The Bees are Flying

Sorce's best scent. Honey, honey, honey! I've fallen so in love with this scent. Please never get rid of her. The petrichor comes through so beautifully, it smells humid in the best way. I have never found a perfume so light but beast mode. Lasts hours and hours and creates a beautiful scent bubble. I can put it on at 7am and still smell it fully late into the night. I am in love and obsessed. If you have it, layer it with Match Made in Heaven. They pair beautifully! Edit: also layers well with Nimbostratus from Osmofolia (as of rn, not on here and they seem to have shut down? Never returned from a hiatus from over a year ago :( ). Really beautiful combo if you can get your hands on it! Amps up the rain factor by 100! I also have now gone back for a 15ml travel size of The Bees so I can keep it on me even when I travel, despite having a 100ml on my dresser, kept separate from the rest of my perfume colelction due to how special it is. The atomizer also needs praise. I feel like the dent I've made is so small compared to how often I wear this and how much I spray. Based off my math, if you wear 6-7 sprays every single day, a 100ml bottle will still last you 9 months. Which is insane based on other brands' atomizers absolutely obliterating product way too quickly (looking at you especially, Kayali. Atomizers on their new bottles are CRIMINAL). Overall, can't sing enough praises for The Bees!

I ordered some samples from Sorce a few months ago and they added this one in for free. I am so glad they did! I didn't think I would like a honey smelling perfume. I was very wrong! I fell in love instantly. It smells like honey comb and sweet tarts to me. It was beyond gorgeous! I could not get enough. Soooo, I ordered a 15ml. It's still lovely BUT it's not as rich and luxurious as the sample. I'm guessing the sample was oldish. Half way through the bottle I bought, I learned about maceration and the rest of that bottle is in a dark place awaiting September! I have a feeling it'll be fantastic by then. In the meantime, I got a 6ml oil to hold me over.

Caitlyn has done it again! Honey scents are not safe blind buys for me, so I was happy to receive a sample of this and ordered a full bottle as soon as I got my nose on it..and I mean IMMEDIATELY! This is such a beautiful honey, it fills up the air and your nose in a captivating manner that is bold enough but not too harsh like some honey scents on the market. It’s like the fresh cream and iris helps soften the honey note then the jasmine and mimosa play a supporting role to the honey. Perfect way to describe this is a honeycomb hive in a damp garden filled with mimosa and jasmine.

So this is a highly unexpected gourmand to me. It's well known I am not a lover of gourmand fragrances. This one does it so well though I can't not love it. It opens with a delicious, warm, honey scent...that makes you want to eat it. Then as it begins to dry down you get this gorgeous scent of a simmering waffle batter or the scent of a freshly baked pizzelle with the most SUBTLE hint of vanilla possible. As the dry down completes you get an unexpected complexity from a mere hint of petrichor that is sooo unexpected. It delivers a great depth to an otherwise pure scent.

I can still smell this on my arm after showering. Smells like walking out into a flower field in the middle of summer. Absolutely lovely even to me, and I'm not often a fan of floral fragrances.