Rio Glow

"Girl From Ipanema" Vibes... What to wear on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach: Lightweight, tropical & clean peach & orange-blossom. The orange-blossom here leans clean & tropical rather than creamy but has a faintly near-milky quality that supports the illusion of frangipani to my nose. Opens with a burst of peachy fruity florals that altogether give a tropical vibe with some green tones. That deepens into a floral heart of orange-blossom, plum & heliotrope with tropical, clean & fruity touches, riding on a floral support base of musk-amber-woods. The plum here helps to continue the tropical slant of the orange blossom which continues on into the drydown. Performance is on the lighter side but perfect for a hot summer beach experience, and enhanced by dark storage laying the bottle on its side following first sprays. Contrast to Aqua Allegoria Passiflora Guerlain: These are different, but there are some similarities with fruity/peachy-musky vibes. However, Aqua Allegoria Passiflora leans more watery & passionfruit, while Rio Glow leans more clean & green. Aqua Allegoria Passiflora has stronger performance. Update 07/21/24: I've come back to this one after awhile, and the performance has improved, although it's still average for a light spring-summer wearing experience. The orange-blossom is more forward than the notes suggest with clean, fluffy-creamy & citrus tones. This beauty really shines in the heat, with a clean-blossom like sillage for about 3 hours, and after that a skin scent. Love this scent profile, and each time I spray it I love it even more. Update 05/24/25: Sprayed this on today - needed more than one spray - about 3 sprays. This bottle doesn't age/oxidize quickly because of the long neck I think. Sillage takes 15-20 minutes to wake up but after that it's so lovely. Opens clean & green. Passing reminders of the original Glow by Jennifer Lopez. The peach is more of a peach blossom to my nose, and plum is an under-ripe green plum. A bit of milkiness. Reminders of the drink Orange Julius (which is one of my favourites) plus clean laundry/detergent. Love it still, and don't mind spraying a little more than usual. Tbh this is probably too light for most people, but for me it's just right - my favourite scent from JLo that I've tested. Overall: Lightweight, clean & fruity-milky-sweet summer scent. This the perfect scent for channelling 'Girl from Ipanema' vibes - Astrid Gilberto would be proud. It's a love for me. Enjoy!

WOW am I surprised! This is far better than I imagined. It took me a bit to realize why this smelled....familiar? Someone mentioned they smelled vanilla. I'm like...WHAT vanilla!? The vanilla in this to MY nose, is faint, but smells VERY much like the vanilla in 5:40 pm in Madagascar (immediately after it's sprayed). It doesn't change like 5:40 does. It's light, but it's very appealing to me. This is a green, fresh scent to me. It does last a very long time. It's light, green, cool, and fresh. You will smell it on your clothes in the morning. The bottle is awful. It's hard to spray because it's so awkward. Imagine not having thumbs! Just testing this product before being sold should send you back to the drawing board. This leaves me to wonder... The cap, the CAP, I will just toss in the garbage. I've seen nicer plastic caps on body spray bottles. It's a pretty bottle, but needs that lil somethin somethin...a charm. Yes, the charm would have dazzled me some. It's such a pretty colored bottle too! This scent is worth the price I paid. For the shock I got from it's lovely green scent wellll...I can forgive all the negative. Still...worth the purchase to ME. I even marked that this would be good for fall. It's SO fresh, GREEN, like a new twig you peel the bark off. A favorite scent of mine. This is a bottle of tender wood and the vanilla in 5:40 pm in Madagascar...and something else that's wonderful....what DO I smell? I'm just so happy with this. Stupid ugly cap and worthless bottle...don't pass up this joy to have scent! Might even be a good idea to purchase TWO bottles. I know I'll be SAD when this is gone! Edit This IS a very long lasting scent for me. I feel bad I never mentioned this long ago. I can wear this for a day without touching up.

Sprayed this on today - needed more than one spray - about 2-3 sprays. This bottle doesn't age/oxidize quickly because of the long neck I think. Sillage takes 15-20 minutes to wake up but after that it's so lovely. Opens clean & green. Passing reminders of the original Glow by Jennifer Lopez. The peach is more of a peach blossom to my nose, and plum is an under-ripe green plum. A bit of milkiness. Reminders of the drink Orange Julius (which is one of my favourites) plus clean laundry/detergent. Love it still, and don't mind spraying a little more than usual. Tbh this is probably too light for most people, but for me it's just right - my favourite scent from JLo that I've tested. Overall: Lightweight, clean & fruity-milky-sweet summer scent. This the perfect scent for channelling 'Girl from Ipanema' vibes - Astrid Gilberto would be proud. It's a love for me. Enjoy! Original review 07/08/23

Gorgeous and unassuming scent with a beautifully luxe & sexy bottle that's hard to keep your hands off of. J Lo's Rio Glow opens with juicy fruit, but a bit less vibrant and colourful than J Lo Live Luxe. I get orange tropical fruits, with peachy undertones and a musky sweet dry down. For the middle I can smell the plum, and it's gorgeous. This is a definite love in my collection. I use perfumes to layer at times, and this is light and fruity perfection.

This smells like a really fruity shampoo. The pear is the standout note in this, it's very tropical and also very greeny, from the green notes. The green notes and pear mix beautifully together later on and the peach is there on the drydown, making it very soapy. It could be a really good summery scent for the daytime, this doesn't last as long as the glows so you will have to reapply!

A nice little summer fruity tropical perfumes!!!! This on me is light so I only wear in the spring/dummer on humid hot days. I get zero musk,amber,heliotrope or cedar of any kind. Just only fruity goodness with a hint of vanilla and green notes. Longevity and sillage are light so this is one I have to reapply throughout the day or night.

THIS is the one I want to try next, RIO GLOW by JLO. I really hope it hits the USA before Summer is over! Also, PLEASE do NOT make RIO GLOW a Kohl's exclusive! They only sell the small bottles and it p!$$e$ me 0ff!!!! I want the 3.3/100ml bottle Thank you! JLO get far away from Kohl's! Run girl, RUNNNN!!!!!

Rios Glow is the perfect name for this darling! It is such a fun fragrance to wear in a hot summer days. Wish the longevity and sillage would be better but anyway I enjoy wearing this one a lot as it has that carnival, let it go vibe about it. If you want to have some fun, grab this one.

Since it's a summer frag, and here in Brazil is winter, I think I have to wait to have an opinion about it, because in colder days, it seems to be very subtle and fruity floral, I can feel the peaches and apple.

my favourite glow, so fresh and fruity and tropical. It clings very close to the skin but lasts a very long time and makes me feel so summery, like ive spent a day in the sunshine

Just picked this up today and it is amazing!! It's light, refreshing and clean. I pull out the peach & musk and it's soooo gorgeous! Definetly going to be my summer fragrance!

Got this today at Marshals! SO EXCITED! This perfume has eluded me since it came out, so happy to have it! It smells WONDERFUL!

This perfume smells so good, like a tropical party. Perfect for the Brazilian climate. I love it!

Because I want it! I really don't remember any promotion for BLUE GLOW or L.A. GLOW either.

Very similar to Givenchy Ange ou Demon EDT. Highly recommend for hot summer days.

still have not seen this, I wonder if we will get it for spring/summer 2014????

very nice perfume for hot days i like it :)

I ran upon this in Jequiti, Brazil while on a trip with a local charity organization. After we were done doing what we went there to do, we all decided it would be nice to explore a little bit! I ran into this beauty at a local department store like shop. I ofcourse ran, squeeling like a little girl, to the counter when I spotted this! I was so excited, but sort of let down too. I'll start with the bottle. I'm not sure what is with celebrities making their bottles with transitioning colors on it this year...but anyway, I was disappointed with the bottle. I was expecting it to have the frostiness to it like Sunkissed Glow, but the colors are see through :/ This bottle had a lot of potential...but it definitely wasn't put to the highest. There's no charm, obviously. A BIG LET DOWN FOR ME! I love the charms on the Glow bottles...so, that saddened me a bit. The box...there's not much to say about it because it's just that. There isn't much too it. A reddish orange color with Rio Glow written up and down it. Not her best box. On to the the perfume itself!!!! It's definitely unique just like all of her other Glows. It however, is definitely not my favorite. It's kind of all over the place. It doesn't really transition into the three stages either. It kind of stays the same all the way through. I picked up something aquatic, something very tart, and something very very very floral! It's kind of like Blue Glow, Love at First Glow, and Sunkissed Glow all mixed up made into a hot mess lol. It doesn't last long either. Like I said, I like it, but it's nothing SUPER MEGA AWESOME, that everyone needs to go out to buy. I do wish I would have been able to bring a bottle home with me, but that surely wouldn't have passed customs at the airport. I will be more than content waiting and hoping it comes to the States.

On first application the perfume's strongest note is the apple. Unlike Jennifer's usual sweet fruit-lead fragrances the apple here is not sweet - in fact it's downright sharp. I'll point out that it's not so sharp as to be sour, so while [on me] the rest of the fruits aren't strong enough to separate on their own merit, they must be there balancing out the apple. The watery green notes blend in with the apple so thoroughly that the top notes don't seem to burn down for ages, so as the floral notes develop they take a back seat. The notes are blended together very well, but I can detect what I'm quite sure is gardenia and lily. The most interesting aspect to the fragrance does become more noticeable as the fruits and florals die down - it's something like the 'hot sand' accord in Miami Glow. I can't fully describe this mysterious scent note; it's similar to how a cotton tee smells when it's just come out of the tumble dryer and the fibers smell warmed. Rio Glow is pleasant and wearable, however it isn't something that is 'new' new; there are several fragrances that it reminds me of, the chief ones being Jennifer's own Live Platinum, and Paris Hilton Tease. If you are a Jennifer Lopez fragrance collecter you'll probably enjoy this as it is reminiscent of her now-hard-to-find limited edition Live Platinum. However if you're not into following her fragrance collection you can skip Rio Glow, and buy Tease instead - as it is easily found online at a lower price.

So excited to have stumbled upon this fragrance tonight at my local TJMaxx here in America! I thought this would be the one JLO fragrance I would never own due to the fact that it was not officially released in America! I saw it and knew I HAD to buy it right then and there, or I would probably never see it again! Paid $25, but after opening up the box and testing it out, I think it was totally worth it! :) I love the bottle. Although it did not come with a charm as the other Glow collection did, I am not saddened by that. The bottle is unique in it's own way: It is multicolored. I think it smells really nice! I have honestly never smelled 'Live Platinum' in which everyone is comparing RIO GLOW to, but I can say that I find this perfume to be very pleasant! For me, it smells like it will be a great summer perfume! It's fresh & fruity smelling! So happy to be a lucky owner of this perfume! :) I love JLO and her perfumes!