Poivre Noir

L'Orpheline's less melancholy cousin, Poivre Noir shares that other perfume's deceptive simplicity and subtlety. Like L'Orpheline's treatment of its incense note, Poivre Noir's black pepper is not punchy and sharp, but restrained. Compared to L'Orpheline, Poivre Noir is a little more masculine, a little less long-lasting, and just slightly sweeter (though this is by no means a sweet fragrance). I should stress, it doesn't really smell like L'Orpheline. But it wears similarly and my guess is that if you like one, you'd like the other. And if you do like it, Poivre Noir can be very versatile. Though it's not crowd pleasing or really blind-buy safe (it's far too specific), it's often available for under $60 at discounters. And at that price it's an absolute steal.

It's Black Pepper alright! At first smell from the bottle, you get full pepper: slightly bitter, spicy and a little old-school. After spraying, it unravels with something green and then something sweet. Compared to other Lutens, it doesn't develop or evolve too much, or deviate from the initial concept of black pepper. It never goes too sweet but stays fairly masculine and gives off my father's aftershave in the 80s vibes... It has its place... for me, mainly when I want something more linear and less complex than other Lutens and that's cool. I have mediterranean ollive skin and those spicy scents work well with it. The drydown lasts a fairly long time.

I LOVE THIS FRAGRANCE SO MUCH that I wish I never smelled it bc I am not in the tax bracket for shit like this 😭😭 Love the pepper, it’s not too masculine smelling... on my skin it has almost sweet undertones. My sample spray definitely lasted 8+ hrs no problem. Have genuinely never loved a fragrance as much as this one.

This fragrance is gorgeous. Simple and masculine–it combines cedar and pepper to create a signature worthy masculine scent. It performers well and is unique enough to provoke unsolicited comments from women whenever I wear it.

a timeless fresh masculine scent, nothing unique about it, but its does justice in this category. so underrated, hard to love yet easy to hate.