Anna Sui

I’m goth and have always wanted to have something Anna Sui. And my broke college bank account has finally gathered enough fund to impulse-buy a set of perfumes from her brand on mercari! This one in particular is comfort in a bottle. Starts with an impression of a nice, rose-scented bubble bath with a hint of clean accord like a fresh bar of soap. There are hints of tangy accords...generic fruity, blended well with the overarching florals. Like the person below me said, I also detect some chlorine-like smell. Then this scent develops into something that is reminiscent of my grandma’s favorite face cream...I still remember how she liked to dress to impress, and would put on the fanciest makeup while I slept in her bed! To me, the powdery note is where my impression of this perfume comes from; comfort and nostalgia. I’m not really sure, but at about 4-6 hours in, I detected some woody/green accord which also felt nostalgic, like a man’s aftershave. I’m not particularly a fan of that phase so that would be my only complaint. The scent disappears after 8 hours or so, and the last note is a beautiful, close-to-skin floral. Definitely a clean scent, but it’s more of “grandma’s vanity box/the scented bath goods she prepared for my stay” type of clean, which I really love! Overall, this was a great purchase! The silage is intimate to moderate, and I can imagine myself wearing this on both colder and warmer days to feel the comforting hug from this beauty! Edit; So, this perfume is officially my "memory" perfume. I wore this to The Offspring's concert last week. It really felt like a dream (they were my absolute FAV in high school!!) and I'm so happy I wore this. Truly my two dreams come true! My high school self would be so proud XD Even though I sweated a lot jumping and chanting, this scent made me smell clean and fresh throughout the night, aside from the obvious help from my deodorant. I recommend you not to limit the use of this scent to closed/seated occasions, since this truly is a good fresh scent with a vintage twist!

I must confess I rejected her at first, she was a gift that gathered dust on my shelf for about a year. (Shhh, I do not care for her looks, I admit, I have been shallow). I love oriental perfume, I adore spices, incense and ylang ylang. So at first I thought maybe she is too light, a little tacky judging by her attire. A confused lacy cowgirl goth. Erroneous costume design in a bad western movie with a rap soundtrack. Frilly CanCan knickers and nasty black suspenders. Well do you like rock or RnB? Country or opera?! So we have a conversation, a little spray here, a little squirt there. Just a little chat while I am getting dressed for the day. Its just between us. And we become friends. Sometimes life is morbid, disappointing. Maybe a western boot could work perhaps in the right circumstance. And I did just buy a little, all-lace black dress, very chic. Blackberry lips, yes please. Gradually I realise she is eclectic, adorable. She envelops me in a comforting, creamy powder cloud of rose, apricot and raspberry that blends smoothly with tonka bean, sandalwood and amber. A vanilla-like creaminess velvety soft, not the talcum powder kind. That would be too slovenly. This girl is playful and and generous. Cedar and bergamot prevent her from being too juicy-fruity or sugary-sweet. Iris helps give her an edge too. Towards the end she whispers quietly of sweet white flowers, jasmine and lilly. She knows who she is. Cute, warm and sensual.

So I haven't worn this in a while, and I only remembered it being pretty lightweight and somewhat airy. I'd sought it out as I totally loved the vintage, goth aesthetic, and based on the reviews, it sounded like something I would like. I just used it again last night, and yes, I still love it! Anna Sui is clean and a little soapy, a delicately sweet powder with a retro feel. This is a quirky goth in a silk slip with lace trims. I've never worn this outside, and I've come to associate it with the bedroom -- nothing naughty, just a little private time lounging about in bed. Still, I would love to give it a try outside when things are better. The fragrance seems to project more than I initially thought. When I used it before, I got the impression that it sat very close to the skin, but now I can smell it wafting about. It lasts longer than I thought too. I sprayed this about nine hours ago or so, and although the smell is now softer on the skin, it still wafts up from my shirt. Very pretty and comforting. Though I wouldn't put Anna Sui at the top of my list of favorites, it is something I would always like to have. Now that I've smelled it again, I might reach for it more often, especially with the weather getting hotter here. It is an easy fragrance, and I think I may try to snag another bottle as this small one I have now seems too little.

Until a few days ago, I had not seen, smelled, or owned this fragrance for a long time. However, it was always in the back of my mind. This was my everyday signature from 18-20 years old. I remember picking it up at a perfume outlet, and being smitten with the bottle. Not sure why, as it's really nothing I would even look at twice now days. I thought it smelled and looked very pretty, and I've never forgotten it. I don't necessarily agree with all of the gothic references, and I think those associations stem from the design of the bottle, and the fact that there is a strong and slightly cold Rose in this. Victorian? Ok, sure. Definitely a bygone era. Super feminine. Lace, lipstick, powder, Rose, purple flowers, and a bowl of fresh raspberries and apricots. I can detect woody notes later on, as well as the base all the way through. I might associate this in my mind with "Moulin Rouge", or what have you.... I think this can be worn by a woman/girl of any age, but it is a female's scent in my mind, for certain. I think it’s most suitable for Spring/Summer. It's not serious, but it's not silly either. At this point in my life, this is a "mood fragrance". But no lie...I've been spraying a little obsessively since I got my new bottle. And YES, it's because there is little to no longevity. (The only downside imo) .

I was lucky enough to find this perfume that I loved about fifteen years ago in a small perfumery near my home, at a very low price because I think it was the last one: Anna Sui edt. To my nose it comes across as a gothic, sensual and much more complex version of Ombre rose! Perhaps influenced by the color of the pack, I seem to smell like powdery violets, but I know that in reality it is iris together with raspberry (which is masterfully dosed here, in fact it is a note that I can't stand if it prevails, it tastes like cough syrup to me... Any reference to recent flankers of La vie est belle is purely coincidental 😬). Then I smell this note of rose liqueur, or dark, velvety, very sensual roses. In the base there is this lily of the valley type note, hyper feminine, almost erotic, in an amber echo, that Is soft and suffused, like the light of a lampshade edged with black lace. No excess of sweetness, no vanilla to make this scent more childish and playful which thus remains austere and elegant, despite its sensuality. I find it wonderful and original. It's a satisfaction for me to find these gems in a perfumery that doesn't have the ambition to define itself as artistic or niche!

I wore this as my signature scent, day in, day out, for many years. It is still my favorite, however I developed bronchitis three times during periods when I was wearing this more heavily due to special occasions. I became afraid that I have an allergy to the fragrance. The bronchitis was so severe one of those times that I was hospitalised and then lost much of my hair due to the stress my body endured at the time. I can't say with absolute certainty that this scent was to blame but I do not wear it now. I keep telling myself that if this pandemic ever ends, I will try my Anna Sui again. I have not worn it since 2010. This was the best jammy iris rose musk. Excellent longevity and strength on my skin. It was a match made in heaven. Or maybe something far more sinister. The Anna Sui site lists "aqueous flowers" as a note, which I think hits the nail on the head. There is a stagnant water in a vase of sunbleached florals with mulchy petals aspect. This, I truly love.

I brought a vintage, original 100 ml bottle of this perfume. I like the bottle, it’s cute and eye catching. According to Anna Sui it supposed to look like a mirror. I’ve just checked the notes on the official site of Anna Sui and Osmoz. Ozonic note is missing on Fragrantica. This perfume was created in the late nineties, more specifically in the year 1999. Ozonic perfumes were popular at that time. Most Fragrantica reviewers described this perfume as gothic. But i disagree. As soon as I sprayed this on my wrist, the smell of pool water and sunny morning air by the sea combined with the sweet apricot and something powdery hit my nose. This perfume is warm, sweet, powdery and ozonic at the same time. It’s smells beautiful in the summer morning. In the winter time i find this too aquatic. I’m happy to have this in my collection. This perfume is great example of the end of 90’ era.

I'm so glad this one is back in production! A very sexy dark "mysterious" sort of fragrance. The very best Anna Sui has to be the original. Woody, rose, musk. I just love this one. Dark, yet classy. Does anyone know if the ones being produced now still smell the same as the originals though????! If you know, please please let me know! Update 2018: It's been some years, the smell of the first bottle(pre-reproduction) I owned wasn't exactly the same. It smells as if it's part age and perhaps, although very difficult to say part reformulation? It does smell as if, Anna Sui has tried to stay close to the original. However, there does seem be something a bit shy off in terms of the silage it once had. Still, even its update in production the current aroma is the same scent if not extremely similar. Dark, mysterious but sensual and velvety.

I admit that I, too, was drawn to the design of the bottle and, as a result, ended up blind buying one. It was hatred on first spray - old lady, dust, musty library, wilted flowers. Who would want to smell like this? I put it away, where it sat on a dark shelf for years, undisturbed. Then came a day when I decided to purge everything I had no practical use for in my life. I pulled the beautiful flacon out from its cardboard tomb and sprayed it again, one last time, just to make sure I remained as repulsed by it as I was back then. I fell in love. Yes, it might seem old-fashioned, and it still smells like a bouquet of dust-covered, withering flowers, but therein lies its beauty, suspended in time. When I wear this, I feel like a porcelain doll, forgotten and motionless, sitting on the floor of a sunless attic.

Smells like a thrift shop that primarily sells dusty books. (the one you go to biweekly because the cute alternative/goth girl works there.) There's a bouquet of browning Bulgarian roses beside the cash register. The initial hit of alcohol kind of scared me. Then there's some citrus fruit. Gets reaaaally floral after 10 minutes. The raspberry lingers in the background for a while. After 30 minutes it gets powdery, but not in a heavy way. In a your-moms-cheap-makeup-from-the-'90s-that's-most-definitely-expired way. To me that's a bit disappointing because I love a heavy fragrance, but it does make for a very nostalgic scent. I do think that it is quite tame in comparison to what the flacon might suggest. Nonetheless, I think it's a pleasant fragrance inside a romantic bottle. Amazing quality-price ratio.

I'm shocked this one was discontinued. It's a beautiful, feminine scent that makes me think of a dressing table in a boudoir full of crimson roses and powder. It's heavy and beguiling, like a white fur stole wrapped around your shoulders on a rainy night. The biggest note I detect is rose, and I swear that I smell violet flowers, not iris. Then lots of powder and a slightly sweetened, woody, musky base. I believe this scent has an uncanny ability to make a young & naiive woman seem more sophisticated yet make a mature woman seem young & fresh. It's a beautiful scent for any woman who wants to bask in her femininity. Sillage and longevity are both huge! Edit—new bottles are very weak, nowhere near as potent as my older bottles. This was my signature for years. It’s gone now :(

I wear this when I want to smell like beautiful baby powder and roses. Imagine a scene in a vintage movie where the freshly-bathed heroine is lounging in a negligee and marabou feather-trimmed robe in fluffy kitten heels, sitting on a pink velvet and gold trimmed stool at a matching vanity table. She takes an enormous fuzzy powder pouf from an ornate round box, elegantly shrugging off her robe to reveal her shoulders and decollete which she delicately dusts. The fine-milled powder creates a luminous haze around her, and the scent is THIS perfume. The fragrance is creamy, powdery and dense but not stuffy. I'd say it's more Noir than Goth, more Old Hollywood than old-fashioned. It's romantic, nostalgic and somehow... a little camp? She's never going out of style. I love her.

This makes me feel like the movie version of the Anabelle doll. I also read somewhere on a thread that this is reminiscent of Victorian ghosts in the attic, and I agree with that as well. Powdery, slightly dusty iris. I think if I wanted something with a sort of “goth” feel for the warmer days this would be a good choice. It’s both dark and light at the same time. I think it disappears a little bit in cold weather so it’s not really worth wearing it then. This doesn’t smell super vintage to me. I think it smells modern with a nod to vintage perfumery. Very pretty scent. Not super strong or long lasting, but I think that adds to its appeal.

I was a goth in the late '90's, early '00's and yes, this was my favourite scent. Rediscovered it many years later and it smelled just as good as before. I still have a bottle, and I still love it, but at nearly 40 years old, I'm slowly maturing out of it. It still smells amazing on my skin though, and I've never come across another perfume that was so spot on. 100% match with my skin, it lasts all day, no weird notes, makes me feel feminine and sexy, and I love the gothy vibes of the bottle (genuinly loved it back then, still a guilty pleasure now).

At first I thought this was just straightforward baby powder. Clean and dainty. I think this would suit a pastel goth, it's definitely got a Victorian porcelain doll vibe going on. Once it settles on my skin it smells gorgeous - I can smell amber, sandalwood and some fruity notes. The powdery, dewy iris/violet is still there but now there's a soft, sweet, warm smell. The kind of smell that would make me want to cuddle someone and bury my nose in their neck. It's a lovely, everyday perfume. It's unique but inoffensive.

There's something very kawaii cute faded babydoll about this fragrance. It's a dark, goth baby-doll. The iris is really beautiful too. The iris leans into the powdery notes well. A little bit funeral vibes between the scent and design. Yet it's really feminine too, but I understand what people mean when they say it smells like it's from another era. It's a scent that has a variety of facets and unique personality.

I love this little gem of a perfume, and I am so happy it is rereleased. And at such a nice price! It is the perfume I keep on swapping, getting rid of, and then repurchasing because I just need to have it in my life! It's powdery, rosy, just perfect. It has a slight metallic note that makes me think of vampires. I am planning on getting a bottle again, to keep it in my purse.

This was my first "signature" perfume and I am totally in love with it. I found it in an Anthropologie store. I use it very sparingly since it's long been discontinued and I am afraid of falling into the trap of buying a fake.. anyways, lovely and transporting. Reminiscient of introverted and thoughtful rainy days. Extremely feminine and demure, and the bottle is to DIE for.

I would describe this as: purple, gothic, sweet, innocent, playful and seductive. I have worn this for ages, actually I DONT wear it that often but I always have a bottle around, I think it's just an amazing scent because it makes me feel all these conflicting feelings at the same time. Its also unoffensive so you could wear it anywhere in my opinion. I love it.

one of the most beautiful scent I have ever owned. I don't know if they will make sense but I would describe it as Victorian. When I smell this I think of a lovely Victorian home in maybe Savannah or somewhere southern and maybe even a feeling of an earlier time period, this fragrance just has an antique, unique, lovely kinda of smell to it.