Tome

Now, I’m against reviewing a scent based on a sample vial. Perhaps I have my biases, but it leaves room for interpretation. Not enough time and experience with the fragrance, or it didn’t warrant a full-bottle purchase, thus it’s not collection-worthy, or perhaps I was clever enough and didn’t give in to the marketing poetry so abundant these days. Nevertheless, I am breaking my rule with TOME, since I have decided it is full bottle-worthy, and will soon add it to my collection. Much like with Pumpkivus and my longing for a proper pumpkin scent, I have long anticipated a perfume that would do justice to this ambiguous theme, a fragrance to evoke the smell of old books with their leather bindings and yellowed pages. And I have managed to trace down quite a few; however, none were specifically designed around that topic, and only bits and pieces of them stimulated my imagination in that direction. Nevertheless, and once again, just like with Pumpkivus, I had my doubts about whether Nick could pull off this quest. Thankfully, for all the weird people out there, he did. TOME smells quintessentially of old books. Plain and simple. At first, I was impressed, but I had to ask myself, “Is this too literal?” and “Can it be worn as a perfume?” I felt it was a great technical achievement, but more something to spray occasionally in private and marvel at the accuracy with which it achieved its goal than something to feel comfortable and, most importantly, enjoy as a personal scent. However, the more I wore TOME, the more I realized that it was, after all, a perfume that could be thoroughly enjoyed as a scent. As mentioned, the opening vividly resembles the smell of old book pages. There is also an equally accurate “glue accord,” perhaps nodding to the hinge, and an evocative “leather binding” facet. The latter defines TOME globally as a scent. Indeed, I would classify it as a leather perfume. The leather accord comes across as dusty, dry, and old, even rugged, perhaps. There is no saltiness, no smoke, nor animalics to go along. Instead, Nick has decided to use sandalwood, orris, and ambrette to imbue a slightly sweet and powdery finish to his leather. Hence, TOME begins as an overly accurate old-book scent, shifts to a dusty old leather, and finishes as a cozy, slightly sweet, powdery-woody scent that still holds the memory of the books with their leather bindings. It is brilliant in the way it quenches that “imaginary fix” while further evolving and providing a complete perfume experience, and for a leather fiend like myself, a proper leather feast. Lastly, there is an undeniable coziness about it, even a sense of nostalgia, and for me, the two go hand in hand. All I can surmise about TOME is that it is hands-down the most accurate perfume I have tried playing around with this “old books” fictional accord, and I cannot recommend it enough to people who are still on the hunt for such scents. Moreover, fans of leather perfumes will also find TOME worthwhile. IG:@memory.of.scents

Sampling Pineward Perfumes Tome, a 2025 release that fitting smells a lot like an older, leather-bond book, a dry, leathery, spicy, slightly fresh medley consisting of notes of aged leather, paper, parchment, orris, rice, tobacco, and mixed woods. It’s highly evocative and accurate while not being overly provocative and veering on animalic or acerbic—a dry, cozy, pleasant experience nonetheless provided by a rather robust concoction. Overall, I’m really impressed by Tome’s combination of authenticity, uniqueness, relative ease of wearing, and overall quality. In my opinion, it marks a new level of achievement in a new category of fragrance that broadly expands the catalogue, as there’s really nothing like this that I’ve come across in Pineward to date. I’ll have to put some serious thought into nabbing a bottle. Tome is extrait concentration and sold in the US via the house website as well as Luckyscent, mainly, at the standard extrait pricing of $350/230/150 for 100/52/32ml, though it’s still at the older pricing of $130 for 32ml on Luckyscent currently. 8 out of 10

I got a sample and honestly smells almost photorealistic of a really old book you'd find in the library that no one has been in. Like you can just smell picking up the book, opening it, having a little dust come out, and then a heavy whiff of old paper. Then the more leathery aspect comes in, making smell like a whole book. But something I didn't expect is how decent the tea would come in... I was confused were this so so light sweetness came from till I saw. So yeah, its like opening up a very old book while taking some quaint sips of tea. Do I recommend it? I think its nice, wouldn't wear it though but I can see how someone would love this. 8.5/10 Edit: Last through a shower. Take that as you will. Also! Got a tiny bit sweeter! edit 2: All my friends I showed it too says it smells amazing and that its a damn good parfume, one is even considering getting a bottle! Seems its a fan favorite of the parfume samples I have so far.

It literally smells like a book I sprayed it on paper and was like oh this paper..... smells like paper.... Then I sprayed it on skin and yeah more paper. A+ on this report Mr pineward The more experience I have with it I really just fall more and more in love. It’s perfect. I smell the library with soft leather furniture and wooden tables from different eras spanning over hundreds of years even part of the railing of the staircase is new the rest old and porous. I can feel all the textures and all of the time I’d spend there taking some time every so often to look up and examine the high ceilings dust particles and smoke from mugs of coffee and tee swirling and glimmering in the rays of light seeping in through stained glass. I take a deep breath feel gratitude for the beauty and keep on studying

Amazing fragrance. I get paper, leather and woods (cedar mostly) along with leather. Beastly strong. The construction here is really great, and that's normally the trade off with many indie perfumers. You sacrifice some expertise that you'd get from a Grasse trained perfumer in exchange for ingredient quality. But here you give up nothing. If you told me this made with a professionally trained perfumer, I'd believe you. Outstanding work from Nicolas Nilsen. Thanks to my buddy who sent me the decant. I'm going to buy this one eventually. ×××××××××××××××××××××××××× Scent 97/100 Performance 95/100 ××××××××××××××××××××××××××