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Escada Magnetism
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Magnetism

Fresh
Floral
White Floral
Fruity
Woody
Vetiver
Patchouli
EDP · 2003 · womens

Escada's Magnetism arrived in 2003 as part of the German fashion house's fragrance line, capturing the brand's approach to accessible luxury with a focus on wearable elegance.

The fragrance opens with a fruity-forward burst of black currant, litchi, and melon, sweetened by pineapple and red berries. The heart shifts into a dense floral garden anchored by jasmine, magnolia, and rose, with supporting notes of freesia, lily of the valley, and almond blossom that add both airy and creamy dimensions. A dusting of basil and caraway keeps things from becoming overly sweet. The base anchors everything with vanilla, caramel, and amber, warmed by sandalwood, patchouli, and musk, creating a gourmand-leaning finish that's more comfort than sophistication.

This is a solid everyday fragrance for someone who appreciates a fruity-floral with gourmand leanings but doesn't want to commit to a full dessert scent. It works best during cooler months or indoors, where its sweetness feels balanced rather than cloying. Magnetism suits The Romantic, The Homesteader, and The Reverie.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Fresh
40%
Floral
90%
White Floral
39%
Fruity
100%
Woody
74%
Vetiver
25%
Patchouli
25%
Earthy
50%
Musky
25%
Powdery
26%
Amber
25%
Warm Spicy
25%
Balsamic
25%
Vanilla
60%
Sweet
100%
Gourmand
70%
Creamy
25%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Black Currant
Black Currant
Cassia
Cassia
Chinese cinnamon bark with a sharper, more pungent, and slightly more medicinal quality than true Ceylon cinnamon. Cassia is often what most people mean when they say cinnamon in a fragrance context, as it is more commonly used. It has a dry, woody warmth with a spiced directness that suits oriental and autumn compositions.
Litchi
Litchi
Also known as lychee, litchi has a delicate, floral-fruity sweetness that is lighter and more transparent than most tropical fruits. It has a slightly rose-like quality that makes it at home in floral compositions, and a clean sweetness that reads as refined rather than candy-like. Common in contemporary light florals.
Melon
Melon
Fresh, watery, and clean, cantaloupe or honeydew melon adds a light, slightly aquatic sweetness to fragrance. It's a summer note that feels carefree and modern, closer to the transparent freshness of calone than to heavy tropical fruits. Used in light florals and aquatics to add a breezy, easy sweetness.
Pineapple
Pineapple
Vivid, tropical, and intensely sweet with a slightly fermented, almost winey quality, pineapple is one of the most assertive tropical fruit notes. It adds an immediate, unambiguous tropical sweetness that can dominate if used too heavily. In moderate amounts it adds a lively, summery energy to fruity and aquatic compositions.
Red Berries
Red Berries
A mixed accord of red fruits including raspberry, strawberry, and red currant, producing a bright, sweet, and slightly tart freshness. Red berries read as summery and cheerful, adding an accessible, crowd-pleasing sweetness to florals and orientals. One of the most broadly appealing fruity notes in mainstream perfumery.
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Almond Blossom
Almond Blossom
The delicate flowers of the almond tree appear in late winter, producing a soft, slightly sweet, and faintly honeyed floral note with a gentle marzipan undertone. Almond blossom is lighter and more subtle than almond extract, with a fresh, spring-morning quality that makes it a beautiful opening or heart note in light florals.
Basil
Basil
Sweet, spicy, and vividly herbal, basil has a green freshness with slightly anise-like and peppery facets that make it more complex than most culinary herbs. In perfumery it adds a lively, Mediterranean quality and pairs beautifully with citrus and woody notes. An underused note that rewards those who seek it out.
Caraway
Caraway
Warm, herbal, and distinctly spiced with a slightly anise-like quality, caraway seed adds an unmistakably European spice character to fragrances. It reads as more complex and earthy than fennel or anise, with a dry, almost rye-bread quality. Used in chypres and classic fougeres to add an old-world aromatic character.
Freesia
Freesia
Bright, clean, and slightly peppery, freesia is a springtime flower with a fresh, almost citrusy edge that prevents it from reading as purely sweet. It's one of the more versatile florals, sitting comfortably in both delicate feminine compositions and fresh unisex fragrances. Approachable and elegant simultaneously.
Green Leaves
Green Leaves
Crisp, slightly bitter, and immediately evocative of torn stems and freshly cut grass, green leaf notes add naturalness and vitality to compositions. They work best as accents rather than leads, keeping floral and woody fragrances from becoming overly sweet or heavy. A note that says outdoors, effortlessly.
Heliotrope
Heliotrope
Powdery, sweet, and slightly almond-like, heliotrope is the quintessential 'retro' note of Victorian-era perfumery, now experiencing a fashionable revival. It smells of sugar, vanilla, and just enough floral to keep it interesting. In modern fragrances it tends to read as nostalgic, soft, and unapologetically pretty.
Iris
Iris
One of perfumery's most prized and expensive ingredients, iris has a powdery, cool, almost carrot-like richness that is hard to describe and impossible to mistake. It's simultaneously earthy and refined, like the inside of an old Parisian couture house. Iris root (orris) adds quiet luxury to anything it touches.
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Lily Of The Valley
Lily Of The Valley
Crisp, green, and dewy, this spring flower smells like rain on cool grass with a clean, soap-like clarity. It's one of perfumery's most requested scents despite being nearly impossible to extract naturally, so it's almost always recreated synthetically. The result is fresh, tender, and timelessly elegant.
Magnolia
Magnolia
Creamy, lush, and faintly lemony, magnolia is a floral note with real presence, richer than peony but more accessible than jasmine. It has a velvety quality and a slight spice that stops it from being simply pretty. Used to add warmth and dimensionality to floral compositions.
Rose
Rose
The queen of floral notes and the most-used ingredient in fine perfumery. Real rose is simultaneously velvety, honeyed, and slightly spicy, nothing like the synthetic candy version. Depending on the variety used, it can anchor a composition or drift through it like a ghost, adding warmth without dominating.
Base · 3–12 hrs
Amber
Amber
A warm, resinous accord rather than a single ingredient, amber is typically built from labdanum, benzoin, and vanilla to create a rich, honeyed, almost solar warmth. It's the quintessential base-note family, adding a comforting richness that makes fragrances feel complete. The difference between a fragrance feeling cold and feeling alive.
Benzoin
Benzoin
Sweet, warm, and balsamic, benzoin resin smells like vanilla mixed with incense, with a powdery, slightly medicinal edge. It adds a comforting warmth and fixative quality to oriental fragrances, and blends beautifully with spices. Often used to smooth and round off sharp edges in complex base notes.
Caramel
Caramel
Warm, buttery, and sweet with a slight bitterness from the cooking process, caramel is one of perfumery's most approachable gourmand notes. It adds a comforting, edible quality without going full dessert, and it softens and rounds other notes beautifully. A pillar of the Angel-inspired oriental-gourmand genre.
Musk
Musk
The base layer of almost every modern fragrance, a soft, warm, skin-like scent that extends longevity and bridges other notes together. Natural musk was once derived from deer (now banned); today's musks are synthetic and range from clean and soapy to dark and animalic. The right musk makes a fragrance smell like 'you.'
Patchouli
Patchouli
Dense, earthy, and darkly sweet, patchouli is the scent of damp soil and dried herbs with an almost chocolatey richness. It polarizes people because in high concentrations it's overwhelming, but as a supporting note it adds depth and longevity that almost nothing else can match. The backbone of countless oriental and chypre fragrances.
Sandalwood
Sandalwood
Creamy, smooth, and milky with a soft, skin-like warmth that clings beautifully. True Mysore sandalwood is one of perfumery's most precious ingredients, simultaneously wood and skin, never cold or sharp. It rounds off sharp edges in any composition and makes the wearer smell subtly, irresistibly warmer.
Vanilla
Vanilla
Warm, sweet, and universally appealing, vanilla is to fragrance what salt is to cooking. Real vanilla is complex and slightly smoky, though most perfumery vanilla is synthetic and reads as clean, sweet, and creamy. It slows the evaporation of other notes and is the reason certain fragrances feel like a second skin.
Vetiver
Vetiver
Earthy, smoky, and complex, vetiver root is extracted from a grass native to India and has a scent that is simultaneously rooty, woody, and slightly lemony. It's one of perfumery's great base notes: tenacious, unisex, and endlessly adaptable. A fragrance built around vetiver feels grounded and deeply confident.
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The RomanticBest match85% match
Your fragrance is a love letter you never stop writing.

Warm roses, vanilla, amber, creamy musks. Soft, evolving, intimate.

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The Homesteader84% match
Rooted, warm, and entirely self-sufficient.

Warm skin musks, sandalwood, soft cedar, clean vetiver. Grounding, intimate, unhurried.

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The Reverie82% match
You live slightly outside the present — and your scent proves it.

Warm, experimental sweetness. Caramelized woods, unusual ambers, avant-garde gourmand.

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Scent Profile
Fresh40%Floral90%White Floral39%Fruity100%Woody74%
Fragrance Family
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Escada Magnetism— Prices, Coupons & Buying Guide

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Cheapest price for Escada Magnetism? +
$22.95 at FragranceShop. Gush compares 47+ retailers updated every 2 hours.
Is $22.95 a good price for Magnetism? +
Yes. The current best price is $22.95 and MSRP is $54.95. At $22.95 you save 58% vs retail.
What does Escada Magnetism smell like? +
Escada's Magnetism arrived in 2003 as part of the German fashion house's fragrance line, capturing the brand's approach to accessible luxury with a focus on wearable elegance. The fragrance opens with a fruity-forward burst of black currant, litchi, and melon, sweetened by pineapple and red berries. The heart shifts into a dense floral garden anchored by jasmine, magnolia, and rose, with supporting notes of freesia, lily of the valley, and almond blossom that add both airy and creamy dimensions. A dusting of basil and caraway keeps things from becoming overly sweet. The base anchors everything with vanilla, caramel, and amber, warmed by sandalwood, patchouli, and musk, creating a gourmand-leaning finish that's more comfort than sophistication. This is a solid everyday fragrance for someone who appreciates a fruity-floral with gourmand leanings but doesn't want to commit to a full dessert scent. It works best during cooler months or indoors, where its sweetness feels balanced rather than cloying. Magnetism suits The Romantic, The Homesteader, and The Reverie.
What are the notes in Escada Magnetism? +
Top: Black Currant, Cassia, Litchi, Melon, Pineapple, Red Berries. Heart: Almond Blossom, Basil, Caraway, Freesia, Green Leaves, Heliotrope, Iris, Jasmine, Lily Of The Valley, Magnolia, Rose. Base: Amber, Benzoin, Caramel, Musk, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Vanilla, Vetiver.
What fragrance family is Magnetism? +
Escada Magnetism belongs to the Floral fragrance family. It is an EDP.
What other fragrances smell like Escada Magnetism? +
Based on shared notes, Al Haramain L'Aventure Grapefruit (Benzoin, Caramel, Almond Blossom, Freesia), Escada 2005 for women (Amber, Musk, Freesia, Jasmine), balenciaga Talisman for women (Amber, Caramel, Freesia, Iris), Thierry Mugler Angel (Amber, Caramel, Caraway, Jasmine), Penhaligons Anthology Eau Sans Pareil (Amber, Benzoin, Jasmine, Lily Of The Valley) may smell similar to Magnetism.
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