Le Mimosa

This is one that I simply must try - the notes sound lovely (coming from Australia we call Mimosa "Wattle Tree" and it is our National Tree) - like the sound of the peach and musk - not sure about the powdery iris and anise! Will write in later when I have tried it on my skin and given it some time to soften. Just as an aside - the yellow Wattle gives my American son-in-law dreadful hayfever so guess I wouldn't want to be wearing it around him!

The second I smelled it I almost dropped the bottle. To me it smelled like old sweat...I couldn't make out too many flowery scents.

I got a sample gifted of this and was in scent heaven. What an uplifting and joyful concoction this is!! Le Mimosa is absolutely suitable for the young and the not so young and everyone in between. I have never smelled Mimosa before, so have nothing to compare it to, but to me it is a slightly sweet and lemony powdery scent. Wear it on a warm spring/summer day while strolling in the park, to the christening of a baby, to a wedding, to lunch with friends,... and definitely put it on on a drab day when life looks bleak and be instantly transported to scent wonderland with sunshine, laughter and butterflies fluttering carelessly from flower to flower making you dizzy with happiness. That is what I feel when I smell Le Mimosa.

The scent of mimosa is something I'm very familiar with. I grew up on a property where this stuff bloomed everywhere. I played under it as a child and delighted in snapping off branches of the stuff, yet as I got older, it gave me dreadful hayfever. Le Mimosa is close to the scent of my childhood, but unfortunately it has been overshadowed with syrupy peach and sugary musk. I see this fragrance as being a delightful, bright little Spring scent, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect more from this release. At times this fragrance is a little powdery and honeyed. To me it doesn't smell like mimosa, instead it smells like the inside of a beehive or another flower altogether. It's pleasant and unique so to say; very sunny, bright and yellow just like mimosa blooms itself, but still to my nose, this is not mimosa. In all honesty it's mostly peach, powder and a dash of icing sugar. It's unfortunately quite linear and predictable after a while, which leaves me a little lost as to how to describe it. It's a fragrance that's trying to follow in the footsteps of the sugary and pretty Songes, but somehow it fails to live up to its proud predecessor. The drydown is quite musty, yet it's only then that I sensed a glimmer of sweet wattle tree blooms that made me long for home. My first full-blown fragrance love, which I find reminds me of home a lot more vividly, is Burberry Weekend for Women. So for fellow Australians like myself that long for that beautiful scent, Burberry Weekend might soothe some of your cravings. Le Mimosa was unfortunately poor in terms of longevity and sillage. It's times like these that I tend to curse Annick Goutal, even though nothing has come to rival it as my favourite niche house as of yet. I will use my Le Mimosa sample, but I won't be buying a bottle anytime soon.

Le mimosa (strange for a flower to have a masculine article) is a rather artistic approach of the marketing department since the smell is somehow irellevant to the name of the fragrance. This is one of the best in Goutal's line of female compositions, very formal, special and modern, not too complicated but thick and juicy nevertheless, a bit too chemical for the spirit of the house but more refined than the other famous perfume (and considerably more successful) with which, smell pretty much the same. I like it a lot but remember; this is not a very unique smell. Sillage is ok. Longevity is good due to the abundance of synthetic musks in the formula.