Gristmill

This is one of my favorites from Pineward (and I'm a fan of many). It's a cedar centric woody amber with just the right touch of industrial grit, but that description alone isn't doing it justice. Something about it hits me right in the gut and heart such that every time I've worn it I have known I would eventually get a real bottle- and today I pulled the trigger along with Eldritch. Both of them are what I would guess are some of the less mass appealing ones in the Pineward line, but if you're among those that connect to them you will really connect. Big thanks to Nick for offering reasonably sized bottles with formulas strong enough to make the price per wear a good value proposition.

This is a woody and nutty scent with a some ambery accords. This opens with a very prominent mahogany note with the smell wooden cedar planks and sawdust following. It smells very much like freshly cut wood but the woods don’t feel dry, they have some creaminess to them. The sawdust is actually a really enjoyable powdery woody note. The walnut note creeps in there adding some slightly sweet nuttiness to the scent. I get warm labdanum in the dry down and this is a note i typically don’t enjoy but i think its done well here. It’s warm, ambery, even slightly smoky. I love how extremely woody this scent is without feeling redundant or boring

Gristmill is remarkable in, as a few other reviewers have noted, capturing the oily sense of nearby hot machinery, in addition to fresh sawdust, with a distinct nutty-walnut underpinning that keeps the top notes from being screechy without veering anywhere near gourmand. While this isn't my favorite Pineward from a strictly hedonistic perspective (though I still like the overall impression very much), I love it for being so complex and well-blended. Performance-wise, Gristmill wears like Pineward's spicy fragrances -- moderate projection and a solid 8-ish hour wear-time, and darn near eternal on clothing.

I love Gristmill very much. It's my favorite scent I've tried from Pineward so far and I'm considering a full bottle. The sawdust note is very accurate. It has the slightest sweetness to it that you get from freshly cut wood, but no more than that. The one thing that's driving me nuts is that I (and my family) get a very strong tobacco smell from it. I haven't seen a single person mention it in a review. Am I going crazy?

An absolute love at first smell. It’s whistful but not delicate which is a hard combo to pull off. It reminds me of the clear light of fall and chopping wood for the winter.