Jujube Honey

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About

Jujube honey is honey from bees foraging jujube blossom, sold internationally as Sidr honey. It is dark, dense and much stranger than a table honey. Two vendor pages and one perfume house reach for the same word for it: earthy. Around that sit caramel, dried fig and a faint medicinal edge. Amouage names a Jujube Honey Accord in the heart of Crimson Rocks, and that is the only confirmed use in a fine fragrance.

Scent Profile

Honeyed leads because every source sells the thing as honey first, and it sits below plain `honey` at 0.85 because nothing here is a generic honey. Earthy is the identity and the strongest evidence in the file: Amouage's own copy says 'an earthy Jujube honey accord' and a Sidr honey vendor, writing about the jar and not about any perfume, independently names 'floral, earthy, and slightly medicinal or herbal notes'. Two sources with no reason to agree used the same word. Sweet_vanillic is the caramel-to-butterscotch progression one vendor describes and the 'extremely syrupy' of the review. Fruity is dried fig, named once and only once. Floral is the blossom showing through, 'a more pronounced floral perfume', held well under `jujube-blossom` at 0.62 because this is the processed product, not the nectar. Boozy rests on a single reviewer's 'boozy, sticky' and is the first number a second reviewer should test. Aromatic_herbal carries the 'medicinal or herbal' and 'faint herbal finish' that both vendor pages repeat; neither word maps cleanly onto these 32 facets and this is the nearest honest home for them. Warm_spice is 'spiced honey accord', and it is weak evidence because Crimson Rocks lists cinnamon separately, so the spice a reviewer smelled may not belong to the honey at all. Animalic, smoky and dry_woody are small and deliberate. No source attributes any of them to this honey specifically, but plain honey carries animalic and zeroing them would assert an absence nobody stated.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Woody & Earthy

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

The bee product of Ziziphus (jujube, also called Sidr or Christ's thorn), harvested mainly in Yemen, Kashmir and China. The flower is the same one published here as `jujube-blossom`. Premiere Peau states plainly that the real honey 'is a major product in China but is not used directly in perfumery', so what a perfumer uses is a compounded accord named after the foodstuff rather than the foodstuff itself.

Usage in Perfumery

One confirmed fine-fragrance use: Amouage Crimson Rocks (2020, Renaissance Collection) lists a Jujube Honey Accord in the heart, next to cinnamon and two roses. The brand's own copy, republished by two independent retailers, calls it 'an earthy Jujube honey accord'. No manufacturer sells a base or accord under this name, so the compounding is not established.