Along with Queen, Queen of Hearts, and Avon Pure Gold, Pure Honey has been the fourth successful blind buy for me of very accessibly priced fragrances.
This is a very fresh and rather seductive scent albeit slightly synthetic. I expected it to be somewhat heavy and cloying, but it is not heavy or cloying AT ALL. This fragrance is lightly sweet but not in a gourmand way. It reminds me more of the naturally sweet scent of wildflowers than of anything else. Fresh, fresh, fresh wild flowers is what I think of most whence smelling this on myself. One could spray with abandon and not worry about over doing it. This is as close to the natural smell of lightly sweet wildflowers as it probably can be.
Pure Honey does not have a great deal of projection, but then again wildflowers do not either. Longevity is moderate, and sillage is mild, but Pure Honey is really lovely for the time it lives on my skin. It is the sort of scent that draws people into you and makes them ask you "what is that delicious fragrance you are wearing?!" followed by "where can I find it?!" I really only get "honey" in the deep dry down, and by then it is a very gentle honey, sweet but not at all cloying. If you want FRESH, lightly sweet and gentle, then this is a fragrance to try.
An added bonus is the adorable bottle. The triangular shape of the bottle feels a bit odd in one's hand compared to other parfum bottles, thus making spraying a bit awkward, but it is an adorable bottle nonetheless with a little bee on it. I can truly imagine this fragrance attracting bees. It is that naturalistic.
Once again, this fragrance is in no way heavy or cloying. It is lightly sweet, fresh, and highly reminiscent of the scent of live wildflowers. It whispers, "come closer....." I am very pleased with this fragrance despite it being a "celebrity fragrance." Pure Honey smells so fresh and lightly sweet that it makes me wonder if a much younger woman than I should be wearing this. It is lovely in any case. Best for Spring and Summer.
I was about to click on the award button, but this is what stopped me (apart the low rating). On one hand, the smell is ‘as close to the natural smell of lightly sweet wildflowers as it probably can be’, but also ‘slightly synthetic’. How do you mean? I can tell the synthetic in Ariana Grande’s perfumes, for example, but not in this. Thanks in advance for clarification.
Hello Sassafras. Well, I mean it does not smell entirely natural. It has that "manmade" scent to it. With my eyes closed, not knowing what I might be smelling, I would say it smells like a bouquet of wild flowers but not in the sense a real bouquet does with pollen and perhaps that scent of breeze and watery green wetness real ones would have upon being picked---not entirely natural but a very pleasant manmade fragrance. I do not find it off putting the way I do La Vie est Belle which is horribly synthetic to my nose---not natural smelling at all. Hope this helps.
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