Rules, rules, rules. No yeast, no honey. That’s what Leviticus 2:11 says.
God wants you, yourself, no embellishment. Not how much you have “risen” in school grade, career ladder, seniority at work or even in wider family, bank account, or the ‘senior’ in senior pastor.
How much you are influential to others, that has nothing about you in God. Unless it is about discipling others in the way of God.
Be yourself as you draw near to God. The honey might be the modern day aromatic technique that acts as a pleasant agent that even permeates the immediate environment. This is getting technical, the honey is the work of many bees, and there is a further process to prepare it for human consumption. Of course, there are many varieties and lots of techniques. The point is that it is a processed item, not something ‘drop down from the sky’.
Whether you are “risen” or “sweet smelling”, or both, it does not matter. God only asks you yourself.
