Smokewood Apiary

Holy smokes this is amazing! I love a good honey note, but honey in perfumes often ends up too sweet or too overpowered by notes like vanilla. This one is unabashedly honey heavy, and I love it. My skin apparently just eats up smoky notes, so I get very little smoke in this one - though it's likely there keeping it from skewing too sweet. I get much more of a creamy honey with a touch of woodsy notes. I tried the oil (best blind buy ever) with a single spritz of the EDP over it, and it lasted about 6 hours indoors and outside on a 52 degree day. It stays pretty close to the skin, but for some reason every once in a while I'll get a sudden whiff of it and good gracious it's gorgeous. This is a seriously comforting fragrance for people who want something warm and soothing but get tired of run of the mill vanilla. I'll be very curious to see how it stacks up to a certain other very popular honey-based perfume. We'll see when my sample of that one arrives! Either way, I hope SS will bring the glace of this one back soon, since I'd snap up a few bottles in a heartbeat! "Having tried out Bee, I'd say SS's Smokewood is darker, more made for cool weather, and richer. Bee has a lot more floral and orange in it. Solstice Scents wins the honey-based perfume game for me, and it's a good thing because it's cheaper!*

Hi, me again, simping for Angela's smoke scents. SS just does woods and smokes SO well and Smokewood Apiary is no different. I expected this to be a "heavy" scent with notes like honey, smoke, and amber, but it's very well-mixed. I think the woods keep the honey from being overly realistic which is a win as a lot of realistic honey scents can lean pissy and cloying. I don't think you would classify this as a gourmand. This is wood steeped in honey and smoke, versus a honey scent with touch of wood. I've gotten decent longevity from the oil and look forward to trying the EDP. This is one of my current favorite scents of all time.

Woow, it’s a stunning scent for me, first the smoke was too smoky but second times it’s a very warm and pleasant one (with the beeswax). I have a little walnut feelings (weaker then Amouage Interlude but definetly there is). I like the girly scent but this unixex beauty is ok for me colder season-it has a mystical vibe. I will buy a whole bottle soon...

It took me a while to figure out exactly what this captures because its such a soft, comforting smell. It's like the faintest whisper of smoke, but just a beautiful beeswax and honey smell. Like beeswax melting in a pot over a fire in the cottage used to process honeycombs.

Unlike apparently everyone else, I actually don't get much smoke off of this. What I DO get is a lovely, subtle fresh beeswax and honey on clean wooden countertops, a sweet but not foody vanilla and a dash of ginger powder to add a bit of a bite. On drydown it turns into something a little woodier, but still soft. It stays close to my skin and it isn't particularly strong, which is just fine by me. It has evoked a powerful scent memory in me of a local goods shop in a tiny picturesque New England town near my home I used to go to when I was a kid, that almost entirely sold hand crafted beeswax products running the range from complex little sculptures to skincare products. The shop sat right on the bank of a river and in the spring the open windows would carry the smell of fresh air and wildflowers. When I smell this on my skin through all its stages, it smells exactly like walking into that shop on a warm spring day. Beautiful.