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This is my first time admitting this out loud, but I think I’m over my super dessert-like vanilla-fragrance era. It feels blasphemous to even write, but alas, it is true. That being said, I’m not over gourmands altogether; in fact, I’ve found a new hyperfixation. Enter: Honey fragrances.

​“Honey is very interesting,” Steven Gontarski , senior manager of brand and public relations at Luckyscent , tells me. “It’s very sweet , of course, but it can also be a little polarizing because it’s very animalic.” Sweet, animalic, and polarizing is right up my alley, which I’ve discovered as I continue my journey into the world of niche perfumery . So now, my tastes for gourmand perfumes have expanded beyond the generic, run-of-the-mill formulas that we all know and love, to something more unique, attention-grabbing, and conversation-starting.

So, of course, I’ve been doing a deep dive on honey perfumes as a result, and I’ve found some serious heavy hitters.…