Murkwood 2020

Murkwood by Pineward
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8.1 / 10 209 Ratings
A popular perfume by Pineward for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is resinous-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Resinous
Woody
Green
Spicy
Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Balsam firBalsam fir Hemlock firHemlock fir Lapsang Souchong teaLapsang Souchong tea MossMoss MyrrhMyrrh FrankincenseFrankincense

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Ratings
Scent
8.1209 Ratings
Longevity
8.0170 Ratings
Sillage
7.1165 Ratings
Bottle
8.0111 Ratings
Value for money
7.072 Ratings
Submitted by Hatka, last update on 07/02/2025.

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Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions
MartTobacco

32 Reviews
MartTobacco
MartTobacco
6  
Conifers dipped in smoky tea and wrapped in myrrh and incense
Murkwood appeared to be my favourite conifer fragrance of all time. It's dark, mysterious, but in the same time smoky.

Murkwood is THE dark forest scent for me. Very dark green, almost pitch black. It hides a mystery deep down inside.

As far as the scent goes it smells exactly the way I imagined myself and wanted how could possibly Norne from Slumberhouse smell like. A dark, dense forest right after the storm. Some of the trees were hit by thunder and they broke. From a longer distance you sense the traces of humans and the fireside they made to warm up their chilled to the bone bodies. A fireside with a lot of pine inside it, all burning. That's how Murkwood smells on my skin.

Just like Slumberhouse's Norne, Murkwood marks stains on clothes - the difference is in colour (Murkwood leaves grey-black stains and Norne leaves very dark green stains). Also - spraying it on the skin marks stains which actually dissapear after 12 hours or so.

Longevity is around 13-14 hours on my skin. Sillage is big within first 3 hours, then the scent slowly sticks to the skin.

I truly loved it, right away.
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Stacia

134 Reviews
Stacia
Stacia
3  
Olfactory time machine
When I was a child we always had a huge pine tree in our drawing room at Christmas time and one of my most "happy place" memories is lying directly under the tree and staring up through the maze of intersecting branches. The fragrance of sappy cut pinewood and green needles would fill my head and I would feel butterflies of excitement for the celebration about to take place. Murkwood takes me back to that happy place of being seven years old and staring up the trunk of the tree under twinkling lights.
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10
Pricing
8
Bottle
4
Sillage
8
Longevity
8
Scent
Drseid

821 Reviews
Drseid
Drseid
1  
Life-like Fir...
Murkwood moves right past any detectable top notes on skin, shifting straight to its heart. As the composition enters its early heart, a dominant dark coniferous green fir accord takes the fore with a subtle black licorice and black current supporting tandem undertone and with hints of additional supporting green tree moss. During the late dry-down the composition softens as the coniferous green fir remains the focus, shedding its dark facet and the licorice undertone as it adds supporting stark incense to the mix through the finish. Projection is below average but longevity is excellent at over 12 hours on skin.

Immediately after applying Murkwood on skin I knew this was some great smelling stuff. The composition is highly linear and doesn't feature a ton of key notes throughout, but what *is* there, is sublime. The coniferous green fir that is the focus of most of the development is potent and extremely life-like. The perfume near-certainly contains gobs of high quality naturals, and the dark green juice color coupled with the 34% extrait concentration stained my skin and I am sure would do the same to clothing. The incense is less forward than the fir, and early-on I really couldn't smell it until the fir softened during the dry-down to allow the it to emerge from hiding, adding another facet to the relatively straightforward development. If there is a perfume that is in the general ballpark of Murkwood (apart from its discontinued excellent smelling sister scent Fanghorn), it would have to be the initial release of Norne by Sumberhouse. Norne is great smelling stuff, but I think I like Murkwood a hair more. The bottom line is the $128 per 37ml extrait bottle Murkwood represents an "excellent" 4 stars out of 5 rated life-like approximation of a walk through a dark coniferous forest, earning a strong recommendation to lovers of compositions like Norne in particular, but all coneheads should apply.
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6
Pricing
7
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
8
Scent
Landshark321

694 Reviews
Landshark321
Landshark321
2  
Slightly edgier incarnation, still woody and resinous but with a little more bite
Sampling Pineward Perfumes Murkwood, another dark, brooding, woody entry from this house of seemingly many such options. There are some similarities to the dark spicy pine resin aspect of Fanghorn II, but Murkwood has a funkier animalic quality to it. Listed notes are fir balsam, black hemlock, lapsang suchong, moss, incense, bitter myrrh. There’s a vague damp, dank, mossy quality to it that is more prominent than in some other offerings in the house or contemporary fragrances of a similar ilk.

Whereas Fanghorn II brings to mind other entries like Dasein Winter Nights and Slumberhouse Norne, Murkwood has a more distinct character, something even dirtier, grittier, more boundary-pushing. I quite like it, overall, like the other entries, and I’m thinking more and more that I’ll need to do some side by side comparisons between some of these after I’ve sampled them all.

Pricing is standard for the line, $135/80 for 37/17ml, not by any means cheap but this is an interesting fragrance, and while my tastes are a little more suited to Boreal or Fanghorn II, Murkwood is more unique while similarly being dense and strong.

8 out of 10
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6
Longevity
6.5
Scent
Plantradish

8 Reviews
Plantradish
Plantradish
2  
something like a wood fire in Oslo
wow I did not expect the smoke to be so strong!
For me it was resinous-smoky the entire time; I didn't notice any kind of change in the scent with passing time. Later, I double-checked the accords, but I did not really smell the woodyness that I should be. Unfortunately, the scent was very faint after 5 hours (I expected longer).
This is the second perfume I am testing from Pineward. I had a reaction to the first one 24 hours after application, but this one did not :)
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KuraiKurai 1 year ago
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
6
Scent
Pine, black tea and bits of resin create a natural forest vibe. Soothing or rather static, as in, lacking a bit of livelyhood
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KatzevogelKatzevogel 8 months ago
A swamp green liquid appropriately named, this is a smokey pine with a heavy dose of lapsang. The dry down is like a weighted blanket.
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BoBoChampBoBoChamp 4 years ago
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
After a dark, yet juicy spicy-green opening, this thick and resinous spicy-woody Winter fragrance, settles to a smooth earthy-woody base.
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CavernsCaverns 5 days ago
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
6.5
Scent
On skin, when I catch a whiff in the air, really reminds me of Lalique Encre Noire — slightly more smoky and vegetal, if I hunt for it.
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PinenePinene 2 years ago
it's giving millcreek canyon vault toilet. 0/5
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RachelgRachelg 2 years ago
6
Scent
Super dark and oily liquid. The opening gives me "campsite restroom" vibes but the drydown has a nice deep fir scent.
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ScentNebulaScentNebula 3 months ago
6
Sillage
3
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Spiced + slightly smoky christmas tree scent. Cosy, a touch sweet. Reminds me of mulled wine
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SaradoninSaradonin 5 months ago
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
8
Scent
Dark green, sticky liquid smells as it looks: pine resins, spruce needles, damp forest floor, myrrh. Realistic linear boreal forest scent.
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