Bramblesap Havenhollow 2024

2025 BATCH

Use your imagination to picture the perfect autumn scene, it's probably a bunch of maple and pine trees with the perfect shade of orange, yellow and red leaves and maybe a foggy mountain in the back. Thats exactly what this smells like

Opening - bramblesap opens up with a ton of whiskey and pine, along side some tart blueberries and fuzzy apricot. After around 5 minutes, it gets intensly spicy and resinous with mulled spices (not wine, it doesn't smell winey to me but mulled spices), cinnamon and dark oak wood, pine needles, pine sap, pine cones and pine resins.

Drydown - When it dries down, it isn't very sweet, nor is it very spicey, it's balanced in the middle with dry, crunchy maple leaves, oak wood, cinnamon, pine sap, pine needles, maple syrup, a little dark berries and a touch of vanilla. 9.3/10

This fragrance would be perfect in 10-15ml rather than a full bottle as I can only see myself wearing this in autumn and some winter days.

I have only tried the 2025 batch of this and as of now (5 July 2026) this is the only havenhallow that I have tried and I can already tell I will love this house and will for sure try more

I’ve always wanted to try this fragrance, since I am a big fall lover. The only thing I was scared is that I’ve heard that it’s simillar to ponderosa by pineward, which I absolutely hate. But since I have it on skin right now, here you go:
Bramblesap opens up with a cloying very sweet synthetic smell of apricot and lemon, wafer like. After 3 minutes on the skin, pine and a mulled wine smell with spices take over the scent, At this point, a maple syrup smell can also be very noticable. Don’t get me wrong, it’s very well blended, but I think it’s an extremely sweet scent. Like I myself like sweet perfume but this is overly sweet.
The perfume reminds me alot of Christmas, it’s got that cinnamon very sweet gingerbread like smell which I think could be really loved by people.
The drydown, kinda saves the scent for me, there s something here that balances 50% of that sweetness (still sweet but at least more balanced now) maybe the cedar but Idk exactly.
Is it simillar to ponderosa ? Definetely, although this is a way better alternative, while ponderosa smells like sweet vomit, bramblesap takes that sweetness and mixes it cinnamon, mulled wine and syntethic apricot. There’s alot of pine/resins listed in the notes but I can barely pick it up.
Overall, not a bad scent, but did not live up to my expectations, definetely worth a try tho. (This is a review of the 2024 version, I heard the new one is more pine heavy, which could figure this scent out)

Very big whiskey note on the open, strong , projects heavy even from a dabber. This is the kind of whiskey that is going to burn all the way down. Next some sweetness creeps past the fiery alcohol, a bit fizzy, feels like pine candy a bit, it's a slightly sweet but evergreenish smell. Maple syrup tones establish in the sweetness. Turpenic pine notes remain with this, adding a fresh effect. As it dries down it gets sweeter and more maple, more like a maple toffee.

Per my partner - why does it smell like caramel pine needles, this is the strangest gourmand. Thing is she isn't wrong, it is pretty sweet almost to the point of cloying, it is thick and syrupy. It is most certainly a line gourmand scent in profile.

This was an interesting and unique scent, evergreen forest candy was not on my list for scents that I would experience.

This is gorgeous, exactly what I imagine a forest-dwelling witch whose skin and clothes have absorbed all the scents of nature smells like. Smoky, resinous, green, sweet sap and dark, mysterious woods.
Do I want it? Absolutely.
$193 US for a 30ml? Absolutely delusional.
He needs to reconsider those pretentiously expensive bottles and let the juice speak for itself.