Note

Gunpowder

Spent gunpowder smells acrid, smoky, and sulfurous, while unburned powder is much less forceful. A reconstructed accord adds a dry, charred accent to leather, woods, and mineral notes.

In 5 perfumes.

Found in Himalaya, Inexcusable Evil and Iron Duke

Most popular with gunpowder

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to gunpowder more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Smoky and woody above all. Reaches for tobacco, mineral and soapy far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for vanilla.

  • smoky
  • woody
  • sweet
  • citrus
  • tobacco
  • mineral
  • fresh
  • leather