Note

White Pepper

White pepper smells dry and pungent, with warm woody spice and sometimes a slightly musty edge. It adds a restrained spicy accent to the opening and heart beside flowers, woods and musk.

In 7 perfumes. Usually found in the heart.

Opening
33%
Heart
67%
Drydown
0%
Found in Touch, Citizen X and White

Most popular with white pepper

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

Often paired with

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

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Woody and fresh spicy above all. Reaches for warm spicy, balsamic and iris far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for sweet and vanilla.

  • woody
  • fresh spicy
  • warm spicy
  • citrus
  • balsamic
  • aromatic
  • powdery
  • green