would be the same as it was before only to have my hopes dashed. I should have known by seeing the color of the perfume because like J'adore going from a gold colored liquid to almost water colored this has as well. It is nothing like it used to be, and I can see how others don't like it now because I don't either but I promise it used to be full of beautiful notes with lasting power and gave all those little wisps of the fragrance as the day went by when you wore it. It would be a dream come true to have my favorites be as they were before. I am not a fragrance expert, just a lover of beautiful smells that turn my head and wear them for me so I want to smell them more than 30 minutes. I am coming to accept that those fragrances are gone forever and all we have now are shadows of what they used to be for various reasons. I am starting to lose hope in fragrances being anything like they were before unless they are powerhouses and beast mode perfumes that are just not my thing. The "deepest" or "spiciest" perfume I liked was Portrait of a Lady so not that deep for most people and even it is a shadow of what it used to be and was released recently and not decades ago. I have experimented with some Arabic perfumes due to lasting power but they are just not the same as the beloved ones from my past. I guess it just something that will be no matter how much customers complain because I know that they wouldn't "fix" something that isn't broke for the worst. Whether it is due to profit greed or regulations, I guess they are gone forever and all we have left are the memories. I can't recommend buying the new reformulated version of this perfume. I am hoping someone can recommend one that is very similar to this but lasts.

Look here, you - "Burberry Weekend" is delightful. I procrastinated buying this...because...honestly...I loathe those new bottles. There. I said it. The new bottles suck. They lack imagination, and I may just have judged this perfume by that particularly uninspiring cover. Thankfully, I found an old perfume bottle and eyed it for months. Eventually, I clawed this to me. Hear this, hear this! I wore this to work today and got *major* compliments. I'm talking, "Walk over here, so I can smell you more!" and "Oh wow, that's beautiful". Yes, my colleagues are both demanding and sweet. This is wonderful. Straight-up floral. In fact, WILDLY floral. And I'm not even remotely mad at it. I was expecting juicier nectarine, but I think it just supports the sweetness of the florals. It's also Very Strong: 2-3 sprays will do you, but who really practices restraint in this day and age? Certainly not me. I spray what I want in volumes I want. Sillage is *enchanting* - I LOVE smelling this on myself and it actually is a perfume you continue to smell on yourself for ages. Longevity is about 4 hours on skin; an eternity on unwashed clothes. This is such a romantic scent to me. I put it in the same sort of category of 'pretty, romantic, spring floral' as I do with "Olene" and "Peony & Blush Suede". If those kinds of scents are your jam - spread this condiment on your olfactory toast. Some people might find it smells a bit dated. I think strong, heady florals like hyacinth and rose hip lean that way, but it's all in the composition, people! I honestly think any age could wear this. A little girl would delight in how pretty and adult she smells. This makes me think of a *nice* teenager. A young adult who is full of sunshine and rainbows wears this, and a geriatric will undoubtably rock it whilst wearing this. A cool, fresh, sweet, pretty, romantic, wildly feminine juggernaut of a scent. I'm falling more in love. Repurchase-worthy! *** Kitty rating: 8.5/10.

Weekend was a blind buy in a number of bottles I recently purchased and it has quickly become a new favorite (possibly signature?) fragrance. I never preferred the flagship fragrance (I think it was the peach - like syrup in my airways, I hate it in candles too) but don't judge a bottle by the company it keeps, right? I was not disappointed! It smells like a wet meadow you decide to take a shortcut through to get home after filling your basket with fresh fruit and flowers from the market on Saturday morning. There was a steady, soaking drizzle earlier, and although more rain is threatening, there's a window of gentle sunshine just now. I smell unripe nectarine, pond water, a breeze through the rain, flowers, sweet herbs, wet tree bark, and the light scent of "me" wafting off my damp dress and hair. Weekend hangs out close to my skin, pulsing at a soft and steady pace up to my nose for most of the day, on the condition that I'm freshly showered and my body oiled up before I spritz it on (otherwise it tends to wither away within a couple of hours). Today I put it on at 6am and it's still pedaling along merrily at 3pm. I'll still smell it on my shirt when I change into my bedclothes this evening. So IMHO, Weekend is just simply lovely - clean, refreshing, polite, good-humored, and easy to get along with. To me it has become a favorite aunt, a sweet friend, a secret spot in the forest where I love to play. All this to say that I will likely revisit it over and over again and never tire of it.

My review is based on the old formula ( I think they reformulated in 2022? with a new bottle ). So I'm talking about the round flatter bottle, with the slightly yellow juice; the old formula. I can't believe they have reformulated this scent. This fragrance was absolute perfection and I am hunting down the last "vintage" bottled I can find. This is a classic Burberry fragrance, it really embodies the Weekend and spare time. The old formula is strong, lingers all day, awesome projection. Bit sharp at first spray but that sharpness fades down to the background and all you're left with is amazing fresh, on the top of your game kind of scent. Perfect for private and work. Inoffensive, but yet special and noticed. Elegant and a bit posh even. It's strong, but not D&G vintage red cap pour Femme strong, it's the level just below that in terms of strength. But it will last all day long. Burberry Weekend vintage smells like someone with money and someone who knows her value. It also smells like a high end professional and like someone who goes to the races and high tea in the weekends but not stuffy: modern and a young and feisty spirit. Can be worn by all ages though, it has a timeless elegance to it. I haven't smelled the new version. but I read that it has gone weak toilet spray so I won't even try the new one. I'm sad to lose yet again one of my fave fragrances. Will there be any real perfume left in 5 years from now?

The description of Weekend being a "relaxing country style" scent is, at least in my opinion, spot on. Weekend smells like a warm, sunny morning walk through a wild flower meadow in which all the flowers and grass are still covered in the morning dew and are drying in the sun. It smells very familiar to me, I cant quite place where I've smelt it before, but to me it smells how that one favourite female relative smells, shes clean, kind, caring and warm, its quite comforting and calm smelling. I always get compliments whenever I wear it, but not in the sense that I get asked what perfume it is, no, I get told my person smells good, Weekend becomes essentially a "my skin but better" scent on me, its an easy to wear scent and never feels out of place in a formal setting either, it feels very "British". I get a lot of the nectarine and powder from the iris and the hyacinth, the base is grounded nicely with cedar and musk, on my skin, Weekend doesn't develop much, its linear but its also not boring either, but, I will say I do not like the newer bottles that Burberry have put this wonderful juice into :( Longevity is great, it lasts for days on clothes and for a full 24hrs on my skin, silage is strong but not obnoxiously so and also doesn't give me any headaches or sinus pain, I would repurchase this once my dome shaped bottle runs out, this is such a pleasing, all round wonderful scent!