Exotic Blossom

I just bought this perfume after spending 6 hours sniffing aaaaallllll the perfumes available here at the perfumery! I thought I was gonna go home empty-handed! I tried this last minute right before leaving and I'm so glad that I stopped to try it before giving up completely (I am currently waiting for my Uber ride to arrive). The image this scent conjures to my mind is a vibrant, confident, energetic, beautiful, enigmatic, flawless seductress on the beach with salt in her hair, sunburnt skin, an unpretentious gale of laughter lifting from her chest! And yet... her soul is deep... she has had experiences in life that have matured her understanding of people and the world around us. She is both confident and kind. She feels things deeply; but at the same time, she runs to the beach for the feel of the sand on her feet and the sun on her skin! Her hair is messy, salty, and her soul glows! Sighs. Think I've found my new signature fragrance! This is definitely a skin scent, which makes you smell like sexy skin, without all of the usual ingredients that normally promise the smell of skin. It's not powdery, it's not showery; it's the scent of skin after eating ripened mangoes with your bare hands in a beach hut with a vase filled with wild roses propped up on the rattan table. Sticky-sweet-wild skin.But very light and unobtrusive. Suitable for the gym, doing yoga, a summer walk... an intimate date... I can imagine myself wearing this to all ocassions because I cannot imagine it giving anyone a headache! And can we please talk about the bottle? It is absolutely impeccable! Heavy, coloured glass that is so smooth it looks like plastic! So modern, so efficient, so easy and avant garde and unfrivolous! This is exactly the kind of bottle I want to carry with me everywhere and pull out for retouching in front of people! It's so deliciously classy, nothing garish or vulgar about it... minimalistic energy that looks like sunlight itself!

Just smelt this today and bought it right then and there! Perfect for sunmer

I bought a bunch of new summer perfumes and this one was intriguing to me based on reviews. (blind buy) Upon first spray, I was instantly transported to 1995 because it smells exactly like Estee Lauder Pleasures. This was a perfume my mom gifted me and I had been wearing it all that spring and summer until it got stolen (was in a handbag). My first memory was the 2 ex-boyfriends I dated over the summers of '95-97 - one not a good memory and so it left the bottle sitting on my perfume tray for weeks. Then I tried it again, remembering my mom (RIP my love) and that was the olfactory memory I decided to stick to and can now feel cozy and hugged by her. It makes me want to purchase Pleasures just to see my mom in the bottle.

A pretty scent, discrete, and not as much -imho- scenting like the top note mentioned. Indeed no mango but rather zesty tangerine. Not exotic either, more mediterranean: it actually reminds me of Arancia di Capri of AdP! I feel no connection to the summer scents series of Escada: Exotic Blossom is too zesty flowery musky for that, and hardly can be called sweet or tropical; at least not on my skin. So all in all a very pleasant scent for al seasons. However, if you are looking for a sweet tropical juice, the name and notes mentioned might be confusing since EB does not bring you exactly that.

What is this? I expect to get mango - and I get a short-lived and intense version of Lauder`s Pleasures! Colour me surprised. Now I just checked the other reviews and see that I am not alone in this perception. Pleasures has far better staying power than Exotic Blossom though. I find no mango in Exotic Blossom, just lily of the valley and some other spring flowers. Fresh and pungent and totally un-exotic - at least if you grew up in Central Europe, where you can find lily of the valley in the woods in spring. I love the orange glass of the bottle, though.