Pine Eau de Parfum

🌸 Basic Information and First Impression

Pine is a 2024 Eau de Parfum by Stora Skuggan, the Stockholm-based niche fragrance house. Its official note presentation is radically simple: Pine at the top, Pine in the middle, and Pine in the base. The verified core format is 30 ml Eau de Parfum, with the official European price listed at 150 euros.

The first impression is not simply fresh forest air. Pine feels like a whole pine tree compressed into fragrance: green needles, sweet resin, dry bark, fallen needles, moss, and forest floor. It asks the wearer to smell pine not as a room freshener or a clean outdoor breeze, but as a living material with sap, body, age, and shadow.

👤 Perfumer, Brand Background, and Creation Story

The perfumer credited in multiple sources is Tomas Hempel, co-founder of Stora Skuggan. His role is closely tied to the brand's collective and in-house way of working, where fragrance, bottle, artwork, and packaging are treated as part of one imaginative object.

Stora Skuggan is known for perfumes built around myths, strange phenomena, lost plants, and visual storytelling. Pine is unusual within that context because it removes much of the external myth and concentrates on a single subject. It takes the idea of a soliflore and applies it not to a flower, but to a giant tree.

🧪 Detailed Scent Analysis (Top, Middle, Base)

Officially, every level is Pine. In practice, different facets of the pine tree come forward over time. The opening suggests pine needles, new growth, cool conifer greenery, and sometimes a faint herbal-citrus brightness.

The heart centers on pine resin and sap. This is where the perfume becomes most distinctive: sweet resin, balsamic warmth, dry bark, and woody bitterness. Some wearers find this natural and beautiful; others experience it as unexpectedly sweet, candle-like, or synthetic.

The drydown turns toward fallen needles, humus, moss, oakmoss-like darkness, and a faint smoky or incense-like trace. Performance is often reported as long-lasting, with reviews ranging from around eight hours to twelve hours depending on skin and conditions.

⚖️ Comparison and Positioning

Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles is a useful reference because it also connects pine, resin, smoke, and sweetness. However, Fille en Aiguilles feels more festive, wintry, fruity, spicy, and incense-like, while Pine concentrates on the material density of resin, bark, and forest floor.

Profumum Roma Arso also shares pine resin, incense, wood, and winter warmth, but it feels more like an interior scene with leather, tobacco, a fireplace, and a mountain chalet. Pine feels closer to standing outside and touching the tree itself.

🛒 Buying Guide, Price, and Recommendation

The confirmed regular version is 30 ml Eau de Parfum. No official EDT, Extrait, Parfum, limited edition, or reformulated concentration has been confirmed. Samples and discovery sets exist, but they should be understood as different formats rather than different versions of the scent.

Pine is recommended for people who enjoy coniferous woods, pine resin, moss, humus, smoke, dry bark, and conceptual niche fragrances. It is not an easy blind buy. The name is simple, but the skin experience can shift toward sweet amber, old pine candle, moss, and forest-floor darkness.

💬 Real-World Wear, Scenes, and Reputation

Pine is best suited to autumn, winter, and cool spring days. It can work in summer only with restraint, especially in cooler evenings or mountain-like settings. It suits quiet bars, art events, reading, nature-oriented travel, wool, leather, and darker casual clothing.

Reception is polarized in a productive way. Positive reactions often describe it as real pine, a serious tree scent, or a full forest in a bottle. Critical reactions mention incense, humus, candle-like sweetness, or synthetic amber-woody effects. That divide is part of the identity of the perfume: Pine is not light forest freshness, but a sculptural object made from pine resin, needles, bark, moss, and deep time.