Ingredients · Spices · top note
Black pepper oil
Fresh, dry, peppery-woody with a citrusy terpenic sparkle.
- What it is
- Natural oil from dried unripe fruit of Piper nigrum.
- Where it comes from
- India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar
- When you smell it
- Top notes: when you spray it.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds a sharp, cool-spicy sparkle to citrus colognes, fougères and woody masculines.
- Worth knowing
- The oil lacks pepper's bite: piperine, the molecule that burns the tongue, does not distil.
- Known in
- Parfum Sacré (Caron, 1990); Eau d'Hadrien (Annick Goutal, 1981); Guerlain Homme (Guerlain, 2008)
- Also called
- Piper nigrum oil
Named by the house, not on the label, in 70
MitsoukoGuerlain · “black pepper”
Fougère RoyaleHoubigant · “pepper”
Honour WomanAmouage · “Pepper”
Narcotic DelightInitio · “Black Pepper”
ParagonInitio · “Black Pepper”
Oud for GraceInitio · “Black Pepper”
Memoir WomanAmouage · “Pepper”
Honour ManAmouage · “Black Pepper”
MeanderAmouage · “Black Pepper Oil”
Honour 43 WomanAmouage · “Pepper”
Line 618Amouage · “Black Pepper”
Fate WomanAmouage · “Pepper Rose”
Oud WoodTom Ford · “CHINESE PEPPER”
Touch for MenBurberry · “white pepper”
Oud 27Le Labo · “black pepper”
Vetiver 46Le Labo · “pepper”
Poivre 23Le Labo · “Bourbon pepper”
SalvoMaison Alhambra · “Pepper”
Detour NoirAl Haramain · “Pepper”
AsadLattafa · “Black Pepper”
Lumiere GarconFrench Avenue · “Black Pepper”
Amber WoodAjmal · “Pepper”
Eros FlameVersace · “Madagascar Black Pepper”
Crystal NoirVersace · “pepper”
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Angel DustFugazzi · “Pepper”
Radical RoseMatière Première · “Pepper Berries Essence Jamaica”
Dylan Blue Pour HommeVersace · “black pepper”
Eilish No. 2Billie Eilish · “Black Pepper”
Intense OudGucci · “Black Pepper Oil”
Portofino '97Victoria Beckham Beauty · “Black Pepper”
Néroli AmaraVan Cleef & Arpels · “black pepper”
Colonia C.L.U.B.Acqua di Parma · “Black Pepper”
Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombreEtat Libre d'Orange · “Black Pepper”
RifaaqatParis Corner · “Black Pepper”
BabycatYSL · “Black Pepper Essence”
Spicebomb Night VisionViktor&Rolf · “black pepper”
MiracleLancôme · “Bourbon Pepper”
L'HommeYSL · “white pepper”
TuxedoYSL · “Black Pepper Oil”
Invictus Victory AbsoluRabanne · “Fresh Black Pepper”
Bad Boy Cobalt ElixirCarolina Herrera · “Black Pepper”
For Men IntenseBentley · “Black pepper”
Hunter IntenseArmaf · “Black Pepper”
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Molecule 01 + ChampacaEscentric Molecules · “pepper”
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B683Marc-Antoine Barrois · “Black pepper”
Pas ce SoirBDK Parfums · “Black pepper”
Rouge SmokingBDK Parfums · “pepper”
Mango SkinVilhelm Parfumerie · “Black Pepper”
Bois DoréVan Cleef & Arpels · “Pepper”
WonderwoodComme des Garçons · “Madagascan Pepper”
Fathom VBeauFort London · “pepper”
Peony CoutureVilhelm Parfumerie · “Black pepper”
Dark AoudMaison Alhambra · “Pepper”
Club de Nuit ManArmaf · “Pepper”
Amber Oud Tobacco EditionAl Haramain · “Black Pepper”
Pour Homme Oud NoirVersace · “Black Pepper”
SpicebombViktor&Rolf · “Black Pepper”
Extra PulseBujairami · “Black Pepper”
Spicebomb ExtremeViktor&Rolf · “Black Pepper Essence”
L'HommePrada · “Black Pepper”
Bad BoyCarolina Herrera · “White Pepper”
Gypsy WaterByredo · “Pepper”
PhilosykosDiptyque · “Black pepper”Sources