Cruise Collection Escale Aux Marquises Dior for women

So lovely fragrance,fresh and beautiful but lasts only 30 minutes.

On me is VERY good at first, fresh citrus and pepper, but when it settles down it just reminds me of "l'instant" de guerlain... its originality doesn't last :(

What a wonderful scent! So clean, so fresh, so elegant...
It starts with a strong but pleasant smell of lemon but in some minutes it dries down in a wonderful bright, sparkling and invigorating fragrance...
This is a summer scent and now is winter but I can imagine myself the next summer with my new dress in a sunny sunday morning, maybe going to a wedding or a similar event and smelling this wonderful scent...
This is citrusy and fresh but at the same time is very elegant and classy... of course, at the end we are talking about Dior...
I love this fragrance and I recommend it to you if you like citrusy and fresh scents.

Smells nice but I prefer Escale a Parati, it has more character.

It is a hot humid day and I am wearing this as I wanted a refreshing scent. It is indeed very refreshing, citrusy slightly spicy scent, very light. Perfect for this sort of a day, trouble is, I have sprayed lots and lots and after the initial citrusy blast, 4 hours later, I can't smell a thing. Such a shame as opening notes are soooo invigorating....but the longevity and projection are not very good. I feel like I need to refreh it, every 1-2 hours, and at a cost of this perfume it is just not an option.

Without doubt the most inventive of Dior's Escale trio.
As a lover of citrus cologne style fragrances in the humid months, I have a collection falling out of my cupboard. This one is grabbed most frequently at the moment.
It begins with a slightly 'sherbet' sweet zing containing a good whiff of the orange top notes. There is something of 'Refresher' sweets here. It's not an obvious orange like L'occitane's, it's softer, tempered by a floral undercurrent. I think Tiare Flower can be a bit cloying but Dior seem to have balanced the citrus with the floral beautifully and made a gentle floral that is as sexy as is it fresh. Maybe it's because Tiare to me smells a little musky, slightly body-like, as if it's flirting. Towards the end it becomes a soft vague floral with a teeny hint of spice. In the main though, this isn't a spicy scent and the pepper is virtually invisible to me.
Given it's cologne style, it seems to have a reasonable amount of longevity on my skin, you need a good few squirts and a top up midday but it puts up a much longer fight than my (adored) Caron Eaux Fraiche.
Recommended for cologne lovers who fancy a bit of quirk.

In my opinion is the best perfume of the cruise collection escale of Dior. Smells clean and sophisticated, but is not yet for me. I just can see "old" elegant women wearing it.

The most favorite from all escale collection.Very fresh,soft and feminine,but not watery at all.At first spray I feeling fresh citrusses,but they very quickly geting down and apearing beautiful tiare flower.Even I can't smell any spicy notes.Great idea for summer,for hot weather.Scent seems very natural,like a second skin.Definitely my favorite.

I am not a fun of citrus or spicy notes, but I must admit that with this fragrance, I instantly had luxurius vacations in my mind!

To me, it starts fresh. Lemon note is very prominent, than the blood orange note, which is slightly noticeable. Then, I get the warm spicy notes. I don't know if it's the raisin note that gives that sweetness to the perfume or the tiare flower note, although I can not detect it. Overall, 'Marquise' is well-blended, giving you a sense of warmth and vitality, just like the sun spreading its rays on your face.

It's lovely, soft and... with poor lasting power, as mentioned by others below, but this doesn't mean it makes it a low quality perfume. No regrets of buying 'Marquise', I do enjoy wearing it. Although, 'Pondichery' remains my favorite... :)

I die for citric tones. The best of the collection is this one. It's so near to Tierry Mugler Cologne; the same tone of soapy leafy aquatic citric mainstream.
Just like the other two, perfectly proper for voyage and seashore vacation; so luxe yet so relaxing.

"Escale Aux Marquises" comes in a very nice bottle that's "too much" for the perfume inside. It is a decent cologne for the female population but it doesn't do much "Bergamotto Marino" doesn't do, infinitely better!

It has a citrusy, sweet, and gingery opening that feels sheer at first, but then intensifies as it begins to dry down. The spices in the heart are subtle, and the base is powdery and resinous.

The ginger is carried beautifully through this composition, balanced on the one end by sweet citruses, and on the other end by earthy resins and delicate spice notes.

It also has a slightly soapy feeling to it, and I think it would smell great on a man.

Escale aux marquises is my favorite summer scent. It works amazingly well with the heat. In Greece we have a lot of it! Actually it is the only fragrance I can stand in the heat.

When I smell this fragrance I smell a combination of fresh citruses and pepper. So nice and refreshing!

Wow! Just gorgeous! Have just finished a 125ml bottle and im going to get another one. I simply can't live without this during a hot day, i feel like spraying it non-stop:) Love the zesty spicy smell, powerful and fresh combination. And it lasts forever! Amazing buy if you like peppery scents.

Fragrance that excactly captures the exotic aroma of hot, summer gardens in tropics. Put on your skin, it emits an extraordinary scent resembling that one coming from evergreen, moist and warm soil or a concotion of overblown and sun-drenched flowers. Not a sweet perfume but for it keeps an exquisite essence. The first sniff evokes zesty nutmeg melted with sunny citrus. Then goes a very lasting and pleasant aroma of tiare flower. Exceptional to a very high level of perfection!!

I'm a little surprised that this fragrance has received quite a few negative reviews, seeming that I'm quite a fan. I don't usually like citrusy cologne-type fragrances, but Escale aux Marquises has surpassed my expectations.

Escale aux Marquises has a really refreshing zesty and peppery feel. It's a lot richer than Escale a Pondichery and Escale a Portofino, which were softer more citrusy fragrances. This perfume has a subtle hint of spiciness that intrigues me more than the other Cruise Collection fragrances did.

Ginger is a note that I really enjoy smelling in Summer fragrances. It gives a scent that special touch, while remaining fizzy and light at the same time. Honestly I don't get much in the way of the tiare flower, however I do get a lot of the citruses and the heavy spices.

Some are calling this masculine, yet I'll have to disagree. Despite smelling very much like a cologne, it's more feminine than masculine, especially on my skin. I also think it has a lot of character, so it's definitely something I would wear during Summer.

The sillage is not as weak as you would expect, in fact it projects rather well. The lasting power is moderate, something that wears for a relatively long time, but may need a few applications during the day.

Overall, Escale aux Marquises is a delightful fragrance, the perfect blend of citrus, pepper and spices. Fresh yet exotic, and in some ways, very sexy.

The airy and casual chic Escale fragrances really appeal to me and I find Marquise the most fascinating from this range.

The opening is a blend of sweet orange, warm ginger and hot spices. It is the sparkling and vibrant bouquet of an exotic market. Then the miracle happens. The dry down transforms this fragrance into a soft and almost mossy floral. At the same time dewy and airy. I don't know if it's the magic of the tiara flower ('cause I've never smelled it) or the orange that changes character but it's amazingly beautiful. So soft, warm and feminine.

It reminds me of an early spring day after a dusty rain where you can smell the damp from the earth and the grass. Where the sky is almost lavender blue and the trees have fresh green leaves. I will wear this fragrance on the first day of spring, when I put away the winter coat and the boots and for the first time wear shoes and a light coat.

In 3 words: SPICY - DEWY - SOFT

this is very fresh and unique fragnance. but the problem is lasting power. when you spray it dissapears for an hour. it's a shame cause is really beautiful :(

its a beautiful fragrance, smells almost exactly like Azzaro Now for woman... besides that the Dior is lighter, but smells very, very similar to Azzaro Now for woman.....

Dior ESCALE AUX MARQUISES is a light slightly woody aromatic cologne-type fragrance which I was sure must be listed as unisex. In fact, it's really more of a masculine fragrance, given the many aromatic notes usually characteristic of made-for-men compositions.

It's not that the ginger, cardamom, pepper, coriander, clove, and citrus are particularly strong--they're not. But they are significantly stronger than the feeble floral elements.

A nice hot weather cologne, to be sure. But ESCALE AUX MARQUISES does not, to my nose, scale the heights of vrai parfum and certainly doesn't call to mind the image of a marquise. This fragrance is subtle, soft, and understated--more like an inoffensive albeit high-quality splash with good staying power and medium sillage.

Got a sample of this some time ago and went through the vial in hopes of getting to like the whole thing as much as I like the top notes.
I'm really not a fan of citrusy scents, as too many of them remind me of furniture polish, and furthermore, citrus has become so generic over the past decades, so many of the *meh* scents open with it.
But this one is a different story, what I get with the first whiff is not blood orange as listed, but a blast of pure lemon, the kind one experiences while hand squeezing an actual lemon to extract its zesty, vibrantly aromatic juice.
Too bad, the rest of this composition just doesn't do it for me. On my skin it quickly evolves into something disturbingly similar to my! givenchy. Odd, given the fact that the two obviously don't share any notes in common, but it's just the same weird metallic quality that they both show on my skin, something penetrating right into my brain and causing nausea in case of givenchy's creation and just plain irritance with Escale.
Even more odd, spices usually play very well with my chemistry. In fact, they were the reason why I tried Escale aux Marquises. Maybe it's the variety of spice notes in this particular frag that kills it for me. Pity.

I disagree that is smells masculine, I've tried a dozen scents in the last 3 weeks that have a definite masculine tone to them and this one doesn't fall into that category.

I didn't smell any aldehydes when I first spritzed it. I cautiously sprayed one wrist and smelled a burst of citrusy, floral, clean and breezy scents. I generously sprayed all my pulse points and on my clothing. 2 hours later, I catch whiffs of it when I move. It's a close to the skin scent, so I'd say sillage is pretty small.

I don't smell any of the spices, but it does have a bright carefree scent to it. A clean happy go lucky fragrance. A definite fit for hot summer weather!!

A co-worker just told me she could smell me standing close to me, so definitely small to medium sillage. She said it smelled spicy to her, but all I smell is citrusy floral. But, she definitely loved the scent on me. Weird that I can't smell the spices but someone else can.

Glad I purchased this one!! A definite do over for my collection.

Alright, as "perfumey" perfumes go, I can tolerate this one okay. The citrus and spice give it a more masculine edge, even though the only real image that comes to mind when I smell this one is "sexy ladies' perfume." I like scents to tell as story, and the story of this scent is: Aldehydes for a few minutes, followed by some nice smelling, vaguely musty spicy stuff. Too fussy for me, but if you're a fan of Dior, but think their other scents are girly, give this one a try.

I usually have to be able to wear a scent for an entire day to understand if I love it and can live in it. The answer - no. For me, it's too sharp and spicy to wear for more than a couple of hours. My nose actually got irritated and tired. And, the spices got to me so bad I developed red itchy patches on my skin where I sprayed this scent - this has never happened to me before! The irritation went away the day after I stopped spraying myself with this. Conclusion: the spices in there must be real, even if you can't detect specific ones, and it's a polarizing scent - buy it only if you love-love-love spices!

I bought this one today. Love it. such a fresh yet spicy scent. I definatly can smell the cinnamon and nutmeg soft hint on the ginger. In the background the citrusses. Lovely summer scent if you want anything fresh and not overdone


Update I have worn it several times now. And the staying power is not what I expected for such a expensive scent. So a big dissapointment that I can hardly smell anything after a while. I wouldnt call it a edt but more a colonge

Can be sprayed on generously after bath, clean smell, maybe a bit soapy- but definitely ok going out in the summer day. Not much staying power, but leaves sweet scent in clothes. Kind.

Tested this fragrance yesterday. At first sniff - OMG there IT is!!! But.. after 2 min every of good notes are gone. And left only soapy NOTHING.

Escale aux Marquises was my love at first SIGHT - I fell for it when I saw the notes listed.

Finally today I got a chance to try it.

First notes & first thought: "oh, MY!!! Gorgeous. I'm in heaven".
I love citruses and citruses here are CELESTIAL.
But then my enthusiasm faded.
I couldn't smell ANY spices. I counted for them! Pepper, nutmeg and cardamon, my three favourites.
The creamy, very sweet tiare showed and ...
I thought that at this stage the new Dior creation bears a strong resemblance to the new creation of Thierry Mugler!
Alien Sunessence Edition Saphir Soleil.
These fragrances are twins to my nose and skin.
I prefer the latter - beacuse at least it doesn't cheat on me. Three notes listed, three I smell.

Escale aux Marquises promised a lot, and then let me down.
A pity ... I believe for those with right chemistry, it could be MIRACULOUS.
Lasts very long.

I tried it at Nordstrom yesterday. I really liked it. Its definitely my favorite from the cruise collection. I want a bottle. The price is right so I may have to give in to it. : )

On me it's pretty much of Elemi resin, lemon in beginning. It's different from other Cruise Collection fragrances. Then it gets more subtle and more woody and spicy. Lemon-pine Elemi note becomes subtle as well but goes through all composition.

It smells great at first. It's something like sweet mandarines with pepper, cinnamon and ginger. It's the less fresh in the Escales collection, but the smell is lovely; perfect for spring and summer.

Then it gets woodier and honeyed. The only problem is the poor staying power.

I love this one! I think it s the best one from the collection - not only lemonade, but wonderful summer diorish scent... perfect match with white dress and white wine on the terrace:) give it a chance:)

I have a vial of this already, its amazing and very long lasting! The best one in the collection!!!! This flower mixed with orange is lovely!!!!