Honey honey honey
Oct. 16th, 2015 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee34So, I just tested Serge Lutens Miel de Bois. Fragrantica says: Miel De Bois or 'wood honey' is sweet and warm woodsy fragrance. Raw, sweet and heavy white honey allied with dry wood is an unusual combination for women and men seeking for novelties. The top notes are dry wood that breaks and crashes in your hands: Guaiac and oak. Then there comes luscious, sweet and dense white honey. The base is composed of wax, animal notes, iris and hawthorn.
I knew this would be too sweet for Josh before I even tested it, and I wasn't wrong. He smelled oaky woods but said that ultimately it was too sugary sweet; the scent did tamp down and become a bit more palatable for him as time went on, but nothing he'd be able to stand me wearing on a regular basis. Emma was being 12 and told me it smelled like cough syrup and rubbing alcohol which it does not; I can accept that it smells bad to her, but this was just shorthand for yuck without any nuance. LOL
I instantly smelled honey and woods. It's powdery and warm. It smells a bit funky and weird to me in the first few minutes but that quickly burns off. Strongly honey and strongly sweet. The wax comes to the fore as time passes for me. It's not something I really like all that much except that it instantly and viscerally reminded me of this Bath and Body Works product I used to love.
In my memory, this product was sold some time between 1997-2000. It was some kind of lotion that was very thick and as you applied it got thinner and more liquidy. It was honey-scented and it was sexy sexy sexy sexy from the scent on down to the texture, friction making it more pliable and slick. These qualities were not lost on my burgeoning relationship with Josh. It was not packaged in the same packaging as their other products; it was from one of their outside lines.
So I have just spent the last hour down the rabbit hole trying to no avail to find this product. Bath and Body Works did carry Savannah Bee Company stuff in the mid-2000s, but that's too late for my memory. I found this extremely cool blog that is exclusively devoted to vintage B&B stuff. I sent an email asking them for help, so maybe I'll get lucky and solve the mystery.
Anybody else remember the product I'm talking about here?
I knew this would be too sweet for Josh before I even tested it, and I wasn't wrong. He smelled oaky woods but said that ultimately it was too sugary sweet; the scent did tamp down and become a bit more palatable for him as time went on, but nothing he'd be able to stand me wearing on a regular basis. Emma was being 12 and told me it smelled like cough syrup and rubbing alcohol which it does not; I can accept that it smells bad to her, but this was just shorthand for yuck without any nuance. LOL
I instantly smelled honey and woods. It's powdery and warm. It smells a bit funky and weird to me in the first few minutes but that quickly burns off. Strongly honey and strongly sweet. The wax comes to the fore as time passes for me. It's not something I really like all that much except that it instantly and viscerally reminded me of this Bath and Body Works product I used to love.
In my memory, this product was sold some time between 1997-2000. It was some kind of lotion that was very thick and as you applied it got thinner and more liquidy. It was honey-scented and it was sexy sexy sexy sexy from the scent on down to the texture, friction making it more pliable and slick. These qualities were not lost on my burgeoning relationship with Josh. It was not packaged in the same packaging as their other products; it was from one of their outside lines.
So I have just spent the last hour down the rabbit hole trying to no avail to find this product. Bath and Body Works did carry Savannah Bee Company stuff in the mid-2000s, but that's too late for my memory. I found this extremely cool blog that is exclusively devoted to vintage B&B stuff. I sent an email asking them for help, so maybe I'll get lucky and solve the mystery.
Anybody else remember the product I'm talking about here?
