Spicy notes
54 notesSpicy notes smell hot and dry. Some are sparkling and lift quickly, like pink pepper and cardamom, while others are warm and dense, like cinnamon and clove, and stay on the skin much longer. This list is the notes that lean on spicy more than on any other scent family.
About these notes
Open any note for what it smells like and the perfumes that wear it.
Botanical
39 notesAbout botanical notes
Plants, and what is pressed, distilled or extracted straight from them - peel, petal, resin, root, wood, leaf.
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Pink Pepper
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Cardamom
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Pepper
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Cinnamon
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Ginger
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Nutmeg
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Clove
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Carnation
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Spicy Notes
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Cumin
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Star Anise
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Caraway
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Prepared
10 notesAbout prepared notes
Materials that only exist because something was done to them: roasted, burnt, tanned, fermented, cured, cooked.
Molecule
4 notesAbout molecule notes
Single aroma chemicals, named as themselves. Some occur in nature and some do not; all of them behave predictably.
Abstract
1 noteAbout abstract notes
Notes that name a sensation rather than a substance. Nothing is distilled to make them - they are an effect the perfumer builds.
