Ingredients · Spices · Made in a lab
Chilli
Chilli extract is sold for its burning taste, not its smell; perfume suggests the pod's green, fruity scent and a sense of heat.
- What it is
- Something that grows but gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- What the real thing smells of
- Known in
- Fate Woman (Amouage, 2013)
- Worth knowing
- Capsaicin, the molecule that makes chilli burn, is a white crystalline powder when pure.
Named by the house in 5 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
