Maplewood Inn

It's a crisp fall day in New England, and you're browsing a small shop that sells candles and old books. The floors are the original hardwood and you notice they're slightly dusty as they creak beneath your feet. The quiet shopkeeper is reading a book, and reminds you only once to let them know if you need help finding anything, in between sips of their sweet, spicy tea. You're then left alone to browse at your leisure for the rest of the afternoon.

Ooh, this is a good one. Their maple-spice-candle (like in Kitchen and others) is a major note, but this one’s not quite as gourmand as those; it’s got a fair amount of wood both fresh and smoky, like a fire burning in the hearth with a pile of newly split pine logs next to it. Gives it an incense angle that I really love, on top of the sweet mug of chai.

I love this so much! Lots of maple (not like maple syrup, more like the wood) and smoke with sweet vanilla and spice. This is one of my most-complimented perfumes. It is intense at first with powerful smokey notes, but mellows out into a warm, cozy, gourmand. Perfect for fall. It does really well in cold weather IMO.

This opens as a new cedar chest, then, gradually, the maple sweetness starts to seep in, closely followed by tendrils of smoke from a newly lit wood fire. It takes time for all these elements to appear. The far dry down is very sweet incense atop a single cedar plank. It never becomes as smooth as I would prefer but I think that only adds to the windswept, autumnal experience. It really is a casual, effortless, organically unkempt type of fragrance that could easily be the signature of a renegade or wildling. Perfectly unisex if you're into reckless woods. Review of full bottle blind-buy directly from SolsticeScents.com PS I feel like consumers are so conditioned to "cheap" generic, synthetic perfumes, they can't remember that fragrances are supposed to develop over time and not smell exactly the same from first spritz to dry down to end of wear hours later. And if you really want to see what a scent can do, YOU MUST GIVE IT A FULL WEARING ON SKIN, minimum 4 hours.

woody, smoky, almost cinnamony goodiness. Reviewers before me mentioned it is not the syrup that they get with this one ... not sure about the distinction, on fragrantica, the page with the 'maple' note description says 'Thick, sweetish note that recalls maple syrup with woody hints'.Anyway, tree saps, leaves etc. and whatever is produced from them tend to smell similarly. If I'm pressed to tell maple syrup and the 'maple' note apart, then maybe the maple here does not smell as sweet and condensed as maple syrup. but I do think that people smelling this not knowing these fine differences, they would instantly associate it with maple syrup. Anyway, I stop babbling now. If you like woody scents and maple syrup, you cannot go wrong with this one. :) p.s. maplewood inn dries down to a lovely spicy-smoky vanilla base, a bit similar to Postprandial.