Funerie

I love it. The smoky, dry, leathery (an antiquey smell, not an oiled leather smell - I think more like the idea of leather than like maintained tack or gear) opening hits you like a plume of dust, it settles to a resiny, very slightly sweet (like old dried roses), incensy, smoky smell. It's close to the smell I bake into my jacket by holding it up to campfire smoke and putting off washing it as long as I can, and reminds me of metaphysical stores, but the kind with walls of herbs, not plastic junk. It lingers for a long time (~8 hours on my skin), but after the first ~20 minutes, the area of effect is immediately around my body. My partner took a while to warm up to the leather smell, but ended up liking it too. I do not get any fungal, moist, damp, dank smell from this whatsoever. I was bracing myself for a dank, rotting, musty vegetation smell. I thought Eldritch smelled more actually fungal, mulch, and dark. Maybe it's because I'm inexperienced, but I'm having trouble identifying what's challenging about it outside of people maybe just not liking the strong smoky/incensy smell. A day or two later on the cuffs od my jacket, maybe I get a slight whiff of dried mushrooms, but mostly the remains of smoky incense. On its own, its very pleasant, but not entirely "me". I ended up wearing Caravansary (coniferous, camp-firey) with it and really enjoyed the combination. I took a walk and happened upon an old Moravian graveyard. I spent time looking at the piles of leaves, taking in the washed out colors of old leaves and moss, and crouching down to read all the weathered stones. I felt pensive, reflective, and calm while snuggling into my jacket and sniffing my wrists was delightful. I dusted my wool hat with it. I think if you're actually looking for a scary, decaying, actively rotting smell, this wasn't it! If you want to smell like smoke, leather, and incense, a mysterious and slightly metaphysical smell, with a surprising soft/sweet edge, you might like it. If it evokes any kind of decay, it's something long dead and mummified, beautifully, on purpose, under a dusty bell jar - but again, as an image, and not the literal slightly fishy smell of a mummified critter from the attic. I found this to be more of a daytime smell than a night smell. It smells a lot more leathery on clothes than on skin.

At first, I really couldn't stand this fragrance. I was planning to wear it as a part of a project where I was pairing a perfume to a character that I worked as for a haunting job, and I couldn't get past the dark, almost rotting smell that it seemed to give off. As I wore it, I realized that what it was giving off wasn't very forest-like, unlike what Funerie describes on the website. It was cloying, very alcoholic and deep, and too challenging for my very brand-new-to-perfumery nose. The dry-down, though, was more pleasant, and the oud comes out very well in the notes of this perfume. It reminds me of peaty earth, of a decaying forest full of death and the smell of mushrooms and dirt after a hearty rain, but without the note of petrichor. It was still too challenging to wear, and made me a little nauseated, but did last for a very long time. I think it was the myrrh and tobacco notes that stuck around for me, and the rose was lost in translation. I think personally the blood was there, but accumulative and not bold and in-your-face. I found that the more time I spent away from the perfume, however, the more I was drawn back to it and the more I wanted it on my skin again. I've tried a couple of other perfumes by Pineward, including Holy Cross and Eldrich, of which me and my partner both wore amicably (And Eldrich I will be buying a full bottle of, it was worth the small bottle blind-buy), and I would absolutely recommend Funerie for those that love a deep, thoughtful fragrance. I think it's got its moments of when it should be worn, and it's definitely a challenging fragrance, but I've come to love it for what it is. It's haunting, it's illustrious, it's a hunter deep in the woods flaying deer and smoking cigarettes. There's an embodiment that does tell a story, even if it doesn't quite match the description of what Pineward puts out on their website. I think it's one of my favorite smells to this day.

A study in Decay. "Death" would have been another aptly chosen name for this composition. What Nick managed to pull off with this one is incredible. A perfume so dark, primitive, and challenging that yet manages to stay poised throughout the wear, mysterious, sexy, and even inviting. It feels like a script from Edgar Allan Poe, a Danse Macabre, not just a mindless puddle of concentrated and unusual raw materials. It is compelling. It opens up with a powerful Morel Mushroom note, meaty, organic, and earthy. Shortly after, the rest of the notes start to unveil. The scent evolves as a whole, rather than showing a classical progression. Accords like rose, leather, frankincense, agarwood, and myrrh interplay like being inside a whirlwind. At times, some of them unveil more than others, and they go back and forth like that. However, the main players, to my nose, are always the mushroom, the leather, and the resins. Therefore, it smells, for the most part, like a centuries-old leather garment that has been dragged through soil, and infused with the smoke of burning resins. The rose pops in and out, withered, lifeless. The oud and the cedar play together to create a woody accord in which the oud dominates. I feel that the mushroom and the oud work beautifully together, as the yeasty facets in these complement each other. The mushroom note dominates throughout the wear, imbuing an organic feel to the composition. A unique perfume. A rite of death celebrating nature's decay, and the dead have exquisite taste. I think Treacle just got dethroned for my favorite Pineward perfume. Review based on the original formula, yellow juice. The new one differs greatly, unfortunately. IG:@memory.of.scents

Been wanting this one for so long and I finally got a sample. Off the bat it is so smoky and warm. The blood note in this is striking and I’m surprised I was able to pick it up right away. It’s hot and thick with a touch of mineralic sweetness. Not dissimilar to Toskovats “Inexcusable Evil”. The smoke is, at first, a freshly lit fire of rotten logs. Has a very alive and choking quality to it that you really only get from a face full of wind blow campfire. That fiery heat cools rather quickly to an almost musty ashen residue. Like it lit up on your skin and burned down to dusty coals. Adore this. There is certainly a heavier blend of incense in the beginning. That I feel smooths into a well worn leather. You’re left with an arsonist leaving the scene of their latest crime donning a vintage leather jacket. Maybe a tinge of blood drying on their face as they drive through a hot summer night in a smoked out old truck. Honestly very wearable and another winner from Pineward. Update: I was able to get a sample of the original formulation. '22 is sweeter and stickier in my opinion. They are very similar and I love them both deeply but '22 might come out on top here. The florals remain newly dead and drying, smoke still swirls about but something about this feels more harmonic and mellow. The blood note isn't as strong but a warm metallic sweetness is still present. Raw honey comes to mind. Though it feels wild and dripping out of a hive grafted to a dead pine. Reminds me of vulture bees. As always, with Pineward, I'm head over heels in love with this original formulation. I need this stuff by the barrel.

If you want to wear a smell to offput people by your brooding nature, here it is. It’s described as having smoke, leather, resin, mushrooms, oak moss, decaying roses, and notes of blood. It’s supposed to smell like a funeral.. and I see why. Think about trudging through a forest on a damp fall evening to come across a secluded graveyard. The stones are covered in moss and there’s a pile of soil next to a deserted plot of land. This perfume is definitely meant to feel isolated, old, and decaying. If you were to ask me what it smelled like, upon the test strip it smelled like tongue depressors. Now on my skin? Evil tongue depressors. The nature is so green and dead it’s almost overwhelming, the smoke note at the opening is suffocating! It’s like this horrible sense of existential dread put into a cologne so your scent bubble can remind you that your death in inevitable I scrubbed this perfume off immediately, I couldn’t relax smelling it in every breath. Even after a deep painful scrub, the scent remained. The scent that clings to my skin now is still earthy, dirty, woody, but it has a tinge of sweetness. A faint memory, an inkling of sweetness that is enamoring and leaves you smelling for more

Honestly I dont even care, this is a masterpiece. I have been looking for a scent that can recreate the idea of how mushrooms grow and feed themselves. They decompose matter to get nutrients. And i feel like that's how the fragrance smells like. The juxtaposition between decay and growth, death and life, darkness and light. The smokey dried roses with a mushroom and soil accord create such an evocative picture in my head of a new bunch of mushrooms growing on the side of a tree, using the cemetery flower arrangements to grow even stronger.. As some people say, it may be a take on how death would smell like, and if that's it, then it is hauntingly beautiful. I always carry a small sample of it in my bag. It is such a comforting scent to me; maybe also because I have some mushrooms tattooed on me, also on my profile picture here. Whenever I wear it I feel like I am accompanied by this weird warmth and comfort. On my skin the scent lasts pretty long, and it projects quite well, as I have gotten some comments while wearing it. As with other Pinewards, it can stain clothes so careful with that.

I love love love this fragrance! I bought a full sample set and am slowly working my way through the full Pineward offering, but Funerie is really a stand-out for me -which I wasn't expecting. I really thought the dark forest scents were the ones that were going to blow me away. So I have a thing where anything rose turns really sour and acrid on my skin. I can't wear it. I even actively avoid perfumes that have rose listed as a note. However, I sprayed this on myself: and between enjoying the leather and the smoke and the myrrh (mmmm I love myrrh), I suddenly picked out a hint of - rose? How could I smell rose?! Rose never smells like rose on me! So, maybe it's the novelty speaking here, but I'm really interested in getting a full bottle of this once I've used up my sample. I'm really enjoying the mix of leather, dusty potpourri and incense. I can't say I can pick out the blood, oud or mushrooms in this, but maybe they just blend into the overall dusty smell. In any case, if this sounds appealing to you, you should give it a try

Funerie grasps you first with a unique mixture of tangy blood and wild mushrooms. Never having experienced an opening like that before, I would say that it's quite earthy (perhaps overwhelmingly so, for some people) but also pleasant in the sense that it elicits memories of time spent in the deep forests near where I grew up. Not challenging to my nose at all. When it reaches it's heart of smoky wood, incense, rose and leather it turns feminine. I would really enjoy smelling this on a lady, it's just not for me. This is a very gothic fragrance for a deeply confident, domineering, dark in spirit and dress sort of woman. To put it simply, Funerie is what Morticia Addams would wear. Also, the ingredients that are being used here are of extremely high quality. Nothing smells synthetic. This is all lovingly artisanal perfumery. Pineward has nothing but my utmost respect.

I bought a small sample of this perfume because it was described repeatedly as not a safe blind buy. I agree that it's likely not a safe one for the average person, but if you're into dark, woody scents, I highly recommend Funerie. I don't quite get the dried rose notes, at least very strongly. What I do get is a very distinct profile of burning, resinous wood. It's an eerie scent in a way. It makes me think of candles and cigars lit at a burial in the woods, or a cabin in the woods at night. The iron note of blood is very, very subtle, but definitely in the background, in a strange, but not unpleasant way. The perfume itself, though, is very strong. A little goes a long way. If you want to feel like an old vampire buried in the pines, or maybe like you're doing a cult ritual in the backwoods, this is for you.

This is my favorite fragrance to date. Masterfully crafted and incredibly photorealistic, I feel like I’m transported back to a 16th century rural apothecary when I wear this. It’s dark and heavy, surprisingly sweet in a dry and fleeting sense, but that sweetness is grounded by the oud and fungi. It evokes something very melancholic, and never fails to lead me down a path of wishing I was alive in a different time when simple aspects were much more meaningful. It starts out as this symphony of dried roses and incense, which becomes partially shrouded by the earthy notes on the drydown. As it fades, it becomes much more incense-heavy. Perfumery is so fascinating, it seems like the story told by the timing of certain notes appearing and fading was entirely intentional.

My third from Pineward and it does not disappoint. Marvelous. It is unfortunate that my wife despises it. Immediately after spraying, I decided to grace her with my presence. It didn't take two seconds for her to reply, "Absolutely Not!". This was loud at first and certainly not to her liking. I get the smoke and the copper (blood like) tinge. This feels so like nature. Maybe what Rambo smelled like as he covered himself in mud to hide. Maybe not! 😁. It is done really well. Yet, it fits the category of fragrances that would be hard to wear around my wife. Therefore, a full bottle is out of the question. A small bottle for me to.enjoy when I am alone may absolutely work. 8 hours in longevity. Really loud at first and a skin scent about 2 and 1/2 hours. Happy hunting.

I love funerie- leather, incense, and dried roses are some of my favorite smells, and pineward does it wonderfully. It’s incredibly strong, I don’t even need a full spray, all I need to do is push down on the lid enough for a drop to come out and the smell radiates. I will say, the smell is a bit clean for me, I don’t really get much of that smokiness and pineboard- it kinda gives Halloween store crossed with a gentrified spiritual shop, but that’s very easily fixed with some layering. Right now I like to layer with Kyphi from Olympic orchids, but I feel like it would pair better with a dirtier, soil scent, so I’m ordering samples of oxylus, fanghorn ii, and eldritch when I have the money- I really feel like they’ll go well together.

The opening of this perfume is absolutely potent... as soon as I spray it my room gets consumed with this smell of mushroom. My sister said she found the smell absolutely horrific and had to leave the room due to how strong it was. However, I find the dry down to be absolutely lovely. It's a lovely incense smell combined with the leather and cedar makes it perfect for the fall time. It smells very similar to the incense I burn in my bedroom, so being able to wear it as a perfume is great for me. While I can understand why it's too strong and strange smelling for most people I find it lovely.

Review is for post-summer 2023. Less mushroom, more incense & cedar. The notes don't lie, it smells overwhelmingly of smoke, incense, cedar, with the leather, rose, and mushroom-texture weaving throughout. Dark, brooding, deep, dry, but comforting if you're into that. Smells like an occult shop in a house that's been there for a couple hundred years. I've been looking forward to trying this one for a while, and I like it a lot more than even I thought I would. It's gorgeous. It's NOT blind buy safe, but an easy wear for the right kind of person. That right kind of person being me.

When its still wet on your hand its like the most concentrated thick smoke but while drying down the scent gets more leathery and that dry rose starts to come out, i love how oud is done there, very stinky animalic and pure but its brought down with dry rose, really beautiful blend, and it lasts whole day on skin and is hard to wash off cloathes. Ultra musculant colonge, super strong and long lasting, two sprays on your neck and one on wrist will last whole day, i soaked my denim jacket in this perfume and is just how it smells now. 10/10 Its such a heavy fregrence

I only tryed the sample, but im already an addict!! I just cant explain, but this perfume is other wordly. Like, never smellt any perfume like this before. It has such an unique and dark fragrance. It starts with really intense smell but then, it becomes much "calmer" and gloomy. It definitelly remind me of walking in a cemetery!! I sprayed some on my scarf and clothes, and after a couple of days, i still smelt that smokeyness of the perfume on them!! It became my signature scent for sure!!🎃🥀🖤

Funerie smells like a church residing deep in the forest that has been long since been abandoned, only for that church to the be set aflame on a crisp fall night, the scent of a burning building and the old incense left within it mingle with the scents of a deep, dark forest. It is comforting, it soothes the ache of relgious trauma with the image of it all being burned to nothing. 10/10 buy if burning a church would be cathartic to you.

Funerie is LOUD! on application and off of a tester paper. Give it a chance to dry down! I completely understand not liking it, but to me it’s sitting and filling your old leather bound journal long after your incense has burnt out. The earth, funk, and acrid smoke are intense at first but dry out to a balancing earthiness, at least for me. The sweetness is closer to tobacco than rose to my nose. Underrated and overhated!

reminds me of the woods of northern virginia in late summer and early autumn - rotting wood, distant decay, damp soil, and fungi. on my skin it starts off very woody, herbal, and a bit mushroomy. very cedar and pine forward at first. fades into a sweet, animalic, earthy decomp smell. i'm a total nerd about forensics and mortuary science, so i love this whole scent profile. so unique and definitely one of my faves.

This is deeply earthy (mushroom) and inky with hints of incense, resins, and smoldering wood which pulls you in at first and as it dried down and warms up on the skin there is slight floral and pipe tobacco sweetness mixed with the blood accord, oud, and resinous notes wafting around. Gives off mysterious/gothy vibe. I love this. I can see this being polarizing so get a sample first. Not a blind buy safe scent.