Honeymania

If pressed to describe it, I would say waxy honey like a beeswax candle, wildflower honey and warm yellow flowers blowing in a gentle cool breeze of very blue skies. It is naive and sunny, slightly warm but not hot. It reminds me of a place or mood and seems blended to smell like many smells at once instead of singular notes. It wafts nicely, with sillage just about arm's length. It lasts a few hours but not extremely long. It stays close to the skin after maybe 2-3 hours. I reapply after 5 hours. But that's not the real reason I love it so... This is an EXACT replica of Vincent Van Gogh's Grand Fleuri. I bought that perfume for my mother in Paris Summer 1990 during its launch. Starting the next year, I bought it at a nearby Cosmetics Center before it went out of business. I would spritz it while changning at work, and a co-worker bought it after smelling it in the dressing room. It suited me in high school, and I still like the scent. It's like reuniting with a long-lost friend you still have something in common with. I already bought 4 bottles of Honeymania!

Cheap and cheerful, just like the rest of this line from The Body Shop! Honeymania reminds me of my favourite honey, which I buy from a Middle-Eastern grocery: grade A, golden, wildflower-scented. I'm a huge fan of honey -- I eat it right out of the jar, much like Winnie the Pooh -- and I have quite the collection of products that are supposed to smell like it. Honeymania brings a new angle to the smell of honey in that it captures more of the source rather than the product. I like that. The fragrance is floral and sweet, but not sugary, sticky, or even dulce de leche-y like some of my other products. Rather, it's fresh without being overwhelming, like something you might spray in your hair as a leave-in conditioner. Perfect for any season.

I love this scent. I've bought multiple bottles. It's fresh, a bit floral (that isn't old lady floral) and a scent that is like warm dripping honey and honeycomb. I find that some of the Body Shop fragrances are a nice addition to other fragrances at the same time. I would mix this one with a BBW body spray that was called Vanilla Noel. I worked in a medical office and I would always wear something light, and the mix of the Honeymania and the Vanilla Noël was very nice. It was vanilla, and marshmallow, with a bit of nuttiness, and then this beautiful honey scent with a bit of fresh too it. So, Body Shop perfumes can go with lots of other scents to compliment I find. This on it's own is very nice though. It's a happy scent.

I sampled/ sniffed at least 10 different perfumes in the perfume shop today. Hypnotic Poison, Nero Assoluto, Candy l'eau, The One etc. Nothing wowed me, they all were more or less boring. Meh, left the shop and decided to drop in at TBS to try this. I've read reviews so knew not to expect much honey. Maybe because I wasn't expecting a lot, I was very pleasantly surprised. Very fresh, great balance between the flowers and honey. Too much honey can make a fragrance too "thick" and too sweet, it can also smell a bit like pee. In Honeymania the honey gives the fresh flowers a nice sweetness, without getting to be too much. This is a very pretty fragrance.

I usually have not so great experiences with honey fragrances. It's either a too heavy and dominant note or it's completely missing. But I liked the idea of wild flowers note so I tested this (twice) and I'm so glad I did! To me, honey is done just right in honeymania: it's light and soft and has a natural sweetness, and the addition of wildflowers, pure and light, is so fitting, it perfectly embodies my idea of freedom in nature, it transports me to a mountain clearing full of virginal green grass, colorful wildflowers and buzzing bees.