by Zara
Red Temptation Summer is a light, feminine, and sweet fruity floral fragrance with a crisp opening of litchi and raspberry, evoking a youthful rose and peony heart with soft musk and amber base. It feels airy, refreshing, and ideal for daytime summer wear, with a delicate sillage that projects moderately at first before fading into a skin-scent. The scent has a gourmand sweetness reminiscent of candy, amber, and praline, which lends it a soft, romantic aura—some compare it to a lighter, fruitier cousin of Delina or a more defined Fleur Narcotique, though others find its dry-down to be oddly detested or faintly musty. While a few find it long-lasting on clothing and remarkably persistent on skin, others note a rapid decline in projection and a strange shift to a bread-like or earthy dry-down. It’s not a direct dupe of Red Temptation, Bond No 9 Greenwich Village, or Baccarat Rouge 540, though it shares DNA with those fragrances. Its appeal lies in its affordability and ease of wear, especially as an everyday radiant scent for warm weather.