Osmanthus & Honey Bells

[Seajewel]

 

No additional scent description.

[Rane.]

I love it. Reminds me of the fuzzy pink flowers growing on trees where I lived as a kid. Smells the same too. Sweet, floral, & simple. It smells like I imagined. Honey bells smelling like a toned down honeysuckle, while the osmanthus has a fuzzy pink warm but sweet play going on. I had to look up what these flowers look like, & I was wrong. I pictured pink puffballs for osmanthus, but no it's clusters of white flowers. Honey bells look like cigars.

Edited September 20, 2021 by Rane.

[Soupy Twist]

A deliriously beautiful soft white floral, all honeysuckle and sweetness. Nothing artificial or cloying. Magnificent and sophisticated.

[groovyrooby]

I am loving these Louisiana Duets. This one is a very real, natural honeysuckle smell. Like sticking your nose into flowers on the vine. Light, sweet, and fresh. Really beautiful. Another one I am loving for late summer bedtime with the windows open wide, like honeysuckle wafting in the breeze. Lovely. 

[feyofthefellwood]

This is such a soft, delicate floral, floating and gentle. An ethereal beauty. There's a really nostalgic quality to it for me; I didn't grow up in the south, but it reminds me of being outside in the summer as a child and enjoying the scent of flowers and trees on a cooling breeze.

[zankoku_zen]

Sweet soft white floral. Medium throw and wear length. I always amp up osmanthus, and its always a white floral smell on me. Great throw, medium wear length.

[biggnerd]

It smells the way honeysuckle nectar taste, a hit of sugar, a bit of pollen, and a hint of green. All with a beautiful pale pink scent floating around you.

[RoseThornAndOak]

Parosmia review again just fair warning, but I wanted to share my thoughts on this while it is still in stock because when my nose is working properly this scent is quite beautiful. It starts out honeylike, sweet and green, almost herbal, like if a flower had an herbal edge. Realistically stemmy, it brings to mind a weed hedge along a field. Very atmospheric in that sense. 

 

The final drydown though, whooo boy, is this beautiful floral remniscent of lilies, like the lily note in Sun, Moon, and Stars by Karl Lagerfeld which includes water lily and lily of the valley among other florals. The scent always reminds me of preschool in the early 90s, I think one of the teachers wore it. This has more of a natural edge to it. This has a depth and non-commercial edge to it that I like more I think, although I'd have to do a side by side comparison of course. 

 

I haven't been to Louisiana but growing up and travelling in the south this does have a southern feel. I could picture wafts of this blend in the summer breeze now and then and not being out of place. Although it doesn't need anything, it would layer beautifully with a dirt note for a more southern graveyard feel.

 

One of my favorite duets. I just checked and it is still in stock, so I highly recommend grabbing it if you like realistic florals!

Edited March 28, 2022 by RoseThornAndOak

[doomsday_disco]

I swapped for a decant of this one to see if it would help me be able to isolate osmanthus better. And it did! I do get this creamy, white floral with a slight apricot-like touch to it, along with what must be the honeybells, which I'm not familiar with, but the note doesn't smell like what I associate with honeysuckle, although I do get New Orleans (GC scent -- I haven't actually been to the city, sadly!) vibes from this.

 

It's pretty, but not something I could see myself wearing.

[Assimbya]

I got this because I adore osmanthus, and after losing my mind over it as a note in other BPALs, the idea of a duet truly centering it was too enthralling to resist. This turned out to be exactly what I was hoping for - nearly an osmanthus single note, with the secondary floral of the honey bells complementing but not at all detracting from it.

 

This is osmanthus at its most golden and fruity, coming right up to the edge of the scent of apricot. The osmanthus here has a tactile quality that I would almost describe as tacky, giving me this dry, puckering sensation which I know makes it sound unappealing but in fact here just makes it feel very alive and fresh and real. The honey bells, which aren't a flower I get to smell very often in person, are similar to honeysuckle but somewhat sweeter and greener; less perfumed and wafting than honeysuckle tends to be. The blend of the two notes is harmonious and it takes effort to distinguish them, creating this overall rich yellow floral scent.

 

This has strong throw for such a bright, simple floral scent, and good longevity. Its freshness means that this feels more youthful and less sophisticated and sensual than some of my other osmanthus scents (Idyll, The Brides of Dracula), but it's perfect for when I just want to luxuriate in osmanthus, or when I want a more straightforwardly cheerful golden floral. I have been really loving this in the summer heat, which the fruity edge of the osmanthus cuts through refreshingly, but I imagine it will also be very cheering for the colder months. Very glad to have this one.