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Christmas Wine 2020

6.9 / 10 84 Ratings
A perfume by Pineward for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is fruity-spicy. It is only available seasonally and therefore limited in availability. The perfume is vegan according to the manufacturer.
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Main accords

Fruity
Spicy
Sweet
Resinous
Woody

Fragrance Notes

CranberryCranberry PlumPlum CloveClove Fir balsamFir balsam NutmegNutmeg Blood orangeBlood orange

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Ratings
Scent
6.984 Ratings
Longevity
7.464 Ratings
Sillage
6.666 Ratings
Bottle
7.653 Ratings
Value for money
6.629 Ratings
Submitted by Hatka · last update on 11/26/2025.
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Landshark321

751 Reviews
Landshark321
Landshark321
Helpful Review 2  
Aptly named sweet, fruity, spicy blend with fir balsam
Pineward Perfumes Christmas Wine is, I believe, a seasonal offering from this 2020-launched house out of western US whose inspirations mainly include the outdoors and particularly pine trees.

Christmas Wine is yet another example of a great mix of woody, spicy, sweet, and resinous elements, with a note listing of cranberry, plum, blood orange, cloves, nutmeg, fir balsam. So it’s plenty fruity, a quite sweet, a bit tart, with significant woody underpinning, dense and dark enough that, like most of the house’s offerings, it’s clearly better for colder weather and in line with the current winter season in the northern hemisphere.

The juice is dark and strong, as, with other releases from the house, Christmas Wine is compounded at a extrait concentration, 30%+, reminiscent of Slumberhouse releases, and similarly, I would liken this scent in particular (as I did with another) to the stewed fruit aspect of Slumberhouse Baque and Mond, albeit somewhat better than Baque but in a comparable style to both scents.

The pricing is fairly consistent with the rest of the line, as well, with a newer, larger size having been made available, seemingly for all scents in the catalogue: $220/128/80 for 57/37/17ml.

I continue to by impressed by Pineward’s offerings, loving the vast majority of the fragrances I’ve sampled, and I still have some more to go.

8 out of 10
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EnomisCVD

138 Reviews
EnomisCVD
EnomisCVD
3  
Red fruits syrup
Mulled wine on Christmas night.
Sweet and very juicy: mouth watering.
A very thick, unfiltered blend that just from the color alone lets you know how rich in natural raw materials is.
A warming syrup: but one that I would not underestimate even on spring days.
Quality/price always very high like most of all the Pinewards.
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Drseid

828 Reviews
Drseid
Drseid
2  
Christmas for Coneheads...
Christmas Wine opens with the faintest dash of plumed orange with underlying coniferous green fir immediately detectable. As the composition enters its early heart the coniferous fir takes the fore in a big way, supported by a slightly tart cranberry spiked mulled wine accord. During the late dry-down the mulled wine accord gradually fades before vacating, as the fir looses most of its pungent green facet, leaving the now soft, near-powdery coniferous remnants to take command through the finish. Projection is good and longevity is very good to excellent at around 11 hours on skin.

Wow, what a surprise this perfume was. With a title "Christmas Wine," I nearly dismissed the perfume out of hand, believing it really wouldn't be my kind of thing at all... I was wrong. In truth, the extremely well-done coniferous green aspect melds surprisingly well with the tart mulled red wine accord to create a winning result not wholly unlike that of the very good Fille en Aiguilles by Serge Lutens, though I think I like Christmas Wine more. If there was anything I would improve on, it mainly is the perfume proves highly linear. In truth, that in and of itself is really not a deficiency, but more of a personal preference that this writer can easily look past and enjoy the perfume for what it is. The bottom line is the $128 per 37ml extrait bottle Christmas Wine is a "very good" to "excellent" 3.5 to 4 stars out of 5 rated winner from relatively new house Pineward Perfume whose current and future releases demand attention, earning it a strong recommendation to "cone heads," like myself in particular.
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MartTobacco

32 Reviews
MartTobacco
MartTobacco
2  
A fruity take on mulled wine
Christmas Wine is a bit lighter, or just seems to be on my skin, and way more spicy too. Loads of cloves and nutmeg at the forefront, there is also a good pinch of cinnamon. Spicy and intriguing. Also some dose of sweetness, but I would say it is semi-dry, rather than semi-sweet. Quite vibrant. Nice
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LastWonder

488 Reviews
LastWonder
LastWonder
1  
Christmas Store and Slightly Sour
This would be one of Pineward's more "gourmand" fragrances. Its like a Christmas Tree Shop but really mellowed out. It opens with a strong cranberry jelly (from the can) smell. A red fruity and sweet smell. There is a strong fir balsam that makes the scent very resinous and in the beginning it gives that fir smell to the berries. After the berries and fir fade, this becomes pretty linear. Its a strong resin smell that is kinda sour for at about 30 minutes. At this time I also noticed the area I sprayed was kind of tacky, like the fragrance left a residue on my skin. Once the sour resin mellows out, you just get the resin without the fir scent. I would say the scent lasted on my skin for about 5 hours and the projection is fairly average.

The thing I am noticing, going through the Pineward sample pack, is that any fragrance of Pineward that has resin/balsam in it, will typically be dominated by that scent and those fragrances all have the same dry down. It kinda making them all feel "the same." Like all the effort go towards the top notes and the dry down is kinda forgotten about.
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3 years ago
2
Fruity, spicy and wee boozy. A little to sweet for my likings.
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A gently fruity, warm and resinous spicy-woody Winter fragrance, with a thick and boozy spicy fruity-sweet opening. Very smooth drydown.
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1 year ago
1
The best Christmas Wine I've ever had, well spiced for staying in from the snow. Tart cranberry at the forefront, but balanced
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3 years ago
1
fruity syrupy. very thick liquid. not for me.
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I don't really get Christmas from this specifically. It's a nice spiced sour cranberry scent with pine in the background
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Winter
Tent made of fir branches
Glowing liqueur of dark plum
Resin-popping clove dance
Warm refuge
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Forget the plums in the oven
They'll muse themselves
My friend
the tree ...
is dead ...
He now lives with clove
as a Friesen cake :-)
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Have you ever pulled cherry-marzipan-curry-cake from a smoky oven? No? Lucky you!
Quite a rich gourmand! From Pineward?
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Frosty Night
Warm room with fruity songs
Kiss under the clove branch
Wintery whisper of the fir tree
Lovely coziness
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Spicy fruity and relatively subtle scent,
that fits well under the Christmas tree.
Not a must.
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