A rich, smoky blend of honey, tar, vanilla and incense.
The perfumer leaves the perfume plot sketchy - to be completed by your imagination. Are you in your autumn apiary watching honey trickle into jars, smoke lingering in the air from bonfires of fallen leaves? Are you on the well-tarred deck of a merchant ship carrying huge barrels of honey? This beautiful, smoky fragrance will definitely take you somewhere.
Starring
(these fragrant materials reanacted the Honey and Tar story):
castoreum tinctura
benzoin absolute
birch tar essential oil
Himalayan cedarwood essential oil
sweet myrrh essential oil
vetiver essential oil
guayak wood
agarwood essential oil
Atlas cedarwood essential oil
jasmin sambac absolute
hops CO2
lavender absolute
patchouli essential oil
cardamom absolute
tonka bean absolute
vanilla CO2 extract
orris root CO2 extract
Vanuatu sandalwood essential oil
Royal Hawaiian sandalwood essential oil
Important notice:
Anna Zworykina’s blends are olfactive smellscapes (but neither aromatherapy, nor ‘spray-and-go’ perfumes). Her blends are sensory experiences, closer to works of art created in the scented plane (rather than, say, visual or audio).
Certain essential oils and absolutes that are used in her 100% natural perfumes may potentially cause allergies in some people. Please spray Anna Zworykina’s blends on fabric (on sleeves, scarves, etc.). This said, Anna Zworykina has acquired a huge fan base over many years and people interacted with her blends for quite a while now. We are not aware of any reports of any skin reactions so far.
However, Anna advises that those who are prone to allergic reactions, pregnant and nursing women, as well as people with chronic illnesses to be extra careful. Before trying natural blends, study the list of ingredients and consult with a doctor if you are not sure or a had a history of allergies. If you do decide to put these blends on your skin (unable to resist the temptation) always test the blend on the inside part of your elbow first and wait.
Do not spray these blends liberally as a cloud in the way you would spray a conventional perfume. Anna’s smellscapes need to be… carefully applied and experienced. Be mindful that some oils can also make your skin hyper-sensitive to UV.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close, atmospheric settings where smoke, wood and sweetness can unfold without haste. It suits a wearer who likes a dark, textured presence that feels more like a scene than a clean aura: warm, slightly animalic, and quietly dramatic.
How to wear
Best worn in cool weather, especially autumn and winter, when its tar, smoke and honey facets can bloom without turning heavy. Apply sparingly, ideally to fabric or with a light hand, as the composition is dense and expressive; on skin it can feel more intimate and animalic, while in air it reads as a warm smoky cloud.
Who it’s for
For lovers of smoky gourmands, leather notes and natural perfumery with character. It will appeal to those who enjoy resinous, tarry, slightly animalic scents with a sweet core, and who prefer fragrances that feel textured, unconventional and imaginative rather than smooth or transparent.
Release year
2020
The nose
Anna Zworykina is a Russian artisan perfumer and biochemist whose work is rooted in natural materials and a highly tactile, atmospheric style. She began making perfume in 2004, moving from science into olfactory composition, and has become known for fragrances that feel like crafted smellscapes rather than conventional sprays. Her style often balances raw natural textures — resins, woods, smoke, animalic nuances and gourmand facets — into compositions that are vivid but not polished into smoothness. Honey and Tar fits that approach closely: it uses honey, tar, leather and smoke as a dramatic contrast of sweetness and burnished darkness, with the kind of open-ended structure she likes to leave for the wearer’s imagination.
Anna Zworykina’s story
Anna Zworykina Perfumes is an independent natural perfumery house built around artistic composition rather than mass-market polish. The brand works with a natural palette of essential oils, absolutes and CO2 extracts, and treats fragrance as an immersive sensory medium, closer to an artwork than a conventional beauty product.
Honey and Tar’s concept
Honey and Tar was released in 2020 as a wintery, smoky leather-gourmand that plays on the contrast between honeyed sweetness and tarry bite. The concept is deliberately suggestive rather than literal: it evokes an autumn apiary, smoke hanging in the air, or a tarred merchant ship carrying barrels of honey, leaving the scene to be completed by the wearer’s imagination.
Extra info
The name is a direct contrast of two materials that rarely meet so vividly in perfume: honey and tar. The brand presents it as a "smellscape" rather than a spray-and-go fragrance, and the official imagery places it either in an autumn apiary or on a tarred ship deck.
A rich, smoky blend of honey, tar, vanilla and incense.
The perfumer leaves the perfume plot sketchy - to be completed by your imagination. Are you in your autumn apiary watching honey trickle into jars, smoke lingering in the air from bonfires of fallen leaves? Are you on the well-tarred deck of a merchant ship carrying huge barrels of honey? This beautiful, smoky fragrance will definitely take you somewhere.
Starring
(these fragrant materials reanacted the Honey and Tar story):
castoreum tinctura
benzoin absolute
birch tar essential oil
Himalayan cedarwood essential oil
sweet myrrh essential oil
vetiver essential oil
guayak wood
agarwood essential oil
Atlas cedarwood essential oil
jasmin sambac absolute
hops CO2
lavender absolute
patchouli essential oil
cardamom absolute
tonka bean absolute
vanilla CO2 extract
orris root CO2 extract
Vanuatu sandalwood essential oil
Royal Hawaiian sandalwood essential oil
Important notice:
Anna Zworykina’s blends are olfactive smellscapes (but neither aromatherapy, nor ‘spray-and-go’ perfumes). Her blends are sensory experiences, closer to works of art created in the scented plane (rather than, say, visual or audio).
Certain essential oils and absolutes that are used in her 100% natural perfumes may potentially cause allergies in some people. Please spray Anna Zworykina’s blends on fabric (on sleeves, scarves, etc.). This said, Anna Zworykina has acquired a huge fan base over many years and people interacted with her blends for quite a while now. We are not aware of any reports of any skin reactions so far.
However, Anna advises that those who are prone to allergic reactions, pregnant and nursing women, as well as people with chronic illnesses to be extra careful. Before trying natural blends, study the list of ingredients and consult with a doctor if you are not sure or a had a history of allergies. If you do decide to put these blends on your skin (unable to resist the temptation) always test the blend on the inside part of your elbow first and wait.
Do not spray these blends liberally as a cloud in the way you would spray a conventional perfume. Anna’s smellscapes need to be… carefully applied and experienced. Be mindful that some oils can also make your skin hyper-sensitive to UV.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close, atmospheric settings where smoke, wood and sweetness can unfold without haste. It suits a wearer who likes a dark, textured presence that feels more like a scene than a clean aura: warm, slightly animalic, and quietly dramatic.
How to wear
Best worn in cool weather, especially autumn and winter, when its tar, smoke and honey facets can bloom without turning heavy. Apply sparingly, ideally to fabric or with a light hand, as the composition is dense and expressive; on skin it can feel more intimate and animalic, while in air it reads as a warm smoky cloud.
Who it’s for
For lovers of smoky gourmands, leather notes and natural perfumery with character. It will appeal to those who enjoy resinous, tarry, slightly animalic scents with a sweet core, and who prefer fragrances that feel textured, unconventional and imaginative rather than smooth or transparent.
Release year
2020
The nose
Anna Zworykina is a Russian artisan perfumer and biochemist whose work is rooted in natural materials and a highly tactile, atmospheric style. She began making perfume in 2004, moving from science into olfactory composition, and has become known for fragrances that feel like crafted smellscapes rather than conventional sprays. Her style often balances raw natural textures — resins, woods, smoke, animalic nuances and gourmand facets — into compositions that are vivid but not polished into smoothness. Honey and Tar fits that approach closely: it uses honey, tar, leather and smoke as a dramatic contrast of sweetness and burnished darkness, with the kind of open-ended structure she likes to leave for the wearer’s imagination.
Anna Zworykina’s story
Anna Zworykina Perfumes is an independent natural perfumery house built around artistic composition rather than mass-market polish. The brand works with a natural palette of essential oils, absolutes and CO2 extracts, and treats fragrance as an immersive sensory medium, closer to an artwork than a conventional beauty product.
Honey and Tar’s concept
Honey and Tar was released in 2020 as a wintery, smoky leather-gourmand that plays on the contrast between honeyed sweetness and tarry bite. The concept is deliberately suggestive rather than literal: it evokes an autumn apiary, smoke hanging in the air, or a tarred merchant ship carrying barrels of honey, leaving the scene to be completed by the wearer’s imagination.
Extra info
The name is a direct contrast of two materials that rarely meet so vividly in perfume: honey and tar. The brand presents it as a "smellscape" rather than a spray-and-go fragrance, and the official imagery places it either in an autumn apiary or on a tarred ship deck.