January – a time when most of us are living for the weekend. Tasks we put off in December were right there waiting for us on our return, all those gifts left pockets a little empty and bleak mid-winter is leaving us full of lethargy. After the Christmas gluttony and late nights, January is usually about trips to the cinema, ‘life admin’, walks, and is generally a ‘dry’ month… unless we’re talking about perfume of course.
Whether you’re full of New Year beans and the socialising hasn’t stopped, or your hibernating on the sofa until further notice, we’ve a few ‘weekend’ scents to take you through…
Roads This Weekend £98 for 50ml eau de parfum
Buy it at: Selfridges
Roads – an innovative concept brand that combines perfume, publishing and entertainment. This Weekend is one of 10 invigorating recent fragrances that take their inspiration from places, history, emotions and culture. Created to express the ‘excitement in preparing for a moment’, it is described by the house as ‘glamourous’ and ‘seductive’. Notes include, bergamot, mandarin, fizzy aldehydes, jasmine, musk, sweet vanilla, amber and patchouli.
Byredo Sunday Cologne £130 for 100ml eau de parfume
Buy it at: Liberty
Suitable for both men and women, Sunday Cologne is a woody scent, perfect for snuggling up to. Its aromatic notes of bergamot, cardamom and lavender, faithfully blend with spicy star anise and thaws with incense, geranium, as well as the earthy tones of patchouli, moss and vetiver.
Maison Martin Margiela Lazy Sunday Morning £65 for 100ml eau de toilette
Buy it at: Selfridges
Created to transport you to a particular time and place and ‘evoke images, impressions and positive emotions’. With top notes of pear, ambrette seeds and ‘clean notes’, heart notes of orange flower, rose petals and iris petals and base notes of white musk, white woods and Indonesian Patchouli, it’s sensual as well as fresh.
Written by Alice Crocker
