Akero Pineward 2023

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6.5 / 10 37 Ratings

A perfume by Pineward for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is fruity-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fruity

Woody

Fresh

Resinous

Sweet

Fragrance Notes

Green apple Benzoin

Benzoin

Cedar

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Nicholas Nilsson Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

6.537 Ratings

Longevity

7.423 Ratings

Sillage

6.926 Ratings

Bottle

7.418 Ratings

Value for money

6.714 Ratings

Submitted by DuftFlasher, last update on 05/31/2025.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/11/2024

7
Pricing 4
Sillage 8
Longevity 7
Scent

LastWonder
484 Reviews

LastWonder

1

Crisp Dirty Apple

This is a green apple freshly picked off the tree, you take a bite and accidentally drop it. There is dirt sticking to the crisp white flesh of the apple. This is a tart apple scent that is clean and bright but there is a noticeable dirty note, like the smell of dry dirt. This scent is pretty linear, what you get at the beginning is what you get at the end. Which is pretty rare for an apple scent, it tends to be fleeting. This also breaks with tradition of other Pineward fragrances, it isn't heavy or resinous. This is nice break from their regular fragrances.

This scent lasted about 6 hours on my skin. You can still detect the apple at the 6 hour mark. This is more of a skin scent, there is some lift at the beginning but not much. I think that is fine for this fragrance, its more on the delicate side. There are various sizes and price points starting at $20 for 4ml, $80 for 37ml, and $135 for 57ml. If you like an interesting apple scent that has good longevity, then these are some really good price points for this fragrance.

04/08/2024

8
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

DuftFlasher
9 Reviews

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DuftFlasher

Helpful Review 6

Green indie apple with resin & wood

When I read that one of the new Pineward EdTs was coming up as an apple soliflore, my interest in a natural green apple scent for my collection was piqued.

With this expectation, I ordered the fragrance blind. After the first spray, I was at a loss: where is the apple? Then I was startled by the unexpected and distinct presence of the benzoin-sandalwood combination. Then, slowly, but increasingly, the green apple emerged.

Even though the apple is always present in the first hour, I feel that the scent is built around the wood-resin core and not the other way around, as I had hoped. Akero has a very linear (unspectacular) fragrance progression. It doesn't really change much, except for the fact that the apple clearly recedes after about an hour and soon disappears. As already indicated in my statement: it is not necessarily an apple soliflore for me, as Pineward writes. For that, it would have to be more central and dominate the fragrance, which it does not do.

I would have liked a watery, lighter, transparent, yet juicy and fresh-tart, cool green apple with significantly more restraint from benzoin and sandalwood. The apple-benzoin-wood combination dominates and not primarily the green apple alone. This also makes the fragrance warming rather than cooling in a certain way due to the wood and resin. I would therefore place it in the cooler spring and in the foothills of fall.

I had hoped that Nicholas Nilsson would bring a similarly ingenious natural apple here as the mealy red apple in Apple Tabac, only without the spicy - or in this case resinous-woody - "disruptive factors". But that is of course a matter of taste and expectation management :)

A nicely made indie fragrance that gets more chances. The apple is also quite well done. Although not as authentic as the red one in Apple Tabac. Wood and resin are too loud (for me) in Akero, which is a shame, but that's the way it is with expectations. It's better not to have any.

The fragrance has a nice natural color, and I really like the 37ml formats of Pineward. I can't say anything about the H/S/P at this stage, but will add to this.

Cheers!