It's telling that Britney's fragrances have succeeded where other celebrity scents have failed - a testament, perhaps, to Britney's level of involvement in their development. The attention to detail is likely to be the driving factor behind the biggest-selling celebrity scents of recent years. White Diamonds is still on the market because it's a good smell," Fairley says. She adds: "A pop star's life can be quite short lived, so they want to capitalise on that.
If I were a pop star and bringing out my own fragrance, I'd be keen to find something that stood up in its own right, without my name on it. Because that seems to be what ensures enduring success. Sehdev says that this is likely to be precisely the reason that Britney has been embraced by the Hollywood Beauty Awards, which he says are "very well respected" within the industry. Stars that do that well are respected, and the Hollywood Beauty Awards are very much about achievement.
Fairley admits: "We're not seeing nearly as many celebrity launches as we used to, definitely. Hem lines go up, hem lines go down. Similarly, celebrity perfumes come into favour, and go out of favour. The bottle is a light blue with red crystals. The fragrance's notes are: raspberry, apricot blossom, peony, lotus, orchid, vanilla, musk, and candy. Radiance is Spears' fourth official and ninth overall fragrance. It was released in September The top notes of Radiance are wild berries and soft, dewy petals, mixed with tuberose, jasmine, orange blossom and iris.
Cosmic Radiance is Spears' sixth flanker and tenth overall fragrance. On July 15, , it was announced that Spears would re-issue Radiance into a new fragrance titled Cosmic Radiance. The tagline of the fragrance is "Be the brightest star in the universe". The fragrance's notes are: amber, soft vanilla and creamy sandalwood. Fantasy Twist is Spears' seventh flanker and eleventh overall fragrance. It's a is combination of Spears' fragrances Fantasy and it's flanker Midnight Fantasy.
It is a sphere shaped bottle that breaks in half leaving one side a pink bottle which is Fantasy, and one side a dark blue bottle that is Midnight Fantasy. The pink bottle Fantasy has notes of: red lychee, golden quince, kiwi, cupcake accord, jasmine petals, white chocolate, orchid, musk, orris root, and sensual woods. The dark blue bottle Midnight Fantasy has notes of: black cherries, plum, orchid, freesia, musk, and amber.
The sizes of Fantasy Twist are 1. Island Fantasy is Spears' eight flanker and twelth overall fragrance. The perfume was released in April The bottle follows the style of all previous Fantasy products with the exception of Fantasy Twist. The bottle has a turquoise bottom, with a lime green top, and the usual silver crystals surrounding the bottle. The sizes of Island Fantasy are available for purchase in 30ml, 50ml and ml bottles.
The fragrance's notes are clementine, watermelon, citruses, violet, musk, sugar, sweet orange, jasmine and red berries. Fantasy: Anniversary Edition is Spears' ninth flanker and thirteenth overall fragrance. The perfume was released in October The bottle is all black with gold crystals surrounding the bottle.
Each bottle comes with one of three messages; "10 hugs and 10 kisses, xoxo Britney". It's made of lychee, kiwi and quince at the top; jasmine, orchid, white chocolate and cupcake accord in the heart; and musk, orris root and woody notes in the base.
The sizes of Fantasy: Anniversary Edition are available for purchase in 30ml, 50ml and ml bottles. Fantasy: The Nice Remix is Spears' tenth flanker and fourteenth overall fragrance.
The perfume was released in February , along with the Naughty Remix. The bottle does not follow the style of the previous Fantasy products. The bottle is pink with a white gradient, and has a gold chain with a pendant "N".
The box that contains the perfume is different of the original Fantasy. Fantasy: The Naughty Remix is Spears' eleventh flanker and fifteenth overall fragrance. The perfume was released in February , along with the Nice Remix. The bottle is pink with a black gradient, and has a gold chain with a pendant "N". Fantasy: Stage Edition is Spears' twelvth flanker and sixteenth overall fragrance.
It was released in July It is a limited edition that includes the original scent of Fantasy in a new packaging, available in 30ml, 50ml and ml EDP.
Rocker Femme Fantasy is Spears' thirteenth flanker and seventeenth overall fragrance. The perfume was released in November to selected countries. The notes are blackberry, coconut, whipped cream, gardenia, jasmine, violet, amber, cashmere, amber and musk. The bottle has a bright pink top with a dark purple-black bottom and dark black jewels going all the way around it.
Not of vomit — like diluted, pleasing hair smells. Kathleen : Like fruit-punch-y love spray or jungle juice, which are sort of the same thing. Maggie : I do not hate this — this is sort of like a funky Christmas ornament you display on a tree to offset the other normal ones. Maggie : Sweet grass. Kathleen : Gap grass. Fantasy Maggie : A hotel-esque room fragrance — I actually like this one.
It smells like burgundy — not like the wine, but the color. Like drinking at the circus? Maggie : Whoa. With a fruit-punch carryover. So few of them have lasting power — on the skin or in stores. It became a phenomenon.
To put that in perspective, over the course of her year career, Spears has sold million records worldwide. By , one report stated that in five years Elizabeth Arden had sold over million bottles of Curious. The most obvious and also true explanation for this is that the perfume was good. I mean actually good. You can buy it on Amazon right now. Within the industry, the scent is known as a kind of magical unicorn, the sort of breakout commercial and critical hit that most corporate fragrance firms only dream of when they collaborate with a celebrity — because most celebrity scents are bad.
Two notable exceptions are Sarah Jessica Parker, who has been said to be intimately involved in every step of her scent creation, and Spears, who, according to Ron Rolleston, the EVP of Global Fragrance Marketing at Revlon, made her tastes very clear throughout the process. The tastes of individuals are wild, but the masses are predictable they like vanilla, peach, and chemical musk , and it is very difficult to make something transcendent when you have about cooks in the kitchen. This is why so many celebrity scents smell like the same kind of playing it safe — they are like pop songs, engineered with the same backbeat.
But Britney Spears is a wild individual, and Curious has a pulse beneath its honeyed, whipped cream, jelly donut exterior. It suctions itself to the wrist and releases its essence throughout the day in gentle sighs, unfolding and changing almost elegantly. If you encountered the scent in a blind smell test, you might think it was one of those puffy, powdery Guerlain concoctions Parisian girls buy as their first signature scent.
In other words, it is far better than it needed to be.