Anna Sui (for women)

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Are you into magic & mischief? Do you like Tim Burton's twisted tales? Have you ever wanted to slip into a dishevelled, deep-plum velvet burlesque outfit & handcuff yourself to a trapeze to join the gothic carnival?

If these are your girly daydreams, then you may just like this scent. (If you are actually "Sword-Swallowing Sadistic Sadie" from the Corrupt Carnival Troupe, then you will find this far too trivial, sweet & frilly, lacking real grit, dirtiness & ooom-pa-pa).

It is a very purple scent. Heavily heady & a great showcase for orris, iris & tonka. The fruits open to an almost over-ripe booziness before you are powdered down & enveloped in a treacley-thick floral fog....the flowers are not fresh, crisp & zesty but old & candied (& probably covered in pixie-poo). I do not get the usual woody/amber dry down but the tonka is spectacular....clove-spiced, vanilla-warm with sweet nutty cherry tobacco.

I agree that it is a sweet, fairytale scent - but not one for a pretty pink glittery princess. This is a haunted castle, a poisoned apple, a purple rose whose thorns drip blue blood from wounded wood nymphs.

Here is a young perfume with bolshiness & individuality.....but personally, I can't get over the sickly fruit.

Great for twilight changlings who look like sugar wouldn't melt but have deliciously dark daydreams. Confusing for mere mortals.

Malegria

I always loved the bottle - there is something Middle Ages and gothic in the curves and decoration of this lovely vessel.Marguerite of Navarra could have such a bottle in her chambers - which possibly contained her lover`s blood or some witch potion.
The juice , in my opinion, is not suited for such vial. It is soft, feminine,very "iris", and the aromatic berries are the ones that grow near the window of a Red Riding Hood.There is nothing dark about it, it is quite seductive, but in a shy, girly way. Like a pink umbrella, this scent is made to protect it`s owner from realities of everyday life and take her to a magic kingdom full of unicorns and rainbows.
Even though I adore the bottle, I will not get it for myself. But it would make a glorious first fragrance for a young girl!

Mellyhelly

I used to love this scent years ago. It's quite intense and extremely feminine. I wouldn't classify it as simply Floral, because it includes many other notes, both fruity and darker.
For me it's a frilly-dark scent and it goes well with dark hair, pale skin and feminine slightly gothic clothes and also flowers.

Tequila Rose

I first fell in love with this perfume when it first came out and even now...10 years on it still smells lovely

harajukulovers

This perfume is really berry luscious it has so many fruits in it !

snobuni77

Yes a phantom smell is a good description.I tried this tonight & it has faded already.Its has only been an hour or so since I first sprayed it on my wrist & I have to say that although it is nice it isn't all that.

I smell cheap spices over Tonka bean & Amber.Actually the base notes are pretty strong the whole way through.I got very little fruit but in the beginning is when it was the most prominent.I guess its ok for the price,but I wont be buying this one.

Kyrrah

Beautiful fragrance, quite unusual. I always smell parma violets, powdery but with an edge. Shame its quite hard to find and shame I only ever find it in EDT.

guest_Anya

Loves the bottle.

ANNA SUI is the first and it's also the strongest, and last longest of Sui's EDT.

Elegant scent, powdery spice, though sweet. Got compliments by both men & women when I wear.

eskarina62

I think it is feminine and childish, seductive and innocent at the same time - clean, inviting, sexy...

love wearing it
and the bottle is so special
as is the price...

kassiasun

I never wear this perfume, but I love to smell it at least once a week ( I own a bottle). It smells very flowery, almost childish, which does not suit my personality, but it reminds me of being a child when I have my regular whiff.

d dolce vitta

I think too that it looks some gothic,and dark, but realy have inside something special. When i think in Anna Sui, it is like nigth, club, fall, and original. This parfum for me is a clasical of Ana Sui, but whent is not used in the rigth time, is a little...boring.

cathmerized

i love the bottle!! i kinda like the powdery smell, it's so anna sui, quirky and girly. i wear this for a casual day out.

lovelylavender

The only reason why I bought this product before sniffing is because of the bottle. I think there's something gothic, dark, and sexy about the bottle.

It's quite heady and powdery when I first smell it. Some people consider it as soft. For me, although it's not really strong, there's something different with the notes.

The only event that I think suitable for this perfume is halloween night. If you want to be princess vampire or something like that, I think this is what you should wear.