A curious look back... [reviewing Curious edp, by Britney Spears]

🚨  Bringing back Britney Spears iconic first perfume for Superdrug's 60th Birthday with an exclusive packaging.

 

This exhilarating white floral fragrance celebrates Britney's birthplace with Louisiana magnolia, and is wrapped in the sensuality of vanilla-infused musk. 

A Curious perfume, for the inquisitive at heart.

I remember liking Curious but not but being a huge fan of it because I wasn't really into floral fragrances at the time,           but I'm a huge Britney spears fan & wore it regularly anyway. However once Fantasy was released I never looked back at Curious again [though the limited-edition flanker Curious: In Control was enjoyable enough for me to had gone through two bottles].

My tastes in fragrances has changed a lot during the last two decades and I've always planned to revisit Curious at some point. When I recently saw that Superdrug have released a 100ml bottle in limited edition packaging for the company's 60th anniversary I decided that now is the perfect time for a revisit...

Most other people describe Curious as being sweet & light from first application, but the top notes give a rather loud fresh & aquatic opening on me, because it is the cyclamen & lotus that develops first. I'm not sure if there is melon or other watery fruit alongside the pear, or if the cyclamen is just boosting up the pear.

 

The opening floral blend gradually quietens down and the fragrance becomes a stereotypically feminine white floral blend of sweet & creamy magnolia, jasmine, lily and tuberose, with a breeze of lingering pear.s  There is also a soft powderiness present underneath which I think is from a little bit of orange blossom & heliotrope, which is a blend that adds a vintage feel.

The vanilla infused musk & sandalwood base adds more of a creaminess & cozy sweetness to the fragrance as it slowly becomes closer to the skin. The ambery magnolia & jasmine sticks around to the end too.

Scent notes: Magnolia, pear, lotus, tuberose, cyclamen, jasmine, sandalwood, musk, white woods and vanilla.

Curious has great longevity for a mid-range perfume, and when considering the affordable price-point you find it at nowadays it's simply fantastic; it lasts for a complete working day on me.

Back in the day it was easy to overspray Curious and for it to then become overly heavy in hotter weather, but the perfume muit st have been reformulated at some point because the formula is much softer & cleaner now and doesn't project as far as it used to. This formulation change is great news for migraine-prone me, and combined with my more adult appreciation of pear, magnolia, jasmine [now two of my favourite floral notes] and the lotus = I enjoy Curious much more than I used to in my younger years. Curious is such a surprisingly adult and classical-seeming fragrance, considering the celebrity range origins and below 25 customer target market that it was aimed towards. 

You can buy the 100ml anniversary bottle from Superdrug for £22. It's not the lowest price available, but you know that the juice is new this way.

If you are not bothered about getting slightly older juice, you can just buy Cuorious from retailers like The Perfume Store, The Fragrance Shop, Boots, and Amazon. I also recommend that you try outlet stores like TK Maxx, B&M, or eBay stores. 

You can also just do a quick Google search of the many online retailers for the best deal for that particular day - you can easily find larger bottles below the £20 mark, and 30ml, 50ml bottles & giftsets are also easy to find.