Mimosa & Cardamom

This fragrance is like sitting with your grandma on her porch swing, smelling her perennial flower bushes off the side of the deck as a summer breeze floats by, eating a slice of melon on a warm afternoon. And that's not to say it's an aged floral, it's just that mimosa and heliotrope flowers aren't the most common anymore as the floral stars of fragrances. As such, I found this floral approachable as someone who doesn't love super strong florals but still enjoys a touch of floral with some flair.

The cardamom spice brings out a certain sweetness from the flowers, that on me reads as melon. The floral notes aren't cloying in this, and smell more like a floral **** that grows on its own each year and not intentionally planted annuals, if you catch my meaning. It's more subtle and not so, "HI! I'M AN ORANGE/WHITE/PURPLE floral." More like a perennial garden floral.

It wear really well in the summer/heat, and pairs well with spicy musks (like free the musk). The scent does seem to stay in the top and middle, and as such doesn't have extreme longevity, but this scent feels like an intentional 4 hours experience, at which point I like putting on a different perfume on top of any lingering notes. I like to put this on for daytime more than evening, but you could use this as a layering fragrance for the evening in the summer too.