Brasil Dream

Yes summery to the max! Yes beautiful! This one is actually quite interesting to my nose. Upon initial spray...I immediately thought it would be a fruit-bowl type of scent. Which I love those also. Then after about 2 short minutes...the florals came running out! The florals, coconut, and other fruits really mix quite well together! One thing I do find though is my nose gets confused as to which it smells more...the fruits or the florals?...But it doesn't matter...I still enjoy it. They still are all blended very well together. I just can't depict which is more prominent. Maybe it's 50/50. Lol. After about 30-60 minutes when the projection starts to settle down...it starts to translate into a "clean" scent. Like you just showered. BUT...not with a dove bar of soap. With a high-end, floral-coconutty body wash that was lathered all over you from head to toe. I LOVE that type of scent. They should've made this into a hair mist also. It's the perfect smell to spray into your hair and let others get wafts of it that way. Anyway...I think this is discontinued if i'm not mistaken. Based off of all the positive reviews here, I HAD to find a bottle to buy before there are no more! And luckily, on Ebay I found a FULL 1.7 ounce bottle for only like $18 so I snatched it up. Will probably buy a few more as back up bottles if I find 2 more or so at a reasonable price. This one is beautiful! Safe blind buy in my opinion! And also a safe gift option. I'm a little surprised about the votes above on performance. I only get moderate performance but no complaint here! I'm fine with moderate performance. Longevity - 4-5 hours depending on amount of sprays. Projection - Very decent. 2-3 feet. Overall Score - 9/10. NOTE :: First day I wore this...I received 2 compliments. One from a co worker at my office job and one from a co worker at my restaurant job. This one is a definite crowd pleaser! Love it!! Big thumbs up Estee Lauder! I actually think this is my first scent from this house! I'll have to try more...

Oh, this is summer's biggest fragrance bargain! I'm loving my on-line auction discounted bottles of Estee Lauder's Dream series, with Brasil Dream being my favorite. I don't find any of them particularly strong, perhaps because they have that "clean" effect in common BD is all sunshine top of a clear aquatic layer that embraces a nice gardenia/jasmine melange. The first wave of fruit is sweet but not heavy and I think it's the pineapple I notice most - the rest of the fruits blend and quickly give way to the floral wave of gardenia and jasmine. There's the barest hint of Coppertone, as if most of the suntan oil has been washed off in the ocean but enough remains to whisper of coconut. Long lasting although it becomes a patchouli skin scent on me after a couple of hours. (Skip Emerald Dream and Bali Dream as they cost more and are nearly identical to Brasil in all but the high sunny notes and that's where my primary enjoyment is.) I plan on using up each 1.7 bottle of Emerald & Bali and both 1.7 bottles of Brasil over the next couple of months, spritzing away happily until autumn arrives. Great out of the shower. Very uplifting & energizing fragrance. Makes people smile at work & while I'm out shopping. A happy scent. I sent a bottle to my floral-loving mom and she says it's like sunshine in a bottle. Bottle does feel nice in the hand -- like a little glass pillow.

I was swayed to order this EL Brasil Dream after I read fragrantican Rainydaze write that this fragrance captured the spirit of the tropics, she having lived there a few years. I've been searching for a night blooming jasmine which would carry me to the tropics or transport me to our neighbor's garden when I was a child. I'd tag along with my mother after her evening chores (no TV then for us) as she walked to visit our very aged neighbor. I can still see in my mind's eye the garden bathed in moonlight and inhaling various flowers: roses, gardenia, jasmine, and sweet or tea olive, I think. My two spritz surrounded me with a mist of dreamy jasmin and gardenia. I smell no fruit, no patchouli, no coconut. My chemistry devours fragrance notes within a very short span of time. Two hours later, only the lingering sandalwood and wait! now I do discern, but just barely, coconut. I'm going to love wearing this perfume. If I can find it for a very good price, I might just buy Bali. Thank you Fragranticans. I've just returned from my visit to the moonlit garden of Dona Paz.

I love patchouli. I love gardenia. I love tropical scents. But even I was taken aback by the sheer force of the opening blast. Overwhelming but a total pleasure at the same time. Now you need 10-15 minutes to recover. My usual habit of 4 sprays may be a bit overindulgent with this one, but I can't help myself. I enjoy the opening, it's a guilty pleasure. The middle notes remind me of a jagged Sensi also, with a dripping patchouli undertone that never leaves and EL synthentic floral notes that pop out rather than a well blended Armani. Testing definitely recommended with this one, rather than a blind buy. I think it's a love/hate fume. I guess you could play safe and go for one spritz and be careful not to inhale. Worth getting beyond the nasty surprise. Then it mellows into a beautiful tropical scent in the drydown which is no longer scary. Personally I love it, fades over 6-8 hours on me, and I will definitely buy again.

Walked past this in duty free on the way back from Brazil the actual place. Thought it might be amusing to buy simply on account of its name, but sprayed it on and found the top notes a bit jarring, plastic fruit, and thought don't waste your money, it's not worth the weak joke. Then I sat on the aeroplane for hours, wondering what the nice smell was. Realised it was me. Kept sniffing wrist sadly and wishing I had bought it while I had the chance. It becomes a perfect mix of orange and jasmine, creamy with a tiny pinch of spice. Regret lifted on my birthday when my mum gave me a bottle and I experienced that rare wonderful thing; a second chance :) Not sure if it smells like Brazil the country though, that to me just smelt green, herby and hot (and sometimes rain and muddy earth) and relentlessly of Dior Pure Poison thanks to the Aussie backpacker I trekked with :/