tls81 Report post Posted June 23, 2011 Yellow jessamine honey. Wet it's all jasmine! Very strong perfumey jasmine but dry down I seem to lose most of the jasmine and it's mostly honey. I don't know if it's bottle worth but the imp is def. a keeper! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maleficium Report post Posted September 19, 2011 Like most of the others said, this is jasmine like woah. Not into it. The jasmine is super strong and I can barely smell any honey, even after waiting for about 40 minutes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whitsunweddings Report post Posted August 7, 2012 In the imp: Jasmine and honey. I usually don't care for the lab's jasmine note, but this smells promising. Wet: Yup, jasmine and honey. All good so far. Dry: Aaaaand mothballs. The honey is lovely though - someone who can wear jasmine could pull this off really well, but not me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WidgetAlley Report post Posted September 15, 2012 Imp: Strong, fruity, floral-honey. Interestingly, I don't get straight jasmine out of this. It almost smells violet-y? Wet: Yep, definitely violet or lavender or something else cool and blue-purple and commonly used in facial/body products. The combined sweetness and cleanliness creates a smell that's very reminiscent of baby wipes on me. Sadly, the honey isn't the deep, rich, dripping kind I was hoping, but a thin watery suggestion of sweetness. Dry: Sadly, this never develops the depth or richness of scent I was hoping, but remains a slightly watery, generic sweet floral. This is not a great time of the month to be testing new scents, so I'll give this another go before I ditch it, but I'm not a huge fan. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neuilly Report post Posted October 22, 2012 I agree that Jasmine is the dominant note, but it's not nearly as overwhelming on me as it seems in other scents. There is some honey but I feel like there's also something else that's just generally mellowing the whole scent but I have no idea what it is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJ Sin Report post Posted January 14, 2013 Oh hello there Jessamine honey! So alive and still kicking into the eleventh hour! This isn't a complex scent, its pretty much floral on me with a tab bit of honey thrown in for measure. A little goes a long way with this oil. Its a good solid go to scent for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gwydion Report post Posted October 27, 2013 In bottle: This is lovely and delicate. The floral note floats sweet and clear on a sea of silky honey. Jessamine appears to be a more delicate jasmine, as if jasmine were trying to be honeysuckle. This would be beautiful on a young woman, heady and a little dangerous. Wet: The honey somewhat overwhelms the jessamine on my skin, though the unusual, polleny scent of the flower is still discernible. The florals reemerge as it warms reasserting the in bottle balance, even as the whole fragrance mellows into something stunning. I am exactly the wrong person to wear this, but the bones of the design are so good, it still manages to be lovely on me. I can easily imagine how amazing it would be on the right person. Dry: Mostly jasmine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JazzieCazzie Report post Posted December 1, 2013 Received as a frimp in a swap. IN THE IMP: Sweet, sweet floral honey with a slight tinge of fruitiness. Dabbed VERY lightly on my wrist and in the crook of my arm. WET: Sweet honey with that fruitiness that, to me, straddles the line between honeysuckle and jasmine. I've never smelled yellow jessamine so it's quite possible that's what it smells like. NOT full-on jasmine to my nose. DRYDOWN: This is very pleasant ... sweet, light, girly. More floral than honey yet the sweetness is from the honey. OVERALL: I would warn to use VERY sparingly ... a little goes a long way. I can see why some people might find this cloying but for me it's not a problem at all ... and this comes from someone who CAN'T STAND Lush Flying Fox (though I adore Flying Saucers AND B Never). I would not wear this as a perfume but if it was released as a bath oil I'd buy a big bottle in a heartbeat. On a scale of 1-5, a 3. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quickdrawkiddo Report post Posted September 17, 2014 Finally got my grubby little hands on some Yellow Jessamine Honey! Been looking forward to this one for a while. I almost had a heart attack when I uncapped the imp because WHOA NELLY this is sweet. I love the lab's jasmine and honey notes but this almost veered into cotton candy territory. I started to worry that I'd made a huge mistake... then it dried and became GORGEOUS. Mostly floral with a whiff of honey, and I can almost smell something herbal as well. Don't be scared by the wet stage! It calms down pretty quick and becomes a lot more wearable. Now to track down a bottle! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LizziesLuck Report post Posted May 22, 2016 Wet: Soapy almost-but-not-quite-jasmine. It really is like jasmine, but just not quite. So soapy on me, holy. Dry: The soapiness dissipates, but it ends up smelling, um, kinda like feces? It's not good on me, let's just say that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maudlinrose Report post Posted October 6, 2016 (edited) Its a pretty simple floral honey...the jasmine is a little overpowering at first, but when it dries it complements the honey very nicely, adding a depth to it that is difficult to describe (i want to say honey and oats...) Edited October 6, 2016 by maudlinrose Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doomsday_disco Report post Posted February 5, 2018 In the imp: Heady jasmine-y honey. Wet: Super strong jasmine, made even headier by the honey. It smells like baby wipes on me. WHY. Dry: Ugh, the jasmine in this is so strong, and not the type that plays well on my skin. The honey just seems to amplify it even more. It honestly smells like baby wipes on me. After a few hours, the jasmine does calm down enough to let the honey be distinictly recognized as such, but it still reminds me of baby wipes. Verdict: This one is on the train to NOPEville (or going to swaps), where it will hopefully find someone whose skin chemistry agrees with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lucchesa Report post Posted March 2, 2018 Yellow cat pee honey. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
torischroeder9 Report post Posted December 8, 2018 Hopes and preconceptions: BPAL's honey notes tend to work very well on me -- something I'm sad I didn't realize while the Apiary scents were more widely available -- so I'm hoping for honey with floral around the edges. In the bottle: Whoa, jasmine! All jasmine -- strong jasmine. No honey. On my skin: Initially, it's the same all-jasmine as it was in the bottle. Strangely, for me, the throw does not seem to be particularly strong at this point. After a few minutes, the throw increases, and the jasmine turns slightly soapy -- an issue that I've had with jasmine that is sometimes transient and sometimes not. Twenty minutes later, and while the soapiness has resolved itself, this is still all jasmine, all the time. This is fairly surprising to me because, while jasmine is definitely hit-or-miss with my skin chemistry, honey has historically been both reliable and strong. I'm not sure it's ever taken honey this long to emerge on my skin (Third Charm, maybe?) -- and it's certainly never taken this long for honey to appear from a blend with the word "honey" in its name. Forty minutes in, and this is reminiscent of the epic battle that was My Skin Chemistry v. Hony Mone, only now with more jasmine, less honey. (I should point out that the jasmine isn't actually doing anything bad or weird on my skin at this point and hasn't been for a while. The soapiness I got was just for a couple of minutes during the initial drydown. It's a very clear, true jasmine with a good amount of throw.) It's been just over an hour since the initial drydown, and just now -- and just barely -- the honey is beginning to warm up and round out this blend. It's still mostly jasmine, but there is now a faintly detectable honey undertone. At an hour and twenty minutes, up close, it's finally become genuine floral honey, though the jasmine note still has considerably more throw. At just over an hour and forty minutes, I'm going to have to call it: While this is honey and jasmine, at this point, it's still considerably more honey than jasmine. It's probably great for jasmine lovers, but as a dedicated honey lover (with a tried and true track record as a honey amper as well, so what gives here?), this is not my favorite honey and not even my favorite floral honey. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PumpkinGuts Report post Posted April 24 I have a bunch of different Rappaccini's Apiary imps from many moons ago (10+ years) that I never tested, so here goes. Ooooh, yes, this is the good stuff. Needless to say, you must like jasmine in order to appreciate this one, because it is a heady and sweet gooorgeous jasmine. The honey here is pale golden and floral (finally no throat lozenges), and extremely enduring. It overtakes the jasmine after a decent amount of wear, and I can still smell it almost 24 hours later. The comparisons to LUSH's Flying Fox make sense, but Yellow Jessamine Honey is softer, sweeter, and just overall better. The honey in Flying Fox always smelled funky to my nose, this does not. I'll certainly be keeping my imp of this, but won't be too depressed about it being discontinued since I don't tend to wear honey-forward scents. It's a wonderful jasmine, though! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites