Honey

What it is

Built rather than poured. The absolute is expensive and heavy, so the accord usually rests on phenylacetic acid and beeswax notes with sweetness layered over the top.

What it smells like

Golden and thick at the front, with a sour edge that grows as it warms on skin. That edge is what separates a honey accord from plain sweetness, and it is also why this is one of the more polarising directions a fragrance can take.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

76 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Jean Paul Gaultier (6), Kilian (4), Rasasi (3), Tom Ford (3), Xerjoff (3), Byredo (2).