Lavender Honey

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Honey made from lavender nectar. The honey body leads and a herbaceous lavender thread runs through it. Softer and warmer than lavender oil, and less waxy and less animalic than plain honey.

Scent Profile

Honeyed leads because both fragrance sources put honey in the structure and the trade chemistry page describes honey's own headspace as honeyed first. It sits below plain honey's 0.85 because both fragrance descriptions place lavender beside the honey rather than under it, and because lavender honey is a mild monofloral rather than a dark one. Aromatic_herbal is the facet that earns this note a row rather than an alias to honey. IRFE is explicit that the lavender here is not decorative: 'Lavender is not the muted kind that whispers; it speaks with a vibrant tone'. It sits well below the published lavender note's 0.78 because both sources say the honey warms and rounds it. Floral has two independent supports: 2-phenylethanol, which Premiere Peau names as one of honey's three core molecules and calls rose-like, and the lavender flower itself. Sweet_vanillic is the heliotrope, which both fragrance sources name and IRFE describes as adding 'a touch of vanilla-like sweetness'. Below: powdery for the same heliotrope, animalic for the phenylacetic acid undertone that Premiere Peau says every natural honey carries and that nothing here says is absent, green and cooling_mentholic for the lavender's own camphor and herb edge, fruity, tobacco_hay and amber_resinous for the warm dried-flower base, and clean_musk, lactonic and sour as traces.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Green & Aromatic

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

Origin

A food preparation, not a perfumery raw material. Bees working lavender or lavandin fields in Provence and in Spain produce a pale monofloral honey. Premiere Peau's honey page names the mechanism for why one honey differs from another: phenylacetaldehyde, phenylacetic acid and 2-phenylethanol carry the honey smell, and their ratio shifts with the nectar source. The page uses lavender honey against acacia honey as its own worked example. Two perfume houses sell a fragrance of this name, Thymes and IRFE, and both build it the same way - lavender, amber honey and heliotrope.

Usage in Perfumery

4 Parfumo placements across 2 brands. Nothing on Fragrantica, and Fragrantica gives it no category. The two named commercial fragrances both treat it as a soft comforting accord rather than a sharp or medicinal one.