Black pepper oil

Fresh, dry, peppery-woody with a citrusy terpenic sparkle.

What it is: Natural oil from dried unripe fruit of Piper nigrum.
Where it comes from: India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar
When you smell it: Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it: Adds a sharp, cool-spicy sparkle to citrus colognes, fougères and woody masculines.
Worth knowing: The oil lacks pepper's bite: piperine, the molecule that burns the tongue, does not distil.
Known in: Parfum Sacré (Caron, 1990); Eau d'Hadrien (Annick Goutal, 1981); Guerlain Homme (Guerlain, 2008)
Also called: Piper nigrum oil

Named by the house, not on the label, in 17

Sources