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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!
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!
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