Miel Extase

I am normally hesitant of perfumes with honey or beeswax concerned about their interaction with my skin. However, loving Karina, I decided to dive in and ordered this gorgeousness!!! These days after having tried so many perfumes , I’m not expecting to be surprised. However this blew my mind. This is simply gorgeous, intoxicating and for sure different from any other perfume I have. The rum and honey combo has resulted in a boozy, smoldering concoction! This is sultry and delicious and for me this leans feminine. I find myself constantly sniffing my arm and I feel like I’m actually savoring a honeyed liquor..... ahhhh amazing!!! I was not expecting to fall instantly in love with this perfume as I understand these extracts need time to macerate to reach their potential. But seeing how delicious this fragrance already is, I am giddy with excitement imagining its development and thinking about the special moments when I will wear this and become inebriated with its aroma! Cheers!!!

Love it! I will say Navitus fragrances need time to oxidize before you can really appreciate them. I have had this since October 2023 and I got a very strong rum and chocolate covered apricot scent when I first received it. Fast forward to July 2024 and this is the most beautiful sweet honeyed fruit scent. It starts off sticky and sweet like fresh honey drizzled on top of dried fruit but as it dries down you start getting wafts of chocolate and then vanilla and caramel. The honey stays present throughout the entire wear but the dried fruit starts to lighten up to allow the vanilla and caramel to take over. I typically wear 10 sprays and I get a good 8 hours of wear time with moderate projection.

Honey 🍯 Chocolate. I bought this when it launched. WAY too HOT to wear. This feels good now. Definitely a Fall scent for me. 2nd impression: I still get a lot of honey, dried apricot, but also a LOT of chocolate. These are the stand out notes to me. The heart of the fragrance is cozy, vanilla, caramel, tonka and it is very cool weather appropriate. I really like, much more so in this cooler weather/fall season. Huge compliment getter too! Had multiple people ask what smells so nice or what perfume/scent I am wearing. This scent only works in cool/cold weather for me. The dry down is what is really good.

This one is captivating and unique. Even for those who normally don’t like honey in perfumes, it is a banger. My man loves it on himself and on me as well. It’s not the typical animalic- on your face- kind of honey. I’m wearing it even in warm summer days and it’s totally addictive and powerful. Long lasting. Projects well. You name it. It checks all of my boxes. On my skin I detect the ginger - a fresh one- plus apricot, wild light honey, rum, even a sweet saffron, a bit of davana and chocolate. One word: impressive. Truly one of the best Navitus I’ve ever tested. Well done!

The dry down of this fragrance reminds me of Dulce Diablo, but in a much smoother, more refined way. I had an issue with the way the apricot was blended in Dulce Diablo, but in Miel Exstase it is perfection. This is an elevated gourmand for those who want some sweetness without it being too much. This is lovely and the projection is quite nice. It's unisex right down the middle and can be worn by anyone. This will be better suited for the cooler months, but rules are always meant to be broken.

The fact that some of the reviewers here created an account specifically to bash this scent, says a lot about the hurt and the hate they feel to just become bitter and underrate a fairly good fragrance just because it was (at least the concept) made by an influencer. Their level of malice speaks volumes right there. Fragrantica has turned into a very toxic place lately. Credibility here is quite low smh. They need to have better filters for trolls and perfumers wannabes.

Just got this and it is very different to my expectation..on the opening strong rum and honey mix. Wish the rum was not there. Dry down brings out the apricot ,honey, a bit of chocolate and vanila. I do wish this didn't have the rum and the honey was a bit more distinguishable from the apricot and fruit smell. I wish it was more zoologist bee. Overall this is nice , but maybe it should be called apricot extase. Nice though.

I really love this one! It is very sweet, but not juvenile at all. This is easily my favorite honey perfume. If you love the sweet smell of honey, definitely check this one out. It is so addictive. My husband hardly ever compliments my fragrance, but he was crazy about this one. I would wear this one to go out at night in cooler weather. It’s quite sexy.

This is one of the prettiest fragrances I have. I got a sample of this before buying it and it floored me. I am new to honey but when I put this on it puts a complete smile on my face. I will say this is not a fragrance to wear in the hot and humidit weather it will choke you and linger. However a for cooler days this is absolutely beautiful.

I'm really falling in love with this one. For me it's a honey explosion, but not a honey like scandal by night, it's a honey more mature and super realistic. I love the toffee and caramel notes that I can get here. For me it's a master piece. Definitely Miel Extasis will be my favorite fall/winter fragrance, I can wait for fall to use it.

First impressions... Very nice scent. I get the honey right off, not a thick or heavy honey, but rather light sweet honey. I am getting the fruits, boozy note, and definitely smell the dark chocolate, toffee and tonka bean. The dry down is really good. Have to wait for cooler weather. I feel it is still too warm for this scent .

I totally agree with the sentiment of Sketch_1998. Some people have gone overboard to hate on this fragrance. I refuse to believe that all of them have even smelled it. They’re intentionally down voting this fragrance. Fragrantica needs to instill better moderation to alleviate people from being malicious and spiteful.

Reminds me of making alcohol infused fruit cake, pre cooking. This is much more my kind of gourmand than the likes of Escapade Gourmand and Tempt me Not (FYI, you don't need both of those). If those sickly sweet cake vibes are your jam (or buttercream) then you may not like this. It's a love for me.

I love this fragrance, its in my top5!!!! For those days when you need a cozy and warm hug, there it is!!!!! I can’t describe how much i love to feel this smell!!! Recomended 1000%..... that mix honey/ ginger!!!!.... OMG!!!! Amazing!!!!!!!! Make me feel happy!!!!!

It smells like chocolate covered raisins with a bit of nice rum inside. It’s very radiant and a bit too sweet for my taste, but still super nice. It has darker and more refined direction too. Lovely, I don’t know why the score is that low...

So deliciously wearable. This is a beautiful additive fragrance. The sweetness from the honey, apricot and notes of chocolate are so good. This fragrance is not a heavy gourmound. It's a light airy scent.

I love this scent, it's a boozy honeyed love bomb on my skin. It makes me want to take a walk in the cold winter sun and come home to tea with rum and honey to warm me up.

BEAUTIFUL and addictive honey fragrance. My husband loves this on me. I don't get the hate!!

My package containing Miel Extase just arrived. I know better than to spray a perfume that's been traveling, on a hot day no less, as soon as it arrives. But I did. And immediately felt sad. It kind of reminded me of a Todd Oldham fragrance I had many many years ago that didn't stay in my collection for very long. But it's an hour in, and I'm no longer sad. The opening was masculine and shocking to me, but the drydown is lovely and warm in a cozy honey cinnamon herbal tea kind of way. I forsee this mellowing out and becoming perfect for this coming fall/winter/holiday season. The reason I rushed to order this unsniffed is that I LOVE honey fragrances. But I will say that Karina is one of my all-time favorite YouTubers (always charming and funny, with fragrance tastes that align with my own), this is the first time I've ever purchased an influencer collab, or tried anything at all from Navitus. My top honey love (by a mile) is 4160 Tuesdays Dirty Honey--the truth is really don't need another honey besides this one... But you know how it goes. Ellis Brooklyn Bee is holding the 2nd place spot. Hiram Green Slowdive and Floris Honey Oud are sharing the 3rd place spot but both have been in and out of my declutter pile numerous times. The reason I've kept them all is that they're all so different. Miel Extase is totally unlike the others, so there is definitely a place for it in my collection. Assuming it develops the way I think it will, it'll be sharing the 2nd place spot with Bee. I'll post another review down the line. Incidentally, I like Zoologist Bee well enough, but it was too close to the Ellis Brooklyn to warrant having both.

I like it, but I am disappointed. I have Scandal by Night so this is now redundant in my collection. You definitely do not need both. I find this to be such a heavy hitter with the honey that I don’t get the other notes. Honey can be headache inducing for me, so make sure to spray further down your torso.