Pine is the eighth perfume from Stora Skuggan. It diverges from the brand’s conceptual myths, focusing entirely on a single note rather than a story. Pine is a soliflore fragrance and celebrates the pine tree. Pines are the most abundant organisms on the planet, measured by mass. Reaching heights of up to 100 meters, they are also some of the largest living things. And some of the oldest too. The first of the pine trees evolved over 300 million years ago outdating the dinosaurs. While the concept for this fragrance is minimal, the fragrance itself is massive; designed to evoke all facets of pine. From the fresh spruce shoot, to the sweet and sacred smelling sap. The dry woody aroma of bark and dead needles blanketing an earthy forest floor. In short, it’s pine. It’s smells like beautiful, soulful, calming, invigorating...pine. Pine is an eau de parfum, edp.
STORA SKUGGAN PINE REVIEWS
Fragrantica: If you’re like me and love the sight of snowy pine trees on both sides of the road, where every drive feels like a magical fairytale, then you’ll adore this perfume. It instantly brings those peaceful, wintry scenes to mind—like being wrapped in the beauty of a snow-covered forest. And it does so intensely!
Fragrantica: Tried on this scent and although intriguing, I wasn't fully convinced the first 2-3 hours of wearing it. It started out very damp, soil-y, forest floor. It developed into a more rich blend of pine, and grew stronger the more I wore it (≈12 hours). Reminded me of entering a cabin with pine flooring, kitchen cabinets and walls, and taking it all in. Very nostalgic scent - would buy.
Fragrantica: I'm blown away. I read somewhere in the reviews that this incorporated all parts of the pine tree and I 100% agree. This is definitely one of the most pure concept scents I've ever tried. So many pine scents end up smelling like the idea of pine. This smells like pure, concentrated pine forest. Like I'm inside the tree, hands covered in sap. As an ecologist this might be my new go-to. I'm obsessed and will be looking for this in a full size.
Fragrantica: Deep earthy notes, complemented by the sweetest qualities of the pinetree. Candied pine shoots and the filth of its roots. Wonderful.
Fragrantica: Photorealistic pine tree. Wow. Sap, decomposed wood stuck in the bark, pine needles, fresh air. In smaller doses it smells like it could be one of the prototypes that came from making Hexensalbe.
Fragrantica: This perfume is very interesting in that it's a soliflore (single-note) scent but holds so much nuance. At first spray, it's sweet pine sap, fresh needles and bare pine wood—sweet, resinous, woodsy and coniferous. Honestly, my first thought was that it smelled like BR540 with a pine note because of the unexpected sweetness. It wasn't cloying by any means but definitely saccharine. Over the next two hours, it became woodsier and more resinous. However, by the third hour, it became verrry aromatic—almost unbearably so. It was like a combination of vetiver and jasmine, just very sharp and a bit grassy and powdery. Still evergreen but not as fresh and sweet as the opening and more aromatic instead. Any remaining sweetness of the sap faded over the following hour, after which this just became entirely aromatic or 'perfume-y'. It remained this way for the remainder of the wear, which was quite substantial—lasting over ten hours on my skin. Overall, this is a very intriguing scent but definitely not blind buy safe (I know, nothing really is but you get my point). I'm glad I got to sample and experience this but it's just not for me.
Fragrantica: I wasn’t expecting such an interesting experience unfold with this fragrance. First it was bracingly pine-y. Like strong dry pine wood. Then after a bit it began to become more sap-like and soft. It evolves into a lovely candied pine which still has a lot of the natural pine scent to it. I’m not a fan of sweet scents. But this one captures and heightens the natural sweetness of pine sap. Beneath all of this balsamic, sweet, and woody notes there’s a more ravaged and primeval base. It’s a bit of animatic and petrichor ambroxan. The way it balances the sweetness, the pine, and the deep rugged base is quite lovely.
Fragrantica: Tried it yesterday. Instead of fresh crisp resinous pine, I get ‘molten asphalt on a sunny day’ pine. The drydown is beautiful and sweet, but unfortunately I can’t stand the screechy pasticky opening that seems to be the commonality with most of their fragrances. I grew up around conifer forests and bilberry fields, this is nothing like the resins dripping down the bark of a real tree, the needles crunching under your hiking boots, the freshly chopped pine firewood, or the slices of resinous pine fatwood my father used to put on top of the fireplace to make the whole house smell wonderful in the wintertime.
