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...

I love Live Your Dreams like I love the original Anna Sui. It's perfect for spring and summer. It's like a lighter, cleaner, fresher, fruity version of the original. It definitely smells "pink." It's strange that I smell fruit so strongly when there is no mention of fruit in the notes...but I smell something that vaguely resembles melon. This fragrance is quite sweet, but not like candy. My skin did not pick up any hint of pepper. I love Anna Sui products.

TOTAL SURPRISE!! I expected to loath this but am really liking its punchy scent. It doesn't say it anywhere but I occasionally get a strong whiff of gardenia. Sillage and longevity are excellent and for me the dry down is warm and musky. So girly!

I really love rose and floral fragrances, so I expected to love this one. It is definitely rose, but it fades so fast on me. After 10 min it is nothing but a hint of rose and musk. Very sad.

At the first spray it's quite fresh, like the 'wakes you with a sniff' type of fresh, but when it settles down it gets balanced by this straight from the garden floral note.

Such a pretty scent....very feminine and girly. It has floral, spicy & musky notes; a very pretty melody. The longevity is pretty decent and the bottle is just lovely. LIKE

If Pleasures by Estée Lauder, Portrait (for women) by Paul Smith, Escada's Especially & Chloé EDP had a baby.... Just another 'peppery rose'. Aside from the Anna Sui eponymous scent & "Dreams", I think the droll and unvaried, mainly citric and fruity range of scents on offer from this brand is just a bit of a joke.

Smells exactly like Fancy Night by Jessica Simpson. I just bought it in a bigger bottle, thought that i liked it since i liked the little perfume test. But it smells more sweet and fruity in the sample than it did in the bigger bottle.

There is something in this that is absolutely suffocating. It reminds me of latex or PVC. Ugh.

I don't like strong jasmine scent,I got headache whenever i wear it.

I surprisingly like this fragrance despite the fact that Anna Sui doesn't always rock my boat. Live Your Dream is a pleasant rose fragrance with a peppery twist. My favourite peppery-rose fragrance is Perles de Lalique, and although this fragrance shares similiar accords, Live Your Dream is a touch sweeter and less earthy. The floral notes feel quite soapy and feminine on my skin, but I am very grateful to the cedar and pepper that gives this fragrance more dynamic. I've worn this fragrance out on a few occasions, and have received many compliments. Live Your Dream really is quite a romantic and pretty scent. Like Michellehii mentioned, it's not an irritating fragrance at all, it's enough to make you smile, feeling refreshed. At times I swear I can smell subtle hints of peony and lemon. In those regards, Live Your Dream smells a little bit like Gucci's Envy Me, just not as fruity and harsh. I am enjoying wearing this fragrance, however it's not something that I'm likely to re-purchase. I think it could be worn all year around to be honest, it doesn't scream out any particular season. The longevity is good, perhaps a little average, but lasting nonetheless. All in all, it's one of Anna Sui's more wearable offerings.

It opens up with pepper and rose. Pepper overpowers rose for about an hour. Then it begins to disappear slowly and rose becomes more noticeable. It sure is a floral fragrance but I didn't get much others except rose. I can definitely tell it's quite rosy but not overwhelmingly. I think, its woodsy notes create such a nice balance because the dry down is more likely fresh. It reminds me clean linens and also kind of makes you feel clean. Very slightly musky but you can only feel that after 2-3 hours. Besides that, I can't tell I picked tonka bean. It's not sweet at all. However to be honest... not my cup of tea. I'm not a floral type person and don't think, I would consider using it but if you enjoy fresh and floral scents, I would recommend it.

Thanks to this perfume I finally know what pepper in a perfume is like. I never quite understand it before, I expected it to smell like the pepper we eat. But now I get it, I really do get it this time. This and MJ Lola has the peppery similarities, but then this has white peppers and MJ’s pink peppers. Ugh! Back to the review for this AS. The peppery phase is much subdued after 20mins. Now I only detect something faintly floral. I love the original AS with the violet liquid. This does not compared at all to that in terms of originality of course. This will suit someone young who is looking for a perfume that comes with a ‘live your dream’ reminder. Or can be given as a very expensive motivational greeting card?

This is the 3rd day I try on this perfume. The 1st spritz, I can immediately pick up intense floral notes, especially rose! Then, I pick up sweet smelling notes. I'm not sure what is it, but I reckon its tonka beans. Very sweet, but not irritating. Unlike other sweet smelling perfume, the sweetness it gave is just nice, making you feel very feminine the whole day. I will recommend this perfume to be used on autumn. It's a romantic perfume, it lasts, and the notes are intense. However, I don't really pick up pepper :)

Initial smell reminds me of being in a hospital, settles down into a dusky rose with miscellaneous florals underneath. It's an average, safe, perfume anyone can wear at any time, but and it's a big but, it's price is incredibly low for what it is. Because it's so ageless it would be perfect for a young teenage girl to wear as it's 10x nicer, and more appropriate in a lot of cases, than the stuff pop stars churn out.

This was a blind buy for me, but Im actually satisfied with my purchase. Is actually quite nice. Fresh, floral and clean. It reminded me of Tommy Girl, but this once is less sharp. To me the rose and the pepper are the notes that stand out the most.