This is different as a Christmas tree. It is a rather cute idea, and is easy to set up. The snowman is in three separate pieces, and the stand makes it four pieces total to connect during set up. The hat is also a separate piece, that fits into the top of the center pole, and looks great. The snowman's arms are of a heavier and inflexible brown covered branch, when compared to all the white branches on him. I am tempted to remove the arms and replace them with regular branch arms, since I always have twigs and branches coming down in the woods behind my house, and I think the twigs could be pretty easily attached using white pipe cleaners to the center pole, and they could be more flexible. The mouth is actually a piece of a branch that had been cut, bent into a smile shape, pom pom balls applied, then hooked onto two other branches on the head section of the tree. The nose is a piece of cut felt, The eyes and buttons (or pieces of coal), are also pom-poms. Finally, this snowman comes with a sequined red and green scarf to help keep him warm.
Putting it together was simple to do. Each section does not actually lock into the pole below it, which allows the sections to spin and move around on their own. Lining the sections of the snowman up will require adjustment as you pull the branches out to set up the snowman, so the head and body secions line up properly.
The branches, while there are a lot of them for the size tree, does not make for a full snowman, except for the face part. The center section especially seems like it needs a few more branches, as this snowman has a rather long and open neck area with nothing to hide it except for the scarf. No matter how often I pulled a branch upwards to try and hide the open space between the middle piece and the head piece. the branches did not stay upright, and pulling the head branches down any further altered the smile and face too much. The scarf does not really hide that pole enough there, so I added a couple of clip on bird ornaments from halloween to that area, hoping that would help hide some of the open space - it doesn't really do that though, but but the birds on the branches do look really cute and if appropriately sized, definitely add to this snowman in a good way. One sitting on top of the hat (maybe with a star) would be cute too.
Honestly, this snowman would look adorable on my covered, (but not enclosed) front porch outdoors if I could come up with a good way to keep him from blowing over or spinning around, since he is basically light weight for 5 feet of height when compared to an actual tree, but he is not meant for outdoors at all, so that would probably be the end of his life.
So he is definitely a unique decoration - I personally would not want him to ever substitute for an actual tree (artificial or real), but if you have children, or want something rather whimsical, this snowman tree is not a bad choice.
My thanks to the Amazon Vine program for sending me this snowman tree for free in exchange for my honest review of it. I am leaving it with 4 stars.