If Bears Were Bees, If Bees Were Bears

[doomsday_disco]

Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between his paws and began to think.

 

First of all he said to himself: “That buzzing-noise means something. You don’t get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something. If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.”

 

Then he thought another long time, and said: “And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey.”

 

And then he got up, and said: “And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.” So he began to climb the tree.

 

He climbed and he climbed and he climbed, and as he climbed he sang a little song to himself. It went like this:

 

Isn’t it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?

 

Then he climbed a little further … and a little further … and then just a little further. By that time he had thought of another song.

 

It’s a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees,
They’d build their nests at the bottom of trees.
And that being so (if the Bees were Bears),
We shouldn’t have to climb up all these stairs.

 

He was getting rather tired by this time, so that is why he sang a Complaining Song. He was nearly there now, and if he just stood on that branch …

Crack!

 

“Oh, help!” said Pooh, as he dropped ten feet on the branch below him.

 

The bees were still buzzing as suspiciously as ever. A golden gourmand for a philosopher. Wild clover honey buzzing with mead fizz, a gust of woodsmoke, and a dusting of ambered pollen.

[wilhelmscream]

Wild clover smells almost a little more floral to me than like, a regular sticky sweet honey. The mead fizz is especially interesting, very airborne tingly note, but with that chewy, heart, meady stank. A little smoky and powdery.

 

When first applied, the mead fizz is rather confrontational! I don't know if that's a note I'd normally go for, so at first it was a bit alienating. As it settled in with the other notes, becoming this gorgeous wash of golden amber light, I really found myself accepting the charm of the mead fizz. Because of the smoke and fizz, there's a sense of energy and chaos to this one.

[doomsday_disco]

This is, of course, the most honey-forward of the Hundred Acre Wood scents. The honey is the dominant note throughout wear, and it smells floral, pale, and thin instead of thick and gloopy to me. There's some effervescence from the mead to go along with it (and maybe there's a squeeze of orange in the mead?), which is most noticeable during the first few hours of wear, and some woodsmoke, which, fortunately, isn't overbearing, but does smell a little odd on me combined with the honey. I'm not really getting any amber from this (maybe because my skin is running away with the honey).

 

I'm not sure how often I'll reach for this one, with its honey and smoke, but I'll be hanging onto the bottle regardless since I was gifted the whole collection. I think this would be best worn in late summer or early fall.

[faeriedust87]

The honey is the predominant note. The honey is not the raw type you get in the jar. It's fizzy and it's the kind of honey you get in a drink. The throw is pretty strong too.