Givenchy Harvest 2007 Amarige Mimosa

This smells absolutely heavenly! I can smell the mimosa first and foremost in this, followed by a slight citrus and white floral scent from the neroli. I can smell a hint of that mandarin leaf in there too, emphasizing some of that greeness that one finds in mimosa. The woodsy notes aren't prominent to my nose, but seem to make the other notes last longer and emphasize the powderiness and the sweetness of the mimosa. I know that there is no honey in this but it smells like honey is in there and that the mimosa flower has been dipped into this honey. It smells very similar to the original Amarige, but it's not as heady, fruity, white floral or sweet as Amarige. It's still sweet-smelling, though. It also has some similarities to Poeme by Lancôme to my nose. It's like a baby of both Amarige and Poeme to me. This perfume smells very high quality and natural smelling. I can smell the pollen wafting in the air and I can almost imagine the bees pollinating the mimosa tree with this scent. It's just so breath-taking and feminine! Not too mature smelling either. Just a grown up woman scent. The packaging and the bottle are incredibly beautiful, too. I love the little mimosas all over the elegant black box and the bottle itself. The glass bottle and stopper are a gorgeous shape, too. It's very elegant and dainty looking and probably one of the most stunning bottles I have ever seen for a perfume. This perfume has medium sillage and it lasts about 5 hours on my skin. I was so incredibly lucky to FINALLY get this perfume off of Ebay and have it sent to Australia from France, after a previous failed attempt trying to buy it from America. It's such a rare perfume.

Spring in a bottle. Amarige is a gorgeous classic with the dominant narcissus scent surrounded by all yellow and happy glorious spring flowers, but in this Harvest 2007 special edition it has an amplified mimosa note making it so airy, spacious and innocent that I cannot resist it. It has a special feel to it. It's multifaceted and complex, perfectly femme, polite and classy. I must up it from like to love because it's special.

After having purchased the Amarige Harvest 2010 Ylang Ylang I fell in love with it. Now I wonder how the version with the pronounced Mimosa would smell like. Maybe I'll find it on eBay if I'm lucky.

I prefer this version to the original, it is warm & beautiful, I sniff myself all day it makes me happy, great lasting power. It never fails, not a hint of anything synthetic just pure oils <3

I inherited this from my mother, and it's very hard for me to give an unbiased opinion of whether or not I like this personally or would wear it myself, since to me, it just smells like my mom; she wore Amarige in one incarnation or another for most of her life, and Amarige (alongside Estee Lauder's Beautiful) simply smells of her. I find as I get older that my taste in perfume begins to align more with hers, so who knows, maybe I'll be revisiting this scent more often in the years to come. I do enjoy this scent, partially for the memories, and partially for the notes I smell in it. First off, it wafts off of my skin in a way very, very few scents do. I get these waves of warm spiced floral floating through the air around me. I smell mimosa and tuberose, and it's warm and sweet, though not in the vanilla/caramel/fruit way that so many gourmand fragrances are right now. Rather, the sweetness is the same sort you find in summer flowers on a hot day. The floral components are definitely the star of the show, here. I don't get the citrus as strong in this composition as the above note rankings indicate; I smell a strong green/ citrus oil note in the opening, but it softens quite quickly. After it's gotten settled in on my skin, the warm florals dominate and take on a delicate powdery quality. It really is a lovely scent.