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I should begin by admitting that I\u2019m a longtime fan of Anna Sui\u2019s<\/a> clothing designs and her entire aesthetic.\u00a0I\u2019ve been known to haunt the Anna Sui boutique in New York<\/a>, just to browse the latest outfits (and costume jewelry, and fragrances), and I always admire the shop\u2019s d\u00e9cor.\u00a0I also enjoy the music constantly playing in the background, which sounds like the mix tapes I used to compile for myself and my friends in the late 1980s.\u00a0Sui has always referred to rock music as one of her inspirations, and her shop is decorated with posters featuring bands from the Woodstock era through The White Stripes and Radiohead.<\/p>\n Since she has always combined fashion with these kinds of cultural references, it makes sense that Anna Sui has just released a fragrance described as a \u201ctribute to the electricity and energy of rock-n-roll.\u201d Rock Me! is an Eau de Toilette with listed notes of pear, green orange, and peach skin; honeysuckle, jasmine, and waterlily; and cedarwood, amber, and vanilla. The bottle is adorable, as Anna Sui fragrance bottles always are: it\u2019s shaped like a purple-and-red guitar and embossed with butterflies, stars, and peace signs. If Jimi Hendrix had a granddaughter, she\u2019d probably love displaying this bottle on her dresser.<\/p>\n Rock Me! is promoted as a \u201cwild young floral fruity essence,\u201d and it comes across more as pop music than as glam or classic rock. Its personality is expressed pretty well by an animated \u201cRock Me\u201d video<\/a>: butterflies release twinkling music notes from a guitar, pixies perform a catchy theme song, peace signs and flowers tumble across the screen, and the model Agyness Deyn makes a few appearances, looking over-accessorized but cheerful. The fragrance itself is also bright and neatly structured. The opening phase is a sherbet-like orange-peach blend, slightly acidic around the edges.\u00a0 Some airy florals bloom in the middle of the fragrance\u2019s development, mostly lily and a mainstream sort of jasmine petal. I don\u2019t notice any pear or honeysuckle, which is fine with me, because those two notes can often feel sticky-sweet on my skin. My favorite part of Rock Me! is the dry-down, when the citrus-smoothie notes melt into an amber-cedar base that feels clean but warm. (When I smelled the fragrance on another woman who was wearing it, I noticed the vanilla more on her than I did on myself.) To summarize, Rock Me! is definitely not wild, it\u2019s youngish but could easily be worn by someone past her teens, and it ends up fruity-woody rather than fruity-floral.<\/p>\n Rock Me! lasted longer than I expected for an Eau de Toilette with so many fruit notes, and I enjoyed it, although nowhere near as much as I love the original Anna Sui fragrance (a powdery tea rose) or even the technicolor gourmand Night of Fancy<\/a>. It\u2019s a bit more grown-up than some other scents in the line (like Secret Wish<\/a> or Dolly Girl), and oddly enough, it reminds me of Jean-Paul Gaultier\u2019s Ma Dame<\/a>, which also employed Agyness Deyn as its \u201cface.\u201d I\u2019m always hoping that Anna Sui will release a dark, spicy rose fragrance, or something quirky like a violet-patchouli blend that would better \u201cmatch\u201d her clothing and her boutique, but maybe I\u2019ll get my wish next time around.<\/p>\n Anna Sui Rock Me! is available in 50 ($58) and 100 ($74) 100 ml Eau de Toilette. It is sold at Target and Anna Sui boutiques.<\/p>\n Note: If you\u2019re an Anna Sui fan living in Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, or Taiwan, you can enter a Rock Me contest<\/a>; the grand prize is a trip to New York to attend the 2010 Anna Sui fashion show, something I certainly wouldn\u2019t mind doing myself.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I should begin by admitting that I\u2019m a longtime fan of Anna Sui\u2019s<\/a> clothing designs and her entire aesthetic. I\u2019ve been known to haunt the Anna Sui boutique in New York<\/a>, just to browse the latest outfits (and costume jewelry, and fragrances), and I always admire the shop\u2019s d\u00e9cor. I also enjoy the music constantly playing in the background, which sounds like the mix tapes I used to compile for myself and my friends in the late 1980s. Sui has always referred to rock music as one of her inspirations, and her shop is decorated with posters featuring bands from the Woodstock era through The White Stripes and Radiohead.<\/p>\n Since she has always combined fashion with these kinds of cultural references, it makes sense that Anna Sui has just released a fragrance described as a \u201ctribute to the electricity and energy of rock-n-roll.\u201d Rock Me! is an Eau de Toilette with listed notes of pear, green orange, and peach skin; honeysuckle, jasmine, and waterlily; and cedarwood, amber, and vanilla. The bottle is adorable, as Anna Sui fragrance bottles always are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[671,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-23633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perfume-talk","7":"tag-anna-sui","8":"tag-fruity-floral","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Possibly of interest<\/h2>\n
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