Rose Honey

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Honey carrying rose. The honey body leads and the rose sits on top of it as a soft floral layer, sweeter and less waxy than plain honey and far less bright than a fresh rose.

Scent Profile

Honeyed leads because both producers sell the product as honey first: Pastili calls it a 'divine mixture of honey and Bulgarian rose' and Roots Veyr describes theirs as 'Layered with Roots Veyr natural honey'. It sits below plain honey's 0.85 because both sources place rose over the honey rather than beside it. Floral is the rose and it is the one facet all three sources name independently: 'the delicate rose flavor', 'soothing floral aroma', 'sweet preserve of rose petals'. It is Damask rose in both producers' accounts, so the character is the deep red rose rather than a dewy pink one. Sweet_vanillic is the cooked-preserve sugar. Wikipedia describes petals 'slow-cooked with sugar, which reduces the juices into a thick consistency', and Roots Veyr sun-cooks for weeks, so the sweetness is jammy rather than raw. Below those: fruity for the stewed-fruit edge Damask rose carries, animalic and tobacco_hay because a honey base has them and no source says this one does not, powdery for the petal, warm_spice for the Damask clove edge, and green, lactonic, amber_resinous and mineral as traces.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~18h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Floral

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

Origin

A food preparation, not a perfumery raw material. Fresh rose petals or rose oil are combined with honey instead of the traditional sugar. Two commercial producers on different continents sell the same category: Pastili in Bulgaria stirs organic Damask rose oil into limited Bulgarian honeys under the ROSOVA name, and Roots Veyr in India layers fresh rose petals with natural honey and sun-cooks the result for weeks. Wikipedia dates the underlying tradition to gulkand, an Indian rose-petal preserve made with sugar rather than honey. No fragrance house or aroma supplier sells anything called rose honey, so what a perfumer means by the note is not established.

Usage in Perfumery

6 Parfumo placements across 2 brands. Nothing on Fragrantica, and Fragrantica gives it no category. Whether those 6 uses mean an actual infusion, a compounded rose-and-honey accord, or just a name for a floral-honeyed base could not be determined from any source.