Poivre Piquant L Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

On my skin Poivre Piquant starts with a sharp peppery note. This peppery note is not too overwhelming and gradually blends into a warmer woody and subtle honey smell. This perfume is not sweet at all. It starts of quite strongly but settles down quickly into a very addictive, warm, slightly spicy and comforting fragrance.

I just got my sample. It's a lovely fresh and spicy fragrance. Pepper is what I can define without any doubt on my skin, especially at the beginning. Then I get hints of honey, pleasant and fragrant, not overpowering. It is different from many other fragrances. Quite original in my opinion. It would suit anyone in any occasion especially when you don't want to stick out, but still smell nice. It only lasts about an hour on me though. I'd have to keep reapplying. I don't think I'll buy a full bottle, but it's nice to have made Poivre Piquant's acquaintance. :)

As a long-time consumer of 5-star spicy Thai food, the tear-jerking-spicy Indian and Mexican food served only in those countries, and other high-test chili-based goodies, it takes a lot of pepper to get my attention. I’m sorry to report that Poivre Piquant just doesn’t have what it takes.

This EdT is a weak, slightly sweet, and aromatic scent with a muted mix of anise, woody notes, rose, and vanilla along with what I could swear is a citrus-lavender cologne base. There’s a moderate amount of sillage, mostly in the woody-aromatic range, but not a lot of lasting power, maybe 3-4 hours tops. There’s certainly not the bold blast of pepper that I was expecting. This is not something that I’d wear, but it might be an option if you like gentle cologne-type fragrances.

This is one of the most amazing perfume ever! When I say "amazing" here, I dont mean it's the kind of smell that makes you "Wow!", but this one is the kind that makes you " Hmm.. eh? Oh, my. I can't stop sniffing it on my hand!"

There's something calm but something drifting behind. The pepper note here doesn't smell like the ordinary pepper-featured perfumes. For me, it's not spicy at all. But you can still sense it, in a very moderate, smooth and balanced way. I think it's because there's milk and honey that calm the pepper note down but not making it disappear.

Also, there's some soft sweetness. Like, you put a candy in your mouth and it melted slowly. Eventually the candy has totally gone but you can still 'taste' the sweetness left behind, it doesn't taste as strong as the candy so you could have a good imagination in it. Light but not floating, soft but stable.

Think of this beauty as pink light in a bottle. It's luminous, aerial, a feather would be heavier. It is very discrete and very classy, speaks volumes about flawless taste. You will not be wearing a cloud of perfume, but the confidence such quality gives is really priceless. Cashmere wearers would understand this :)

Oh, how I wished I could get some of the notes others did...but I got NOTHING. NOTHING! There was not even a smell when I put the whole sample vial on. Could I have got a dud sample? Maybe I'm anosmic to this combo? It sounded delicious and I'm sooo disappointed.

L'Artisan Parfumeur POIVRE PIQUANT reminds me very much of Lanvin OXYGENE. Both feature pepper and milk, which is a unique enough combination to make it easy to recall the few (n = 2) places in reality where one has encountered them together in perfume. Sure pepper goes well with creamed spinach soup (along with nutmeg...), but there are not very many fragrances which feature these notes in similar proportions.

POIVRE PIQUANT, contrary to its name, is really quite smooth, definitely smoother than OXYGENE, which has a slightly sour cast on my skin (especially in the drydown), but also a bit smoky as well. Although the varieties of pepper appear to be different in the two fragrances, it really is the pepper which dominates the composition in both cases. Both have good longevity, as is typical of pepper-heavy perfumes.

I recommend POIVRE PIQUANT to anyone who loves and wears OXYGENE, although you might want to save your big AP$$ for something else, since you probably need only one pepper-milk perfume, and OXYGENE may work just as well.

its brilliant! i really like it. maybe because it reminds me of only by givenchy, the scent i used to wear years ago..very pleasant and fresh perfume

This one is so good it makes me tingle! Peppery, fun,luminous - and yet it makes you take it seriously. I was surprised to feel a suede note in it and in the end it reminded me of an improved, polished and primped Lacoste pour femme, that I also love dearly. The difference between the sharp, spicy opening and the sultry heart is startling - the perfume plays on my skin,throwing at be bits of pepper,drops of honey, a spray of juice, a touch of cashmere.
Radiating!

shikarniy i nenavyazchiviy perchik!!!!!! parfumka ne vse vremena....

One of the most original perfumes ever. I love the pepper smell, you can't find this kind of soft/sweet pepper anywhere. I bought the set with the Poivre, Piment and Safran. Poivre is the best of all, Piment is second, Safran is not worth it.

Maybe Poivre Piquant is not great smell , is not rich, but I very like it. When I want to smell natural, however, a bit spicy, I wear Poivre Puiquant. I like somewhat sharp, pepper smell of skin people, as my natural skin smell tender, I change it, scenting this pepper in parfum - simply and sophisticated ( pepper, milk, honey ) . Really Poivre Piquant is adorable and long lasting.

I bought the trio set, Les Epices de la Passion, and i love the hot-pepper scent of Piment Brulant and saffron and rose of Safran Troublant.

But Poivre Piquant did little for me. I tried it a time or two, but it didn't have much scent. I began to fear i was anosmic. It was very faint and gentle, and i began sleeping in it.

I've read that L'Artisan Parfumeur encourages layering their scents, so yesterday i made an experiment. I sprayed on Piment Brulant, then Poivre Piquant. And i could smell a difference. The sharp citrusy note i'm not fond of at the top of PB was gone, and the whole thing was softened, gentled, rounded, by the milk and honey notes in PP.

It was a very successful experiment and now i appreciate PP more. Now i'll have to try it with Safran Troublant and see what happens. I may even try it with some other perfumes i have!

I realize that perfumes contain more fragrance ingredients than those listed. In this case, the L'A P site lists ingredients as pink peppercorn, white pepper, milk, honey

Spicy paprika-like pepper and warm, spicy woods. Almost an incense in it's dryness and non-foody quality. I do wish I'd gotten the milk and honey notes flannelman reports, as that sounds lovely as a counterpoint to the hot woods, but what I do get is still very enjoyable. It is definitely not a 'here I am' screamer, though. This hot spicy wood stays very close to the skin and people will have to be in your personal space to smell it. Which makes it more sexy, in my opinion; Body heat and this scent...hot indeed.

A very warm, interesting, unusual fragrance with a somewhat misleading name.

There is pepper, of course. White pepper. But it's definitely not "piquant", and for most of the (very short) longevity of the scent, it seems to only play a supporting role. The pepper is most noticeable in the very early top notes (together with an elusive note that reminds me of thyme, but not quite) and at this stage it really is very good indeed.

It is however quickly taken over by a soft, silky, milk and honey accord. The honey is just right: light and not too sweet. The milk seems to be mixed with spices, and at some times I was reminded of Chai.

The spices and pepper (when they emerge, from time to time) play hide and seek with the milk and honey and I find this to be very pleasantly orchestrated.

If only Poivre Piquant had a bit more longevity and sillage! It's gone way too quickly to be fully appreciated; that's a shame because it will stop many (including myself) from getting a full bottle.

Not a fragrance to wear when you want to be noticed, but great to relax at home on a freezing winter day...