Thinking of You by Mary Kay bottle
Mary Kay

Thinking of You

3.7/5 · 670 votes Feminine 2010
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Character

Longevity2.9/5
Sillage2.8/5
Day100
Night34
Winter71
Spring69
Fall45
Summer40
Our take

Thinking of You opens with a burst of peach and plum, their syrupy flesh glistening under a mandarin orange’s tart peel. That bright, candied fruit quickly yields to a dense floral heart of jasmine, honeysuckle, and lily-of-the-valley. The flowers feel plucked straight from a suburban garden on a humid spring evening, their sweetness almost cloying but softened by a powdery whisper. As it dries down, vanilla and musk create a familiar base, with patchouli adding just enough earthy grit to keep the whole affair from dissolving into pure pastry. The overall character is like opening a grandmother’s compact mirror and finding a pressed corsage still clinging to the velvet lining. It is an unabashedly mainstream, decidedly feminine scent that leans synthetic around the edges, but in a comforting, nostalgic way rather than a cheap one.

The numbers tell an honest story. With a longevity barely scraping 2.89 and sillage at 2.79, this is a close-to-skin fragrance that fades within three hours. It will not announce your arrival or linger in a room. The rating of 3.72 reflects a solid but unremarkable experience, a gentle daytime companion best suited for cool spring mornings or crisp winter afternoons, when its powdery sweetness can wrap around you like a soft cashmere scarf. Who should wear it? Someone who prefers intimacy over volume, who wants to smell clean, sweet, and approachable without turning heads. Who should skip it? Anyone craving projection, complexity, or a modern edge, because this fragrance is a polite relic, a pleasant thought that drifts away before you can quite catch it.

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