Anna Sui La Vie De Bohème

this scent is so amazing it has the scenty fusions making you feel good on the outside as well as the inside knowing that when you apply this fragrance it can be smelt from a fear distance away and is always catching peoples noses as you walk near by them.This fragrance is also a perfect wear for when you are wanting to go out on SPECIAL nights and wanting to make sure people around you know that its you that smells that good .definatly reccomend to all you fragrance lovers out there..money well spent for this product.totally worth it

First thing's first, let's discuss this bottle. It's made of frosted glass, with textured rose petals molded on to the glass, topped with a gold lid that has a dainty little butterfly attached! The lavender coloured perfume inside provides an awesome contrast and it just looks stunning atop my dresser. Anna Sui kills it with the packaging, yet again!

I had never seen this fragrance in store before, I came across it in one of those traveling big bucket sales (I've seen it in Duty Free since). Obviously I was drawn to the bottle so spritzed a bit of it and loved the unique scent so I picked up the 30ml bottle (always pick up the 30ml if, like me, you love variety in your fragrance and tend to get bored easily!). FYI this is an EDT.

This scent is much more soft and feminine than anything else in my collection. The scent to me screams raspberry and turkish rose with background notes of pear and musk. To be honest, every time I smell it I think 'old lady smell', but it's not! I think the floral notes are what gets me thinking that, but it definitely has a lot of sweetness to offset it, I don't know of a fragrance like it. For an EDT it lasts so well on me! I put it on last night before bed and it's still just as pungent now, 12 hours later. This isn't a fragrance I wear often but when I do it's definitely an elegant day scent for me.

Lets get this out of the way first. THE BOTTLE IS GORGEOUS. Ahem. Okay moving on to the perfume. It's a really pretty lilac color which I've never seen for perfumes. Before buying this, I read some reviews and apparently this smells like raspberry, berries, musk, pear and just fruity amazingness in general. On me though it smells more flowery and fresh than fruity. At first the alcoholic smell is quite noticeable then after about 5 minutes the flowers make an entrance. It does develop to be sweeter over time. It's a nice perfume but not one of a kind. It seems like the typical 'perfume' smell you get as you walk past a perfume section. I still like it though it just hasn't become my signature scent. One thing I don't like about this is that it's an EDT, the staying power is definitely not that strong especially if I'm out and about.

As has been said already, the bottle is super stunning [as are the rest in her collection] . For me, this is quite a modern fragrance, it has many scents and layers. It has a sweetness to it, but it is not a sickly sweetness, there is hints of floral, but not so much that you would describe it as a floral scent. There is black vanilla which is a bit sexy and warm and one of my favourites sandlewood. When I wear this I feel like I can do anything!