VUSH is the Australian, female-founded sexual wellness brand that built its reputation on approachable, prettily-designed toys sold everywhere from its own site to Lovehoney and Adore Beauty — and the Empress 2 is its flagship clitoral suction stimulator. Like the Womanizer and Satisfyer toys it competes with, the Empress 2 uses pulsing air/vacuum technology to create a "sucking" sensation around the clitoris without direct contact, but it undercuts the premium names on price while leaning hard into a soft-touch, Instagram-friendly aesthetic (the signature hot-pink body is unmistakable).

Why It Matters

The Empress 2's staying power shows how a value-priced challenger brand can carve real market share in the air-pulse category that Womanizer and Satisfyer pioneered. VUSH's female-founded, retail-forward playbook — pretty packaging, mainstream stockists, accessible pricing — is exactly the destigmatized, mass-market positioning that is driving sexual wellness into Sephora-adjacent shelf space.

The standout feature is the combination of a tapered, body-hugging silicone nozzle and a genuinely usable control scheme: the Empress 2 offers eight intensity settings paired with patterns, plus a smart-memory function that restarts on your last-used setting rather than blasting you with maximum power on power-up — a small touch that reviewers consistently appreciate. It charges via a magnetic USB cable and is fully waterproof for bath or shower play.

The consensus is enthusiastic, if not unanimous. Mamamia and a string of Australian lifestyle outlets have run glowing first-person reviews, and PinkNews ran the memorable headline that the Empress is "so good it'll make you leave your partner." The recurring praise: it's fast, it's quiet enough, and it's a fraction of the price of a Womanizer Premium. The recurring criticism: the body can feel a little bendy/hollow, and at top intensity the motor gets audible. For most users — especially first-time suction-toy buyers — the value proposition wins.

Price and availability: the Empress 2 typically sells for around $120 (with a list price up to ~$220, so wait for a sale), and is widely stocked at VUSH's own store, Amazon, Lovehoney, and Australian retailers like JOUJOU. A newer "Empress Tidal" variant pushes the mode count to 48 combinations if you want more granularity.

Materials: body-safe, medical-grade silicone on all skin-contact surfaces, non-porous and phthalate-free. Use water-based lube only, and clean the silicone nozzle after each use since suction toys trap moisture.

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Update — 2026-05-28

Initial entry — guide first created.