Murkwood Pineward 2020

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8.2 / 10 155 Ratings

A popular perfume by Pineward for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is resinous-green. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Resinous

Green

Woody

Spicy

Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Balsam fir

Hemlock fir

Lapsang Souchong tea

Moss

Myrrh

Frankincense

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Nicholas Nilsson Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

8.2155 Ratings

Longevity

8.0131 Ratings

Sillage

7.1127 Ratings

Bottle

8.190 Ratings

Value for money

7.151 Ratings

Submitted by Hatka, last update on 23.04.2024.

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9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/26/2021

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Floyd
290 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 52

Dark Matter

Faun felt really murkwoody. Such darkness had hardly come to him before in a forest. At first there was only silence, a lightless, anechoic cabin and yet of infinite vastness, an empty space for association.
Then tart sweet steam filled the void, like Indian resins in soft myrrh and the warm smoke of Chinese tea soaking the musty mosses on the floor, Faun literally felt the earth, the damp, the smoldering pine roots, the coking in the mist of the Lapsang Souchong. Now and then ethereal coniferous resins glimmered like northern lights across the dark sky, drawing the silhouettes of balsam firs into the night, the dark matter to whose skeleton invisibly everything clings.
Faun sank into the mossy earth of the warm forest floor for quite a few hours, counting the bright green coniferous resin shards that slowly only grew fewer.
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Pineward Perfumes, based in Utah, is entirely dedicated to the scents of dark virgin forests beyond any civilization. Nicholas Nilsson uses mainly highly concentrated absolues in his alcohol-based perfumes. He explicitly does not produce the fragrances in limited quantities, as he does not want to create any buying pressure or hype around his brand.
I don't think "Murkwood" can quite stand up to the comparison with "Norne" below. Murkwood is not quite as dense as Norne, overall a little quieter, yet a kinship in the connection of coniferous forest, smoke, earth and moss is definitely present.

04/12/2021

9
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Zerotonin
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Zerotonin

Top Review 48

Grandma M.'s garden

I spent a lot of time with my grandma as a child. You could actually say that I grew up almost half with her.
She had an older house with quite a large garden on the very edge of a small village. She planted at that time, together with my grandpa, some firs there in the garden, when the house was just built. In my time, of course, they had already grown tall and towered far above the roof. In the middle of the firs was a small pond, with goldfish and frogs that came to visit from time to time. That was where I spent most of my time. I played a lot, discovered a lot, learned a lot.
At one point, my grandma had my uncle build his own sweet bench there for me. When the weather was nice, I would then retreat to 'my' spot with books and read. And then it happened with every slightly stronger breeze that some of the pine needles fell on the leaves of the books. As I read, I would break one in two and hold them close under my nose to inhale that resinous, woody, fresh-green scent. Soothing, lulling.
It was also in this place that I began to discover my love for the smell of tree sap. My first conscious memory is of accidentally leaning on the tree (as a very small cerotonin), right into the sticky substance. I found the smell to be so strong that I recoiled in shock and ran to my grandma. She smiled and explained that the tree was bleeding but that I shouldn't worry. She said that the scent was so beautiful after all. My interest was piqued and I began to experiment. I quickly discovered that some of the fir's resin could be clear and viscous, amber and even more viscous, or yellowish-white and solid. Depending on the stage, the strength of the scent also changes. The liquid was also perfect for gluing leaves and sticks together to build a Barbie nature tent ;-)
Now, over twenty years later, I'm sitting here and still quite overwhelmed by everything the scent triggers in my head. Murkwood smells exactly like the place where I loved to spend time back then. Like the pine needles on the books, the loose earth under the trees, the resin running down the wood, and the crisp air under the firs.
My grandma has since sadly passed away, the house was sold and the firs cut down by the new owner. I usually try not to think about it very much, as it makes me dead sad. But I know that's part of life too - constant change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes just for the worse.
Thank you Murkwood for the bittersweet memories and thank you Floyd, for the sample!

04/02/2021

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Delightful
25 Reviews

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Delightful

Top Review 27

In the smoke forest..

In the fresh moss-green dawn they begin their day's work.
Resourcefully nimble spruce gnomes smoke strong, spicy-smelling black tea.
There in the incense they carry fragrant fir baskets for transport.
Balsamic sweet myrrh steam makes thinking herbaceously clear.
Resinous fresh spruce smolders in the sooty smokehouse and resourceful nimble spruce dwarves turn aromatic resinous wood tarry pine coals.
Then, in the initial evening glow
flutter needle-green hemlock butterflies darkly blissful, Around a nearby campfire.
And bright ethereal glow fragrant balsam fir flames.
The resourceful nimble spruce gnomes now shine darkly, Sitting by the blissful light, drinking their lapsang souchong tea....

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The Murkwood starts out with a nice, strong mossy freshness on me, but it soon blends with the smoky notes of the Lapsang Souchong tea.
Due to the smoking process, the smoke note is very present, seems in my nose typical smoky spicy, strong dark. [brief, slight association with licorice root]
For a moment, this smoke covers with me all freshness from the start.
But then the green fir scents and that moss come through again and are interspersed with myrrh and frankincense.
An extremely beautiful and exciting forest fragrance, which surprises just by this smoke tea note.
*[ A heartfelt thanks to Floyd :) ]

07/07/2021

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Eberlin
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Eberlin

Top Review 18

Untouched nature

I'm off then.... Rainy forest in autumn.. By the spruces and firs in alder swamp forests. Forest animals unconcerned, birds build their nests in the moss. A haze rises in the sky, it's raining. Please don't look for me...

One of the most extraordinary scents I was allowed to smell.
Nature caught in the deepest black, at the same time also the most oily and thickest perfume what I have tested.

Starting with a rainy fir, which is caught mossy and balsamic. Shortly thereafter,comes also already the incense, which fortunately just like moss, was very well balanced. The fir begins to bleed, it drips the resins, it all remains very gentle.
The rain stops, the warmth rises from the ground. It has something of the eucalyptus infusion. How I would love to be in a sauna right now...
The warmth dries the forest and at the end a natural smell of the tree bark remains.

However, I am a little afraid to wear the scent with white clothes. Not only does it leave a light golden imprint on my skin, but it also lies on me like a thick, somewhat sticky and resinous veil.

More nature from the forest I can not imagine. Really recommendable!

12/13/2023

8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Mrtangiers
2 Reviews

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Mrtangiers

Very helpful Review 14

Deep black forests of long forgotten days

Around 900 AD in what is now Norway:

In front of me was a bright blue lake shrouded in thick fog. I could barely make out the opposite shore, but thought I recognized a small settlement. Visibly relieved, hoping for a warm place to sleep and a small meal, I continued my arduous hike through the dense forest. I had been walking through this impenetrable sea of firs and spruces for days, but the end of my journey finally seemed within reach. This forest was unlike any I had ever seen before or would ever see again. Dense, old conifers everywhere I looked. The ground was covered in green moss and the sun rarely made its way through the thicket. I oriented myself along the barely recognizable shoreline of the lake and continued my odyssey. I imagined I could already smell the smoking chimneys of the village, so I was on the right track. Many hours after I first saw the settlement from a distance, the forest slowly thinned out. It couldn't be far now, the anticipation was growing. The smoke in my nose grew stronger and stronger, and I could already make out the village boundary in the distance. After days of martyrdom, I finally left the last tree behind me and the village lay before me, burnt down and deserted.
Mesterverk.

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