Poivre Electrique

The perfect peppery layering scent!!! This is exactly what I was hoping it would be! Very peppery, but as a whole, this scent reminds me of natural patchouli oil. To me, this does not smell like pepper straight from the pepper mill, while I have smelled other scents that do. The pepper in Club De Nuit Man (not Intense), YSL L'Homme, or especially Ferragamo F Black, for instance, smells more like true black pepper oil than this. I even brought out my pepper mill to compare, and to me, there's a strong difference. This is more green and herbaceous. More vibrant! More alive! And less abrasive. Hachew! :) This is clean, spicy, and manly, without being overbearing or loaded with citrus or woods. The bitter orange and cedar do however work together to keep this scent from being too one dimensional. If I had to list a fault, it would have to be the longevity. It has moderate projection for only about 2 hours and total longevity of 4-6 depending on how much I'm sweating. Also, I guess I'd say it's rather linear, but it does become a slightly more leathery pepper in the dry down. All said, I like this most because it layers so well! Layers well with: Lalique Encre Noir, Gucci Guilty Absolute, and Dior Sauvage EDP. Also layers well with citrus scents and fruit-chouli scents. Give this a try if you have a chance and find it for an appropriate price!

Well, out of my large sample collection from Atelier, I'm starting to increase the number of hits over misses. I had inadvertently catalogued this in my Atelier Floral category (for organizing the exhaustive sampling), and blindly tried (so as not to agonize over WHICH SOTD). Whoa. Really like! I'm not a floral person, and prefer incense, resins, spice, so while I thought I was up for a floral, I was delighted when this hit. It's a sheer, more spicy, very dry and acrid type of incense. There might be some Super Ie in this, but it rarely bothers me. While the first ten minutes are awesome for those of us who like this genre, it gentles quickly, and the drydown is lovely and a bit more sweet (the pimento and sandalwood come to the fore). Unfortunately the silage sits close, so you may need to layer as well as spritz on clothing and hair. This is unisex, perhaps skewing a bit masculine (I think this would be soooo sexy on a man), but I like it for myself and women who eschew "the berries and fruit basket" should try this. Sexy on a man, exotique and mysterious on a woman, a little something different.

Black Pepper, dusty cedar and resins (strong olibanum and noticeable myrrh), with a support of a bay leaf-ish turkish rose. It's quite linear, but well blended. Leans towards the masculine side imo. Despite it's marketed as a blackpepper centered scent, this could also have been marketed as a soft spicy incense fragrance, and indeed vaguley reminds me of Armani Bois d'Encens. Not groundbreaking, but very true to smell of freshly grinded peppercorns. Slightly denser than Penhaligon's Opus 1870, but Penhaligon's performance is slightly better. Performance is average. Recommended? A strong YES is my answer, but not at full retail price, and only if you don't already own other blackpepper fragrances, as it may be redundant: in spite of being well blended, it's not unique. Spring/Fall days, 25+

Having a lot of experience with pepper-forward fragrances, I consider myself well-informed in that area. My favorites are Blackpepper by Comme des Garcons, Poivre Electrique, and Re-charge Black Pepper by Molton Brown; likewise, in that order, those go from linear to more complex/sophisticated. Poivre Electrique has very good longevity and sillage. The black and pink pepper mix very well and give off a strong, lasting pepper-forward scent for hours. Galloway by Parfums de Marly is another to consider.

As I'm sitting here with poivre electrique a thought came to mind: Did atelier Cologne change management? A few Google clicks later I saw that yes, yes it did. It was bought by loreal in 2016. Atelier was previously a preferred house of mine. But as I'm reflecting on this scent I keep getting images of French wine served in Dixie cups. What happened here? This is really falling flat for me.

Never smelled a more balanced pepper frag in my life, it is so amazingly blended with sandalwood and incense making it really wearable but the pepper is still relevant :)

At the beginning is very vegetable and the earth . Afterwards reminds sweet spice scent , reminds to me le Feu Issey Miyake :), nice !

Poivre Electrique is my second try of the 2016 Collection Orient from Atelier Cologne and like Tobacco Nuit, it certainly does not disappoint, offering a heavy dose of the eponymous pepper note that dominates the fragrance from its green opening to woody dry down. The pepper component itself as actually a variety of black and pink pepper, so it's thorough in both brighter and darker peppers, and these all dominate the opening which for me is very green, despite the absence of other green notes in the opening. It dries down into a mix of incense, sandalwood, and cedar (I don't get myrrh or rose specifically), so a very safe, pleasant dry down. It's overall not as intriguing a fragrance as Tobacco Nuit--I love pepper fragrances in general, but Poivre Electrique smells pleasant but just not exceptional, particularly for the price points ($250 for 100ml and $325 for 200ml, same for the whole collection). One could argue that this exceeds some other pepper fragrances (i.e. Amouage Honour Man) in refinement but its pricing is, at least for now, a little prohibitive for the market. Also, it's not as strong of a performer as Tobacco Nuit--I'll have to see how the rest of the Collection Orient performs, but I imagine most will land somewhere between the two. Poivre Electrique doesn't project a ton, but the longevity seems fine. Certainly a cold-weather-leaning fragrance, but innocuous enough to wear year-round, it's surely a versatile enough addition to merit some higher cost, but just not the retail of the Collection Orient. Still, a nice pepper fragrance that I would love to wear if price were not an impediment. 7 out of 10

The spicy black pepper opening of this is great—it’s kept from being astringent from the fruitiness of the pink pepper, dry cedar, sweet resins, and a very soft rose halo in the background. It’s self-assured but friendly, stylish but uncomplicated. I find most Atelier Cologne fragrances screechy and harsh; this mostly avoids that, but the AC base loves to shout “I’m a perfume!,” and it gets its moment after we find ourselves in the heart. But overall, it’s balanced and rounded in all the ways it should be. It’s very easy to wear, and fairly androgynous—it could skew femme or butch as you wanted it to. But, with all that positivity, it’s certainly not novel. I’d much rather wear Comme des Garçons’ Blackpepper or Play Black, similar in their peppery top notes but deeper and a little darker in their bases. I recall thinking Blackpepper didn’t last long enough, but whatever it was, it’s surely longer than the hour or two I get out of Poivre Electrique. And then there’s the price. $130 for 30ml? $250 for 100? Sure, you can find it on Fragrancenet and save a bit, but why pay more for fast fashion when you could buy the actual designer outfit?

A nice peppery/woody/resinous offering from Atelier. It's a shame that it suffers from the lack of projection and it feels as it's barely on your skin. I will say that all 9 notes are detectable although the scent is a bit linear. The light citrus blends well with the resinous notes but it's lacking that "oomph" factor to put it over the top. All in all I would rate it as a 3.7/5. Basically meaning that it's highly likeable but not loveable and it's a bit more masculine than feminine so the ladies will not feel this one as much as the guys.

Woodsy and faintly smokey without feeling heavy or too intense, though this does fade more quickly than the "beast mode" styles. I get an herbal quality that reminds me of herbs de Provence on the top notes, with the woody and peppery coming through more on the dry down.

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This is like peppered Genetic Bliss with hints of labdanum and some sourness :) I love it, but it's definitely not for everybody!

Lovely creation but poor lasting power. Pepper + frankincense + ceder + isoE super. Reminds of blending Molecule 01 with something like Craft by Andrea Maack/ CdG Avignon. I really enjoy this type of Smokey woody perfume that hints incense and dark woods in an abstract and non ostentatious way. However the lasting power is an issue here. It dissipates and disappears within 1hr, leaving no trace behind. I don't consider it worthy for the pricetag.

For pepper lovers. I can smell pepper, cedar and incense. More for men, I am not a fan. Fresh but for me, it is more for fall and winter. 5/10

this is one of the first scents i have tried from ateliers new orient collection and i can already tell you that they aren’t up to their old MO folks they have broken the mold! Poivre Electrique (Electric Pepper) opens with yes you guessed it a really strong peppery accord which gets really heady with just two sprays so make sure you dont go to hard on the trigger or else it may clear a room id say this is a great scent to wear during the winter/fall season since its bound to warm up your olfactive senses but where the magic really happens for me is in the dry down as the pepper tones down and the nicely blended woodsy/earthy accords slowly take over the main downside to this scent is the longevity and projection since i find it to be moderate at best and only for that reason this will be a pass on to the next ps make sure your a little on the daring side or have a well trained nose for scents to truly appreciate this since its not made for mass appeal

Smells like authentic black pepper, like if you'd smell it out of the dredger - I don't know why anyone would want to smell like this. Really unpleasant and overpowering if you smell it up close, just like if you smelled it out of the dredger. If you get passed that black pepper then you can smell the sandalwood x rose x resin combo, which is great. But again, you have to like the black pepper smell to like this fragrance since the pepper note is overpowering. I'm not sure if I can respect it for what it is... It's really a dislike for me.

I don't own this fragrance but I tried it today in a store with three generous spritzes on my inner forearm. It opens with lots of spice and pepper and some ctirus and seemed quite powdery and musky - not particularly to my taste but quite interesting. Dries down to a much woodier scent after a few hours with sandalwood and cedar warming up. The dry down is far more pleasant. It's been around 7 hours since I first sprayed it and I've since showered and I can still smell it on my arm quite strongly. Would suit a older gent, perhaps over 35 and would be pretty versatile. Performance Good longevity: 8/10 Moderate sillage: 7/10 The scent: Very spicy and peppery at first and reminded me of something else - perhaps a room freshener - not my kind of thing but calms down into a nice woody fragrance. 6/10 Overall: A little imbalanced - perhaps a scent of two halves. 7/10

GORGEOUS SCENT! Delivers what it markets. Not very often that you can leave it at just that - simple! Almost a carbon copy of Comme Des Garcons Blackpepper which I personally prefer as it has a deeper earthier scent thanks to the patchouli and wood and lasts longer. This scent is cleaner and brighter, maybe more for summer and Blackpepper for winter? Another of many wins for me from the house of Atelier.

This Perfume has got fantastic scent.. woody and spicy then fresh spicy(mysterious). I smell black pepper,pink pepper and Pimento with Cedar the most..it followed by an oriental union of resins. it's worm but Not a heavy scent..it's Romantic It is a good perfume for fall/winter. The longevity is medium. The projection is medium. it's a inoffensive scent..Bitter Orange and pink pepper

Positives: instantly recognizable quality, true to life pepper note. Negatives: true to life pepper note. Unless you use this for layering, I can’t imagine wearing this by itself. It simply smells of foody peppers. I don’t pick up much-if any-of the other notes. Aesthetically interesting but not for me. I’ll try to layer it with a fragrance that is in need of some added kick

Smells like not so freshly ground black pepper. Full stop. Plus side: does not make you sneeze. C'est tout.

Black pepper and suede. Seasoned gloves?