Oasis Dawn

Over the last couple of weeks, with the coming of the fall season, I have been on a quest to find my perfect fig focused scent. Knowing from previous years that Gris Charnel and the Extrait version are not my thing, I decided to sample different brands, niche or designers, to see if I can find MY perfect fig perfume... And I can say that I have found it where I was expecting less, within the Estee Lauder Luxury collection, in Oasis Dawn. It’s a sweet fruity scent that highlights a fig fruit combined masterfully with pimento leaves, rose, jasmine, orange blossom and patchouli! It’s a fruity, warm, spicy, white floral, with earthy patchouli to ground it and give it a bit more lingering power. Maybe I adore this scent because it’s more of a designer take on a fig, less difficult to understand and appreciate than let’s say BDK’s/Goldfield&Banks / Miller Harris’s or simply because the fig here is sweeter and surrounded by a beautiful, big floral heart. I am not entirely sure but Desert Dawn is right up my alley and it’s beautifully done! In order to like this scent you need to like a sweet fig, closer to being a fig jam, rose and white flowers. Obviously, it’s 100% a feminine perfume. Will work most of the season in my opinion. The addition of the pimento leaves gives the fig and the florals so much warmth and makes Oasis Dawn work during the fall season. Full transparency, I got my bottle for half price off, so for the amount of money I have paid for my Oasis Dawn, I consider this perfume as an amazing value for money. I would have bought it for full price if I couldn’t have gotten it on a good deal, but it happened to be on sale for Black Friday. At around three hours it became a skin scent. So not the best longevity and minimal sillage. I guess I can’t have it all... On clothes lasts for days though.

The longer this wears on the skin, the better this perfume gets. It is fabulous in the dry down phase. I sprayed this - and the beginning of this was so so, not terribly memorable. However, after this moves into the dry down phase, this perfume is REALLY GOOD ON! Light, fresh...upbeat. It has a note in it where it smells very similar to Grigsby Clothing Store smelled like in my home town. I really like this, on. Very nice with my chemistry - without going into over kill. It is light and attractive, but has the typical Estee Lauder strength where this is going to last longer than some other brands. ---------------- This has notes in it which smell very similar to Avon's original "Far Away" and "Far Away Gold" formula. They just discontinued the original "Far Away" - so it is great to have something similar to that. I believe that they have removed the notes which made that perfume react with my chemistry in a negative way. This formula is much better with my chemistry. This is fabulous in the dry down phase.

This is classy, mature, old money elegance. White florals have a way of evoking aristocratic femininity when they are well composed. The jasmine and the orange blossom offer a cool freshness that is balanced beautifully with the sweetness of the fig. This brings to mind visuals of 90s White Musk perfume ads for some reason - perhaps because it captures the clean, sophisticated, glamorous imagery of those ads in a bottle. It has a long life span on the skin. I sprayed it on my clothes and the scent lingered for over 24 hours. This is probably my second favorite fragrance in this line after Infinite Sky.

This line just keeps impressing me! This is a beautiful fig scent done in a spicy woody floral way. Less tropical and green than Philosykos, no coconut notes. Probably leans feminine but a beautiful earthy vetiver combined with the spice of the pimento leave keeps it from going full sweet floral. I wonder how many scents they will release under this line? Everyone please go buy at least one because I will be really upset if it gets discontinued. Zero buzz, almost no reviews on YouTube... I’m nervous this line is getting overlooked.

A freaking masterpiece. Fig is a challenging note for me, but that chili note from the pimento leaf has me absolutely addicted. I can’t stop sniffing myself. Lasts decently on skin, days on clothes. I decanted a bit into a travel spray so I’ve got some on me at all times. I may need a backup bottle of this one since it’s sadly discontinued. Radiant Mirage is another winner from this line.