Fresh Spicy

What it is

The sharp end of the spice rack: pink pepper, black pepper, ginger, coriander seed and elemi. Chemically it has little to do with the baking spices and it behaves in the opposite direction.

What it smells like

Peppery and bright, with a prickle at the top of the nose rather than warmth in the throat. It usually sits in the opening and burns off quickly, which is why a fragrance can smell spicy for twenty minutes and not at all by lunchtime.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

66 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Armaf (35), Azzaro (28), Calvin Klein (26), Amouage (25), Rasasi (25), Hermes (23).