Like miniature pompoms bursting with colour and fragrance, mimosa flowers turn the hills around France's perfume capital, Grasse, a golden yellow for a couple of fleeting weeks each year. Though they fade fast - and must be processed as soon as they are harvested - a second life awaits these harbingers of spring as a prized ingredient in some of the world's most coveted scents. “Mimosa is still a perfumer's...
Perfumery: The secrets of French mimosa
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