
Ingredients · Spices · top note
Sichuan pepper CO2 extract
Say itSICH-wahn pepper see-oh-TOO extract
Citrusy yuzu-lemon pepper zing with lavender and woody facets.
- What it is
- Natural extract from dried husks of Zanthoxylum species.
- Where it comes from
- China, Japan
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds an electric citrus-pepper tingle to citrus, aromatic and woody tops.
- Worth knowing
- Its mouth-numbing tingle comes from sanshools, molecules that add nothing to the smell.
- Also called
- Szechuan pepper; Zanthoxylum bungeanum; Zanthoxylum piperitum
Named by the house, not on the label, in 6
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