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Mary Kay Simply Cotton, Exotic Passionfruit, Sparkling Honeysuckle & Warm Amber ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 16 September 2008 14 Comments

Mary Kay Fashion Forward fragrances

Mary Kay has introduced a quartet of new scents under the tag line "Fashion-Forward Fragrance":

These four fragrances are so light, carefree and easy-going, changing your "scents" of style is just a spritz away.

Simply Cotton (blue cap) ~ "clean, crisp and refreshing", with notes of cotton blossom, lotus, narcissus, lily, orange blossom, sandalwood and white woods.

Exotic Passionfruit (pink cap) ~ "wonderfully fruity, zesty and juicy", featuring mandarin, passionfruit, freesia, yuzu and woods.

Sparkling Honeysuckle (orange cap) ~ "a beautiful floral fragrance". The notes include Bartlett pear, mandarin zest, lily, honeysuckle, freesia, iris and wood.

Warm Amber (brown cap) ~ "warm, creamy, rich and cozy", with notes of pomegranate, amber, rose, St. John's wort, jasmine, sandalwood and patchouli.

Available in 50 ml Eau de Toilette; $25 each. (quotes via marykay, additional information via cosmoty.de)

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  1. Anonymous says:
    16 September 2008 at 11:52 am

    These sound quite like the Avon scents I read about here not too long ago.

    What does St. John's Wort smell like?

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  2. Anonymous says:
    16 September 2008 at 12:10 pm

    Hey, they kinda do sound like those. On the St Johns wort, no idea!

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  3. Anonymous says:
    16 September 2008 at 12:11 pm

    They sound like a new fanta advertisement not perfumes.

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  4. Anonymous says:
    16 September 2008 at 2:03 pm

    🙂

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  5. Anonymous says:
    16 September 2008 at 3:12 pm

    I know the essential oil smells very dark, green and bitter. I can hardly imagine it'd play a prominent role in airy, girly perfumes like these.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    17 September 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Thanks!

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  7. Anonymous says:
    18 September 2008 at 1:52 am

    They seem like typical appealing mass market scents. Mary Kay doesn't color outside of the lines very much. It is the clientele they cater to-nice suburban housewives. I'm sure they smell pretty too.

    -Becca

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  8. Anonymous says:
    18 September 2008 at 1:54 am

    …..the housewives and the scents!

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  9. Anonymous says:
    18 September 2008 at 9:29 am

    I wonder if their clientele is still suburban housewives? The only Mary Kay products I ever tried were via working women selling it on the side at the office.

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  10. Anonymous says:
    18 September 2008 at 5:36 pm

    One of my good friends sells it – but she is a rich house wife. So I'm guilty of stereotyping. Haven't seen any Mary Kays brochures around, only Avon. Mary Kay is your own personal business since you have to buy all your samples, products, and brochures upfront and then hope you make your money back. I'm sure it's different in bigger cities than I am from.

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  11. Anonymous says:
    18 September 2008 at 5:45 pm

    What I meant was-most Mary Kay's clients are not trying to be perfumistas. Their demographic is your average woman.

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  12. Anonymous says:
    19 September 2008 at 10:35 am

    I'm quite sure that's true!

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  13. Anonymous says:
    25 September 2008 at 2:35 pm

    There were samples of Simply Cotton and Warm Amber today in my MK catalog. You can guess what the Simply Cotton smells like, so I won't even go into describing it. I was piqued by the Warm Amber and slathered myself with the sample, it's nice enough. Nothing ground-breaking, obviously, but I always think that the audience MK is shooting for is pretty wide, say the 14-100 age range! Warm Amber is very sweet, more like caramel or brown sugar to me than coconut. An hour later it smells exactly the same as when I put it on, so I'm not expecting any revelations in the drydown. I would put it in the category with Hilary Duff's With Love and BBW's Black Amethyst.

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  14. Anonymous says:
    25 September 2008 at 8:17 pm

    Hey, but that doesn't sound half bad…wonder how the other 2 are.

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