Mimosa With Bite: Julien Rasquinet’s Acacia For Headspace Parfums

If you think mimosa is all powder puffs and yellow fluff, Julien Rasquinet just raised an eyebrow at you. The new Headspace Parfums Acacia is positioned as a love letter to mimosa, but it feels more like a field note written at sunrise when the air is sharp, the blooms are warm, and the branches still drip from dawn.

I’m picky with mimosa. Too often it leans cosmetic and coy, a pretty veil that forgets there is a tree underneath. What pulls me toward Acacia is the promise of contrasts. Mimosa has this almond dust and honeyed pollen, yes, but there is also cool green stem, salty bark, and a sunlit hum that can read almost metallic. In the right hands it becomes a photograph in motion, not a filter. Rasquinet tends to find that tension between radiance and texture, and that is exactly where mimosa lives.

The house name is a wink too. Headspace Parfums thrives on capturing the living aura of materials. So a mimosa imagined through that lens suggests more than a note list. Expect the breath of the flower, the warmth of skin after a walk in early light, maybe even the dusty yellow that clings to your sweater. Spring, but not soft-focus. Spring with edges.

There is buzz around a “First Light of Spring” moment tied to this launch, which tracks with how Acacia is framed. I picture a sunny lift at the top that is bright rather than sugary, then a pollen-glow heart that hums close without collapsing into baby powder. If the base leans woody and slightly saline, that would give the mimosa something to grip, which is where many mimosa perfumes stumble.

Who will love it? If you crave a mimosa perfume that feels alive and a bit feral, this is your sniff. If you want a pastel cloud, probably not. I plan to wear Headspace Parfums Acacia on cold-bright mornings and on those jittery March afternoons when the sun lies and the wind tells the truth.

Spring is coming. If Acacia delivers what it hints at, it will smell like sunlight on bark, not a makeup compact. And that is exactly the kind of provocation mimosa needs in 2025.