Honey Hard Candy

[zankoku_zen]

No additional scent description.

[Casablanca]

Sugary honey with a touch of the floral. This reminds me a little of lavender-infused honey. It doesn't smell like lavender, but it does smell a bit like how lavender-infused honey tastes.

 

The sugary quality of this reminds me of O. Honey Hard Candy isn't quite as heavy or sugar-crunchy as O, and it has this bit of a floral quality that I don't get from O. But I would put it in the same honey family.

 

This doesn't change much during its life on my skin.

[Soupy Twist]

Sickeningly sweet fake foodie too much corn syrup honey. Off to swaps.

[Amber Tears]

A sugary, potent, floral honey. Nothing surprising here. It quickly devolves into a sugary, floral base but I still personally love it (though I am extremely biased towards honey/floral scents).

 

If you love sweet floral blends, this is a must-try.

[VetchVesper]

This comes across as almost an herbal honey to me rather than candy. It was almost medicinal at first, like a lozenge for sore throats. It's calmed down and settled in now, and I like it better, but I still don't think I'd wear it much by itself. However, I think it might be really great as a layering note with florals and tea blends. I tested it on the same arm I had SN Bluebonnet on and the two were really pretty together. 

 

Honey Hard Candy reminds me of the honey note in Door, though I can't do a side by side comparison, so take that with a grain of salt. 

[zankoku_zen]

Sugary floral honey. Good throw and wear length.

[fairybites]

Honey herbal cough drop, haha. That's basically what this is. Doesn't read as candy to me at all. It's okay, maybe better for layering instead of wearing on its own.

[Diesis]

In the decant, this smells weirdly like berries? Candy, fake berries? 

Wet: Ok, this is like hard candy but flavoured with fake berry. Not, cough syrup, this is the really good kind, but still berry?

Drydown: After about 15 minutes all I can think of is those little strawberry hard candies that come in those wrappers that look like little strawberries? The ones you feel like never exist outside a kind, elderly person & a restaurant check-out counter? I mean, you can find them, but it's a weird liminal place when you do.

It's been about 2 hours & it's still those little strawberry candies, though, if I really think about it, I can pretend it's raspberry.

Stayed that way all the way to fade. Faded out a bit waxy though, not in the beeswax way, but like, when those strawberry candies get real old & you open them & they look like wax? Yeah.

Wear length was actually really good. Too good. Throw was low. 

Final thoughts? It's a unisex candy scent. I was hoping for something much different. I knew there was an unknown "candy" component to this, but to get no honey? I was very sad. Because I love honey & there was no honey. Just sneaky little strawberries. 

Edited June 10, 2021 by TheLampades