Flor del Sol

I love the Escada Summer Limited editions! My favorite is Agua Del Sol. I saw this one at Marshall's when my brother (who is technically my adopted son) and I went shopping weeks ago. It was sealed and hanging out in the glass case with a few others. It was near closing and the lady with the key took forever to come over. She allowed me to open the plastic and test the scent. He and I both gave it a quick sniff. It was a summer block party complete with hanging fairy lights, laughter, heat pouring off the summer baked city asphalt, and just enough drinks to make everything more fun! It was almost intoxicating! I wanted it but since the store was closing, and I am running out of room for more perfume, I was unsure. Just a few days ago, he ran out to pick up some items at the store and I asked him to go back and check to see if it was still there. He called me and said the manager with the key had left, but that there was one left in the glass case. I was almost crushed, honestly! I had my heart set on him going to rescue it from retail oblivion so I could give it a nice new home! What can I say, I hadn't stopped thinking about that enchanting block party in a bottle! He called again, and I picked out two other cheapies from Ross to soften the blow of missing out on " the now alone, without its friends party in a bottle." "What if someone else got to the store first and bought it," I lamented to myself. When he arrived home, he handed me the purchases I had asked for. I opened a few bags and, inside one, was another bag ... "Oh my, what was that hiding in a Marshall's bag in the bottom of the Ross one?" What a surprise! He laughed as I pulled it out and giggled with glee. "I thought the manager with the key was gone," I stammered happily. "She was, then she came back," he said between happy "I surprised you" peels of laughter. I was so excited, I almost overlooked a very cute detail; the plastic was torn. It was the exact bottle I had asked to sniff and we opened almost a month ago! It had waited for me to bring it home after all :) I love you my new party in a bottle friend, you may just become my new favorite ESCADA! Block party in a bottle!

I bought this blind from Chemist Warehouse because it was only 30$ and in Australia that’s basically free. Over the years of online perfumehood I’ve realised I really do love frooties as much as I love everything else. I’m humbled. It could be 300$. It smells overthetop gorgeous, has a fabulous trajectory, lasts 3-4 hours, as much or more than plenty of the 300$s. There’s something delightfully strange about it. I’m trying to empty blah decants atm. I really hate Chanel Cuir de Russie it smells like toilet bowl to me and yes it’s probably my old nose being over sensitive to civetone. Or whatever it is that smells like that. I reckon I could create the next hit from the combination of skanky old manure leather and bright abstract fruit the same as that combination I sprayed over. It was a pure accident as I was simply trying to drown C d R out. I’m eyeing a decant of TFds Ombré Leather. I’m going to fill it up with F d Sol and let it macerate as I’ve found on the rare occasions that I experiment with layering that is the only way to do it. Anyway another hot summer Ibiza hit from this line and to me it’s the best one yet, even moreso than the watermelon one...

Flor del Sol has quite the unexpected hold on me. It opens with a photorealistic grenadine and tequila, I could smell each of them equally. Intensely boozy with the addition of something foodie-piquant like chilli pepper, this was unusual and captivating. I found the opening addictive. It began to soften, I guess that's the fantasy-note of dahlia, and I loved it still. I couldn't detect sandalwood but the fragrance gradually became so smooth that all of its interesting facets disappeared. I was left with artificiality: precisely gummy bears and watermelon gummies. That's all it amounted to, after such promise?! Thoroughly disappointed, I passed the fragrance on. And here's the interesting thing: now, I can't get it out of my mind. I need to re-purchase it. So, I guess I find Flor del Sol pretty captivating indeed!

I picked up this beauty because I want and crave a GOOD strong cherry scent. Listen, no one has one. BUT this tries, and really the grenadine and the tequila with that sandalwood it's a great attempt. While this is only an EDT it gets off the ground but it doesn't get very far. Maybe 4 hours longevity. But it wears great on clothing. I had a lady actually FOLLOW me and go "you smell amazing, I could smell you all over that isle and WOW" which was a great compliment seeing as I didn't go heavy handed on the spray, and I could barely smell her on me. SO Del Sol is an attention grabber. Very fragrant in warmer temps, but I see this playing in the cold weather. Keep her around in the fall just to try. Very much worth the grab if you find her cheap like I did at TJMAXX.

Truth be told, I have never smelled an unpleasant Escada fragrance. Flor Del Sol is no exception. The opening is a Shirley Temple beverage on steroids. The addition of the Tequilla and the Orange do indeed give this sort of a 'Tequila Sunrise Cocktail scent. It is my understanding that the bloom of a Dahlia flower has no scent. It is the actual stem and leaves that are used which gives a slightly bitter scent that is detectable here. The sandalwood gives it a nice creamy warm finish. Overall, nothing really complex here. It's a happy little scent that stays close to the skin. In terms of blind buying, I would say this would be a safe one if you like fruity floral types of fragrances.