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7.9 / 10 49 Ratings
A popular perfume by Apoteker Tepe for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is resinous-smoky. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Resinous
Smoky
Woody
Green
Fresh

Fragrance Notes

FrankincenseFrankincense Pine needlePine needle HibaHiba Hinoki cypressHinoki cypress Kuromoji OakmossOakmoss SmokeSmoke Sweet birchSweet birch VetiverVetiver GingerGinger PeatPeat PearPear YuzuYuzu
Ratings
Scent
7.949 Ratings
Longevity
7.336 Ratings
Sillage
6.736 Ratings
Bottle
8.027 Ratings
Value for money
7.414 Ratings
Submitted by Chizza · last update on 08/13/2025.
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DivineGoth

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A warm bed of cypress needles on the sunny forest floor
When I received this as a sample for a Pineward order it had not yet been released. There were no notes available, and there was no entry on Parfumo! So I held out until it was officially released, I didn't want to accidentally stumble on a scrubber. And at first I was very worried about the ginger note. It has a history of turning into a musty dust smell on my skin that I'd liken to an abandoned library.

It's blended perfectly, just like all the other perfumes I've tried from Nilsson. Another realistic pine forest scent, but instead of being damp and dank this one is warm and dry. I can definitely smell the smoky incense aspect but it doesn't overtake the other notes. Fortunately, the ginger note lends itself to the incense and definitely doesn't smell like dust, nor does it pull in the direction of baking spices. The resinous feel of it makes it very cozy and perfect for those colder months from fall through winter. I can't smell the yuzu or pear individually but they help keep the overall scent bright.

Sillage is pretty good without over-projecting and being overpowering, but the longevity is fantastic. I can easily smell this 8+ hours after applying and can smell it for days afterwards on my clothes. It was an instant favorite of mine, as a huge fan of woodsy perfumes.
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Floyd

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Shiga Kogen - After the Rain over Shiga Kogen
"Winter seclusion -
Listening, that evening,
To the rain in the mountain."
(Yosa Buson)

I see through a window of incense resins. Olive green glimmers on the cool panes, fogged by clammy fireplaces outside, as if they were smoking copal. I am alone up here. Secluded. Mist drifts through fragrant thujas like smoke over damp marigolds, like crackling mint frost on silver birches over freezing Kuromoji bushes. Resins fall from conifers like sharp raindrops in slow motion. They are pepper flakes that modernly nestle in the winter haze among the mosses between the roots of grasses, branching out in the damp, cold, peaty soils of the high plateaus of Shiga Kogen.
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Nicholas Nilsson from Pineward acquired the discontinued Apotheker Tepe line from Holladay Saltz in 2022 to reissue it together with her. As a 'devoted fan' of Saltz's creations, he wanted to make these scents accessible to the world once again. What a stroke of luck. Just like "Brother Night," which "Kogen" faintly reminds me of in my heart, this re-release also goes beyond the original Apotheker Tepe fragrances.
"Kogen" initially presents itself to me through copal-like greenish incense resins that carry bright, earthy-rooty facets of vetiver, before briefly unfolding the greenish-aromatic scent of a thuja (Hiba tree), only to then become cooler and sharper. Ginger, the peppery-fresh Kuromoji bush (Lindera umbellata), the sweet-minty sugar birch, and cold smoke create a similar accord, although it appeared even more dominant in "Brother Night," marigold, copal resin, and smoke. In "Kogen," earthy oak moss complements this impression in the heart, softening the sharpness, which then becomes smokier in the distinctly peaty base.
The quote from Yosa Buson, with which the fragrance is illustrated on the house's homepage, captures the image of the forests of the Shiga Plateau in the Japanese Alps that the fragrance aims to depict quite well. One observes it through a copal resin lens from afar. Rather reserved and contemplative, it wafts along for a quiet evening.

(With thanks to SiameseDream)
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First stale wet aquatic pine w/ ginger and yuzu which felt lame. Fougerey fluffy mossy woody ending, which is nicer, but nothing special.
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"Winter seclusion -
Listen this evening
to the rain in the mountains."
YOSA BUSON
Kuromoji sauna next to the chapel.
Between the years *
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Meeting point Moss
Soapy steps in the incense fog, citrus jumps from the Hinoki mountain
Landing on
COMPLEX peat-earthy brown-green of vetiver roots.
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Pear is fruity, but luckily made bearable by woody resins.
Beautiful incense far from the ecclesiastical.
Subtle H/S.
A bit pricey *
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Silver incense
Needle green
Vetiver shadows
Ethereal sprinkles
I dig up roots
from soft moss balls
Sweet dew beads from
resin buds...
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Frankincense is enhanced by sharp notes (pine resin, ginger, vetiver) but remains harmonious: bright smoky, resinous green, subtly citrusy.
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Green pine needles
Breathing bright incense
Signs of life on cool days
In connection
With green resins
Over dry roots
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My punch-drenched glasses
Carry winter scents
Over the false cypresses
The steps sigh like copal
On rooty peat mosses
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A beautiful mix of bright incense and various evergreens, along with wood and resin. Exactly my style.
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Pine streaks on damp moss, sharp ginger tea during lunch.
A tingle tickles the nose. Healthy medicine, bittersweet it flows***
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