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For what it's worth, where I come from, mimosa flowers are pink and white, and downy-looking. Here's a good photo:

http://www.imageenvision.com/stock_photo/details/0002-0707-1111-2716/pink_mimosa_flower

I believe the color is referencing Mimosa the drink... a mixture of orange juice and champagne.

If this is the new hot color, I think I'll pass.

I would just like to say, when my husband and I moved into our new condo in June and I choose this warm yellow for our bedroom walls- I was constantly defending it to the hubby because I knew it would be a hot color! He still isn't thrilled with it, but I love it!

Instead of discussing mimosa again, I was under the impression people were more after how to match the exact color they want from Pantone in another paint brand. I know color is scientific somehow, but I will never understand how people recognize any given named color as the only one they want. I know that any subtle off color just won't do when you get to pinning it down finally, but you didn't even see how it will look in your room. Go a smidge lighter, darker, duller, or brighter. I know you can. It will be fine.

Yes, why get all slavish about it. I can't imagine a cocktail party where one's friends are going to snigger behind their hands because your wall color is another soft yellow--a pathetic 14-0848 TPX wannabe.

I can see it now at the next fashionable Ladies Luncheon:

"She didn't get the real Mimosa...
...Her kitchen is obviously Goldenrod - a cheap knockoff..."
:-\