Candy Festival

So I completely blind bought this based on the notes the price and the pretty bottle..lol the reviews comparing it to I love love had me nervous cause I think love love smells sharp & like an old stale orange sorry .. so sigh of relief when this didn’t.. this is fruitier/fresher to me I got light blue mixed with Jo’s nectarine blossom.. doesn’t smell like it’ll last but I mean hey for 20 bucks I’ll spray it like a body spray..

A good dupe for Light Blue by DG for femme edt, but doesn't last as long on clothes and skin. Love the fresh, floral scent. It's a lovely perfume to wear on a sunny spring or summers day.

Such a beautiful aroma..I just love it. For me the scent is very intense, exotic and gorgeous. I get so much compliments when I wear this perfume 😍

Favorite one. Will definitely buy it again n again👌

After testing all the fragrances in this range that I could see, while checking out at Zara, I got the 10ml rollerball of Candy Festival as an impulse purchase. I'm not sure if I want a full size bottle yet, as it's almost winter in Melbourne and this scent screams summer time. My first impression was of a vibrant sparkly grapefruit. An indistinguishable accord of the listed notes of melon, berry, pineapple and lemon. It was so citrusy that I expected the longevity to be similar to 4711 (an hour at most). However it took about 4 hours to completely fade, and with the support of the pineapple, the zingy citrus quality stayed until the end. Over time it developed into a candy sweet apricot. I didn't detect any of the listed base notes, except musk. It's not a strong EDT, and like most Zara scents, it's hard to spray too much. Overall, it's a feminine fruity gourmand with some notes borrowed from popular masculine fragrances, (lemon and pineapple). It would be interesting to layer it over it's masculine cousins, such as Mont Blanc Explorer and Zara Vibrant Leather. Since I'm listing Creed Adventus dupes, I could suggest Creed Adventus too, but I can't decide what is the most heretical part of a mixing a $30/100ml women's fragrance and a $480/100ml men's fragrance, and I don't want to find out. (Purchased from Zara in Australia)