Escada
Escada
90 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Pineapple explodes first, bright and piercing, immediately joined by strawberry in a sticky rush that coats your skin with candied sweetness. The initial impression is aggressively fruity—this isn't a subtle breeze of top notes, it's a full-bodied assault of candy-shop aromatics.
As the initial buzz settles, the floral notes emerge faintly beneath the fruit, attempting delicate counterpoint but ultimately overwhelmed by a creeping synthetic sweetness that dominates. The blackcurrant base begins its ascent, adding jammy depth that transforms the composition from bright fruit to something closer to fruit preserve, with vanilla adding a creamy, almost milky undertone.
The vanilla and blackcurrant settle into a skin-like sweetness, pleasantly sticky but increasingly one-dimensional as the fruit notes fade. What remains is essentially candied vanilla with blackcurrant undertones—linear, comforting in its straightforwardness, but offering precious little surprise.
Turquoise Summer arrives as an unabashed celebration of candied fruit, all sticky-fingered enthusiasm and zero apologies. The opening assault of pineapple and strawberry feels less like a beach holiday and more like stumbling into a confectionery display—these aren't delicate fruit notes whispering in the background, they're front-and-centre, syrupy, almost jammy in their intensity. What emerges as the composition settles is the synthetic scaffolding holding this fruity edifice together; there's a distinctly artificial quality to the sweetness, a creamy candy-floss texture that suggests artificial strawberry flavouring rather than anything botanical.
The floral heart attempts to provide some complexity, but it arrives too timidly to counterbalance the sugared assault. Rather than grounding the composition, it merely softens the edges of what is fundamentally a gourmand structure. Blackcurrant in the base adds a jammy, almost preserves-like character that deepens the synthetic sweetness rather than offering tannic sophistication. The vanilla that follows doesn't brighten or elevate—it merely coats the mouth like icing sugar.
Add fragrances to your collection and unlock your personalised scent DNA, note map, and shareable identity card.
3.4/5 (137)