Note

Green Pepper

Green bell pepper smells crisp, watery and sharply vegetal, with the earthy bitterness of its cut skin. In perfume, it adds a distinctive green accent to the opening or heart, especially beside leafy notes and woods.

In 6 perfumes.

Found in 1888, Poivre Samarcande and Cas

Most popular with green pepper

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

Often paired with

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

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

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

  • woody
  • sweet
  • fresh spicy
  • vanilla
  • warm spicy
  • oud
  • amber
  • musky