Reviews of Mimosa by Czech & Speake

I mostly smell white soap mixed with aquatic lily chemicals, lightly flavored with plasticky hairspray aldehydes, jasmine that's more indoles than jasmine, and just a tiny pinch of honeyed mimosa. It verges on mushroomy, and maintains a floral heaviness, but mostly just smells like aquatic soap. It's not terrible, but like others here are saying, it smells quite dated and not especially pleasant. I love a good mimosa note, but there isn't one to be found here, so I'm not finding this very satisfying because even without the mimosa focus, what this is doing isn't that great.

Mimosa by Czech & Speake is a clean, nice, soapy and aldehydic soliflore centered on this underrated yellow natural beauty. Fresh head notes, spices, light woods, probably other floral molecules enhancing and rounding the "botanical-earthy" density (jasmine, tuberose), and above all, the mimosa note. Which sadly, as much as it smells good, is quite artificial and cheap, therefore lacking in deepness and nuances the real mimosa oils are instead quite rich in (and in general, all natural oils). It is a straightforward, simple, plain *smell* of mimosa, with no evolution and as I said, not much deepness or complexity. Which is a pity because mimosa has a lot of great nuances - it can smell of pollen, roots, earth, even musk... here there's just a microscopic little bit of all that. Well, however, this does not make Mimosa a complete fail obviously, as I understand people may want specifically "this" kind of shallow and safe floral scent with no earthiness and no raw shades. It smells nice, just more on the unpretentious, simplistic and slightly mediocre side. I don't get anything indolic by the way, just slightly earthy at some points.

6/10

So Old School it should be an exhibit somewhere. A well-constructed jasmine-tuberose combo with plenty of indolic unease and an underlying murmur of the kinds of bone dry spice mix one found in a multitude of perfumes of a certain age which have (with a few exceptions) since hit the dust. Shakes off the indole and gets creamier with time and ultimately soapy (which is the closest this gets to mimosa), but I'll pass.

Entirely presentable, if a bit 'auntie's bosom'. However, for something as jasmine-heavy as C&S' Mimosa, I'd prefer instead to go for Olène by Diptyque or Lutens' A La Nuit.

That so many people have found this dismayingly stinky (indolic, fecal) makes me wonder whether I'm smelling a reformulation, as I find nothing to press charges over.

Oh dear ! I see not too many people enjoy Mimosa by C & S.
I totally understand that the problem could be the indolic nature of this scent especailly right at the start.
It has the same indolic factor that Joy has in extrait and also it reminds me of the very slight indole I get in Jasmal by Creed. . It's the jasmine that is causing issues no doubt .However, I guess I am swayed as I quite like a bit of indole . In Mimosa it opens with a slightly fetid breath with a powdery mimosa which then tunes into green jasmine. I find it very vintage in character .
I like it but I don't need a bottle.

A ladies jasmine type floral that smells dated a type of scent you could imagine a old lady would wear in the 1950's.

Having recently revisited my decant of PdN Mimosaique, and having enjoyed it very much, I pulled this sample back out - the mimosa fragrance that turned me off of the whole note originally.

And I feel no different now. This is sharp finger nails on chalkboard white floral, turn indolic (read earthy plus fertilizer) jasmine, then thick tuberose. The close finally softened up, and the unpleasant earthiness subsided, but the effort to get there was beyond my tolerance for suffering.

This is the polar opposite of the soft beauty of Mimosaique, and I am obviously a fan of the easier ride.

The opening is very powerful and heavy on the florals. Mainly a white floral note that must be the mimosa. Jasmine soon joins the accord and finally the tuberose comes through in the base. The opening is just too much floral for me and there is a persistent indolic note throughout the entire fragrance. I've also come to realize that I'm not a fan of tuberose. At all. I'm not even sure I'd like this on a woman as it is definitely a feminine scent. Might be the worst from the C&S line.

Overall a good showing of tuberose and orange blossom. Slightly indolic and feminine. But that is about it. I think this would be a safe and fitting choice for women of any age. It is just the right balance between the stuffy old-world florals of yesteryear and the new age Acqua di Gio pour femme whatever that might be--something by Britney Spears or Paris Hilton perhaps?

This is a gorgeous floral scent. It is so heady that it briefly has a slightly volatile, rubbery aspect. It is an ornate cloud: somewhat sweet but not cloying or heavy. The impression is that of lily of the valley – on steroids! A dry, earthy note emerges in the dry-down. Here's a floral that I could wear once in a while and enjoy. I'm surprised at all the negative reviews. I'm no big fan of florals but I can appreciate this.

The florals themselves do not come through very clearly for me; so, instead of a dominant flowery tuberose and jasmine, I am left with a rather strong indole note. It smells dirty – it even crosses over the thin line between floral and fecal. Usually the presence of a fecal note is not a negative with me, but the problem here is that it doesn't come and go as a fecal note usually does in a fragrance… it stays as a continuing note and it gets overmuch. Judging from the other reviews, I'm not the only one who reacts negatively to Mimosa, but I'm not quite as turned off by it as some of the others seem to be. My greater criticism of with Mimosa is that I find it quite characterless. It is well made; it performs competently and lasts long enough, but its only real uniqueness or point of interest is a droning, shallow, near off-putting fecal note.

Wow - so many bad reviews! I'm glad I sampled this a few times before writing a review. Mimosa is a fairly straightforward white floral. It starts of with a light mimosa note with a touch of geranium. Slowly jasmine joins the accord and eventually a tuberose base takes over. I'm not much of a tuberose fan so I stopped enjoying the fragrance as the basenotes emerged, but until that point I felt Mimosa was a darn good white floral (a genre I usually don't care much for). There are better mimosa scents out there, but this one isn't bad. Sillage was what you'd expect from such a fragrance and the longevity was well above average. As for whether paying C&S prices for a white floral is 'worth it' I leave that up to you.

To me C&S mimosa quite simply smells of halitosis !Its just bad breath to me. Like a kiss from an aged floral gum sucking aunt.

This has to be my second least favorite from the C&A line. Disappointing. An unlovely incense. Sorry, no love here.

sorry but there is something that makes me headache, its female i know but i really wanted to explore all C&S scents and its the worst one, smells like cleaned toilet i cant imaginare this on women or maybe i could on... cleaning lady

Czech and Speake 'Mimosa' definitely does not work with my body chemistry. Fine, if quite sharp, when first applied it quickly ends up with a note 'like a cat sleeping on yesterdays laundry' to quote my husband. I enjoy a couple of their other fragrances but this one is not for me.

It's dirty. It's soapy. It's weird. It's Czech and Speake's interpretation of mimosa.I'm giving thumbs down to this, but in all honesty it's not bad. It's something unique, and its longevity and sillage are quite good. I just can't picture me, or for that matter, anyone, wanting to smell like this. It reminds me of too many public washrooms I have known.

This does indeed smell like some unpleasant toilet smell with some soap thrown in, very unpleasant.

I agree with urgetopurge, this should be considered unisex, I think it is at least as masculine as their No. 88. I'm not a fragrance expert, but I can say what memories are evoked by this fragrance. Mimosa is a summer day of my childhood, sucking honeysuckle blossoms. Maybe my memory is faulty, but this is as close to a honeysuckle for me as I have experience in a fragrance. Medium sillage, floral without being flowery. I usually gravitate to the woods or greens or orientals, this is none of those. Great change of pace for me, but this most likely won't be something I reach for regularly.

Smell it to believe it.This should definately be unisex if not masculine. This is very sharp!

Hmm. Its actually really nice floral scent for women but I am not sure it is able to justify the high price by any means unless you are a real special fan of this great house.Simple and well balanced fragrance, but really, it's nothing special. Notes include: Geranium, Ylang-Ylang, Jasmine, Tuberose, Egyptian Mimosa, and Clove.That slightly raw bee waxy with bitter green bite mimosa smell dominates (surprise!) but also the jasmine and tuberose are easy to detect. Other notes play a small part and for instance, I can't smell any clove in this scent. This is a nice pretty little floral fragrance. It lasts a long time and the packing is beautiful but, like I said earlier it's quite hard for me to see why anyone would want to pay that much money out of this….If you like mimosa as a scent, and don't want to pay yourself sick, let me suggest you to try Pur Desir de Mimosa by Yves Rocher. It is very nice and it can be found under 5euros a bottle. And for what its worth, the perfumer of this cheapie is the one and only Annick Menardo.