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I love the smell of mimosa<\/a> flowers (Acacia pravissima<\/em><\/a> is blooming in my garden now). For me, the\u00a0\u201cperfume\u201d that best captures the floral\u00a0scent most of us associate with \u201cmimosa\u201d (Acacia dealbata<\/em><\/a>) is Diptyque Mimosa room spray. I\u2019ve loved many of the Annick Goutal<\/a> floral fragrances, and I\u00a0hoped Le Mimosa would provide a mimosa scent\u00a0I could wear on my skin, not simply spray into the air.<\/p>\n Le Mimosa, developed by perfumer Isabelle Doyen<\/a>, lists fragrance notes of peach, anise, iris, mimosa, sandalwood and white musk. Le Mimosa opens with a dry, flat note that smells like a combination of pencil shavings, cumin powder, and \u2018hairy\u2019 leather. This slightly \u201cdirty\u201d aroma marches thru the entire composition\u2026only soap will remove it from skin. As Le Mimosa develops, I smell artificial \u201cpeach\u201d and I detect, for a split second, a puff of iris, a speck of anise, and some vague \u201ccitrus.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s plenty of white musk and the aforementioned \u201cpeach\u201d in Le Mimosa\u2019s base, but none of Le Mimosa\u2019s notes produces a scent with the aroma of fresh mimosa blossoms (if that\u2019s what you are looking for or expecting). What mimosa there is in Le Mimosa is faint \u2014 hard to detect under the stronger, cheaper-smelling notes that surround it.<\/p>\n As I wore Le Mimosa I was suffocated by its dry, bitter \u201cpowder;\u201d it was as if my nostrils had been packed with pollen. Overall, Le Mimosa smells inexpensive, and its mish-mash of jarring elements produces faux \u2018flowers\u2019 having little to do with the perfume’s namesake.<\/p>\n Years ago, I concocted, and wore,\u00a0a perfume\u00a0resembling (a better<\/em>) Le Mimosa: I would spray one part Eau d\u2019Herm\u00e8s to three parts Diptyque Mimosa room spray: that combo was refreshing, a tad \u201cabstract\u201d (no attempt at duplicating a perfect bouquet of mimosa thanks to Eau d\u2019Herm\u00e8s\u2019 leather and cumin) and more refined than you\u2019d expect from a perfume-room spray mix. (This layered scent was not a total success; as often happens, the room spray element quickly\u00a0turned flat on skin.)<\/p>\n Annick Goutal Le Mimosa is a limited edition fragrance, and as you\u2019ve probably guessed, I won\u2019t be sad to see it vanish. I hope its disappearance makes room for a more interesting Annick Goutal perfume.\u00a0Le Mimosa is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette ($80-115); it lasts forever on skin and has sillage galore. Please comment if you have a favorite mimosa-scented perfume (or two) you can recommend.<\/p>\n Note: top images of mimosa<\/a> [altered] via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love the smell of mimosa<\/a> flowers (Acacia pravissima<\/em><\/a> is blooming in my garden now). For me, the \u201cperfume\u201d that best captures the floral scent most of us associate with \u201cmimosa\u201d (Acacia dealbata<\/em><\/a>) is Diptyque Mimosa room spray. I\u2019ve loved many of the Annick Goutal<\/a> floral fragrances, and I hoped Le Mimosa would provide a mimosa scent I could wear on my skin, not simply spray into the air.<\/p>\nPossibly of interest<\/h2>\n
Frederic Malle Une Fleur de Cassie ~ fragrance review<\/a><\/div>Jo Malone Mimosa & Cardamom ~ fragrance review<\/a><\/div>Von Euserdorff Classic Mimosa ~ fragrance review<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n