exhilarating
The first half of the film is exhilaratingly strange and genuinely frightening.
The colours on the catwalks of Paris and Milan are exhilaratingly vivid this season.
She was praised for her exhilaratingly fresh and exciting cuisine.
It's an exhilaratingly breathless thriller that is full of twists and turns.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making people excited and interested
absorbed
animate
arouse someone's curiosity
be someone's bagidiom
bedazzle
breathe
intoxicate
intrigue
occupy
overexcite
overstimulate
stir
stretch
sweep
sweep someone along
talk something up
tantalize
the Thames
thrill
whip