Coastal Veil Pineward 2023

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6.9 / 10 62 Ratings

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

Aquatic

Fresh

Woody

Green

Earthy

Fragrance Notes

Bladderwrack

Seawater

Oyster mushroom

Blue gum eucalyptus

Irish moss

Ambergris

Cypress

Juniper berry

Juniper needle

Sandalwood

Water pepper

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Nicholas Nilsson Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

6.962 Ratings

Longevity

7.547 Ratings

Sillage

7.146 Ratings

Bottle

7.637 Ratings

Value for money

7.423 Ratings

Submitted by Jakobkn, last update on 07/09/2025.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/23/2025

Thewrongbeth
77 Reviews

Thewrongbeth

5

Scent of home

So, I grew up on the Atlantic Coast/Chesapeake Bay area. Where the salty sea and inland fresh water mix. Brackish blackwater.

This part of the U.S. is among the oldest of the Euro-inhabited. In fact, where I'm from, there's a spot called "First Landing," where some old timey English dude touched grass in 1607 on the way to "settle" Jamestown. (Nevermind that the Powhatan confederacy was already there, but I digress.)

Anywho . . . because the first thing the imigrants wanted to do in this part of the world was grow some lucrative crops, like tobacco, cotton, etc., the tidewater areas is littered with lots of old buildings, i.e., plantation houses. The Adam Thoroughgood house, built in 1719, still stands and you can tour it. So do houses like Ferry, Francis Land, etc. You can still visit them. Learn some history and such.

My point is that when you do, thanks to the extra humid coastal climate (temperate winters/soggy summers), these buildings have an unmistakeable smell. Marine, briny, mossy, dank, muddy, mushroomy. Musty, loamy, old. Like literal centuries of salt air breezing through these old hardwood hallways. Saturating the place. HOW on earth Pineward perfumer captured this aroma, I will never know. Chalk it up to sorcery.

Coastal Veil is the most, perhaps unintentionally, perfect scent of place I have ever experienced. I can spritz it, close my eyes, and be immediately transported through time to my youth. To my roots. I will savor this and wear it for no other reason than to experience this wave of nostalgia again and again. Slow clap, my friends. Sloooow clap.

06/01/2023

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Landshark321
696 Reviews

Landshark321

Helpful Review 3

Agreeable aquatic - salty, fresh, woody, green blend

Sampling Pineward Perfumes Coastal Veil, one of the house’s recent releases for spring, a fittingly maritime but also fresh and green scent, with sea spray meeting a medley of woods, conjuring being on the coast, smelling both the land and the ocean at the same time. It adds diversity to the catalogue, which to this point has not had any aquatic-dominant scents by my recollection, though the collection has grown significantly since its 2020 launch, delightfully expanding form a high concentration of darker/woodier scents to a more diverse array. I think Coastal Veil does a good job of conjuring the shore while not being insistent on any unusual aspects—green pines and salty sea spray sum it up fairly well. Overall, I like it.

Like most of the line, Coastal Veil is priced at $135/80 for 57/37ml, roughly the standard for fragrances in EDT concentration (much of the house’s higher-concentration fragrances are priced higher), and is sold exclusively via the house website.

7 out of 10

04/18/2024

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Levinferry
2 Reviews

Levinferry

4

Lakeside shore blended in a bottle

An incredible aquatic fragrance less like a marine beach and much more reminiscent of it's name-- Like the forest at the edge of a lake, saltwater spray in the fog of the coast, overcast, but knowing the sun will still shine that evening.

A great spring or summer fragrance. I bought this in another handful of Pineward samples from my second purchase from the house, which shares the same 5-ish hour longevity as most of their collection and incredibly unique blends: Coastal Veil has the same woodsy qualities as most Pineward perfumes, yet stands out with it's very, very strong aquatic and almost cooling notes which could be the cypress and eucalyptus-- However, personally, despite feeling them on my skin, I can't smell them-- which isn't entirely a bad thing!

The seaweed notes are most prominent throughout the entire wear time, from initial spray to dry down. At the very end of it is where most of the note layers begin to show through albeit very, very little; there's a hint of something earthy, like driftwood drying in the sun, almost musty which could be both the sandalwood and mushroom. The ambergris is little but makes the saltwater and seaweed much more wearable; I can tell it's included in the blend despite not being able to distinctly sniff it out because without it I fear this would just be a seaweed stinkbomb.

Despite being cooling at the end, it's quite warm in the opening and first hour or two of wear, incredibly reminiscent of that feeling when you let your feet sit in the saltwater of the shore; Something like heartache, maybe, for the rainclouds about to pass. Or appreciation for the minnows in the shallows kissing at your feet, joy, for the child running about with a big branch along the shore of the beach.

Coastal Veil is a truly unique fragrance that speaks to someone who's grown up near the coast, and anyone else that would love to feel that same love I hold for the woods I use to stomp around in.

Would truly recommend for someone looking for a watery fragrance that doesn't rely on citrus to carry it. However, it is quite strong, even for an EDT, so it could be headache inducing especially for those sensitive to mineral/saltwater smells, or gets sneezy around fresh scents.

02/20/2024

7
Pricing 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

LastWonder
483 Reviews

LastWonder

3

Watery Green

This is a scent reminiscent of walking on the rocks during low tide with the sky overcast and the trees behind you. Fresh and green but subtle. From the beginning you are getting the eucalyptus and sea water, a complex aquatic cooling scent. The scent turns a little resinous but its soften by the juniper berries and needles. The dry down is woody and a little animalic to me, I almost thought there was a dirty leather note in here, but there isn't. That animalic scent fades and you left with a warm green woody scent. The projection is good and the longevity is about 5 hours.

02/24/2025

8
Sillage 7
Longevity 6
Scent

elcove
6 Reviews

elcove

2

An interesting take on a sea scent

In the 1700s a large earthquake erupted off the west coast of the US. The shaking ripped up the sea floor and caused the land to drop. The latter, combined with resultant tsunamis in the Pacific, caused forests along the coasts to suddenly become flooded with seawater, killing the trees. The modern remnant of this is the ghost forest in Oregon, where only the stumps of those dead trees.

I imagine this fragrance to be the smell of that forest when it was first flooded, the trees either killed by the inundation of saltwater, or slowly dying as a result, but their needles have not yet fallen off. Imagine a mangrove swamp, or Florida (where areas of the coast are experiencing a slower version of this with gradual saltwater intrusion due to rising sea levels), but with coniferous forest instead of tropical vegetation. The smell of the woods and needles, once fresh, is now swathed by that of brackish water, which has also carried in moss and seaweed with it and stirred up the soil as it flooded in. All that mixes in the air, which is at least humid, if not shrouded in the Veil of fog conjured in the name of the fragrance.

It is an interesting take on both marine and woody scents. Perhaps a murky one, or mysterious, depending on perspective. I do not find this a fresh scent, although I am also living in a tropical climate, and I think it is more suited for somewhere temperate but not arid, and in cold weather. Leans masculine for me, though it is definitely not a cologne-y scent.