Forbidden Affair Anna Sui for women

I am madly in love with this scent! My nose detects the scents perfectly, and it works wonderfully with my body chemistry. I find it The delicious scent returns sporadically thru out the day due to the cyclodextrin technology does allow it to reburst when my body temperature during my workday, or with workouts.

This is a fun and girly scent, but as a young at heart lady in her thirtys I have no problem pulling off this scent. I also have been getting great feedback, and lots of "what are you wearing and where can I buy it" questions.

After spritzing it opens very loudly with a lemony- black current shout out. The initial 15 minutes would be much too powerful for office work, but once it mellows out it is perfect. I get a nice mellow red currant-pomegrante scent. On dry down the violet comes off sulty and sexy. Again, it does reburst with the red-black currant scent during the day anytime my temperature rises- and I love smelling that fresh bouquet. I am so glad I came across this scent! Just purchased a Anna Sui Coffret from Sephora so I can sample a few other Anna Sui scents.

Wow! Beautiful summer, fruity scent, so delicious! Anna suis finest! Smells like pomegranate

This scent is so FRUITY and so LOUD...If you are not into scents that are loud then I wouldnt recommend this at all. I think I like it so far, but I'm defintely not in love with it & I highly doubt that I would repurchase.

I also wanted to add that this smells very similar to bbw's black raspberry vanilla except this scent is more citrusy and loud.

When I was a little kid, I would take a roll of LifeSavers hard candies, and put one of each flavor into my mouth all at once (or as many as I could fit).

One of my favorite types of LifeSavers was the Wild Berries version, which included: blackberry, black raspberry, wild cherry, red raspberry, and strawberry flavors in each roll.

When I smelled Forbidden Affair by Anna Sui, immediately I was putting all the berry flavors into my mouth at once again! It was the exact same combination of translucent purples, sweet, sour, candy, and berry. Really quite wonderful in a carefree, whimsical way.

I suppose that type of behavior would be a Forbidden Affair of sorts... with candy.

Anna Sui Forbidden Affair is the alcoholic in the fruity fragrance family! Opens with a spicy-fruity black currant, tangy pomegranate, sweet raspberry, and fresh cedar. If this scent were a little sweeter and got rid of the lingering alcohol undertone, it would be so much better! The bottle is a work of art!

Just got this on sale 30ml for £12 never smelt it before, its gorgeous deep fruity smell and reminds me alot of YSL parisenne its really pretty

A fantasy of red currant flower and sparkling fruity accords, the fragrance incorporates, for the first time, Cyclodextrin Technology. This allows the immediate first fresh topnote impression to “re-burst” over and over again for an ongoing sparkling fresh fragrance experience!

The notes include lemon, red currant, blackcurrant, raspberry, rose petal accord, pomegranate, violet, cedar and musk.
I find that an Anna Sui fragrance is a GREAT gift for some of my female friends who are very girly-feminine and are also a little over-the-top themselves.
It might be a little loud, but it still remains classy and gift able (at least for me) :)

I actually like it a lot! Much more better than any celebrities' perfumes.
It's bright ,pretty and sweet but not the 'Fantasy' kind of sweet.
I didn't buy it because I think it's suit for teens, like under 20?
It's kinda Lanvin Jeanne 's sister perfume [I'm 22 and using that one]
I wish I had this one when I was in high school T T it's so sweet and can make any girl feel pretty!

EDITED: I changed my mind, so what if I'm not in high school, I'm gonna buy it anyway! LOL
If you're kinda girl who smiles often this is for you, it's very suit me XD

I loved the jammy opening fizzing with sweet fruits but it somehow morphed into a scent I well know from the Body Shop: Rougeberry ...and unfortunately, it brings back sad memoried when my life was all crooked. Nice, fruity and fresh with a hint of mystery but not for me...

It's between 10's and 20's.
If you 10's, feels like you be adultify.
if you 20's feels like you comeback to 10's.

Very sweet opening, like blackcurrant jellybabies. It changes to a powdery smell quite quickly but also with a sharp citrus note (but not a fresh citrus), similar to the wooden scented balls so maybe this is the cedar that I can smell? I couldn't put my finger on what the scent had settled into for a a while and then it hit me - blackcurrant Lemsip.

This fragrances changes quite a bit during wear. Starts off with lots of sour berries, a bit sweet but not too much. It's very fresh and cool and pleasant at this point. After it settles, the fruitiness almost completely disappears there is a fairly strong almost masculine citrus note that develops and hangs around. It smells like lime to me, but lime isn't listed so maybe it's the lemon. I think this fragrances is all right but the name and marketing doesn't fit it. From the name, I would expect something richer, deeper and more seductive. From the advertising, I would expect something sweeter, floral and ultra feminine. This fragrance is neither. It's wearable for daytime, it's smells more serious than playful, and that touch of masculinity seems misplaced.

Rasberry, pomegranate and black currant seem to come out strongly. I thought it strongly smelled like blue berries, when I didn't know the notes. It definately smells very "blue" (flowers/fruits). On my skin the citrus note came out strongly too. The lasting power wasn't so great and I would recommend it more for young girls since it's very young and playful.

i agree that it is a very common scent. nothing special or new, and the lasting power is very weak. got a mini of it as a gift. wont use it, but the bottle is really really lovely <3

When I heard the name, Forbidden Affair, I pictured a naughty fragrance; rich, flirtatious and bold. In some ways this fragrance lives up to its name, but on the other end of the spectrum it's a pleasantly sweet and jammy fragrance, perfect for the younger segment of the population.

Forbidden Affair opens with zesty lemon and rich, concentrated currant jam. The foreboding yet sensual nature of this fragrance emerges towards the heart, with the prettiness of a luscious pink rose being smothered in red, juicy berries and pomegranate.

It's a night-time fragrance, kind of along the lines of Escada's Moon Sparkle and Britney Spears Midnight Fantasy. It does have a somewhat juvenile feel, however that's not to say that I'm not enjoying it, and I'm most likely over the targeted age range.

It doesn't make me feel like I'm living inside a fairytale like the figures on the bottle suggest, but it does make me keen to go out night-clubbing wearing this particular fragrance, if that means anything. Although I haven't tested it on a male nose, I'm pretty certain that men would be attracted to this rather sweet and jam-like concoction.

The sillage is not bad. I found the longevity to be quite impressive too. There's a lot to like about this fragrance, especially in terms of the bottle design which is a really pretty purple with delicate rose detailing. I will be using my bottle until the very last drop is gone.

its nothing much...not bad for just everyday use if ur at home...strong at 1st n later i dont smell anything at all...though it smells nice at 1st...wont buy another one

Anna Sui’s Forbidden Affair is like a desperate attempt of making a ‘modern girly rose’ in a fruity floral way (which doesn’t really have much rose left), as a tribute to the floral Anna Sui’s Anna Sui (which is quite powdery pretty and I occasionally enjoy wearing). I’m not saying Forbidden Affair is bad or anything, it just its promising look and notes don’t meet the expectation I had.

Ok, about the actual smell, it starts with really mouth-watering lychee kinda fresh juicy fruity smell, it smelt really genuine and I quite like it, however, it doesn’t stay more than 1 minute. Soon there’s the vigorous, acidic fruity smell cutting through the quasi-monotoned lychee smell: it reminiscent Live Your Dreams, also made by Anna Sui, quite a lot, but with some pomegranate fruitiness (I personally find it smell like rotten or going-to-be-rotten sweet-sour fruit smell, which Burberry Brit Shear also has) and some powdery undertone you can find in the original Anna Sui.
Then it goes more powdery but still with the sharp fruitiness, I assume that’s the ‘’? However I find it really hard to wear and I’m more used to the traditional top-middle-base-notes dominant phase changing experience, I would expect a perfume to go ‘softer’ towards the end.

The dry-down of Forbidden Affair is a disaster on me; it’s like something dirty, not in a sexy seductive dirty way, but in a literally musky dusty dirty way. It’s sweet, like inhaling solid brown sugar; it’s fruity, like the rotten ones; it has musk and cedar combo in the dry down, but I can’t smell the smooth nice or even ‘clean’ musk which I can find in floral fruities like Jeanne Lavine, Moschino Funny! , what I can smell and really want to run away from, is the weird combo of non-musk muskiness, non-floral flower smell. Somehow it reminds me of the drydown of Magnifique by Lancome on me, well, it’s not my cup of tea; however if you like Magnifique, maybe Forbidden Affair will work on your skin too.

Try before you buy, since it’s not one of those easy to wear girly optimistic floral fruity out there. Also, I personally find the bottle tackier in real life (which happens to the little fairy on top of Anna Sui Secret Wish bottle too).

When I saw the cute bottle and merchandise I totally fell in love with it. I bought it in the dark, just based on the looks of it...and I kinda of regret it. =/ The smell is so-so, very common...I was so sure it would be very light and sweet...but it turns out it's not! Well, at least it's good enuff to wear it.

Just got the 75ml today!!the bottle is soooo pretty!!and the perfume smells soo GOOOOD!!but it doesnt last for a very long time, my sis said that she couldnt smell it after 3-4 hrs..but i cant still smell it^^"

any of Anna sui fan would love this perfume,its very romantic, I get a hint of secret wish (one of my other favourite perfumes).the bottle is beautiful too.

Oooh, I can't wait to smell this one! It seems to me that it will be a dark yet sweet berry scent. Seductive... perhaps junevile though?