What thyme honey tastes and looks like
Thyme honey is a Mediterranean blossom honey from wild thyme — in Greece mainly *Thymus capitatus* (conehead thyme) on limestone garrigue. The jar is golden to medium amber, darker than clover or acacia and lighter than chestnut or buckwheat.
Open the lid and it should smell of thyme: warm, herbal, slightly peppery. Taste is assertive sweetness with a herbal backbone and a lingering dried-herb finish. If a “thyme honey” smells only of generic blossom, it is often a blend.
This catalog has one thyme SKU: Greek thyme honey (Crete, Meligyris in the seed data). Other Mediterranean thyme honeys exist in the market; they are not extra rows here.
Colour and crystallisation
There is no Pfund field in the catalog, so thyme is not plotted as a single millimetre reading. Pale-to-medium amber Greek thyme sits in the USDA Extra Light Amber through Light Amber classes (35–85 mm Pfund) on the extracted-honey colour standard. The chart below shows that class range against mid-range markers for acacia, clover, linden and chestnut.
Thyme typically sets in months rather than days or years, often to a fine-grained spreadable paste. Set honey is still thyme honey. See why honey crystallises.
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Origin
Greece is the named origin in this catalog. Cretan and Hymettus thyme honeys are the historical Greek names; the seed row is Crete. Spain, Turkey, southern Italy, Cyprus and North Africa also produce *Thymus* honeys, but they are not separate SKUs here.
The origin chooser still ships: it has one origin (Greece) and one link, Greek thyme honey, with the catalog flavour tags and jar band.
Price
The single catalog row is $19.99–$29.99 typical jar price — a jar band, not per pound and not a live quote. One SKU is not an origin comparison, which is why this page uses a colour-position chart instead of a price-by-origin chart.
How to use it
Thyme honey belongs on Greek yogurt, feta, grilled lamb, oregano bread and strong herbal tea. The herbal finish is the point.
It will overpower a delicate white tea or a mild cake. Use acacia or orange blossom there.
How to spot a mislabelled jar
The herbal smell should be obvious. Water-white “thyme” or a jar with no thyme aroma is usually misnamed. Very dark jars may be pine honeydew sold under a blossom name — Greece’s volume honey is pine honeydew, not thyme.
Country of origin and a floral-source word on the label beat a decorative sprig of thyme on the lid.
Never give honey to a child younger than 12 months because of infant botulism risk (CDC).
Composition, as chemistry
Thyme plants make thymol and carvacrol as leaf and flower volatiles. Those same molecules can appear in thyme honey as aroma compounds. That is botanical chemistry, not a licensed medicine.
Thyme is a blossom honey under Council Directive 2001/110/EC. It does not get the chestnut / honeydew conductivity exception.
