Prerogative

''Prerogative'' is a lactonic, creamy, warm, ambery, woody, soft, light and very sweet scent. It has a little bit of the ''Fantasy'' DNA too. It's a seductive, mysterious, sexy, dark, more grown up,[ANYONE CAN WEAR EVERYTHING THEY WANT], vanilla perfume with a little bit of spice. I can smell a lot of apricot and goji berries, a little bit of pink pepper, a tiny little bit of coffee and a beautiful sexy creamy woody base, giving it a little bit of depth. A lot of people say that they smell the coffee, but to me it is almost non existent! A lot of people say that it is almost the same as ''Private Show'' but to me, this a different scent. In ''Private Show'' I get citrus of the [clementine] and fruits, I get a LOT of coffee, it is WAY MORE sweet and caramelly, it is A LOT STRONGER, [lasts and projects a lot longer as well] it is fruitier and a little powdery. Prerogative is a LOT softer, berry scent, that lasts a lot less and projection is minimal. It lasts max on my skin 3-4 hours and sillage is really soft. It is like a skin scent.To me they are COMPLETELY different scents and I think that you should smell both, even though, so many people say that they smell almost the same. They don't! ''Private Show'' is a LOUD and STRONG perfume and ''Prerogative is a SOFT and LIGHT perfume. I think that you should smell them before buying them, because ''Private Show'' is a very VERY SWEET and STRONG perfume, [so if you don't like thicker, louder and very sweet scents try this out first] and ''Prerogative'' says that it is a unisex perfume and it might smell different on your skin, [even though I would say that it is DEFINITELY FEMININE. [I'm not saying that men can't wear this as well, EVERYONE CAN WEAR EVERYTHING THEY WANT], I'm just saying this because that's what kept me away from buying it. The ''unisex'' word. I bought it eventually as a blind buy and I'm happy that I did because it smells very feminine and very beautiful on my skin. Overall, I love both ''Private Show'' and ''Prerogative'' and I think that both are two beautiful scents, worth buying. I am very happy that I have them. I hope that my review helped you. Sorry for my long review. I just wanted to describe these two scents as good as possible to help you notice the differences.

So I'm kind of annoyed with myself for sleeping on this fragrance. When it first came out, i purchased the body mist and was not impressed with what i smelled. It wasn't bad, but it didn't have no wow factor. Fast forward 2 years later, my reaction to this same fragrance was "WOW". I was shopping at Burlington a week ago and something was telling me to purchase this. The 30ml was only $9.99! But i figured i could still probably get something better for that low price. So a few days ago, i returned to Burlington and finally decided to give it a try with very little hope of enjoying this scent. When i first sprayed it, i got a weird Play-Doh smell and i immediately thought "You should've saved your f**king money". As i let it sit, this began to transform into this warm, creamy, woody scent. I began to smell a blend of Coffe, Saffron and Apricot. It was nothing like I've ever smelled before. I was intrigued. As it dried down, there's a slight spicy Amber accord, but that Coffee and Apricot manages to remain noticeable through the duration of this fragrance. The performance was pretty good. Prerogative gave me a good six hours with at least 3 feet of sillage. You really get a bang for your buck with this fragrance. I even went back to get a 1.7oz bottle because i know I'm going to go through my 30ml bottle. Overall, i am highly satisfied with this fragrance. I think it's safe for the work place. This is one of those cheapie, but goodie scents that leans more torwards the feminine side, but i honestly think the right guy could pull this off. Scent: 10/10 Packaging: 8/10 Performance: 7/10

Prerogative opens with fizzy berries - sort of an generic blackberry/raspberry type accord - that are spiced With pink pepper. I can't separate any lily or similar floral notes - there are some mossy florals [sort of like that wet, green scent when you're in a woody area after rain] The coffee, saffron and cream notes come through soon after and give Prerogative a sweet & spicy vibe - the coffee note in Prerogative is much stronger compared to the one in Private Show, which I'm loving as a coffee fiend. The spice and quiet sweet from the lingering berries mingling with the cream & saffron contrasts with the coffee & mossy florals, providing energy and warmth to the fragrance, with the slight hint of latex mingled in the woody base darkening things up and preventing the sweetness from being too loud. Prerogative is the first Britney Spears fragrance under their new licence with Revlon and I was a bit concerned that they'd derail the more adult direction that Elizabeth Arden had been starting to take with the fragrances and instead take a cheap 'n tacky quick-cash approach, but I most say that I really enjoy their debut effort; Prerogative is a very wearable, slightly-more-traditionally-feminine-side-but-still-fairly unisex, spicy oriental edp, that is a lot more individual than many of the recent Britney Spears fragrances have been. I'm a little bit disappointed that the longevity isn't as good as the Elizabeth Arden releases, averaging around the the 5-6 hour mark. However I do still think that Prerogative is well worth testing if you see it in a store.

It spotted a one ounce bottle at T.J.Maxx for 9.99 recently and snapped it up based on the reviews that said it was similar to Black Opium. I actually do have a bottle of Black Opium, but naturally I don't want to go through it very quickly so I thought I would give this a try. First off, let me say that if you are looking for an exact dupe, this isn't it. However, if you want something similar that's in the same vein as BO, then give this a try. In comparison, it does not have the same depth or richness that BO has. It's lighter and fruitier in my opinion. That "thick" feel that BO has just isn't there. However, this is still a great scent nonetheless! The coffee note is subtle, but present. The sweetness isn't sugary to the point of nausea. I think it all blends together very well. As for strength, I didn't find that this projected very far. I could still get small wiffs of it here and there, but it's not a powerhouse by any means. In terms of longevity, I think this lasted maybe three to four hours, if that. It didn't seem to stick around that long to be honest. I didn't find this scent to be particularly unisex. In my opinion, it definitely gravitates to a more feminine scent, but anyone can certainly enjoy it! If you are not a stickler for wanting an exact dupe, but would like something close enough, give this a try!

I’ve been looking for the perfect coffee perfume for a while, so when I saw a 3.4 fl oz of Britney Spears Prerogative for $20 on Fragrancenet, I didn’t hesitate to blind buy. I love the smell of this. It is so sweet and yummy, like a steaming mocha from a downtown coffee shop. It’s as if you took BS Fantasy and ironed out some of the “screechy” fruit notes (I love Fantasy, but this is smoother) then blended it with sugary coffee. Prerogative is similar to Private Show, as some have suggested, but I’d say this is warmer, a tad deeper, and leans slightly more unisex. That said, I don’t feel like the lasting power of this great at all. Generally celebrity fragrances aren’t extremely long lasting in my opinion, but on me, this is weaker than most other BS perfumes. While Fantasy, Midnight Fantasy, and Private Show last on the longer side of moderate for me, Prerogative is gone by the third hour mark. Don’t let lasting power deter you from trying this, though. I think the incredible smell and extremely low price are enough to make up for it, and you can always spray on clothes and reapply throughout the day to keep the scent going strong. Overall, Prerogative is delicious, but I will be resuming my hunt for the perfect coffee perfume. The smell of it is amazing, but I’m craving something with more strength.

I love Britney Spears - as a person, as an entertainer, for her work ethic - and I consider myself a collector of her fragrances (except the Fantasies - her dad sold the trademark for that to the conservatorship mastermind Lou Taylor; that's why there are so many). I was always hesitant about this one because I did not like Black Opium when I tried it, and this one is compared to that one. Well, well, well. I wish I had bought this sooner, so that I could have been enjoying it all fall and winter long! I think Black Opium was too floral for me? Maybe I tried it during the "wrong" (for me) season? I was always confused as to how that one had "coffee" in it. On the other hand, Private Show was SO. SWEET. that I couldn't pick up the coffee either. It's probably just my skin chemistry. So, yay, Prerogative is what I wished Black Opium and Private Show had been on me. Another note - One day I forgot I had put Prerogative on in the morning (no surprise, it doesn't last long). I got a whiff of it when it had dried down and become a skin scent. My brain went, "OG Lolita Lempicka?? ... Not LL Mon Premier??? What sorcery..." Which makes sense - soft spicy, sweet, powdery, woody - these two perfumes share the same main accords :)

Very surprised the body mists aren’t on Fragrantica. I feel nowadays body mists are pretty accurate to the parfums, they just miss the base if anything. So this is just a review for the Prerogative body mist. Very cute aesthetic, the juice is a really pretty dark pink. Label is matte black, a matte raspberry pink oval, font differs in color between white, black, and satin bronze. It is a nice scent, and does seem to belong to the Black Opium family before its time. Mostly I get a creamy, fruity top, with a sweet floral lactonic coffee mid. As I said with body mists, it seems to be missing the base notes that would take it further, deeper, more serious. I feel like Private Show is for daytime, and Prerogative is for night. I will absolutely pick up the EDP of this. Though I am sadly prepared for abysmal performance. 🥲 It’s like the entire Black Opium line also imitated Britney’s perfumes’ lack of performance... Would go nuts if somebody were able to dupe or recreate the Black Opium line and Britney’s coffee scents and make them strong and last at least 6 hours, because they are glorious!

If Private Show and Black Opium had a child, it would smell like Prerogative. I really enjoy the scent although I’d consider it wholly feminine and not even slightly unisex. I adore unisex frags and this one is just missing that vibe. Another thing it’s missing is staying power. My Private Show can go all day and night, Prerogative was gone from my skin in twenty minutes and barely clung to my clothes after an hour. Yes, I timed it. I also employed the nose of a friend to sniff test me just to make sure it wasn’t me becoming anosmic. Nope, this perfume smells lovely but does not last. It’s a fruitier, sharper version of Private Show with similarities to Black Opium, but without the complexity of YSL. It’s something I very much appreciate the smell of, because it’s not going to set off my allergies or anyone’s asthma. My only complaint is that it really does not last, like a lot of other reviewers have mentioned. However at $15 for 1.7 bottle it’s not a purchase I regret. I’ll keep it and use it but I don’t know if I’ll buy it again. Scent 8/10 Sillage 7/10 Longevity 5/10

Yay!! Finally Britney is letting us guys in on her vast collection of fragrances. I’ve been waiting years for her to release something suitable for guys and this was perfect. It’s very sweet, it actually smells pink, I know it sounds kinda weird but if you think about what pink would smell like, this is it. It’s unisex but I would say it maybe leans a little more feminine, yet not as gourmand-y or as girly as her Fantasy range. It’s perfectly suitable for a male to wear, however, the male would have to be comfortable with his feminine side, so in saying that I think this would be perfectly acceptable for Britney’s legion of gay fans, of which I am one. It smells like a party scent, it has a real element of fun to it, I could see a bunch of people wearing this to a Britney concert, all smelling perfectly delicious. I love it. It’s exactly what I was hoping for from her first unisex scent, great job Brit. I shall be wearing this a lot. Performance is average, yet the price is super affordable so it’s good value.

I've always been a Britney fan, so when I found out about this fragrance being unisex, I immediately had to order. The price was incredible. Unfortunately, it is definitely a more female leaning fragrance, I even suspect the company to put unisex label on it just to see if it helps the sales. That said, I can see a more feminine guy wear it and embrace it, but for myself I don't think I'm gonna wear it in public since it's just not my style. No matter if Britney is dancing with knives or giving us the middle finger in an insta story, she has such a feminine vibe to her that it's difficult to imagine a trully men's fragrance produced under the label - but who knows, maybe the company will find some courage to experiment and they'll do it. However, Pregogative is not that, it's trully a fragrance for women and it's really good at it - especially when you see the price. But there's no need to slap unisex label on it.

Sooooooo, I'm a little sad about this one because I LOVE THE SMELL OF THIS!! Its like light black opium, with a cup full of sugar, like her little thotty cousin and I love. However she doesn't last!!! Like at all one hour in it becomes a skin scent 2-3 hours after that you smell nothing and that's with 20 sprays, bathing in the stuff, adding it to your lotion, etc etc..... The way this is going I'll be out of this stuff in a week and a 1/2... which I know the stuff ain't expensive but who wants to go through all that. I'm going to let it set see if she becomes stronger which I'm hoping for because she's the best one of the 4 I just bought!!!! Update 5/12 soooo I let it sit and I’m wearing it almost 2 weeks later and I was WRONGGGG I guess it needed to rest and macerate because I put this on at 1’pm it’s 7 and I still smell it on my skin and clothes when I move it projects 8.5/10. I’m so happy I was wrong?!

I blind buy everything,for health reasons, and this came 2 weeks ago.. I've tried everything I can but this is a mystery. I go anosmic to this, but it comes and goes. When I can smell it, it's great. Sometimes I get that plastic sense, mmm, latex petals. 🤔 It can be smoothly deep and fruity, then cold and rough. Then nothing. There is something in there that reminds me very much of Pink Suede by Avon, which is my all time favorite. That's why I keep trying different approaches to smell this consistently for the entire 2 to 4 hours that I "think" it lasts. Maybe I'm reading the coffee note as suede? I'm distressed and confounded 😂 When it disappeared the first time I was terrified that I had gotten Corona virus, had just read that anosmia is one of the symptoms. So I really like this, but it is a strange creature. It's kinda worth the little money it costs just for the drama it puts me through.

This one was a blind buy based off the reviews and the intriguing fragrance notes. I am not at all disappointed! It's definitely leaning more feminine; the spiciness of the pink pepper and sourness of the goji berries is there but it's much sweeter than your average 'unisex' fragrance. I'm definitely getting a hint of vanilla so I'm surprised this isn't listed on the notes. It's sweet, cozy, but definitely has a hint of sexiness to it. I think anyone of any age can wear this one; it feels very adaptable. I personally can imagine wearing it to coffee dates on a cold, rainy day. Today I got a waft of it from my wrist while eating a fresh, hot cinnamon swirl - beautiful. My partner has also complimented it. My only criticism is I wish the longevity was better (I get about 2 hours before it's faint on my skin), but at it's current price I can't complain too much!

The opening is sweet from the apricot and goji berries. The pink pepper, coffee, saffron, and red lily sit in the background and give it sophistication. It's mild and not loud. The wood comes through in the open, but the dry-down just is fresh wood with a touch of sweetness. Doesn't project much but it really does sit close to the skin for 4-8 hours. Spray heavy and you'll get more projection and longer lasting scent on clothes. It's the type of scent you'll get used to real quick but others will definitely smell it. I'm a guy and to me all three Prerogative's smell very unisex if you have a good perfume taste palette. Yes, the original Prerogative is sweet but it's woody sweet, it's subdued yet sexy, and great for daytime or the office. I even wear it for relaxing at home. I love the whole line. They say I'm crazy. I really don't care ;P

Ok, wow! I am absolutely enamored with this dark, sexy scent, especially for the price. As many have mentioned below, Prerogative is very similar to Black Opium, carrying almost exactly the same seductive vanilla and coffee dry down. However, Prerogative opens with a more appealing, mouthwatering apricot, and dries down with less of the cloying sweetness of Black Opium. It's a sexier, more evolved version of the scent we all know and (some) love. Plus you'll get the personal satisfaction that no, you're not SO basic- it's Prerogative, not Black Opium, didn't you know (ha ha)? This scent is perfect for the club and third dates, but its effortless coziness also makes it wonderfully suitable for sweater weather and lazy autumnal walks. It's definitely feminine, not unisex as the makers claim. Definitely my favourite Britney scent!

Yes, this is divine. Yes, it’s akin to Black Opium. And yes, there is an unregistered vanilla note. If the target demographic for the Fantasy line is teens/early twenties, the target demographic for the Prerogative line is mid-late twenties all the way up to forties. Opens with a juicy pink pepper and floral burst. Dries down into a vanilla latte coffee scent. Well-blended. Classy. Elegant. Deep. I have gone through multiple bottles of this and will continue to do so. Personally, I prefer this to Black Opium as it omits the patchouli note. If Black Opium may be favoured by a woman in her forties—above, Prerogative smells that touch younger without being a teen/early twenties scent. Thoroughly taken aback and impressed by Prerogative. Prerogative Ego is also worth a blind buy too for anyone who is curious.

This will forever be a staple it is my signature scent and honesty.. I can’t live without it. Not unisex, kind of misleading in that regard. It is definitely mature feminine vibes. It is definitely less young teenage girl so I can understand the appeal for her gay male audience, but I wouldn't have marketed this as unisex. That being said this is so unlike any other perfume on the market. It’s as if Private Show, Fantasy and Sunset Fantasy had a baby. Sweet, comforting, warm, Amber vanilla ever so slightly musky, but wrapped in sweet rich tangy pink goji berries.. no other perfume smells like it although I would be curious to try some of the ones mentioned below as similar. I desperately need it and will have it in my collection even after buying new designer perfumes... I hope it never disappears!!!

I am in love with this fragrance, the sweetness and the coffee notes together are delicious. Wearing it on autumn afternoons here in Brazil is perfect. The sillage and specially its longevity is not good tough. I've been wearing it everyday for my home office and I have to spray it several times a day so I can keep feeling it without having to take my nose to my wrists. The fixation on my skin will project more the fruity and the coffee notes, while its fixation on my clothes will project a much more woody and floral scent. I am just in doubt about this fragrance being unisex. Just like me, my boyfriend loves woody and gourmand and spicy fragrances, but he found this one too sweet for his taste, and maybe the floral and fruity notes being so present turn this fragrance much more feminine.

Before I started getting into perfume, I would have never thought about buying or even trying a Britney Spears fragrance. No offense to Brit-Brit, I’ve been a fan since ‘99, but I thought her perfumes would basically be bubblegum in a bottle. I’m so happy I was so wrong. I wear this fragrance daily now, and though it doesn’t last super long on my skin (almost nothing does) the sillage is pretty good and the blend is just wonderful. It’s warm and spicy and just a liiiittle bit sexy, and that’s the persona I usually identify with on these work-from-home days. When we can return to offices and brunches, I’ll probably wear my white florals again, but for a winter in quarantine? This is perfect.

I love the smell of this perfume. This was my first Britney Spears scent and the smell didn’t disappoint but the performance sure tf did. I can’t really speak towards the similarity with Black Opium but I do not care for the YSL fragrance. I can sometimes struggle with coffee fragrances (like the Only One), especially since I don’t drink coffee but the coffee note here is very palatable. Undeniably feminine, fruity, and sweetest hint of depth. But the performance is hot garbage. Luckily, buying a whole bottle of this is essentially paying for a sample or two. But, even the dirt cheap pricing isn’t worth this ghostly performance. I wouldn’t repurchase just on principle.