Jo Malone London Mimosa & Cardamom 100ml

The answer is gracefully and effectively. Mimosa blooms from the South of France provide the heart note of warmth and sweetness, whilst the top note of cardamom gives coolness. A base note of tonka bean, along with sandalwood and musk, provides richness and warmth, giving this fragrance a subtle and intriguing sensual undertone.

Jo Malone London Mimosa and Cardamom campaign imagery

This is a soft, clean, and intelligent composition that perfectly fulfils the brief Jo Malone London set for their master perfumer Marie Salamagne – to create a fragrance that would appeal to the modern bohemian, who is a free-thinker in the rich tradition of adventurers such as Victorian art collector Frederick Leighton, and ’60s designer Thea Porter.

by Rachel McCormack

The Jo Malone London Mimosa & Cardamom range is available here

Imagery courtesy of Jo Malone

First published on Glass September 2015

Update, August 2019

… this post was commissioned by Glass in the autumn of 2015, and was my second piece of work for them. I wasn’t a Jo Malone aficionado, but I was very intrigued by the promise of heat and light and I have long-loved a floral oriental. After reviewing, I passed this fragrance on to my friend J, who it suited marvellously. And I got to meet Marie Salamagne some years later, on another assignment for Glass, this time about a fateful accord she had created that delivered warmth and coolness in one intriguing, addictive hit …