Honey Bunny

Thick, realistic honey lifted at the top by carrot and chrysanthemum tincture so it feels herbal, slightly woody, and a bit tea-like instead of pure syrup.

Manuka adds a wild, floral edge that makes the honey feel drier and more complex—closer to comb and propolis than candy—while the heart folds in osmanthus and the soft “Holland lop fluff” accord, giving a sense of warm fur and quiet animal warmth. As it settles, hay tincture, beeswax, and propolis deepen the sweetness into something musty-woody and barn-adjacent in a comforting way, like stacked hay, antique wood, and a well-loved rabbit nest rather than a clean, perfumey amber.

If you enjoy animalic honey, herbal tea facets, and hay, this feels like a cozy, slightly feral honey you reach for on cool days, reading nights, or any moment you want to smell like a sun-warmed hive and a very spoiled bunny at the same time.

• James Nguyen

d.grayi is the work of James Nguyen, known also as Miju, a perfumer who came to scent as an adversary rather than a calling. A career spent around hair color and its chemicals left James allergic. Fragrance meant headaches and a throat swelling shut, and anything scented was avoided outright. Cosmetic chemistry, taken up as a hobby, brought the first turn: cosmetic raw materials that smelled unpleasant, and natural ingredients found to soften them.

Then came a dream, in which someone deeply important who had passed away returned and described a fragrance. It was not a scent so much as a complete story, vivid and pictured, and James woke and wrote down every detail. The quest to recreate it became the studio. Isolated aroma molecules, tried later, provoked nothing; the allergy had been to composition, not to any one material. James now builds olfactive stories unrestricted.