Weekend for Women Burberry perfume – a fragrance for women 1997

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.