Rockin' Rio

Around 2006/2007, I was shopping in a department store when I came across some brightly colored Escada perfumes. I tested maybe 1 or 2 and was drawn in quickly to fruity sweet scents I had never experienced in a perfume before. However, I am cheap, so I grabbed the mini dabber set of all 5: Rockin Rio, Island Kiss, Moon Sparkle, Pacific Paradise and Sunset Heat. I don't think I paid more than ~$30ish for the set. I became smitten with the tart, fruity scents. However since I am also stingy, I rarely used them and eventually stashed them away. Moon sparkle is a little more than half full and Rockin Rio more than 3/4 full...clearly liked them the most 🤣. I believe this to be one of the best Escada summer collections ever released. If you can snag a bottle of Rockin Rio, go for it!

A lot of the seasonal Escada fragrances are similar, and this one is quite similar to Sexy Graffiti, which I also like very much. Most of these seasonal Escada scents have a fruity undertone, and this one has both the undertone and overtones! It's a fresh and lovely fragrance, like a summer picnic in the park, and lasts about as long. I wish it were a bit more lasting without getting any stronger, because the freshness is just right. The pineapple note is especially divine in this fragrance and is, in my opinion, the only thing that differentiates it from Escada Sexy Graffiti. I love the way another user described the new Escadas as "tutti-fruttis" because that really is an accurate description -- they're delicious, but definitely not a seven-course meal.

This was my frangrance was it was first released in spring 2005, I was a freshmen in college. It was one of the Escada yearly fragrance that year. Now they have recently re-released 3 of their most best selling annual fragrances a couples years ago, with Rio being one of them. It is a nice fruity-floral fragrance but not a long longeivity. It is a scent for younger women for high school girls up to college. The comments about it being similar to a Victoria Secret "Body Spray" are kind of insulting to the brand (comparing a cheap-o perfume company to luxury Escada), never-the-less the comparissions are kind of spot one, lol.

One of my faves from Escada because its full of Summer & energy. The main reason that I love it though is because it smells just like a discontinued Shampoo from the 80's called Body on Tap...I used to love smelling it when I went to my big sisters place when I was a kid. It was made to make your hair gleem because they added Beer inside the ingredients...Not that Escada Rockin Rio smells like beer or anything and neither did the Shampoo Body on Tap but it smells similar and I love them both. Such a happy Childhood memory :) I'm going to buy this one very soon :)

I have a nice memory of Rockin' Rio. My family was on a cruise to Stockholm, Sweden the year this was launched. It was advertised in the tax-free shop. My daughter was only 8 years old, and she went to test it and fell in love with this rich, sweet punch of exotic fruit. I had to buy it! It is my favorite of the Escada's summer editions. This is the ultimate fruity perfume, you cannot beat this. I do prefer more subtle and fresh scents for summer but I could buy this again for nostalgic reasons, maybe in the mid-winter just to melt the ice :)