Bindebole

I ordered a sample set from Pineward, and Bindebole is the one I gravitate most strongly towards. Easily one of the most realistic green/forest scents I have tried. A mix of pine/coniferous trees and the growth that comes from fresh greenery. It also calls to mind certain indoor greenhouses or botanical gardens I have visited but with a blast of open air forest mixed in. Not a hint of anything synthetic here, just clean smelling goodness. To my nose, it doesn't project super strongly, but I will catch wiffs throughout the day for at least a good 3-4 hours, and seems to remain as a skin scent longer than that. For those of us who wear fragrance for ourselves and don't like to announce their scent with an airhorn, this is a good option. Even better if you are an office worker who likes to take a bit of the outdoors indoors with them. I highly recommend picking up a sampler set from Pineward for anyone who loves natural, coniferous, or green forest scents. Only tough decision on this is what size to buy when I run out of my sample.

Pineward Perfumes Bindebole has an official note breakdown of poplar bud, pine needles, ambrette, crushed leaves, and cedar. It provides a heavy and authentic pine accord with some vaguely resinous background, a dark blend that is nonetheless somewhat green in the way that pine is, but not in a sharp, tingly, even minty way as sometimes can be. I’m quite impressed by this. Even though the fragrance does not lean much in the direction of a resinous, dirtier fragrance, it nonetheless is realistic, dark, and dense, and really does a great job conjuring the outdoors while being a smooth and wearable perfume. Bindebole has the same pricing as the rest of the house, at $135/80 for 37/17ml, and performs quite well, in high concentration (30% or so for all of their fragrances). The juice on the website’s photo of the bottle looks to be a darker green, in fact, which is nice 8 out of 10

*I get absolutely zero cat pee or urine from this lol This one was definitely a hyperrealistic tree scent, and I loved it! It opens very green, almost vegetal and of course smells similar to a tree. This smells like the leaves AND the bark. You get the crushed leaves that fall beneath the tree too. These leaves specifically smell crushed, not fresh. This does smell like a tree, but there’s depth here, it’s not simple by any means. This feels like a very refined aroma of a whole tree and I enjoy it.

I'm very impressed with this. It smells exactly as you would expect based on the notes, but in a wearable way. it smells like a fragrance you would wear and not just a cool smelling scent. It smells like a damp forest. In fact, the description on the website suggests a receding frost and I smell it. It must be a similar accord to Icefall by the same house. This a really cool pine/tree fragrance that smells like a men's barbershop-style fragrance. Good stuff.

Dusty cedar lotion. Like rubbing your whole body with jergens or lubriderm and then walking through the lumber area at home depot. Just a hint of a slightly tangy pine resin. Cozy and easily layerable sawdust vibe. Addictive. Would do well in hot summer weather.