Guerlain Tobacco Honey

Guerlain Tobacco Honey joins the L'Art & La Matiere collection from Guerlain in 2023, and it's been the fall release we have been asked about the most, and we understand why! Created by Delphine Jelk, it has notes of honey, cloves, anise, tobacco, tonka, vanilla, sesame, agarwood (oud) and sandalwood.

From the perfumer, Delphine Jelk - "I've wanted to combine honey and tobacco for a long time. On the one hand, we have the dried tobacco leaves with their swirls of powdery aroma; on the other, we have honey as a delicious, enveloping nectar." 

Reviews of Guerlain Tobacco Honey

Fragrantica - "This is the smell of a warm, spicy honey infusion drinked in the comfort of home, in the quite arms of your lover....Opening is warm, very warm and intense, this tabacco is slightly dry, blonde and not boozy or cherry tinged. It is smothered in yellow honey, not sticky or sugary but intense, warm, as if liquefied on a flame, it sits in between a raw sweetness and something slightly animalic. There is no urinal component in this honey, no indoles either but there is something incredibly carnal. The spicy undertone of clover tinges the tabacco, there is something reminiscent of hay and even of chamomile. Anise, sesame and tonka bean are blended to perfection, and dosed to perfection. Their blend is seductive, but the result still reassuring. I like this use of sesame note a lot, seedy maybe but also powdery, lending consistency to the fragrance. The evolution is calm and steady, honey fading in to tonka but never disappearing. Then there is a sea of vanilla, high quality for sure, and like the honey it is a type of vanilla that smells very refined and unique. All of this lives on a base of clean and creamy oud, intense but balanced, mixed in with a strong ambery base."

Fragrantica - "Forget Naxos and JPG Elixir this is the ultimate honey fragrance. Smells like straight up honey with little hints of tobacco in the background"

Fragrantica - "Guerlain’s Tobacco Honey is exactly like what its name refers to. A huge spoon of golden mouthwatering honey drizzled over tobacco leaves. The honey is so realistic that you won’t complain about its sweetness. And the tobacco part is just like Tobacco Vanille. Minus the sourness of cloves. But it’s more like a honey perfume. Cause the honey note is so strong and stole everyone’s thunder. Overall I think it’s a better version of Tobacco Vanille."

Fragrantica - "The opening is the most beautiful and most realistic honey, like you can eat it right away! So gorgeous, intense and fresh honey, the bee on their logo is justified now!
There we go the mid.. tobacco comes alive, smokey, dry tobacco leaves packed in smoothened vanilla.. the more hours pass the more the vanilla shows up and the tobacco takes a back seat. It never fades, but it’s calming down.. like I said this is unisex and I’m glad it is. In the very drydown the vanilla fades away and there you are left with some sweet honeyed tobacco on a sandalwood base. There is some oud, specially in the beginning you can get some of it, but it really doesn’t dominate it’s just there to give the smokey, and deep effect of the honey and tobacco. 10/10 for me as I love tobacco."

Fragrantica - "Smelled it and I almost fainted. This immediately transported me back to paris in the belle époque. You’re a muse for a penniless artist. You make your way to his studio in the evening avoiding the puddles dappled in golden light. Entering you smell his pipe, the wooden easels, the spicy flickers of paint, his glass of whisky. Undressing the curves of your carnal body as you position your self on the chaise longue. You see in his eyes how you inspire and delight. You whisper “paint me like one of your french girls”. This imprint of you and this time can now be found in a quiet wing of the Louvre."