When I wear this, I feel like a porcelain doll, forgotten and motionless, sitting on the floor of a sunless attic. While there is something quite innocent about this fragrance, there is also something very vampy about it as well. 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. Anna Sui starts with lemon (as in lemon biscuit or lemon cheesecake) and light rose scent, it’s not uplifting, but pretty enough, and projects well the purple characteristic of Anna Sui juice inside the gothic bottle; it is not a immediate ‘wow’, but instantly like and I feel nothing against it at all (unlike some other perfumes, I would smell something too ‘plastic’/synthetic).

Black currant, oranges, raspberry (juicy trio) and fresh florals at initial spray; as it warms up on the skin powdery violets, heliotrope, jasmine and cedar shine right thru.

Think of a triad: a big 80s floral, a contemporary fruity/floral, and a "masculine" like Dior Homme. Instead, a kind of "dark" fruit quality is most obvious (I get little if any of the wood notes), but the overall blend is smooth. I still have a bottle, and I still love it, but at nearly 40 years old, I'm slowly maturing out of it. Maybe the phase that comes afterwards, leading to its gradual, but relentless, disappearance, is what makes this scent a gothic fragrance.

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