NEW NOTES
LATTE MIMOSA

2024

bergamot
mimosa

jasmine
ylang-ylang
iris

sandalwood
vanilla
musk

‘The delicate blooms of mimosa intertwine with the comforting embrace of creamy latte, creating a velvety symphony that unfolds on your skin.‘ – New Notes

I’d smelled Latte Mimosa a couple of times in stores and it’s a very inviting fragrance, but somehow, it was one that had escaped me from a review thus far. I finally picked up a sample and it holds up as one of my favorites from New Notes.

Mimosa is a scent that I enjoy in general. The mix of floral and milky honey tones rarely misses, and in Latte Mimosa, it leans heavily into the honey side. I get the florals of course, but in a dry, powdery, ‘pollen in the air’ type of way, with the sweetness being a main player from the get go.

The scent is a bit hard to describe if you’re not familiar with mimosa. It’s such a mix of youthful and retro to me. It feels dusty and to some extent overlapping with muguets (lily-of-the-valley) with its greener hues, but at the same time, it wears more fun, quirky, lactonic and sweet. Sometimes it reminds me of a lemonade when surrounded by brighter and ctirussy notes, but in Latte Mimosa, I find it to be lacking juiciness or acidity. This take will speak to honey / beeswax lovers more I think. I also think it leans quite retro because of the powdery texture and I’ve had someone in store tell me they found it smelling like ‘a grandma’, so there’s that.

It goes even more powdery and iris-y as it dries, but as mentioned, I felt that it had a sweet and powdery balance for a floral directly from the opening. You get the latte, milky idea, but on the dry side, like milk powder; not creamy. That doesn’t mean at all that the florals go away; you keep a waft of sharper, white florals coming through, but they don’t break the coziness for me.

So it feels simple for lack of a better word; not a lot going on in terms of the scent changing or feeling complex. It’s also not ground-breaking in any way, if you know mimosa scents, you’ll have smelled similar fragrances. In my experience, you are either going to like Latte Mimosa from the first minute or you’re not. I definitely fall in the first category and this is a comfort scent to me. Not a masterpiece or fragrance that I’m picking to wear out to an event, but the cozy, stay at home, wear it to bed, type of fragrance. The mimosa that I currently have in my collection is Von Eusersdorff Classic Mimosa, which is great too, but a bit fresher, crunchier, greener. I think I wouldn’t mind Latte Mimosa one day being the main mimosa in my collection.