Burberry
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Sage crashes into mandarin with an almost jarring herbal intensity, like biting into a leaf you mistook for something sweeter. The reseda smooths this initial shock with its hay-like honeyed quality, creating an outdoorsy freshness that's distinctly green rather than aquatic. There's an immediate sense of countryside air—damp earth, cut stems, morning dew on grass.
Nectarine's peachy fuzz begins to dominate, softened by the watery floralcy of hyacinth and the cool, face-powder elegance of iris. The violet root adds an earthy, almost rooty undertone that prevents the fruit from reading as juvenile, whilst peach blossom contributes a delicate, barely-there sweetness. This phase feels like walking through an English garden in May—blooms opening, fruit trees blossoming, everything soft-edged and pastoral.
The woods emerge as gentle whispers rather than statements—sandalwood's creamy warmth and cedarwood's pencil-shaving dryness create a skin-scent base that's intimate and comforting. Musk adds a subtle animalic warmth that keeps the fragrance from disappearing entirely, leaving a trace of clean skin, pressed linen, and the ghost of flowers carried in from outdoors.
Weekend for Women is Nathalie Lorson's study in subtle contradictions—a fragrance that feels simultaneously crisp and tender, like crushing hyacinth stems between your fingers on a damp morning. The opening delivers an unexpected herbal bite from sage against mandarin's citric brightness, with reseda's honeyed greenness threading through like wild grass at the edge of a meadow. This isn't the sharp, athletic freshness of marine scents; it's softer, more pastoral. The heart is where Lorson's skill really shows: nectarine and peach blossom provide just enough fuzzy sweetness to soften the violet root's earthy, almost carrot-like quality, whilst iris lends its signature powdery coolness. Hyacinth adds a peculiar aqueous floralcy that keeps the fruit from turning into juice-stained fabric. The cyclamen contribution is harder to pin down, but you sense it in the scent's overall transparency—it's there to lift and diffuse rather than announce itself. Rose hip adds a subtle tannic quality, preventing the composition from becoming too confectionery. The base is surprisingly restrained: sandalwood and cedarwood create a quiet, skin-like woodiness, whilst musk adds gentle warmth without that soapy scrubbed-clean effect so common in nineties feminines. This is for the woman who gardens in good linen, who prefers countryside walks to city lunches, who understands that elegance needn't shout. It's daytime contentment in a bottle—undemanding, genuinely pretty, and more thoughtfully constructed than its approachable demeanour might suggest.
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