Fiesta Carioca

Like last year, Escada went with a different language name, so I went back to google translate. 'Festa Carioca' and 'Fiesta Carioca', both mean the same thing in Portuguese; Rio Party. That said, I'm 99% sure that the former of those two, is the correct spelling..... Name aside though, I found this perfume to be a tropical fantasy. The passionfruit and raspberry are both incredibly noticeable, the violet leaf is like a fresh breeze on the beach. I love Escada fragrances, I've smelled many before and they always stand out from the others on the market. Stunning perfume with a great colour scheme on the bottle!

I really like this. I love the smell of passion fruit and passion flower. Add some musk and raspberry candy, and you have this. This is based on the top notes tho. I haven't really smelled the drydown. This fragrance reminds me of being a teenager, and this is the kind of scent alot of girls wore back then. Happy times.

Not overly tropical, definitely floral and fresh. Maybe slightly herbal with the cedar wood and musk notes. Definitely was one of my favorites as a teen. It's fun, youthful and easy to love. It was actually so good my friends constantly wanted to borrow it. I wish I still had it.

Lovely and fun summer fragrance. Smells like a fun beach vacation bottled up. Lasting power is better than Agua del Sol. Scent is also sweeter and juicier.

Heaven for tropical scent lovers. It smells absolutely delectable, lasts for quite a long time and boy does it get compliments. Huge fan.

The bottle's color matches the scent, its sweet but alittle green to me, I could tell theres something leafy in here. Its a fruit fest in your face like most by Escada, but if Im in the mood I can stomach it. I cant love it as much as Born in Paradise tho. I only have two others by Escada, this is less sour/sweet than Taj Sunset, less "sunny", it feels like im under the shade of a beach tree. Its sweet and abit sour. When i first tried it among other scents it stood out the most and projects like crazy on me. If I overspray tho it makes me nauseous. I was in love at first, not so much now but ill still keep it cuz its quite unusual for me and contains notes that i love,also like the drydown. Its intense tho, def not for everyone. Glad it doesn't remind me of cough syrup tho. If you like it go for it, dont mind the bad reviews. Its not too sophisticated, its for lil skirt, crop top outfits and breezy summer nights. Update: This really blooms in chilly weather (60-70 where I live). Doesnt make me dizzy at all. It smells green and candy-like sour, the sweetness is toned down. At times I forget I wear perfume and the wind transfers the scent to me and I think "what in the world smells so divine!?" and start sniffing myself lol Oh yea Fiesta Carioca. I can say I love it now and to me its special. Sillage and longevity are very good.

Bought blindly based on reviews. First spray got me disappointed. At first it is quite a heavy smell of extremely ripe sweet fruit. Where is that freshness, so typical for Escada fragrances? It does get better once it dries down as it developes into a lot softer, more gentle, almost floral and fresh grass smell. Don't smell passion fruit at all, but something sweeter, perhaps lychee, pear and a peach? After a couple of hours it actually smells similar to Brittney's Fantasy on me (hers lasts longer tho). I don't hate the perfume but far from love either. It smells rather common and more synthetic than other Escadas I had. To be fair it reminds me of peach deodorant I used at the gym. It's ok.. Nothing more. The smell is rater neutral, not annoying with moderate sillage - good for everyday use as unlikely to offend or irritate coworkers. Does not last long on skin, completely gone without a trace after 4 hours but stays longer on clothes. Not sure about the name as I don't get fiesta. Smell more like calm summer afternoon at the orchard. When I smell it I picture myself sitting on the long grass under a pear tree with a book. Wearing a long white dress.. some may find it ideal, I find it boring! Just not that kind of girl :)

Okay so my main review is further down but just a heads up, a new body mist of Bath & Body Works is called Confetti Daydream and it is a total dupe for the BBW perfume Daydream (which I think has been discontinued), maybe abit more intense/deep due to the iris instead of the lily. The notes of Confetti DayDream (not yet in the database on here) are raspberries, sparkling pear and blue iris so very similar to the notes of Day dream. Consequently, Confetti Daydream is a dupe for Escada's Fiesta Carioca (raspberry +violet leaf=same effect), less heady and nauseating (no benzoin, no passion flower, no passionfruit all heavy notes). Fiesta Carioca was limited edition so if you want a lighter nicer imo version for cheaper, try Confetti Daydream. Identical notes to Fiesta Carioca also has the Armaf Parfum Studio Fiesta, the red lipstick perfume.

To me it smelled the entire time like guava bubble gum, even though there is no guava note. Don ́t get me wrong, it is quite pleasant, just a bit oversweet sometimes, but overall a nice fragrance. I come from Rio and this perfume didn ́t made me think of my home town, instead it reminded me of sunny country towns in the hinterlands of Brasil. To me, it also doesn ́t have a party vibe, it is more like a relaxing feeling, like a walk in the tropical countryside in summer. I wouldn ́t buy this perfume for me, but i think it is a good fragrance. It would be nice for someone who wants a calm tropical fragrance. It sits close to the skin and longevity is 4 hours. P.s: Brasil doesn ́t speaks spanish. The name of the perfume shouls be Festa Carioca, instead of Fiesta carioca. A fail for the marketing team.

Not sure where my previous review went but anyway, I originally liked this scent until the drydown because it had this weird sharp scent that made this perfume smell cheap. I remebered though that the initial spray was fruity and bright. I recently smelled this again and its totally different on my skin because now I smell the florals and not any of the fruitiness that I enjoyed last time. This was disappointing for me so I wont try this again. Too many scents out there for me to keep giving this one multiple chances. EDIT 5/7/20: Tried it again lol its still very floral and very strong on the passionfruit. This is definitely different than most of the escada summer fragrances. Its okay but not anything to write home about. There are other escada perfumes that are better than this one.

When I first sprayed this, I thought it smelled exactly like all the other Escada summer frags and kind of shrugged. I like their summer fragrances (though there was one that was very strawberry heavy that was "ick" for me), but the variety just isn't there. The reason I want this one then when I have others so close to it from the same collection? The drydown. The one thing that varies in the summer collection no matter how close they are superficially is the way each one ends up sitting with the skin. This is a warm and sexy frag at heart, despite its playful beginnings. Kind of the way we wish summer romances would end up sometimes, right? I don't want to buy a full bottle of this, but the travel size is calling my name for a summer fling!

Just got a sample of this and it's not too shabby! I smell a sour tartness mixing in equal parts with tropical sweetness right off the bat that I assume is the raspberry, passionfruit and passionflower coming together in a nice cocktail. I'm getting some vague muskiness also, but I don't get anything definitive other than tropical tartness and I actually like it much better than any of the recent summer releases from Escada, especially Agua Del Sol which falls completely flat and dull on my skin. This one is at least standing out, so while I wouldn't go for a full bottle (unless I can find one at TJ Maxx for a song), I wouldn't mind getting a rollerball of it to stash in my purse for a lift during the winter time.

I think that the Escada people (working for the label) have a big yellow Post-it note in front of them whilst brainstorming on the newest summer frag, saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Let's take a colourful bottle, some tropical fruits and mix them with flowery notes and voila, here we have a typical Escada summer scent. Once again. The 2017 edition seems to be very sweet, inoffensive, youthful and summery concoction. And I don't necessarily mean to say this in a bad way. Don't we all need casual frags like this that are well suitable for everyday occasions? I don't need a crystal ball to say that FC will be a definite sales success around the world this spring and summer.

Fiesta Carioca is my favorite summer limited edition. It's delicious, juicy and tropical. This fragrance has the DNA of all other Escada summer limited editions, and they are all almost similar, but exactly Fiesta Carioca is deep inside my heart immediately after the first test. This is the summer vibe - sea, sand and palms. A very positive scent. It is the all-season fragrance, perfect for winter and all other seasons. Longevity and sillage is poor, though. Only some hours even on clothes. Pity, it's a limited edition, now it’s already hard to find in stores. If I would find it somewhere, I definitely will buy this tropical fruit cocktail in a bottle.

Juicy , fruity, typical passion fruit, smells like million other things, it is girly and unremarkable, pleasant, with poor lasting power and silage. The bottle is adorable . It retains the childhood innocence , with its juicy flavour and candy like aftertaste. If you like passion fruit and you find it on sale , definitely worth it, I think it’s perfect for gym, playgrounds, etc. Refrrsahing, non offensive , clean , soft. However , paying full price for this is not something I would do. Still, it reminds me of a time when I didn’t have stress or worries, so I like it. A lot.

If you love sweet candy scents this is perfect for you. I’m already starting to like it bc it makes me feel cozy, happy and feminine without fading fast, on the contrary it lasts a lot. It makes me feel like it’s design both the box and bottle. To me it does feel like a festa Carioca with a great fruit salad bar and good music and pretty dresses, it is a happy scent, it smells better than the first impressions may deceive you to believe.

~Sour Raspberries, Sweet Passionfruit, Soft Florals On initial spritz, the juicy passionfruit and a sour raspberry are the only thing you can smell. As it dries down, the fruits quiet down, except for the raspberry...she's the life of the party throughout the entire drydown. she sticks around and mingles with the florals. Silage is Moderate Longevity is 3-4 Hours

Extremely sweet and juicy. Smells like tropical fruit juice or syrup. Not the worst scent, but not my preference either. All the Escada's summer releases are like that, but this one seems even more sweet and syrupy to me than many others. I think it's more childish too. Suitable for sunny and warm summer day if you only dose a little bit.

A nice, sweet, fruity scent. Great for younger girls as well as anyone who likes fun scents. Not cloying. Has surprising sillage for a fruity perfume. This isn't one of those perfumes that's impossible to overspray, so that I guess that's a positive point in its favor. I got a 100ml bottle for $25, so be sure to check ebay.

I agree that it is the same as sunset heat. I seem to have outgrown Escadas now as they are fun/flirty/fruity frags , great for summer...But they just smell extremely sythentic, and chemical fake fruits. They are just a little too " teenage" for my 40yrs old self now. But good fun. And beautiful tropical scene on the box.

Escada Spring/Summer perfumes are truly my guilty little pleasure because I’m a grand lover of fruity, sweet floral fragrances. It ́s a pretty little symphony of sweet fruity floral notes that’s girlish, pretty, and perfectly light and fresh for Spring and Summer.

Mezcla de frambuesa y maracuya , en un principio pense que el olorr era piña pero me equivoque. Super fresco para el verano aunque a mi gusto es mejor la version anterior de escada "agua del sol". Rico frutal y dulce pero no es tan duradero muy suavecito.

Wow! So sweet and fruity! Passion fruit and sugary raspberry work so well together here. This is a fruit explosion. Almost too much to handle that I'm not sure I could wear it all day. It does soften up a little and it's lovely.

The best summery Escada for couple of years. It's tropical, light, refreshing, not too sweet, quite fruity, playful and absolutely lovely! I would call it - charm of youth in a bottle. Update: A bit too fruity for me though.

Straight away I get strong notes of coconuts, mangos and berries. The perfect tropical summer scent! I'd like it to last abit longer on my skin but I wouldn't mind reapplying this delicious scent!

I particularly prefer it at night, that’s when it smells the best. Totally recommend for beach dinners or easy days at home after a good shower

so nice everyday summer scent! fruity,sweet,a bit fresh and clean, happy and girly!

It's already out, people! And holy gods does it smell good!

I want it already!!! Escada's summer scents are the best.

I don't like clicking "dislike." I'm sure there was thought and effort put in to creating this new fragrance, and I don't want to diminish that. But here's the thing: Fiesta Carioca smells cheap. I'm not saying it's unpleasant - as a matter of fact, it smells just like the bottle of fruity dish soap sitting on the side of my kitchen sink. I wouldn't buy a dish soap I didn't like, so the scent itself can't be too bad, right? Except that a perfume isn't supposed to smell like the last time I scraped dried up sauce out of the inside of a pot. While notes of raspberry, violet and passionflower sound promising, they ultimately end up jumbled together in a cocktail of sweet and sour that doesn't belong on skin (or at least not on my skin). Musk and cedar? You can forget about it. The dry down smells like bubblegum. Massive, neon pink cubes of bubblegum that lose flavour after 2 minutes or 200 chews. It's really too bad. I love so many Escada summer scents, and look forward to them every year. I love the bottle colours of pink and green and was thrilled to see them on this new one, but it just isn't worth it to spend all that money solely for a cute bottle.

I was looking for a way to enhance the dry down and bring some lasting power to the initial spritz of passionfruit juiciness. I found that Paris Hilton tease dies just that! It really stretches the juicy notes, it enhances the base to a stronger floral and brings out the base notes so although faint, they're definitely there hours later! The hot sand in tease matches the vibe of fiesta carioca... I love my fragrances intense and scrumptious! These blend lovely!

The passion fruit in the beginning is so juicy, sweet, and delicious! This is so yummy,. The notes are blended so perfectly to make this scrumptious fragrance. Mmmm I love this! So far though, it seems the dry down is kind of boring but I haven't tried it in the heat or for even an hour yet. So it has more time to show and tell. Other than that, it's so sweet fruity yummy I had to comment on it immediately cuz it's so juicy!

This is disappointing. Every weird name Escada has now (aka agua del sol/fiesta Carioca) doesn't smell that great. I suppose out of these, fiesta is the worst. The passionfruit is very prominent, and sadly makes this smell like Pepto-Bismol or cough syrup. It just smells weird as hell. This smells nothing like Pacofic Paradise or Moon Sparkle since those are fresh/crisp. Conversely, this smells weird and makes me a little nauseous. Escada hasn't done well lately.

I usually love the summer editions of Escada; however, this one as well as Agua del Sol were serious disappointments. There is a harsh note at the end of each of them that I despise on me (I think it's the musk), and it completely ruins the other lovely notes in the fragrances. I wanted to enjoy the passion fruit and raspberry in this one, and the musk was just gross. BRING BACK IBIZA HIPPIE AND TROPICAL PUNCH! Pass on this one.

I usually enjoy the Escada LEs for what they are - fun, easy, mood-lifting vacations in a bottle. Some I enjoy more than others but, I don't mind this genre at all. With that said, this was by far the only one I felt the need to scrub off. All I'm getting is an artificial berry bubblegum. No tart fruit, no florals, just cheap and sickeningly sweet bubblegum. And as others have mentioned - it's "festa" for goodness sake!

First Escada summer perfume that I dislike. It seems I got the other side of the coin for every aspect. Some smell fruity bubble gum, I smell putrid fruit. Some say light, to me it's a watered down fruity mess. I usually love passion flower and passion fruit in perfumes and I was looking forward to trying this one, but I cannot detect these at all. Hopefully Escada will get it better next year, starting with the name.

Given a sample of this, not my choice of sample, but I will review it. Pineapple juice in syrup, then after 15 minutes, burnt vanilla cookies. Oh my, the feeling to scrub it is overwhelmingly intense. I'll wait to give it a fair shot. 30 minutes: The scent? She is magically gone. But it may resurface again. I'll wait. 1 hour: sickly sweet syrup. Scrubbing it and goodnight.

WHOAAAAAAAA! Hold up!!!!! I'm not understanding the comparison to Pacific paradise.... ???? Pacific paradise was one of the best releases Escada did IMO, This one I don't care for AT ALL... Mainly because, to me, this reminds me of a fruitier Versace crystal noir which I loathe. The dry downs are similar to my nose...

Fully agree with JetsBabe, this literally smells like cough syrup or maybe some weird, intense, disgusting liquor. Not much else to say about this, just that it's.. not that great to me. Funny, because I tested Agua Del Sol at about the same time I first tested Fiesta Carioca, and I actually kinda liked Agua Del Sol.

cheap ,chemical and sicking burdello air freshner . pointless to pretend it's something more than that, in the ocean of very often trully magnifique fragrances in the same price range

A mixed review! Lets us start with the wonderful, it smells like yay summer 2017 is here!! The opening is playful, fresh, dewy, youthful and simply mouth watering. Cannot get enough of it, which is a great sign of an effective summer fragrance. Try spraying 'too much'.. it is almost impossible to do which I love! I also sense the unlisted guava note another reviewer has mentioned. Heart notes? Base notes?..... They are almost non existent on me. After the opening, it appears to vanish without a trace. Perhaps it does this because of my skin chemistry. Neither Born in Paradise, Turquoise Summer nor Agua Del Sol does this to me. Island Kiss and Rockin Rio also goes on forever on my skin. Do I still love it? Yes I do!!! I do love it! I wish it stayed a little bit longer... but then again... if it did... I would not be able to reapply as often as I wanted to! So the verdict is, beautiful summer fragrance that allows you opportunities to reapply, refresh and restart.

23. November 2016 "Celebrating 25 years of Escada summer editions" or something like this is written on the box. So for 25th anniversary they even didnt bother to put more effort into bottle design (why bother? People will buy it anyway). Thats the first dissapointment. The second one comes with the scent itself: absolutely nothing new, typical tropical fruity bubble gummy, its like a mix of Tuqoise summer and Rockin Rio. Im honestly dissapointed. Its pretty yes, its girly and fruity but i would love love love to smell something bit different than what i have smelled many years in row for now. I will buy a bottle anyway as i do every year but only for collective purposes and will hope that next year they will release something better and more original than this.

Lasts precisely three hours on my skin, then it's just gone. It doesn't fade, it's gone. A developing perfume, fruity for the most part, but not gourmand. Firstly it's bubblegum sweet, then like a lolipop and fresh at the same time. Has an aquatic watery feeling somewhere inbetween notes. Vaguely sweet, not cloying at all. Thirty minutes after spraying it dries into a sweet sweaty skin, with the fruit. It's not appaling or anything, but it's definitely there, pay attention...it's the summery sweat we have when having fun at the beach and under the sun. Very juicy with a sweaty undernote. It's summer, sea, drinks at the beach bar, flirting here and there, tiny winy polka dot bikinis, lipgloss, you know, the youthful, the carefree...but it lasts so little time!

while looking for a fragrance for my mum today, i stumbled upon this new beauty in the department store. With the new season and the weather getting warmer, i want to start exploring new fragrances and finding new likes, and loves in my fragrance collection. This fragrance is absolutely gorgeous! It is youthful, energetic, and fun. Like most Escada fragrances, this perfume is like a vacation/ summer in a bottle. I can't wait to get my hands on a bottle and use it through out spring and summer. I can already tell this will be perfect for a fun filled summer with lots of nice summer memories. It's a nice tropical fruity smelling fragrance. I cant wait to start using this alongside my summer go to L'Imperatrice, and Gucci's Gorgeous Gardenia :) x

I don't get the negative reviews. Fiesta Carioca opens with intense sour red raspberry, just a little bit too sour for my liking maybe, but very soon the the passion fruit and passion flower burst into super juicy cocktail. This is definitely yummy and screams summer, beach and why not some flirt. The balance between sour and sweet is nicely done. After half an hour the juicy combo is diminished to some musky flowery scent, not bad indeed, however musk is really prominent. So far I don't get violet leaf or benzoin, just clean laundry scent in the drydown. Overall a pretty nice summer fragrance, perfect for party at the beach.

This came by mistake when I was expecting a totally different fragrance from a subscription service and I was so very disappointed as this wasn't even a 'premium' item. They sent out what I ordered and finally I gave this a sniff, expecting to hate it. It is really not bad at all! Not something I would have picked, but the jammy tropical fruit plus a little musk are actually quite springy and nice in a fresh body spray sort of way. It's got a nice sillage without being too loud or cloying and, if you like matching products, smells a lot like the dry hair oil spray from herbal essences.

Tested this today, it smells of warm fruity sticky scented rum.I wasn't blown away it smells of a cheap summer fruity sticky tropical body mist, I would not really call this one a perfume. Makes for a safe gift for someone under 16. I can't see many people older than this really appreciating this for work or romance etc. It isn't worth the money as you can get similar huge body mists for under £10 that smell like this. I get zero musk and lately I have been obsessed with musky scents, the musk definitely is not pronounced in this one. Best part is the bottle- I like the colour.

This Escada Fiesta Carioca is Escada Sunset Heat repackaged in a new bottle. When I first sprayed it on, I knew I had this scent already. I sprayed sunset heat on one hand and fiesta carioca on the other and both scents were identical and the there were no differences in scents. It seems like each new Escada release are so similar to each other and they just tweak a note here and there. I love Sunset heat so I didn't mind the identical scents I jus t expected a new fragrance. I'm glad I didn't pay that much for it.

Got it at the Christmas sales and all winter that scent lingered around me. Fiesta Carioca has cheesy name but the perfume itself is stunning. Initial notes are raspberry jam, later it calms down to velvety floral musk (I truly sense rose) and vanilla. I guess I can feel benzoin as well. With time it becomes even sensual, it's for sure fruity too, because it's Escada, but there's something like blast from the past, that red musky fruit so common around 1999-2000, in the vein of Versace Red Jeans.

I always get so excited when I see the new escada scent somewhere because ya know summer isn't too far away lol so when I stumbled upon this I was super excited! Of course, as always the case, I love this! My gawd I love the perfumes they put out. This is so fun, and summery girly fruity sweet fun etc etc it's nothing unbelievable or groundbreaking but it's that summer fun in a bottle. Hoping to buy one soon!!! If you typically like the scents that escada puts out, this won't disappoint!