Poivre Piquant
# Poivre Piquant by L'Artisan Parfumeur
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Warm Spicy65
- Honey50
- Soft Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Cinnamon
- Sandalwood
- Myrrh
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min read# Poivre Piquant by L'Artisan Parfumeur
Pink peppercorn fizzes at the opening—not the gentle dusting found in modern compositions, but an insistent, almost effervescent spice that borders on citrus sharpness. The pepper doesn't recede so much as settle into resinous amber and soft woods, creating the impression of something bright suspended in warmth. There's a transparent quality throughout, as if the fragrance exists in high definition rather than the blurred watercolors typical of early 2000s releases.
What emerges is less about heat than about clarity. The pepper remains present but becomes tactile rather than aromatic, like cool silk with friction. It wears close and linear, a study in restraint from a house known for naturalism. Best suited to those who appreciate minimalism in perfumery, or anyone tired of pepper used merely as a top note flourish. In winter it provides surprising lift; in summer, unexpected structure.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
