Mimosa(1917)

A mimosa soliflore from Ernest Daltroff, opening on bergamot before the mimosa heart, closing on musk and powder. Mimosa's honeyed, powdery scent, difficult to capture through steam distillation and more commonly extracted as a solvent absolute, made it a popular subject for single-flower showcases throughout the Belle Epoque and into the war years, following the same tradition Molinard had explored with its own mimosa soliflore over a decade earlier. The powder note in the base, rather than the more common musk-and-woods pairing seen in Caron's earlier soliflores, reinforces mimosa's naturally soft, cosmetic-adjacent character, aligning the composition with the powdery aesthetic that would come to define much of interwar feminine perfumery. Released in 1917, in the midst of the First World War, it reflects how French perfume houses continued producing new compositions even as the broader industry faced wartime material shortages and disruption. It stands as one of Caron's simpler wartime-era releases, a quiet counterpart to the house's more dramatic contemporaneous work.