Murkwood Pineward 2020

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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 fir

Hemlock fir

Lapsang Souchong tea Moss

Moss

Myrrh

Frankincense

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Nicholas Nilsson Brand owner, Perfume maker

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.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Fanghorn II

Norne (2012)

Fume

20Mars2022

Understory

Taiga Whispers

Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/17/2023

MartTobacco
32 Reviews

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.

12/23/2023

Stacia
134 Reviews

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.

03/06/2021

10
Pricing 8
Bottle 4
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Drseid
821 Reviews

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.

10/21/2021

6
Pricing 7
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Landshark321
694 Reviews

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

07/05/2024

6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Plantradish
8 Reviews

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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