Roxana Illuminated Perfume To Bee review

Inspired by Roxana Villa's beloved bees, To Bee is a tribute to the warm, musky smell of the bee hive. It's not a straightforward sweet honey smell, although there is a honeyed sweetness to it. There's a good deal of smoke and spice too, and a clover note that smells of summer lawn at dusk, as well as the musky, animalic base note, redolent of the smell of the hive itself.

This is a perfume for Queen Mab and drinking mead on a midsummer's night. To Bee is quite dark (in its scent profile, although it is also incidentally quite a dark juice, from the all-natural ingredients) for an Illuminated Perfume, and has a rich, almost boozy feel to it. I absolutely adore it. The solid is slightly smokier and the clover/musk is more prevalent on my skin, whereas the liquid brings the honey/boozy side of the fragrance to the fore, and I like to wear them layered together on my dry skin.

Roxana Illuminated Perfumes are available from the Etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/illuminatedperfume.

Disclosure: samples were provided without charge.