Live Your Dream

This was a blind buy for me and a great deal. I got this for $10 at marshalls and when I smelled it, it blew me away. I fell in love at first sniff!!! It took me back to my childhood and made me happy. On me it smells like roses, a little blend of flowers and and a little sweet that I think it's from the Tonka beans. I don't get pepper at all.

This is indeed a much better perfume from the Sui's. I can spot some nice and fresh, sweet(but not too sticky sweet) and a little bit playful, dreamy(in floral sense, not in the Lancome Hypnose way, thanks!)and femine notes from the EDT. Plus,the bottle is so beautiful, just like Anna Sui from 1999, but with a much younger and happier spirit inside--pink juice! It lasts quite okey for me, around 4-5 hours(it's winter now in Melbourne), and it's just EDT. Yeah, I agree with michellehii, it's really suitable for autumn. maybe also early spring and not-that-cold winter. However, I'm a little bit disappointed as the perfume doesn't really give me the "wow, that's it!" moment. It's young, nice, girly and GENERIC. I can't tell exactly what perfume Live Your Dream is mimicing, but somehow it just reminds you a bunch of flower + sweetness of the twenties. About the name, Live Your Dream, you would expect something higher, and maybe can give you some comfortable soothing feelings and maybe some celestrial fantasy. but no, nothing like that in this perfume. for me, it can't be a signiture perfume(well, maybe for a girl who receives this as her first perfume may think it's divine?), so I've only got the 30ml EDT. It's nice to have, especially the bottle.

Reading a lot of the reviews of various perfumes on here I get the impression that if none of the notes were mentioned the reviews would be quite different, Live Your Dreams a case in point. While I do smell the peppery spiciness on first spray, I simultaneously get a bunch of flowers, not distinctly rose, but a blend, As it mellows down and hits middle or heart notes, it becomes a smooth, seamless blend of spicy floral that becomes warmer, then the dry down being warm,sensual, cozy and comforting. It's very pretty. At first I thought I wouldn't like it but it grew on me after wearing it for a day. I actually got it by accident when the seller sent me this instead of another Anna Sui fragrance but I ended up keeping it once I tried it. Fragrance is a very personal experience and different scents hit people differently but Anna Sui fragrances are not a "bit of a joke" as one person called them. Fragrance doesn't always have to be so serious and traditional, variety is the spice of life. There are fragrance lovers, enthusiasts who embrace it all and love every minute of it and there are fragrance snobs, I like the former types better.

Live Your Dream is a dusty rose, quite similar to the original Anna Sui. I feel like I even pick up some of the strong iris of the original (though it isn't noted). Both have a similar creamy/lipstick vibe. The main differences lie in the heavy dose of (white) pepper and the presence of water lily. White pepper isn't nearly as sharp as black pepper. I think that note, in combination with cedar, is what gives the "dusty" effect to Live Your Dream. Waterlily is nicely executed here and gives a slight musky-fresh floral vibe. Live Your Dream is floral, but not flowery, if you catch my drift. In the drydown, the rose becomes more jammy and the tonka bean more prominent. All in all, I really like this scent. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys the original Anna Sui. I'd even recommend it to test for those who normally dislike rose scents as it's not your typical rose.

I bought this blindly and sprayed some on a few minutes ago. It is a very pretty, refreshing, romantic scent, suitable for spring and summer; a nice mix of rose and jasmine (and peony?) with a little bit of fruit-like sweetness, but not enough for it to be called a "fruity floral". I was hoping for a lot of pepper but I get none... nonetheless, it's a keeper. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it's really pretty, both the fragrance and the bottle! Edit: After a few wearings, my enthusiasm has dampened a bit... the floral notes do have quite a synthetic vibe to them. I guess I've been spoiled from smelling so many really nice perfumes lately. Not sure whether to keep it or not...