{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "honey",
 "type": "OdorDescriptor",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 5,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "OT-1"
 ],
 "term": {
  "value": "honey",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the trade’s shared vocabulary; the word as the records and sources use it"
 },
 "definition": {
  "value": "The warm, waxy sweetness of honey; also \"honeyed\".",
  "evidence": "house interpretation",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "C",
  "note": "the house’s own definition, written for this vocabulary"
 },
 "family": {
  "value": "a quality, not a family",
  "evidence": "house interpretation",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "C",
  "note": "a quality word used across families, so no family is given"
 },
 "synonyms": [
  "honey-like",
  "honeyed"
 ],
 "related": [
  "sweet",
  "rose"
 ],
 "carriers": [
  {
   "molecule": "phenylethyl-alcohol",
   "as_used": "honey-like",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "OT-1",
   "where": "docs/sources/OT-1-leibniz-lsb-odorant-database.md:30",
   "quote": "2-phenylethanol | CAS 60-12-8 | Odor quality: floral, honey-like",
   "confidence": "A"
  },
  {
   "material": "rose-absolute",
   "as_used": "honeyed",
   "evidence": "house interpretation",
   "source": null,
   "where": "radlerboutique.html:6897",
   "confidence": "C",
   "note": "the house’s own wording on the /materials rose card; a descriptor vocabulary with a convention source is later work (A_MASTER_PRODUCT_SPEC §3 Odor Descriptor)"
  },
  {
   "material": "rose-otto",
   "as_used": "honeyed",
   "evidence": "house interpretation",
   "source": null,
   "where": "radlerboutique.html:6897",
   "confidence": "C",
   "note": "the house’s own wording on the /materials rose card; a descriptor vocabulary with a convention source is later work (A_MASTER_PRODUCT_SPEC §3 Odor Descriptor)"
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/science#fragrance-mind"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Honey: the warm, waxy sweetness of honey; also \"honeyed\".",
  "body": [
   "On record here, the word is carried by 2-phenylethyl alcohol (phenylethyl alcohol, PEA), rose absolute, rose otto. Each carrier says who uses the word and on what evidence: a source, the trade’s convention or the house’s own reading."
  ]
 }
}