Coniferous Fragrances

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1	Fragrance	Description	Rating
2	Alkemia - Falling Stars at Winter Solstice	A quiet snow-covered road through the forest on a clear night. Falling Stars at Winter Solstice is a beautiful soft Christmas pine and myrrh with a touch of smoke. It's a bit on the feminine side, but anyone could pull this off. Being oil-based, the projection and longevity aren't fantastic, but fortunately it is not expensive. There are a handful of other coniferous Alkemia scents that are great, this one is my favorite.	7.5/10
3	Annick Goutal - Nuit Etoilee	A cool fall night, not very cold and with the lingering mint freshness on a fleeting summer breeze. Almost more minty than pine, Nuit Etoilee is a calm, beautiful meditative scent. The citrus and mint wane in the first half hour, giving way to a soft pine and resin. Also Feminine leaning, but again anyone could pull this off. Longevity is decent, but it doesn't really project much after 2 hours or so.	6/10
4	Annick Goutal - Encens Flamboyant
5	Apoteker Tepe - The Holy Mountain	A transcendental hike to a remote Himalayan Monastery. The Holy Mountain features balsam fir, incense, labdanum, and guaiac wood. This one is very dry and medicinal, and while incense is listed as a note it comes across as more of a peat woodsmoke. The labdanum makes this one vaguely remind me of L'air du Desert Marocain in the drydown. Longevity and projection are decent, this one will project for around 4 hours on my skin.	9/10
6	Areej Le Dore - Russian Musk
7	Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - Black Forest
8	Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab - Thanatopsis
9	Boadicea - Complex
10	Boadicea - Seductive
11	Bottega Veneta - Pour Homme	This one seems to be a pine and leather hybrid modeled after some of the old powerhouse scents like Tsar and Quorum. The opening is harsh and a bit synthetic, but in the drydown the Canadian fir and Juniper become dominant and it's botanical and pleasant. Around 2 hours of projection, 4 hours of longevity. I like this one better than the extreme version, still not my favorite.	4/10
12	Caron - Yatagan	Intense animalic, oakmossy pine. It was released in the late seventies though I feel it manages to maintain some semblance of modernity. Very masculine. This is a weird one to me, and I do like it, but the oakmoss can be a bit much. Lasts all day.	5/10
13	CB I Hate Perfume - Wild Hunt
14	Comme des Garçons - Hinoki	I'd like to think that this is how a Japanese forest might smell. Hinoki is a green camphorous yet medicinal kind of pine. I'm not familiar with the smell of Hinoki wood itself, but the fragrances is reminiscent of a wooden sauna. Hinoki is beautiful, but it lacks any kind of longevity and projection. Aesop's Hwyl is nearly identical, though it doesn't last much longer.	7/10
15	Comme des Garçons - Sugi	Photo-realistic juniper, sharply green and intense, like the smell of good gin. The pine and pepper help to round it out. It's a wonderful smell for a few minutes but is completely gone within an hour.	6/10
16	Comme des Garçons - Series 3 Incense: Zagorsk	The smell of Russian monasteries placed in endless snowy Russian planes, the odor of light birch and dark pine tree woods, and northern red forest fruits.The main notes of Zagorsk are frankincense, pine, pimento, violet, cedar, iris, Hinoki and birch. This is a light scent, a very clean pine and incense. It was inspired by Orthodox Christianity and I think the incense is a good representation of churchy incense, though I'm not sure how the conifers come into play with that theme. Lasts most of the day, projection is barely above the skin.	7/10
17	Dasein - Winter	A deeply drifted mountain pass at the edge of the treeline after the passing of a light snow flurry. Winter is a blend of blue spruce, forest pine, cardamom and lavender. It maybe just that my nose is being conditioned by the name of fragrance, but this one really comes across as a chilly-smelling fragrance. It's almost gourmand-like in it's sweetness, the lavender being quite different from other lavender that I've come across in fragrance, and the spruce providing a deepness. Longevity for 5 or 6 hours, and decent projection.	9/10
18	Dasein - Winter Nights	The scent of sitting around a campfire in the mountains during the heart of winter. Heavy, natural, cozy, beautiful. Similar to Winter, but now the pine has been burned and replaced by smoke. Winter Nights is an appropriate name because it lasts for nights on end, and if you spray this black elixir on your clothes the scent may not come out.	9.5/10
19	DS & Durga - El Cosmico	An ethereal transportive scent, a forest of stunted pinyon pines giving way to red canyon walls and sage brush desert. El Cosmico is a very dry creosote, khella and pine scent, just extremely different than anything else I've smelled. It's simultaneously dry, and fairly sweet as well. Lasts most of the day and projects a fair amount of that time.	8/10
20	Euphorium Brooklyn - Wald	The opening is a fantastic explosion of soil, smoke, resin, fir and fungi, like laying on the forest floor after a light rain. As much as I love the opening however, it settles down into a musky vetiver and soil, which I find to be less interesting. It is fairly similar to Olympic Orchid's Olympic Rainforest, which I would probably choose based on the price difference. Wald lasts all day on my skin, though the projection is fairly soft, a foot or two at most.	7/10
21	Franck Boclet - Fir Balsam
22	Guerlain - Aqua Allegoria Winter Delice	Hot cider and fresh Christmas tree. Winter Delice contains notes of fir, pine, resin, opoponax, and vanille. It stays sweet throughout without being a gourmand, and gets sweeter in the drydown. It reminds me if a less smoky version of Arso by Profumum Roma. The longevity is around 6 hours, and the projection is soft, though this is a new acquisition and I have only worn it once.	6/10
23	Hendley - Fume	A midday forest bonfire, in a clearing surrounded by springtime wild grasses. The closest fragrance to Slumberhouse's Norne that I've smelled, though it is much less heavy and more focused on smoke. Sits fairly close to the skin, lasts all day.	8.5/10
24	Heretic Parfums - Blood Cedar
25	House of Matriarch - Sacre Noir
26	House of Matriarch - Sex Magic
27	Imaginary Authors - Cape Heartache	An old-growth forest, that for some reason I've brought the strawberry lip balm of my childhood into? The fragrance features fir, pine, hemlock, vanilla, and strawberry notes. I don't love the strawberry in this one, but after it fades in the opening, the pine-heavy drydown is fantastic. Lasts all day and projects most of it.	7/10
28	Ineke - Idyllwild	A sunny mountain clearing complete with rhubarb, wildflowers and a gurgling stream. Idyllwild contains pine, but it's not really a major player, I just think this is a lovely fragrance. Unfortunately it becomes a skin scent almost immediately.	6.5/10
29	John Varvatos - Vintage
30	Krigler - Good Fir 11
31	La Curie - Incendo
32	l'Artisan Parfumeur - 26 Tenebrae
33	Lvnea - Ghost Pine
34	Maison Margiela - Soul of the Forest	The pine comes across as somewhat synthetic, though it's still a pleasant linear scent.	5/10
35	Memo - Russian Leather
36	Olympic Orchids - Olympic Rainforest	A dark loamy forest rife with moss and fresh dew. This scent has a kind of mustiness to it that also brings to mind a vintage bookstore. Olympic Rainforest has notes of cedar, fern, rhododendron, mushrooms, oakmoss, black spruce, and balsam fir. I don't like oakmoss in large doses, but this fragrance blends it so well that I can't help but like the scent. Lasts all day and softly projects for most of it.	7/10
37	Olympic Orchids - Woodcut	A cozy glowing hearth in an alpine lodge, you're curled nearby with a steaming caramel drink. Woodcut features notes of cedar, oak, pine and the burnt-sugar caramel aroma of warm-fresh-cut wood. The caramel and wood combo is quite addictive and unique. Lasts most of the day and has moderate projection.	8/10
38	Oriza L. Legrand - Reve d'Ossian	Pine is a more of a top note to the incense and benzoin base, and fades out after an hour or so.	6/10	new
39	Phlur - Greylocke	If you're looking for pine, look elsewhere. I find the written notes to be very misleading, with this being almost entirely vetiver on my skin.	-/10
40	Profumum Roma - Arso	A sap-encrusted pine log, smoldering in the remains of a dying fire. Arso is a powerful, beautiful scent with notes of incense, leather, Virginia cedar and pine, though resin is the dominant note to my nose. Leather is listed as a note, but I can't detect it. It's mostly linear, but no complaints here. Longevity and projection are all-day and enormous.	9/10
41	Ralph Lauren - Polo (Green)	Pine, leather and a bit of tobacco, this one is a classic for a reason. It's classy and lasts a long time. My dad used to wear this one though, I doubt I'd wear it much myself.	6/10
42	Rober Piguet - Oud
43	Serge Lutens - Fille en Aiguilles	A freshly-cut Christmas wreath surrounded by the candied fruit and baked goods of holiday preparations. Fille en Aiguilles includes pine needles, vetiver, bay leaf, spices, fruit and incense, though the pine needles are mostly gone after 30 minutes or so. I don't care for the drydown of stewed fruit quite as much, which is a shame because the opening is one of the most phenomenal out of any coniferous fragrance I've smelled. Longevity is only a couple hours at best, doesn't project very much.	6.5/10
44	Slumberhouse - Norne	The primordial heart of Mirkwood forest, heavy, dank, and a bit scary. Norne is pretty simple in terms of notes, which are listed as fog-caked needle, lichen, moss, hemlock, incense. In the vial it is a thick, sticky dark green liquid. It's a fairly realistic fir scent, but I would say it's more the idealized scent of fir, what I think of when I imagine fir. I love this scent but I can't see myself wearing it very often. Legendary longevity, and the projection is moderate to heavy.	9/10
45	Slumberhouse - Grev
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47	Solstice Scents - Russian Caravan	A whistling tea kettle being made over the fire after a night of camping. Notes are amber, smoked black tea, leather, pine resin, smoke, and black currant. This is a really nice indie scent in EDP concentration, the black tea and leather accords really work well together in the drydown. Lasts around 3 hours, projection is fairly low.	7/10
48	Solstice Scents - Smoky Mountain Mallow	Marshmallows toasting on an open campfire. Notes are wood smoke, amber resin, lapsang souchong, guaiac wood, labdanum, nutmeg, and marshmallow. Smoky Mountain Mallow reminds me of a spicier version of By The Fireplace by Maison Mergiela. It's a very cozy scent that would be perfect on a chilly night. It is available as an oil, and being such the projection is low, though it lasts most of the day.	6.5/10
49	Thorn & Bloom - Evergreen
50	Tom Ford - Vert Encens	An almost gourmand evergreen incense, this is one of my favorites from Tom Ford. There is definitely a vintage vibe to this one despite being released fairly recently and a kind of almost staleness in the opening, but that dissipates quickly. Very festive and classy fragrance.	7/10
51	Tiziana Terenzi - Ecstasy
52	Vagabond Prince - Enchanted Forest	A juicy black currant bush surrounded by a springtime evergreen forest. It also reminds me of the smell of opening a fruit rollup or a bag of gummy bears. Enchanted Forest is a very jammy and sweet scent with notes of blackcurrant, honeysuckle, opoponax, oakmoss, fir balsam, and cedar.	8/10
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