Poivre Piquant was created by Bertrand Duchaufour in 2002 as one of the three "Les Epices de la Passion" series for L’Artisan Parfums. Their website says it was “inspired by a wedding story in the Kama Sutra. Sugar and pepper were sprinkled on the bride’s wedding veil. Sugar for the sweetness of life, pepper for the sparkling joy (and sensuality!) to come.”

Sweet and spicy – sounds like a recipe for a happy marriage to me.

Poivre Piquant translates as ‘hot pepper’ and there's a note of brisk white pepper right at the top. Wow! What a way to make an entrance! The white pepper is packing heat - and an exotic spicy presence along with a mustiness that white pepper often has in perfume. Soon, sweet, creamy milk comes forward, its sweetness heightened by a touch of honey. The sweetness steers it to gourmand, but before it gets there, a gentle note of anise appears, adding a hint of green bitterness and echoing the spiciness of the pepper. As it blooms, a floral accord of peony/rose appears and softens the spiciness and the sweetness, making the scent cooler and more refined at the drydown.

In Poivre Piquant, Bertrand Duchaufour has brought together the opposites of hot/cool, sweet/spicy, and passionate/tender to create an entrancing fragrance that beckons to be worn any time of the year – like right now.

Notes: White pepper, milk, honey, anise and peony.