Pine

Penhaligon'S

Blenheim Bouquet opens with a bracing citrus sharpness—lemon and lime given weight by pine-like notes that recall old grooming rituals.

Guerlain

Aqua Allegoria Winter Delice is among the most seasonal-specific entries in Guerlain's Allegoria catalog — always intended as a bottle of December.

Comme Des Garçons

Sugi opens with Mediterranean cypress and black pepper—coniferous and spiced simultaneously, the combination generating a cool, piney sharpness that establishes the fragrance's register immediately.

Goutal

Lime opens cold and astringent, then almost immediately gets folded into spruce and pine — the citrus reads less as fruit than as the squeezed peel that found its way into a bowl of conifer needles.

Azzaro

The opening is cool bergamot brushed against a synthetic green-mint accord — sharp, almost menthol, the kind of cold that reads as bottled rather than picked.

Goutal

Mint and a thin, sour citron lift open the bottle, but the pull is downward — into pine resin and the cool dry air of a fir grove after dusk.

Comme Des Garçons

Antoine Maisondieu built this 2008 Monocle collaboration around the hinoki cypress and a specific memory: the open-air wooden bath at Tawaraya inn in Kyoto, drawn at dawn in cold weather.

Azzaro

An unusually quiet flanker.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Côte d'Amour is Céline Ellena's coastal sketch from L'Artisan's Les Paysages line, named for a stretch of Atlantic shore in Brittany.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Passage d'Enfer Extrême reworks the original 1999 Passage d'Enfer with sharper edges.

Comme Des Garçons

Evelyne Boulanger's contribution to the 2002 Incense series, Zagorsk takes its name from the Russian Orthodox monastic town and reads exactly that way.

Comme Des Garçons

Created in 2009 to mark Dover Street Market's London anniversary and credited to Rei Kawakubo herself, this is a chilly woody oriental that opens damp and resinous: pine sap, juniper, and a bright sting of black pepper over bergamot.

Issey Miyake

Watery notes splash open alongside lemon and bergamot — the citrus is rounder and more Mediterranean than the original's yuzu, less cold, more sun-warmed.