Spicy

Fresh Spice

Pepper, ginger, cardamom, coriander

fresh_spice 53 notes 43 materials 5 anchors

What it smells like

Spices whose heat is sharp and volatile rather than warm and heavy. Pink pepper sparkles and vanishes, ginger bites, cardamom is almost eucalyptic. These lift a composition without weighing it down.

Where it stops

Fresh Spice fades fast and stays high in the mix. Warm Spice settles into the base and lasts all day.

Smells most like

pepper - and in the same register, ginger, grains of paradise.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

Materials carrying this facet, with registry number, source terms and regulatory status
Material CAS Terms Status
2,2-dimethyl-3-phenylmethoxypropanal CAS 38216-93-2 cardamom, coriander, ginger
4-methyl-8-methylideneadamantan-2-ol CAS 122760-84-3 cardamom, ginger
borneol CAS 464-45-9 peppery
hinesol CAS 23811-08-7 peppery
myrcene CAS 123-35-3 peppery
sarisan CAS 18607-93-7 peppery
piperine CAS 94-62-2 peppery
rotundone CAS 18374-76-0 peppery
zingerone CAS 122-48-5 ginger
beta-pinene CAS 127-91-3 peppery Declarable
alpha-guajene CAS 3691-12-1 peppery
methyl eugenol CAS 93-15-2 peppery IFRA
alpha-bisabolol CAS 515-69-5 peppery IFRA
perillyl alcohol CAS 536-59-4 cardamom
ethyl vinyl ketone CAS 1629-58-9 peppery
terpinyl isobutyrate CAS 7774-65-4 peppery
caryophyllene formate CAS 58096-46-1 peppery
(-)-limonene CAS 5989-54-8 peppery Declarable IFRA
cis-4-decenal CAS 21662-09-9 cardamom
2-tetradecenal CAS 64461-99-0 peppery
dodec-3-en-1-al CAS 68083-57-8 coriander
trans-2-decenal CAS 3913-81-3 coriander
4-carvomenthenol CAS 562-74-3 peppery
1-ethylhexyl tiglate CAS 94133-92-3 peppery
6-methylhept-5-en-2-ol CAS 1569-60-4 coriander
(2e,4e)-deca-2,4-dienal CAS 25152-84-5 coriander IFRA
2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol CAS 7786-61-0 peppery
2-methyl-5-(methylthio)furan CAS 13678-59-6 peppery
5-methyl-5-phenylhexan-3-one CAS 4927-36-0 peppery
2,6-dimethylocta-2,4,6-triene CAS 673-84-7 peppery

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Reading the two flags

Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.

The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.

Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

Direct Terms that mean this facet outright
  • cardamom
  • coriander
  • ginger
  • pepper
  • peppery
Partial Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
  • anise
  • anise, licorice
  • anisic

The rest of Spicy

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

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