Sampling one of the two most recent releases from Pineward Perfumes, Shire, a mostly sweet and spicy concoction with a remarkable note list (pasted from the website) of hay, oatmeal, hazelnut, bergamot, lavender, herbal tea, westfarthing leaf (tobacco), seed cake, jasmine, orris, and honey. I mainly get the honey, hazelnut, bergamot, and tobacco, with a pinch of hay for its spicy semi-animalic quality. It slightly reminds me of a warm cider with nuanced spices, perhaps a dessert type of stew or fruit topping, not overly heavy. It does not immediately remind me of the other sweeter entries from the house and thus adds some diversity, somehow a bit evocative even though I’ve not smelled anything exactly like it before.
Shire is EDT concentration and as such is a bit more modestly priced than most of the house’s extrait-concentrated collection, at $135/80 for 57/37ml, very reasonable in the current market, in my opinion, and I find it to perform quite well, with good density and lasting power, especially.
