Marc Jacobs · 2013 · Annie Buzantian

Honey

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Fruity pear and mandarin punch over honeysuckle, orange blossom and peach, sinking into warm honey, vanilla and soft woods.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell pear, mandarin orange, punch, honeysuckle, orange blossom, peach, honey, vanilla and woodsy accords.

More from Marc Jacobs’s description

It also mentions Fruity punch, Mandarin and Woods.

The shop’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Honey’s scent picture, a draft: pear, mandarin, honeysuckle, orange blossom, peach, honey drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Honey, top notes: Pear, Mandarin, Punch

Heartas it settles

Honey, heart: Honeysuckle, Orange blossom, Peach

Dry-downwhat stays

Honey, dry-down: Honey, Vanilla, Woodsy accords

What’s inside it

What the label names

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender6 florals1 powder

12 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell12

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)BHT (keeps it fresh)Ci 15985Ci 14700Benzophenone-3, not in Ingredients yetPropylene glycol, not in Ingredients yetAcrylates/octylacrylamide copolymer, not in Ingredients yetHydrolyzed jojoba esters, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

ImpadiaBDK Parfums · shares pear, mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and vanilla$290 for 100 ml
Ambery VanillaDossier · shares pear, mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and vanilla$49 for 100 ml
ValayaParfums de Marly · shares mandarin, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), peach and vanilla$410 for 75 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.