Pinyon Pine

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Wild-harvested pinyon pine oil. It has the resinous, woody, coniferous body every pine note carries, but it also has a fruity, peach-like top and a buttery back note. Four of the five suppliers reach for that fruit or butter word without being prompted by each other, and one calls the creamy nuance 'unlike any other conifer oil'.

Scent Profile

Amber_resinous leads and is the only facet all five sources state: 'deep resin base', 'somewhat resinous', 'sweet ambery, balsamic', 'Resinous'. Dry_woody is the coniferous, woody body that three sources name in the same breath as the resin. Fruity is what makes this note different from the other nine published pines. Eden Botanicals calls it 'very fine, peach/floral top notes', Windhorse 'soft floral-fruity topnotes', Enfleurage 'fruity aspects' and Miracle Botanicals simply 'Fruity'. Green is the conifer needle freshness, stated outright by Miracle Botanicals and implied by 'fresh conifer'. Lactonic carries Enfleurage's 'creamy or lactonic nuance', a claim that source makes in those exact words. Nutty is Windhorse's 'almost buttery scent that reminds one of the taste of pinon nuts'. Creamy_woody is Eden's 'butter-like back note' sitting under the wood rather than over it. Below the line, sweet_vanillic for 'sweet ambery', aromatic_herbal for the 'mild terpenic note', floral for the floral half of 'peach/floral', cooling_mentholic as a low estimate for a conifer oil that no source calls camphoraceous, and citrus because nothing here is described as citrus.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather, Woody & Earthy, Fruity

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Steam-distilled from the wood, needles and resinous branch material of pinyon pines, mainly Pinus edulis and Pinus monophylla, wild-harvested in the American Southwest. The name is also written pinon or pinyon nut pine, and the tree is the source of the edible pine nut. Enfleurage names ethyl caprylate as the compound behind the fruity character. That attribution comes from trade copy, not from a published analysis.

Usage in Perfumery

Used where a conifer base needs to be soft rather than sharp. It gives forest and desert accords a resinous floor with a fruity lift on top, and it holds through a dry-down that suppliers call long and soft. It sits between a pine and a fir in a composition, and its buttery edge lets it meet gourmand or lactonic materials that straight pine oil fights with.