Fantasy Anniversary Edition

This is not reformulated in my opinion. I currently own two bottles of 2005 & 2006 Fantasy, with the crystal-studded cap bands, a bottle of ‘modern’ pink bottle Fantasy with the plain plastic cap band, and two bottles of Anniversary edition black bottle. (All large bottles; I have a mini pink bottle too for traveling). Past this, I have gone through many the bottle of crystal band-style Fantasy and plastic-band style over the past thirteen years. The bottle of 2005 Fantasy I’m whiffin’ RIGHT NOW is the same as the current pink bottle and Anniversary Edition. It just is. I bought the current pink bottle to save the two bottles of vintage, and then when Anniversary Edition released, I bought that a) as my souvenir of seeing Britney in Vegas, b) ‘cause I’m a completist, and c) because the black bottle is way more ‘me’ aesthetically than the pink. I believe EA when they claim there is no reformulated version. Because all mine are the same. I suspect that some people who don’t have an original to compare to just kind of have the rose-colored nostalgia you get for stuff you liked way back(kind of how when I watched the old TMNT cartoon recently it seems lame, but it’s the same as it was in the 90’s, I AM THE ONE WHO CHANGED and now my fond memory is tainted)....OR, possibly, if your vintage bottle really smells different, it is due to ambient conditions (heat, light, etc). Then too your skin can change over time and with variations in weather. Sometimes I spray Perfume X and get the vetiver...sometimes I spray and vetiver is on vacation that week. As your chemistry changes over years, you pull some notes more strongly, not at all, etc, and they’re still in the juice, your body is just interpreting them differently than before. The proportion of kiwi to white chocolate didn’t change, our chemistry did. I do not own the yellow snakeskin ‘Stage Edition’... that and Private Show VIP are the only ones by Britney I don’t own. I have tested Stage Edition though, and don’t recall feeling it was any different. Some of the massive swing in opinion may also be due to the fact that perfumes can change over time even when stored properly. Certain notes deepen and get more beast-mode, certain notes may lighten up or go away. Shalimar and pure sandalwood oil do this in my personal experience, and it’s very commonly said about M by Mariah Carey that if it turns darker brown-yellow, it gets AMAZING. Likewise, if your bottle of Womanity is not light pink, look out; you might be in for a blast of tuna. Many frags, though, improve with age if kept safe. So, people claiming old Fantasy is much better may have inadvertently aged their bottles into awesomeness, which, UM YEAH!!!! But it doesn’t mean it was like that in 2005. Fantasy is my favorite perfume, though I hate to choose just one. There’s nothing embarrassing about Fantasy. For years it was the only scented product of ANY CATEGORY (body wash, candle, shampoo)I could use that didn’t produce a headache and a stuffy face. So I got to know it REALLY WELL. But because it’s been part of my life so long these very old bottles are still in my collection, telling me there’s been no reformulation past what environment and sheer age do to a bottle. SO: there’s no reason to go out of your way for Anniversary Edition unless you prefer black glass to pink, which I do, the bottle is much prettier in my opinion...but there’s also no reason to hate on it for not being ‘the original formulation’ either. It’s Fantasy. Good old comfortable trusty Fantasy. I wear Tom Ford Oud Wood maybe twice a year...? I wear Fantasy probably every week. Thanks Fantasy for being there for me when every other scented product made me miserable.

Ok so I got this today and I will say it's amazing. I got the 2013 bottle when I checked the batch code. Its my first britney spears perfume so im just going off what I smell. This to me sticks close to the skin but it does last quite a while. About 3-4 hours on me. To me this is nice as an everyday scent or for bedtime because it isn't too overpowering. I smell the kiwi that quickly fades. The litchi is quite nice because its softer. Its done well here. The cupcake is there but the fragrance as a whole is very blended so its not a stand out note. I think if I layed this with demetrs vanilla cake batter or one of their gourmands the cupcake note would definitely come out more. Theres a whisper of white chocolate every little while. It doesn't dissapear but it is in the background. For me i get more of the cupcake and its a really cute touch. I love jasmine as a note in general so to me this is a keeper. Musk is also a winner for me. The dry down is wonderful and it reminds me of the holidays. Holy cow the drydow is pretty! So so pretty. Its calm, soft, sweet... its pretty! For a first impression im very happy :) I'm no expert in notes but all I can say is omg I love this and im happy to have it be part of my collection. Idk if this makes sense but it smells like the color periwinkle 😂 it smells like Christmas... sugared something.. I love it! It smells familiar but new to my nose at the same time. Again britney fragrances are new to me so maybe someone else who is familiar with her fragrances won't be as impressed but I am. Ps i smell the softest sweetness that reminds me of a nice cotton blanket. Or even sheer periwinkle curtains in a white room with the breeze blowing through them. (I like to associate my fragrances with colours ik its a bit weird). For the life of me I cant put my finger on it. Its so so so addictive. I'm going to read some more reviews to figure out what this is :) its probably just a mix of notes that blend amazingly together though. Edit: now owning this for 2 weeks i definitely get more white chocolate when I wear it. I have a perfume table in my room.. lately when I walk by it I've been getting lingering notes of this and I kinda crave it now. Very nice and comforting and it would flourish in the fall and winter!

I ordered this because I wanted to try pre-reformulation Fantasy. Now, I never wore the original Fantasy growing up so I had no idea what it smelled like. I wore Midnight Fantasy as a teen but never thought to try the original. When my 3.3 oz bottle arrived, I checked the batch code online and it is indeed from 2013. The black bottle itself is the prettiest Fantasy flanker I own, it’s quite heavy and the scrawled note to Britney’s fans is sweet. I wasn’t expecting much, but the descriptions of a white chocolate cupcake intrigued me. Well, that’s exactly what I received. If I smell the cap, then yes I do get the fruit notes, but on my skin this is straight up dense cake batter. It’s not sugary in a way that’s cloying, which is a criticism I agree with regarding the current formulation of Fantasy that I test in stores sometimes. I find this quite linear, no blast of fruit at the opening or anything like that- just straight up white chocolate cake. It’s delicious and I crave this when I come home from a long day at work. The lasting power on skin is average, better than some of the other Fantasy flankers, but this absolutely lasts all day on clothes- it’s ok to overspray this one. Perfume is subjective and I wouldn’t deign to say that anyone’s opinion is incorrect, but some of the reviewers seem like they are describing something totally different. Perhaps they received a bad bottle. I was on the fence about leaving this review because I don’t know how many bottles of this are in circulation and I don’t want it to drastically increase in price like Fantasy The Naughty Remix (which I have yet to try due to that outlandish price increase). Even though this is basically the current Fantasy without all the synthetic fruit syrup, it’s enough of a difference that I can’t imagine being without a backup or two. Ultimate comfort scent.

It's still easily available in my country. I have a bottle of this one and also a bottle of the pink Fantasy which is produced in 2015 according to it's batch code and they're at least 90% the same. the only difference I can recognize is that in Anniversary's opening there's much less kiwi,the fruityness feels more litchi-like and it reaches a fruitless drydown much faster while in pink 2015 Fantasy fruits specially kiwi is more intense and lingers for a longer time and it takes longer to reach to the drydown phase so the pink 2015 feels more potent,sharper, more fruity and tart. I would never recognize any difference between the two if I didn't test them side by side but now that I did it I can easily see it. for me Anniversary edition feels like something between my 2015 Fantasy and Intimate Fantasy. بعضیا معتقدن فنتسی تو همون چندسال اول تولیدش یعنی یه زمانی بین دوهزار و پنج و دوهزار و ده ریفرموله شده و بعضیا معتقدن این مشکیه شبیه فنتسی قبل از ریفرموله ست. من یه بطری فنتسی بطری صورتی تولید ۲٠۱۵ دارم، این مشکیه رو هم دارم و تا نود درصد یکی هستن. تنها فرقشون اینه که مشکیه موقع اسپری شدن، کیوی زیاد غالبی نداره و میوه ای بودنش بیشتر لیچی طوره و زودتر به درای داون میرسه و تو درای داونش چندان اثری از نتهای میوه ای نیست. صورتیه طولانیتر رایحه میوه ایش رو حفظ میکنه. درکل انقد شبیهن که اگه دقیقا همزمان و درکنار هم تست نشن نمیشه همین فرق رو هم متوجه شد اما الان که کنار هم تست کردم کاملا فرقشون رو حس میکنم. مشکیه درکل سافت تره و ترشی کیوی رو کمتر داره و یچیزی بین فنتسی صورتی و اینتیمت فنتسی(سفیده) هست

I haven't had a freshly bought bottle of the original Fantasy in the pink bottle since probably 2014 or so...but I just got this one last week (January 2017) and it smells IDENTICAL to the way I remember it (from the 1st time I ever bought the original pink bottle.) So if they truly did reformulate the original Fantasy and it isn't just people's imaginations...I urge you all to try this. It smells exactly the same as I remember it from a long time ago. (I think I bought my first bottle back in 2008 or so of the original Fantasy.) White chocolate, a sweet cupcake note, a juicy sweet and sour kiwi, all laid on top of the gentlest touch of a warm woody note. GORGEOUS. Crowd pleaser. Sweet but not immature. Compliment getter. And surprisingly long lasting for a celebrity fragrance, I get 6-7 hours of this with decent projection (about 3-4 feet.) Overall Rating - 9/10

Yep! This is definitely the 2005 scent. At first I was fooled. I think my nose was so used to the harsh, domineering bitch that is the reformulation, it couldn't tell at first that this delicate flower was nothing like her evil sister. However my subconscious did register a small difference in the drydown but I paid no mind to it. I didn't touch it again for a while coz I was quite disappointed; all the reviews had said I would get the 2005 scent. But then I sprayed it again today and my heart sang a sweet sonorous song of nostalgia. This was it. This was my baby; my long lost love. Oh how I'd missed her. The sillage of this (i.e 2005 version) is much softer but definitely stronger. It fills a room, whereas the reformulation just sits with and around you, stabbing your nostrils at intervals with kiwi daggers. Longevity is also much better.

After years of using Fantasy (i still have it in my wardrobe, also with a 100ml sealed bottle, that's how much i love it), i can now say that this is not an amazing scent. Is a very nice one, indeed. Smells flirty, girly and fun. Creamy and fruity. Sweet and sour at the same time. The white chocolate and the kiwi are great combinations. But after years sampling and buying fragrances, i can honestly say that, no matter how much i love it, it is a synthetic overly sweet fragrance. Fun to the point of being childish. Although anyone can wear whatever pleases, this one is not mature AT ALL. I suggest anyone to sample this, try this, cause even being a celebrity scent, is kind of a landmark in the fragrance world. People hate it or love it, there is no in between.

I got lucky with the Anniversary Edition bottle I purchased, the batch is from 2013. With this bottle the kiwi is not as tart, nor as harsh as my pink original bottle from 2019. I get to the cake dry down sooner with the Anniversary Edition, I reach for the Anniversary Edition more than I do my pink bottle too. Perhaps age softened the kiwi I don’t know. I do notice a difference between the two. I enjoy the litchi here, this fragrance has made me appreciate litchi notes. Something about kiwi and my skin go well together. Fantasy is a feel good fragrance for me. The projection is just right to create my own scent bubble and the longevity is about 4-6 hours on my skin. This fragrance is timeless and versatile. I enjoy it very much.

I love all the versions I’ve smelled of fantasy. This doesn’t smell much different if at all from the OG formula. I have both a 2006 bottle, a new bottle, and this bottle from 2013 and they smell so similar if not the same that I don’t get the formula change comments. This is sweet, cupcake, chocolate, and delicious. It’s addicting to spray, and fills a room. You know this smell as soon as you smell it! Great performance and still remains one of the best if not the best celebrity fragrance when it comes to quality and smell. It’s very hard to hate this.

i mostly wanted this Anniversary edition of Fantasy for the bottle and Britney's Autograph, i have been Obsessed with Britney Spears since i was 12! i want to take a trip to see her show in Las Vegas! Anyway.. as for the scent, its very nice but slightly different from what is in the pink bottle, a little sweeter and lighter. I can detect just a hint of Bubble gum which isnt in the other pink Bottle. Im very excited about owning this perfume, because of the Britneys Autograph, the bottle, and the slightly different formula!

Cant wait to get it, my name is on the box and I am a huge Britney fan! That pink bottle you see in the Work Bitch video is her new perfume, Naughty and Nice, which is the same shape as the Fantasy bottle, but completely covered in crystals :) Looks beautiful! Britney said it will be similar to Believe (which she also said is her favourite from her collection which is pretty cool!!) and will be designed by the same designer :)

This was a gift from my husband... I tried out Fantasy a couple of times and it just wasn't for me, though I really adore sweet, gourmand fragrances. After having my son though, it seems like my skin's chemistry has changed. Usually all I got was the Kiwi when I tried this, now the chocolate & cupcake really come through.

Finally it is aviable in my country and i have bought it and now own it :) Smells like the original, but perhaps a bit "fullier" Anyway really love it! Anice scent that makes me in a good mood,like a comfort scent. And the color matches perfectly if placed near the original.

It's smell different from the regular Fantasy. They put the original scent on this bottle, it doesn't smell like the retailer's regular Fantasy. Tone down, musky, sweet, fruity, gourmand & floral scent... while the pink bottle produce more bold of sweetness in one spray.

Yay my brother bought me this for £10 from superdrug! I know it's the original scent but I'm a sucker for LE bottles - I'm gonna sell my original 100ml now, seeing as I rarely use it now that I have so many (it was one of my first perfumes).

The black and gold bottle is stunning. I had put off buying Fantasy for years as I found the pink bottle to be rather garish. Beautiful scent, I'm glad I snag this limited edition which I hope will stay in the market a little bit longer.

It smells like the original Fantasy. Nothing has changed. But WOW what a beautiful bottle! I'm in love. So sweet, so good and it lasts all day on my skin. The perfect combination: the fragrance and this new bottle. Love love love

It's the same with the original but it's more fruity musky than Fantasy. I love the box, the bottle also all about this. It's last better than Fantasy so I chose this for my perfume signature

Smells amazing!! A lot more softer than the original, but you are not missing out on the amazing scent that the original gave. If I find this perfume in store I'm 100% gonna buy it.

This is now available in the UK finally!!! Order it off Superdrug, and Europeans you may be able to ship it from the UK :) I am so happy as my name is on the box too!!

just bought it today, smells just like the normal fantasy, I won't be wearing it because i am a guy but as a Britney fan this is a must have!

I got the 2013 bottle I just received today from a eBay the seller is priceritemartau and it smells so nice I love the bottle so cute ❤️

Also its been ten years since Curious, not Fantasy. She is just celebrating her perfume line and Fantasy is the most popular! :)

It smells really good. I smell kiwi and sweet notes on this. The message on the bottle is very cute for the fans of Fantasy.

Stronger than the previous version.more attractive. I love it! ❤️

Not the first edition from 2005, but the reformulated version.

it smells like fantasy just more musky

This is strangely addicting. I don't understand... I have been grabbing it over all other perfumes. When I first purchased, I thought I got duped. A week later, the scent is starting to come out. The strange part is, it is such a faint smell... I have to put my nose real close to my skin .... So, why am I so darn addicted...? It smells like a faint buttery sweet biscuit, and at first, it's slightly sour, like, maybe a sour patch kid candy? It must be the kiwi... It peeks through the butteriness. I spray tons of it... On my clothes, just all over... thinking I can maybe get more of a scent... It's so faint on me.... Each day, I spray, thinking and hoping for more volume... like maybe it hasn't fully set in yet. So why the heck am I so addicted...? I'm even thinking of trying the Midnight Fantasy. I don't know why. Maybe that one will be more potent. Still, either way.. ah... I don't understand this. Lol. But I'm glad I have it. This tease of a scent. Strange huh? I don't know if I love it or am blah about it- just trying to chase that allure...? I do not know! Edit #whoknowshowmany. I must spray (more like douse myself) at least 2 to 3 times daily... (At home, so I can focus on nothing but smelling myself-(lol)) I love it. It grows more in strength in each day, but... it still doesn't last more than a few minutes. I'm praying for a miracle. I wonder if any of the Fantasies might have more longevity than the others- on my skin... If I poured a gallon of this stuff in a bathtub and let myself soak in it for 30 minutes, could I just smell this way forever? A month or so later- I don't know what I ever saw in this stuff. Lol. I'm ready to get rid of every synthetic smelling celebrity/and or low quality designer fragrance that I own. So over it. Thanks to experimenting with high quality niche and luxury perfumes, my nose is pretty choosy now, in in its preferences. Haha I'm back to liking it. I just wish it was stronger... I have to spray A LOT on me, but even so- I guess I'm going to have to keep it. Lol :) I think I'll check out the orginal Fantasy. I actually did test that out at a department store recently and it is a lot stronger than this is. But I guess faint is good sometimes too. OK, seriously, that's enough for this review. Hehe

I think I'm the only girl in the world that hasn't smelt fantasy til now,I know I'm very late to the train of fantasy,but late better than never I'm really happy I decided to try celebrity perfumes,all celebrity perfumes I own are really good according to their price and this fantasy anniversary is the newest one I can't compare it to pink fantasy but I've heard this one is similar to original fantasy before it's reformulation,so there are small differences between the black bottle and recent pink bottles,but I don't know wether this is right or they're just the same with different bottles and packaging Fantasy anniversary opens veryyy sweet,juicy and fruity..it has a special kind of sweetness,it's not caramel sweetness,or just vanilla or just sugar,this is truly a cupcake sweetness,combination of vanilla,sugar,white chocolate and fruit's sweetness..there is also a very tart,juicy quality besides sweetness,my nose can pickup litchi very fast but as time passes I can get kiwi more ..this tartness balances high dosage of sweetness As time passes sweetness calms down and some light powdery florals kick in,it's not juicy or sugary sweet anymore,on my skin it's a lovely girly fruityfloral,sweet,soft powdered,flirty and youthful It doesn't change much as it dries down,it just becomes creamier and it's sweetness turns to a soft vanilla kind of sweetness,also there is a hint of clean musk added to the scent I like it very much,it's more intresting and less sweet than my imaginations(except first minutes which is a sweet bomb) I even dare call it unique.I can't use it daily or very frequently but I'd love to reach for it sometimes Fantasy anniversary is a very suitable fragrance for teenagers but I can see that adults and more mature women can wear it easily in case that they like floralfruitygourmands Longevity is very good on clothes but approx 6 hours on skin, sillage is amazing It's opening is a definite winter scent but when it calms down it's suitable for year around except hot summer days,so I think this is wearable in fall and spring too,even summer nights but applied very light handed It's bottle is not elegant or expensive looking,but is cute and fantasies similar shaped,different colored bottle triggers to collect them all ❤❤❤❤

I'm not sure what to think. Cupcake and white chocolate it is not. I feel like the quince comes out really strong on me, and I feel like it is different to the Fantasy I have smelled before. It's... green! Properly leafy green, not just kiwi green. Cosmic Radiance turned the same type of green on me. I would not even call this gourmand. Maybe my skin is freaky or my nose is broken, but damn. No deliciousness, not even during the drydown. The black bottle speaks to me more than the pink one, I guess a blind test is in order if they are really supposed to be the same, but yeah... I am not sure whether to hold on to this one or not.

just got it today, the bottle packaging is so beautiful. I actually wanted the regular Fantasy but it was out of stock and since people here said this LE is the same, I decided to give this a try... and it's amazing!! The sweetness I love, and so far, very long lasting, the dry down is what's attracted me the most. It took me hours to finally smell the white chocolate notes but you can definitely smell it! It's actually my first ever Britney Spears perfume, after reading countless of reviews, I finally purchased one :) I knew I wouldn't be disappointed since I've always liked very sweet perfumes.

It seems to be same as the original Fantasy. Very sweet and fruity floral. I think that from the cheap perfumes Fantasies are really the best. They are outstanding compared to many other celebrity fragrances. Of course, it's not something too special or elegant, but definitely delicious, sweet and even comforting. Good one for ordinary days in my opinion. I also like this cute black bottle.

Not as sweet as the notes suggest, it's fruity-minty on my skin with a hint of vanilla milk. Projection is moderate with 2-3 sprays, longevity on the lower side of moderate (4 hours) but since it costs only estimatedn 16 US$ at the discount shop that I bought it, not a big hassle.

This is the closest to the original of the currently avaliable formulations. It is not as strong but the sweetness is back and it isn't so much sharp kiwi and fruits. The fruit is still there in the opening but it is much sweeter than the other current formulations.

I only bought this for the collection aspect. I do have to say it wore well on me, actually better then the original does. The original is a ORIGINAL the one I have and its so so so damn heavy and sweet this was same but not as "bad".

The kiwi might be a TAD toned down on the sourness, but this is pretty much the same as the pink bottles of Fantasy. This bottle however looks great, still happy to have it in my collection.😊

Tested this today in Kohl's, and love it, yummier, creamier than the original and more mature.

I don't know.. there's no love. I can't be sure what it is but it's just not the same as the 2005 formula. The magic is gone. There's an ozonic background to this scent that was never in the old fantasy, & it doesn't work with the notes. It smells almost identical to In Control Curious (yuck). It had the same ozonic wetness. I adore Fantasy but the real one is gone. All these 'limited editions' of Fantasy, to be blunt, are just crap. There's many gorgeous fragrances out there to have & try, I'm not wasting any more time on Britney's perfumes. They're consistently underwhelming & disappointing to the point where I give them away.

This is not the same as the 2005 original formula :( This is super sharp with kiwi as the most dominate note, almost no hint of any of that delicious white chocolate or cupcake that made the original fantasy so creamy and good. The longevity is so much weaker than the 2005, only lasts 2hrs on my skin. This is not creamy at all, it's an awkward blend of sharp fruits and woods, where are the gourmand notes?! I really want to smell the original again but that's so hard to find :(

Sorry guys i will probably get backlash for this comment but i just dont get why you all get into the whole it smells like pink bottle it doesnt the colours are different same juice, no its different and backwards and forwards it goes. The pink one was made a 1000 years ago as if the parent company who is making these at a mass market price goes back to the first formula they dont secretly get the original pink one and sneak it into the black one so everyone can be tricked. The chemicals would be changed,updated suppliers change ingredients to meet the price and demand for products it appears to me the smell would have to change slightly between all the bottles between the first ones released and todays bottles. I just dont get why you go around in circles about these . Some of you think the original formula is hiding in one of the limited addition bottles but never to be found in the latest pink ones. I have all of them and they all smell slightly differently only slightly but i dont think its intentional by elizabeth arden just something to do with the manufacturing process which had little changes in it for all sorts of reasons that consumers would never be told and the company doesnt expect you guys to get so distracted by the colour of the bottles and some elusive original formula its become like kernal sanders secret herbs and spices!

GOD AWFUL! I purchased Fantasy for my sister way back when it was first released. Now, I understand that's a very long time ago, over a decade, but I know what this smelled like. I decided to purchase it for myself hoping it would be a nice throw back. I thought this bottle was cute with the note, and some had said this anniversary edition smelled like what Fantasy used to be like. I was skeptical about the comments saying, on both this page and the regular Fantasy, that it had been reformulated. Well. Let me tell you. It HAS been changed/refornulated whatever you want to call it. Upon first spray I was blasted with a pungent, synthetic sharp fruitiness that reminded me of a cheap detergent. This is nothing like the Fantasy I remember. I am so heartbroken. There is no sweet, gourmand, cupcake loveliness that was in the original. It's just a mess of fake tartness mixed with undeveloped woods. As another reviewer said, this has almost become a green fragrance! Very ripe and sharp. Even in the drydiwn I don't get any sweetness. Just a muted, strange, shampoo scent. I am now stuck with a 3oz bottle that I want to just throw in the trash. Seriously, has Britney smelled this? Probably not. She likely has no idea what a tragic mess Fantasy has become.

To me the opening of this smells different from the original fantasy, but the drydown I think is identical. It's the opening of this one though that I crave. I find it to be a bit smoother than the original and less "peppery" if that makes sense. I know Fantasy doesn't have any peppers in it but lately I've felt that it has started to smell a bit harsh and peppery somehow. Maybe what I'm trying to get at is that this anniversary edition I think is a bit closer to the original Fantasy pre reformulation. So aaaalmost identical but not quite. This I feel is a tiny bit smoother and softer with the notes blending more seemelessly together, without any harshness. I really like this! Even a tiny bit better that I do the original, and I honestly don't think it's just the color fooling my nose. I think there actually is an ever so slight difference between the two, enough so that I can say I prefer this one. Will say though that the difference is so slight that for people that have the original this is by no means a necessity.

It's funny how something as simple as a color change can trick some people into thinking the smell is different. Even I thought for a moment the scent was somehow darker than the original. Nope, it's the same. The fact that votes are different doesn't mean much since it's not necessarily all the same people voting, and even if I re-voted on my existing bottle of Fantasy, I might pick up different notes from one day to the next, especially depending on the season and other factors. If the gems truly looked gold in person as they do here, I might want it for the new bottle but they are more yellow. The autograph is a nice touch for Britney fans but I'm happy with my pink bottle, and since it's one of my special occasion perfumes, I'm in no hurry to replace.

This is my first celebrity fragrance! I actually haven't owned any fragrance in almost 21 years due to my oldest child's allergy. She has moved out and mama is going crazy! Starting a new fragrance collection after so long isn't easy. What? No Exclamation? No Electric Youth? what about love's baby soft? lol I decided to order this one due to all the good reviews on longevity and the sweet quality to it.I love this scent! I am also glad I chose this bottle. It's beautiful. I find it more age appropriate for me if that makes sense. I purchased mine at Ulta and they only had 2 left. Not sure why she just didn't use this bottle to begin with, it's so much prettier and I think Fantasy would have sold even more in this packaging.

It's true, none of the new fantasies smell like the original did back in 2005 and a few years after that. The original pink fantasy has been destroyed with the reformulation. This Anniversary edition here isn't any better in my opinion. I'm guessing the people who never knew the original pink fantasy gem "back in the day" are fine with these new ones because they really don't know what they are missing. I think all these industries play on that. Stage edition is definitely NOT the pre-formulated pink original fantasy and neither is this anniversary edition. I really think we should all write to EA asking for the original to be brought back ASAP :)

@goodnightluck give it to someone else who would like it I kinda did smell the cupcake in it tho maybe it's where you got it don't smell it straight away. When you first buy it cause it burns your nose. If you put that fantasy and the original and the nice remix on all together you get a caramel smell. And also the temperature could have made it smell like that. I ordered some of mine off amazon except the original that came from duty free. It's winter at the moment and the bottle was very cold not frozen smelled like that at first cuz of its temperature so I waited til it got to room temperature to smell it again. Then I smelled the cupcakes

Sabrinah: Just wanted to try and answer your question :) The notes are all the same - however if you look at how people have voted, this new flanker is bigger on the Cupcake and White Chocolate notes than the original Fantasy. It's still probably, basically going to be the same fragrance - but from the way people have voted on both, there does seem to be a small difference in what notes are more prominent. This doesn't seem to be in Australia yet and I'm against buying celebrity fragrances..but I'll give this one a shot as I've always had a soft spot for Ms Spears :) *Apologies to all the "THAT'S NOT A REVIEW" Nazi's out there* :P LOL.

This has been reformulated! I know because I have a vintage bottle and it smells completely different from all the bottles from this decade! The new versions are sugary sweet, and the 2005 original version was full bodied creamy cupcake, and pure white chocolate birthday cake sweet. Fantasy was always outstanding cupcake creamy yellow cake right from the very start. I don’t know what year it got reformulated but some people think it was around 2008 time. I don’t want to offend but it really is very different now, the whole concoction is very artificial these days and that’s the truth unfortunately.

I love Fantasy and will probably always have a bottle in my collection however I wish they had of made a new darker scent to go with this gorgeous black bottle. Fantasy is so common now, almost every young girl on the planet has had a bottle of this stuff. And every celebrity with a fragrance has released a fruity gourmand. I wish they had of tweaked this scent like used dark chocolate instead of white chocolate but kept everything else the same. That would have given it a new darker twist and made it more of a noir version which would have suited the new dark bottle.

Gosh, I'm so so so happy! What a mood maker... I was really difficult to find it in my country and on top of this, i stumbled upon a quite reasonable price. Didn't hesitate and immediately purchased it. I don't know how the original Fantasy smells honestly, and I see a lot of comments how it's the same. But it's on my wishlist either way and I will have it too one day. :) I can sense either the white chocolate, or the cupcake - not sure which one. And hints of the litchi and jasmine. Few hours later it's still there...AW, purchase it, what are you waiting for.