Mimosa

This scent is pure joy!!I am a Mimosa lover and this is simply beautiful. Everything I love about the scent is present. Sweet, diaphanous clouds of yellow that gently caress me to ease pain and stress. A close second is my lovely Farnesiana. The price of that beauty makes it difficult for me to indulge as much as I want to. I have been nursing a 1.6 oz bottle that was close to 90 buckaroos for a year or so. My Demeter roll on cost me under 10.00 dollars, and it is just as lovely in it's own way.

My mum is very sensitive to all things fragrant and she usually enjoys basic and subtle soliflores over anything else. She also happens to love mimosas so when I saw this at a ridiculous price I had to get this for her. She has been wearing this for a few months now, so far it was perfect for the warm Mediterranean fall and not so cold winter. A very soft and warm powdery fragrance that certainly is not overwhelming. Yesterday we were at a crowded event and despite putting this on around noon, the mimosa was still there by midnight. She received several compliments as she was hugging people goodbye. Good staying power with lovely scent, what's not to like.

Warm and inviting, immediately reminded me of those cozy shops that sell incense and homemade candles and soaps. Light with a touch of sweetness, I feel like a honeybee whilst wearing this! Hard to dislike, smells like happiness and frolicking. The powderiness does add something of a maternal element but it’s not ‘grandma-y’.

A tad too sweet, but only a little, and on a nice and sunny day, itll put me in a happy mood

Having experienced the Demeter Vintage Naturals 2009 eau de parfum collection, I was delighted to see that some of the scents were being re-launched. They are no longer called "vintage", but they are still all natural, and the recipes look to be the same. The notes listed at the Demeter website profile for MIMOSA are: basil, ylang ylang, jasmine, mimosa, vanilla, and tonka bean This is quite close to the official list for the vintage predecessor. Geranium appears to be no longer included, and the basil appears to be toned down, as this MIMOSA really seems like a fluffy yellow soliflore and is much less green. In a side-by-side comparison, I realized that this new launch is a truer soliflore, which is good news for those who missed out on the 2009 vintage series anyway but were after an all-natural mimosa soliflore all along. I am baffled by the price of this eau de toilette. The MSRP is $29 for 1.7 ounce, which is less than half the price of the vintage naturals collection, which were already a bargain by most any measure. All natural? Nichesque? What? It is true that this is eau de toilette, and that was eau de parfum, but I don't notice the concentration difference in the performance, which is all the more striking since I'm pretty sure that the eau de parfum has undergone some evaporation as a result of the screw on atomizers used by Demeter. The good news about the Demeter bottles is that they can be re-used for cologne and what not. The bad news is that if you have them around long enough, the contents may literally evaporate away! I am very happy with this all-natural creation. One interesting difference I noted is that the liquid in these new bottles seems to have some particulate matter in them, compared to the completely transparent (albeit still colored) solutions of the vintage naturals. Maybe these were prepared by less rigorous means. Certainly they were not subjected to the same degree of filtering. Still, this is the bargain of the all-natural perfume world, so if you're in the market for a mimosa soliflore, there is no excuse for not giving this one at least a sniff. You can buy a .5 ounce splash bottle for (gasp!) $8!

Perhaps the particulate matter has to do with the natural mimosa, which is hard and waxy. I have used it in natural perfumery and have had to use a coffee filter to strain any residual. I could see how some escapes.