Anna Sui will launch Forbidden Affair, a new fragrance for women, in September:
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.
Anna Sui Forbidden Affair will be available in 50 ml Eau de Toilette. (via press release)
She always does the most over the top frou-frou packaging. I’ve never smelled any of her fragrances. For some reason, I get the sense they would be soooo sweet. 😉
RusticDove, they usually are! but I find that an Anna Sui fragrance is a GREAT gift for some of my female friends who are very girlie-femenine and are olso a little over-the-top themselves.
It might be a little loud, but it still remains classy and giftable (at least for me)
Now about that technology for the topnote… I remember that Estee Lauder did something similar for Beyond Paradise (I used the men´s version) and they did make the top notes “bounce back” from time to time. Call me old fashioned… I might like LONGER LASTING top notes, but the top notes bouncing back indefinitely?? doesn´t it ruin the whole process of fragrance development on skin? It sounds like the fragrance equivalent of a skipping CD to me!
She really does do “over the top” — and they do tend towards the sweet. Jessica likes the brand but I admit I do not get to try them all — they aren’t well distributed where I live.
P, since many of the these fruity floral type scents are more interesting in the beginning than the end, it doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me.
Yeah you are probably right… I was cranky yesterday hehehehehe
I feel like I may have been taken in by this at one time, but not so much now. Wouldn’t all top notes just be a linear fragrance? (I have to admit that in my mind I see the top notes “re-bursting” via a small explosion on the skin, with sparks and everything. Maybe even a little cascade of glitter.)
hehe I like how your mind works A. 😉
Strictly speaking I guess it would only be linear if the heart notes also did not fade. Beats me how this actually works on skin though.
I would just like to point out, party pooper that I am, that unless they have discovered something really new and unique, “cyclodextrin technology” is what makes Febreze work, so presumably they’ve included molecules that hang on to your skin for a while, and then release whatever top note they’ve been chemically bound to. Or something.
I would also like to say that it isn’t a new idea, because Yves Saint Laurent In Love Again has that exact effect on me: I was surprised to discover, a couple of hours in, that the grapefruit note in the top had somehow magically reappeared.
LOL Miss Kitty!
Ok that last post is in the wrong place – supposed to be beneath Miss Kitty’s cascade of glitter comment!
I thought “hmmmm I’d like to try this…”
o__O what?
Maybe it made me hungry because that list of notes is basically a list of my favorite flavors.
Not in a million years would I wear a perfume bearing that name. Hate the bottle and the packaging anyway.
If I had a forbidden affair, it would look and smell different. Along the line of the new and wonderful Narciso Rodreiguez Essence Musk Collection – phew! such a name to remember, but the fragrance is worth it 🙂
The ad and bottle reminded me of bunny boiler Glenn Close – or was it Glenn Close in Liaisons Dangereuses? Something frou frou in a sinister/cheap sort of way. Sorry guys, it’s Friday 😉
I mean the ad and bottle of Forbidden Affair, not Essence.
There’s something old-fashioned about the bottle, I can picture a 60-year old wearing it but not a 20-year old. Does this make sense?
Hmm… I’m 62 and they’d have to pay me to wear it or have that bottle anywhere in my flat so, no, it doesn’t.
Not for you perhaps Bela, but there are plenty of 62-year olds who love frangrance. One of them has got to fancy this.
In any case, age is a concept.
When I was a teen-ager, my Mom was wearing Opium. And I loved it. But it smelled so grown up, it was not right to steal a spray to wear on a date. But I promised myself this will be my fragrance once I’m 40.
… and I’m 40 now and still feel Opium to be “too much”. I guess I’ll never grow into it.
But one of my Grannies loved this frou-frou type of bottle (not sure about the fragrance though, she was a Nina Ricci fan) so that probably explains it.
Anna Sui’s perfumes sells very well in Asia, where most young girls prefer to smells sweet and fruity, so that’s why I guess they keeps launching new ones 😉
Forbidden affair kinda reminds me of those vampire-love craze that caught the ladies around the world, from twilight, vampire diaries to true blood, 😀