Le Labo · 2008 · Nathalie Lorson

Poivre 23

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell bourbon pepper and ambery notes.

The house’s page

The drawn Poivre 23 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Poivre 23’s scent picture, a draft: black pepper, patchouli, galaxolide, vanillin drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Poivre 23, top notes: Black pepper

Dry-downhours later

Poivre 23, dry-down: Patchouli, Galaxolide, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

13 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals3 woods2 sweet3 spices1 musks

Citrus1

Limonene

Herbs & lavender1

Terpineol

Florals2

FarnesolCitronellol

Woods3

SantalolPatchouli oilVertofix

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Benzaldehyde

Spices3

EugenolCinnamalIsoeugenol

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Not in Ingredients yet5

Cinnamyl alcohol, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

Bourbon pepper

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 13 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.