Honey Salone | A Private Honey Tasting Experience

    Where Nature Becomes Art, and Honey Tasting Becomes a Journey.

    In a world drowning in sweetness, we pause and ask something different.

    What if honey wasn’t just tasted, but felt. What if it carried a mood, a memory and a quiet kind of power.

    At Eat Honey Pretty, honey is not rushed, poured, or explained away.

    It is experienced.

    This is Honey Salone, a private honey tasting experience where wild nectar, ritual, and storytelling meet and where every spoonful has something to say.

    Not loud. Not gimmicky. Not borrowed

    Just beautifully intentional.

    Honey Tasting, Reimagined

    This is not a workshop.

    It was never meant to be one.

    There are no lectures, no tests, and no pressure to sound knowledgeable. Honey Salone feels less like attending an event and more like stepping into a private salon, a slow afternoon where time eases, conversation softens, and honey is treated as something to be experienced rather than explained.

    Honey is approached the way one might approach wine, coffee, tea, or perfume, with attention to aroma, texture, origin, fermentation, and mood, but without jargon or performance. There is no need to find the right words. What matters is noticing what stays with you.

    Some guests arrive expecting sweetness.

    They often leave thinking about forests, tang, bitterness, warmth, memory, and quiet depth.

    There is no rush here. Guests linger, revisit certain jars, and change their minds halfway through a spoonful. The experience shifts from naming flavours to noticing reactions, how one honey softens the body, how another sharpens attention, how a familiar scent stirs a memory.

    Honey Salone does not try to instruct or persuade. It simply offers space to slow down, taste carefully, and trust your own senses.

    Because honey is complex.
    And so are you.

    Led by Instinct, Knowledge, and a Very Good Palate

    At the heart of Honey Salone is Nirwana, Malaysia’s first certified Honey Sommelier
    and a woman who can tell you more from one spoon of honey than most labels ever will.

    Her practice is rooted in careful listening, to the forest, the bees, and the honey itself.

    Together, you’ll explore how wild honey shifts with forest, season, and bee.

    You will also discover how viscosity changes mouthfeel, how aroma triggers memory and how different honeys carry different emotional energy.

    Alongside the tasting is Dura Ki Hana, artist and co creator of Eat Honey Pretty, shaping the rhythm of Honey Salone through light, texture, pacing, and sensory cues. Her work draws from the idea of ritual as something remembered rather than invented, bringing attention back to small gestures, repeated moments, and the quiet act of gathering around a table.

    This is honey as a living thing.

    What Happens at a Honey Salone with Eat Honey Pretty?

    You’ll taste wild Malaysian honeys like Tualang, Kelulut, Gelam and sometimes with our single-blossom honey, each with its own temperament.

    You’ll swirl, inhale, sip and pause.

    You’ll pair honey with thoughtful accompaniments like cheese, fruit, herbs, and warm sips - not to overpower, but to reveal.

    You’ll be invited into stillness, to write, talk, sketch, or simply sit with what comes up.

    Because sometimes the most interesting notes aren’t on the tongue, they’re in the body.

    Why This, Why Now

    Because we’ve forgotten how to taste slowly.
    Because bees are disappearing quietly.
    Because women deserve spaces that nourish without demanding.

    Honey Salone is not an event.

    It is a return. To nature. To ritual. To yourself.

    And once you’ve tasted honey this way, there is no going back to squeezing it into tea without thinking.

    Begin the experience

    • The Ritual of Tasting

      Not just “sweet.” You’ll swirl, breathe in, and let each honey unfold—floral, earthy, citrusy, bitter-sour, medicinal. Like a landscape, every spoon tells where it came from.

    • The Land Speaks

      From Gelam forests to sea apple groves, you’ll trace the flavors back to their wild roots. Learn about Apis Dorsata, the majestic wild bee whose labor brings these drops of gold to life.

    • Pairing with Purpose

      Experience the magic of pairing honey with natural accents such as mild cheeses, dried fruits and herbal teas, designed to awaken moods: calming, energizing, even sensual.

    • Moments of Stillness

      Tasting slows time. Between spoonfuls, guests are invited to jot down notes, sketch, or simply sit with the feeling. A “Bee Journal” waits to capture your experience with no pressure, just presence.

      • Our table was full, our spoons were golden, and our hearts were so full.