Mimosa is touted to be the French perfume-makers' secret ingredient.
Mimosa’s heady fragrance is used in tiny amounts in today's fragrances.
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.
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