Landshark321
4
Pine meets gourmand in good balance
Sampling Pineward Perfumes Ponderosa, a resinous pine blend with prominent gourmand notes of strawberry, cinnamon, butterscotch, and beeswax, to my nose, still with the green/sharp pine accord, also, and a bit of a dark resinous quality to it. It overall feels about 50% gourmand, 50% pine resin, a very pleasant balance that makes for a really useful cold weather offering that handles a transition from daytime to nighttime. I’m wearing it at work today and I estimate that it would be just as fitting out for a social event, personally. Most importantly, it’s of the same quality and craft that I’ve come to associate with this great line. I’m really overdue to retry much of the house, in fact.
Ponderosa, like most of the line, performs very well (in extrait concentration), and its pricing is standard for the current line, at $205/135/80 for 57/37/17ml, so not cheap, but reasonable for a high-concentration, high-performing niche perfume.
7 out of 10