Escada Summer Festival

Yup this is a strong LOVE for me (terrible lasting power though)!! This is for sure the best summer Escada scent in the last 4 years. It is exactly the level of fruity and playful that you want an Escada summer scent to be. At first sniff you get a kind of apple/fruity/cherry blossom vibe. It is very sweet, youthful, and almost bath and body works eques. Super fun and playful. I can sort of understand the icy note because there is a very cooling with almost a watermelon cooling smell (Similar to Escada Sorbetto Rosso 2017 LTD). I don't pick up the sandalwood much but that is just probably there to give it some lasting, BUT with all Escada LTD's they just don't have a lot of lasting power. They are much more like body splashes than heavy fragrances, but in summer for myself that is pretty much what I want. If you spray it primarily on your clothing it will linger. Now the down side is Summer Festival is HARD to get currently You will have to pay that over-priced resale price as she just isn't available anywhere. I did pay the markup because I had to get another bottle and I am so happy I have it.

I deleted my original post I did on this because I bought the full size of this today and one I love it even more than before. First off-I am a die hard escada yearly lover!! I was introduced to them in 2013 and I’ve bought them yearly since-and even bought some older ones too!! They don’t last the greatest, and they aren’t anything ground breaking but if you like summer loving, beach bum, girly, easy to wear and not murder the wallet kind of perfumes than this will be your jam, just as they are mine. Other than Magnetism, I haven’t found any of their fragrances I didn’t love, and I always buy them!!! It is similar to a few of their older ones but none of the ones from say 2012-2016ish give or take, but yes they do have some of the same notes as other years but when you’re doing summer fragrances it’s hard to not reuse a lot of the same notes!!! Love it! Recommend it! MmmmmmYUM!

I'm a sucker for sweet, fruity, floral scents and Escada just knows how to do them right! Yes, it's got a Victoria Secret and Bath and Body Works vibe, many of their scents do ... But they smell so yummy, who cares?! I love this one! Escada produces some of the best summer scents!

A cherry and mandarin explosion with a hint of jasmin. I don't get any 'ice' note or I don't understand it. This is a great sweet fruity summer scent with good silage and longevity. Love it!

I LOVE this perfume! I am a Escada's fan, and this is no exception. This is very fruity, sweet and fresh at the same time. It kind of reminds me of Miami blossom, but less floral and sweet.

A beautiful, sweet and fruity summerperfume. The best one in years I would say. The perfume doesn’t last long though but no regrets of the purchase, I love the smell of it!

I get the ice note, like an iced fruit. Very fresh yet fruity and A bit sweet. A wonderful scent, I Wonder why I don't use this More often.

call me crazy but when i first sprayed, it reminded me so much of Cherries in the Air!

I also feel a pineapple and tropical fruits. It’s like summer cocktail or mocktail

I'm a bit surprised at the vitriolic reviews, but I stand proud in my burgeoning love and enjoyment of this perfume. I'm an Escada die-hard, though pre-2015 was my last big love, in Taj Sunset. I also enjoyed Agua del Sol, but found it to be a bit more musky, with a note that made feel a bit sick. I bought it because I missed Taj Sunset, and it came somewhat close, but it wasn't quite as soft, nor was it watery. I'd spritz Taj any day/time of the year - I'm a summer-scent loving gal. Even in winter, I default to softer, close to the skin scents that may get lost in coats, sweaters. Most times, I keep on with my summer scents, in denial of frozen temps and dry skin. I smell delightful, albeit a bit weird - like having a mojito in January. I think this one will make the seasonal transition. I just bought my first full-size bottle of Summer Festival, having tried the roller first. It does smell a bit 'young', but summer feels like returning to youth. I smell cherries, cream, the lightest musk. Nothing sour, as others have said. I think the 'cherry in ice' descriptor is meant to feel a bit refreshing, without the watery distinction. It feels very warm to me, so ice may not quite be right, but it does have a zing to it that ice does - maybe more a brief whiff of spice? It IS sweet - if you don't like sweet, you won't like this. I think I like Summer Festival because it reminds me of a cross between Taj and my other long, lost love, Cherries in the Air: it's like those two had a baby, and grew up to remind you of something you once loved, but feels different enough not to rely on pure nostalgia. Is this earth shattering? Will you turn heads? Maybe not. But you'll smell sweet, girlish, fun - but not juvenile. It'll come on a bit strong and then fade without overwhelming you in the heat. It's one side of the perfumes that I like: uncomplicated without being simple, feminine, fun. I've given up playing dress up with older, more elegant scents that get lauded as unique and 'must have', only to end up smelling like fancy hamster chips. (I'm looking at you, Molecule #2.) Sometimes, you just want to smell sweet, like 'girl'. So thank you Escada, for giving me the good stuff!

Escada Summer Editions are simply a summer time fragrance that I look forward to seeing. I don't try to compare these with Coco Mademoiselle or even my Dolce & Gabbana The One. This is just fun, playful, perfect poolside, perfect beach side, on vacation, sipping a fancy fruity iced tea or cocktail, let my hair loose kind of perfume. I bought the smaller size this time so it won't be weighty. I smell cherry and florals similar to some of the more floral Escada offerings. Some call it juvenile, fragrance doesn't have an age for me. This is something I am happy to have to refresh myself during casual times. Fits perfectly fine for my area which has pretty white sandy beaches and humid weather.

Escada do the best fruity, zingy, summery fragrances - this just being the latest in a long line of fabulous! I like many others fell in love with Tropical Punch years ago, and while the scents that followed have never quite reached the same status in my mind, their summer offerings are always good and a safe blind buy for me. You know what you are getting- sweet fruits, not much longevity, but fun while it lasts! This time I do smell the icy cherry initially, back up by a general fruity cocktail scent. Perfect for hot summer days to spritz and smell delicious! Nice nice nice.

Delicious, pretty girl stuff. Smells like early 2000’s, platform flip flops, tube tops and boyband posters on the wall. Flower motifs everywhere and pink pink pink. I love it. Just like most escada stuff it smells like candied juice and I just want to drink it. Borders on shampoo-like (is perfumey enough to set itself apart from a true shampoo like scent) + The longevity is crap but who really cares. I can see this getting sickening so go easy with it. Update: It can lean a tinyyyyy bit cough-syrupy. But still nice

I bought this recently because of the "reminds me of" Tropical Punch which came out in the 2000's. I absolutely loved TP and got compliments every time I wore it. Summer Festival is a little bit similar and nice but it is much more subdued than Tropical Punch which really did pack a punch. These fruity Escada frags are way too expensive now for the quality of the juice. They need to improve the potency of their products as they are nothing like what they used to be.

One of my favorite scents. Smells as the name suggests - Summer Festival. It honestly smells really great and I can imagine myself wearing this perfume a lot this summer. However, I have to say that the lasting power is embarrassing, especially when you consider the price tag. It disappears after 1-2 hours. If it lasted a few more hours this would definitely be one of my favorite perfumes.

Very surprised that there are no fruit notes listed, this fragrance smells exactly like berries. Perfect summer fragrance, it lasts all day. This was my first Escada purchase...I really like this fragrance but after smelling other scents from Escada...they are all very similar. If you have Miami Blossom you could probably skip out on this one.

A beautiful fruit punch fragrance with a touch of green. Not sure if it's full bottle worthy, but I like that it's fruity and sweet without being sharp or woody. It has a very similar "feel" to my other holy grail Escada fragrance: Born in Paradise (but Summer Festival feels "pink, "not "Pina colada blue").

Skin test summer. I don't think this one is very different than the loads of others in this line, but it is pleasant, fresh clean fruity, then leans dusky. More of an average longevity on me, others I have last longer.

Every summer I try the annual Escada limited edition, most of the time I'm disappointed. Summer Festival sounded different for Escada because it doesn't list a lot of fruity notes, but in reality it's as fruity as ever and doesn't stand out one bit. When you know it should be there, it's possible to single out a hint of cherry blossom, but despite the official notes, this is really more of pink berry scent. At the start I get whiffs of that trendy strawberry note that got popular with Burberry Her, does anyone else sense that or is it just me? The opening is really nice, like it is with most summer Escadas: Super fruity, sweet and fresh, familiar and nostalgic, 100% fun. But the drydown comes too soon and then it smells just like a creamy shampoo with artificially sweetened, nonspecific sour berries, rather thin and unrefined. I like Summer Festival a little more than Flor de Sol and Miami Blossom, but not by much. The last Escada that really impressed me was Sorbetto Rosso, because that had its own character but was still distinctly Escada, like the old early 2000s releases. I wish Escada did that more often instead of churning out mixed fruit openings with sourish drydowns. If you feel nostalgic about the older Escadas, try Al-Rehab Al-Nourus, it captures the summery feel-good spirit much better than this does.

Red berries and slight citrus/orange. That’s all I get from this on my skin and to my nose. It’s very fruity like fruit punch. The red berries overpower any other notes. It’s immature but fun. Escada frags are notorious for their poor performance and this one is no exception. Longevity is 3-3.5 hrs on my well moisturized skin. Sillage sits close to the skin. It leaves no trail. All Escada frags are on par with body sprays. Their frags all remind me of Body Fantasies or Bodycology sprays. Summer Festival is best suited for the 10-16 year old crowd, but anybody can wear it and pull it off in the right environment/occasion. It’s just a bright, fruit punch, summer fragrance. I think I’d wear it to an outdoor daytime party, boardwalk or theme park. Despite it being suited as a starter fragrance for children and teens I like it. It’s simple, straightforward and fun. 6/10 overall 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓 The smell is childish yet good, but Escada needs to fix the performance of their products. And we need something that’s not a melange of fruits. Please Escada stop with the fruity stuff and branch out! Follow me on IG @AshleyScentMe for more reviews and content