White Pepper

Burberry

Burberry Touch for Men opens with a tart, almost metallic greenness from violet leaf, a piercing top note that feels both fresh and slightly synthetic in a way typical of early-2000s releases.

Carolina Herrera

A hot-pink pepper opening snaps awake immediately, bright and electric, tempered only slightly by bergamot's citrus edge.

Tom Ford

A Private Rose Garden release later renamed Rose Exposed after geopolitical events made the original title awkward.

Comme Des Garçons

Odeur 71 belongs to Comme des Garçons' radical rejection of conventional perfumery.

Loewe

Olivier Cresp opened the new millennium for Loewe with a unisex citrus-woody accord that remains a quiet classic.

Avon

Oud Grandeur begins with an assertive spice trio — black pepper, white pepper, and nutmeg — that announces itself before the actual oud even arrives.

M. Micallef

Emir opens with orange and grapefruit — a citrus top that is cleaner and more lacquered than typical hesperidic florals, as if the fruit were polished.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

From the Explosions d'Émotions collection, Onde Sensuelle earns its name through accumulation rather than through any single dominant note.

Caron

Délire de Roses opens with lychee — that perfume-specific fruit that smells faintly of rose wine and cool water — before the heart arrives as a coordinated rose statement.

Louis Vuitton

Comme Des Garçons

Series 5 imagines five fruit sherbets, and Peppermint (2003) is the coldest of the set.

Comme Des Garçons

Series 4 is the Cologne set, and Vettiveru (2002) is the woody anchor.

DKNY / Donna Karan

Black Cashmere opens with a resinous plume of frankincense, saffron's metallic warmth, and a touch of nutmeg that reads more dusky than culinary.

Lancôme

A millennium limited edition built as a triple-rose study — Bulgarian, tea, and wild rose layered against white pepper and mandarin at the open.

Calvin Klein

Eternity for Men Intense opens assertively: bergamot and grapefruit carry the familiar citrus brightness of the Eternity lineage, but white pepper and black tea sharpen the opening into something with more edge.

Jil Sander

Strictly arrives as a dry, close-textured spice study.

Yves Saint Laurent

L'Homme Eau d'Été 2007 is a summer-weight version of a classic masculine silhouette — ginger and bergamot open with the kind of brightness that reads as skin warmed by sun rather than something applied.

Arcana Wildcraft

Orange and hazelnut open brightly, nutty sweetness riding alongside a mild citrus note that keeps things from feeling too dense.

Comme Des Garçons

Pharrell Williams's 2014 collaboration with Comme des Garçons reads as a powdery unisex floral, more iris-and-violet than its bright pink box might suggest.

Giorgio Armani

Armani Privé New York opens cool and bright with a clean neroli that reads almost soapy in its first minutes — a polished citrus-floral that suggests morning light through tall windows.

Jil Sander

Grapefruit and rose open with a tart citrus-floral duo, bright and slightly sharp against raspberry's sweet jammy fruitiness.

Avon

Bergamot and mandarin open bright but get cut quickly by white pepper — a sharp, dry edge that reads as ozonic-spicy rather than gourmand.

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