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Bee Ellis Brooklyn 2021

7.3 / 10 165 Ratings

A perfume by Ellis Brooklyn for women, released in 2021. The scent is sweet-gourmand. It is still in production. The perfume is vegan according to the manufacturer.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Spicy

Creamy

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Rum

Davana

Heart Notes

Honey

Bran absolute

Cinnamon

Base Notes

Sandalwood Vanilla

Vanilla

Cocoa absolute

Perfumers

Meabh McCurtin, Loc Dong

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Ratings

Scent

7.3165 Ratings

Longevity

7.3125 Ratings

Sillage

6.8126 Ratings

Bottle

7.5123 Ratings

Value for money

6.793 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 10/27/2025.

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Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/21/2023

6Scent

Telekinec
500 Reviews

Telekinec

3

Honey flavoured cough drops

I'll start this review by saying I do have a full bottle of Bee by Zoologist which is in part why this fragrance was the last one I wanted to try. In my eyes, nothing can top Zoologist's interpretation of bees. Does this factor in my review or not? I don't know, but I wanted to be as transparent as possible.

I'll go straight to the point: this fragrance doesn't suit my skin chemistry. It smells like a mix between Ozonol (an antibiotic ointment) and honey favoured cough drops. Absolutely horrible. I do have to admit rum usually tends to turn out strong on my skin while cocoa usually turns out wrong on me (a mix of acrid powderiness) and since they're both featured here, I was certain the whole perfume would be tainted. There is a honey note in there, but I don't feel like it shines as much as it should. Spices are almost too overpowering. There's an organic, musty, almost bread-like accord, probably from the bran. Cinnamon stays at the edge of the scent. The fragrance ends up fading into a faint sweet, vanilla and honey scent. Better than the top or middle notes of the fragrance.

If you don't like Bee, you might like this one and vice versa. I'm firmly staying on the Zoologist side. If it wasn't for the weird medicinal scent, I might have enjoyed this fragrance more, but unfortunately my skin chemistry wanted to go this way.

09/08/2022

Mlleghoul
460 Reviews

Mlleghoul

2

a hot, honeyed cup of rooibos tea

I am having an interesting moment with Bee from Ellis Brooklyn. Which is to say I don’t hate it. I almost even like it? This is strange because typically gourmand scents aren’t my thing. I want to smell like a mossy bog witch or bioluminescent flora on an alien planet, or mottled parchment poetry penned by a lovelorn bookbinder. And honey is such a weird note, with its aromas both attractive and repellent, that ambrosial golden syrupy floral note that eventually devolves to the pungence of a filthy feral flower urinal in the height of August. Bee is not a super realistic honey, which is fine with me, I don’t want realism in my perfume anyway. It’s a floofy, poofy vanilla and sandalwood marshmallow dusted liberally with dehydrated buckwheat honey and clover pollen and layered with this dark, balsamic rich woody rumminess that’s not quite rum and at all, and it took me a few days but I worked it out. At its heart, Bee conjured the sweet, full-bodied warmth and vaguely fruity tobacco notes of a hot cup of rooibos tea. I don’t often want to smell like this, and I don’t even like rooibos tea, so isn’t the sort of thing I could wear every day... but I think I can appreciate that it’s a really lovely offering that gives you something a little different than what you might expect from it.

04/05/2023

3Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Hartsy3
99 Reviews

Hartsy3

2

The better "bee"

After trying "bee" by zoologist (which I found to be cloying and one-note) I was happy to find Ellis' rendition to have some of the complexity I was hoping to get from zoologist.

Here we have more of a boozy take on honey from the start. From there, the dry down actually takes you on a bit of a journey. At the heart, my husband said it reminded him of "cereal" which must be the bran notes. I also detect a hint of chocolate which must be the cocoa.

I get a little bit of the woodsy smell from the sandalwood, but it reads almost like cedar to me. At the base, it's a true vanilla smell.

I'm typically not a fan of gourmand scents, but this one is fairly inoffensive. If you like sweet smells, and are okay smelling a bit like honey-nut cheerios, it will not disappoint.

I'm realizing that strong vanilla smells are not my cup of tea. So for that reason, I could only give a 2-star review, but take that with a big grain of salt. If you like vanilla at all, you'll probably love this.

06/03/2025

7.5Scent

parfumpixie
358 Reviews

parfumpixie

2

Wheaty honey & rum

warmly wheaty and subtly boozy honey done in a syrupy way without being heavy at all. Definitely sweet but never cloyingly so and the bran/wheaty notes make this stand out amongst other simplistic honey scents. Does dry down to be more vanillic and dusty in a chocolatey sense rather than honey forward, but the honey does stick around for a good amount of time. A nice take on a honey gourmand for ppl who want it sweet but not heavily so and done in an adult sort of way.

03/25/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 3Sillage

PreStardust
29 Reviews

PreStardust

1

Bee for sure, but not necessarily "honey"...

This review may be a little confusing. My thoughts on this perfume are also a little confusing!

I don't like the smell of honey. I don't know what possessed me to try Bee in Mecca one day - I was looking to try either Vanilla Milk or Sweet instead, but when I tried them on paper I didn't love them. Bee on paper was a blast of honey... but not syrupy overly sweet sticky honey. More like honeycomb, beeswax is definitely very present. It was intriguing enough that I tried it on my skin, and I'm so glad I did.

The beeswax honeycomb is strong at the start, but I also got the slight boozy rum overtone and an interesting, homey comforting note that I now believe to be the bran. After 10 minutes or so, the beautiful sweet vanilla came through, and from there it slowly morphed into a vanilla cocoa butter that stuck close to the skin, but had be smelling my wrist all day.

Interestingly, I also kept the paper I sprayed it on and that stuck with the honeycomb blast for many hours after the scent on my skin had evolved and never got to the lovely skin scent that it was on me.

I picked up the 10ml the next week, because the scent was fascinating to me and I kept thinking about it. Since then I've layered it with Fresh Cream (a lovely mug of warm milk with honey), Chai Epice (a beautiful honeyed spiced Rooibos, as another reviewer mentioned), and also worn it on its own plenty. It is completely different from anything else in my collection and I am glad to have it.

On hot days, this scent makes me feel like I'm lazing in the grass at a picnic without a care in the world. On colder days, it is a cozy warm mug of your favourite drink. I think this is equally a summer and winter scent and feels totally different in each.

Longevity is good for me, about 6 hours and silage is minimal after the first hour.

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