Spicy fragrances

Spice notes such as cinnamon, cardamom, clove and pepper.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

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1 Million Eau de Toilette

Rabanne — Riot police could use it in place of stun grenades, one reviewer proposed in 2013: a fixture of late-2000s nightclubs, candied orange and cinnamon on a sweet, leathery amber.

A City on Fire Eau de Parfum

Imaginary Authors — A struck match, sulphur and all, and then the bonfire: wearers describe smoke that gets into hair and clothes, with a hint of dark berries if you go looking.

African Rooibos Eau de Parfum

Chris Collins — Not the cool green tea most tea fragrances chase: owners describe warm red-bush rooibos with black pepper and cardamom, drying down to cedar and a faint maple-like sweetness.

Angels' Share Eau de Parfum

Kilian Paris — Cognac and oak with cinnamon, praline, tonka and vanilla: sweet and woody, and for many wearers it projects strongly for several hours..

Arabie Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Dense dried fruit and cumin, with a dark, sticky sweetness and savoury spice.

Carolina Herrera — Chocolate is the word that keeps coming back: a soft bar steeped in ambroxan for one owner, a nutty milk chocolate for a tester at an airport, Nutella for a third, and for a fourth a bitter, herbal cocoa smothered by clary sage.

Black Afgano Extrait de Parfum

Nasomatto — Dense resins and dark woods, with impressions of incense, tobacco and burnt coffee.

Black Opium Eau de Parfum

Yves Saint Laurent — Sweet coffee and vanilla, with white flowers in the background.

BOSS Bottled Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — Simply the office fragrance, to one 2012 reviewer, and one wearer's colleague asked who smelled so pleasantly of fabric softener: baked apple and cinnamon on woods and vanilla, threaded with geranium.

BOSS Bottled Elixir

Hugo Boss — Incense and cardamom rise first, smoky and dark, before cedar, patchouli and a resinous sweetness close in; one owner ends on something like dark chocolate.

BOSS Bottled Night Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — The evening twin of BOSS Bottled, which the house ties to a wood called Louro Amarelo; wearers pick out lavender, violet and a smoky birch, and one first met it in an uncle's office years before buying a bottle.

BOSS Bottled Parfum

Hugo Boss — Warm Pepsi and potpourri for the first four minutes, one tester writes, then a sexy drydown; many meet mandarin peel and incense giving way to a milky, jammy fig, powdery iris and cedar.

BOSS The Scent Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — A collector of over a hundred colognes never lets this one run out, and their wife sprays it on her pillow when they travel: ginger, a fruity maninka that one owner likens to passion fruit, and a soft leather, in a smooth, office-safe warmth.

Champaca Parfum

Ormonde Jayne — Moderate, close wear is the usual report for this creamy champaca and freesia on warm, starchy rice, freshened by green tea and bamboo..

Civet Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — The name promises a zoo.

Concrete

Comme des Garçons — Its mineral side divides reviewers, chalk or cement dust for some and a sherbet or bubblegum sweetness for others, set among cumin, clove and a metallic rose on creamy, powdery wood..

Cool Water Parfum

Davidoff — Pink pepper opens it, Haitian vetiver runs the middle and sandalwood closes: a Cool Water in name that owner after owner says has little to do with the original, spicier and sweeter, nearer Sauvage or Invictus than the 1988 aquatic.

Copper Eau de Parfum

Comme des Garçons — Built on a contradiction, and wearers feel both halves: a sharp green, peppery opening that several compare to a handful of coins, then a soft settle into vanilla and myrrh.

Coven Eau de Parfum

Andrea Maack — Wet soil, moss and a green burst of galbanum: the forest floor after rain, and the word many wearers reach for is witchy.

Cristalle Eau de Toilette

Chanel — Sharp citrus and cool, green hyacinth with jasmine beneath, turning close and transparent as it goes on, in many wearers' experience..

Dark Eau de Parfum

Akro — Dry, bitter cocoa with cinnamon and hazelnut.

Déclaration Eau de Toilette

Cartier — Cumin gives it a warm edge that divides people, sensual skin to some and stale clothing to others; around it, as wearers tell it, sit cool green cardamom and bone-dry bitter orange on cedar.

Dom Rosa Eau de Parfum

Liquides Imaginaires — Rosé in a glass: wearers describe fizzing grapefruit and pear, a dry rose and something like chalky vineyard soil, closer to a wine bar than a flower shop.

Donna Born in Roma Eau de Parfum

Valentino — Strong and long-wearing, by most reviewers' account, this is jasmine sambac laid on warm cashmeran and vanilla..

Dune

Dior — Dry mineral air, sea breeze and a faint hay-like sweetness, likened by reviewers to pebbles, driftwood and dust.

Eau des Merveilles Eau de Toilette

Hermès — Woody, a little leathery, neither floral nor sweet: as wearers tell it, salt and orange peel lie on warm resin and cedar, and for some it is all they wear.

Eau Rihla Eau de Parfum

Diptyque — Raspberry against leather, and wearers argue about which wins: jammy fruit and pink pepper over a soft, woody leather that reminds some of a new car seat or a good handbag.

Encelade

Marc-Antoine Barrois — Sour rhubarb, damp earth and leather with a strong green character, which some wearers liken to tomato leaf, compost or burnt matches.

Eternity for Women Eau de Parfum

Calvin Klein — Lily of the valley, carnation and a sprig of sage, scrubbed so clean that wearers keep reaching for the laundry: detergent, soap, a crisp white shirt.

Explorer Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Fresh bergamot, pepper and a smoky, woody ambroxan base, with no pineapple in it.

Fantosmia Eau de Parfum

Jorum Studio — Dense and slightly medicinal to many wearers, drawing closer as it settles: pepper, pimento and fennel, green shiso and mate, over tobacco and leather..

Fathom V

BeauFort London — Cold green stems, pond water and lilies: a florist's refrigerator, in the comparison reviewers reach for most often.

Femme Eau de Toilette

Rochas — Elegant rather than girlish, the fruity chypre wearers describe starts from plum and peach cooked down to a compote and dusted with cinnamon and clove, on a dark, earthy base of moss and leather with cumin running through it.

Fig-Tea Eau de Toilette

Nicolaï — Osmanthus, orange and green tea with an apricot-like davana accent, on a soft guaiac-and-amber background.

Fille en Aiguilles Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Pine sap and dried fruit in a dense, syrupy weave: wearers describe needles, frankincense and a jammy, Christmas-preserve sweetness, bone-dry and peppery on some skins, like a bitter herbal liqueur to one.

Flower by Kenzo

Kenzo — Lipstick and face powder are the comparisons that come up for this powdery violet and rose on vanilla.

Followed Eau de Parfum

Kerosene — Days is how long wearers say this breakfast gourmand lasts, projecting enormously on skin, clothes and, in one case, a window screen: maple syrup poured over strong coffee, with caramel, cocoa and a whiff of pancakes.

Ganymede Eau de Parfum

Marc-Antoine Barrois — The whole appeal for some and a dentist's surgery for others, its cool, clinical character comes from mandarin, then something metallic, mineral and paper-like, above soft leather and immortelle.

Good Girl Eau de Parfum

Carolina Herrera — Tuberose and jasmine with coffee, cocoa and a warm almond-tonka base.

Gucci Rush Eau de Toilette

Gucci — Creamy peach, gardenia and vanilla over mossy patchouli, with the strong projection and long wear that wearers commonly report..

Hibiscus Mahajád Extrait de Parfum

Maison Crivelli — Tart hibiscus tea and rose preserve lead, cut with spearmint and blackcurrant, before vanilla and a supple leather take over.

Hwyl

Aesop — Dry thyme and elemi, wood dust and incense.

Jasmin et Cigarette Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — In the accounts of those who wear it: rich jasmine and cold tobacco ash, a dry turmeric accent, and a little tonka sweetness under the smoky floral..

Jeux de Peau Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Bread comes up in nearly every report: warm crust, toast and butter, then apricot jam, licorice and sandalwood as it dries down.

Jungle L'Éléphant Eau de Parfum

Kenzo — Clove and cardamom announce it before anything else, and wearers keep reaching for Christmas: mulled spice, potpourri, a scented candle, with mango and liquorice folded into a vanilla and patchouli base.

K by Dolce&Gabbana Eau de Toilette

Dolce&Gabbana — Blood orange, lemon and juniper open it, then a chili-pepper sharpness, lavender and a woody close; one owner wears it on every trip to Italy for its coastal feel, another hears the shower gel of a childhood swimming club.

Kouros Eau de Toilette

Yves Saint Laurent — Soap and sweat in the same breath: clove and carnation over a musky, animal warmth that owners liken to clean bedsheets and, less kindly, to a urinal cake.

L'Air du Temps Eau de Toilette

Nina Ricci — Carnation with its clove bite, softened by gardenia, rose and jasmine and settled on powdery sandalwood and iris.

Le Male Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — Lavender and mint over vanilla, with the shaving-soap smell of an old barbershop: the sailor-torso bottle that fought Joop! Homme for the dance floors of the 1990s.

Like This Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Pumpkin and ginger as warm, savoury vegetables and spice, with bright tangerine at the start.

Loulou Eau de Parfum

Cacharel — Purple, spiced and unmistakably of the eighties: a sweet floral with powder and a dense vanilla heart that wearers have come back to for decades.

Mitsouko

Guerlain — Soft peach against earthy patchouli and moss, with citrus and spice sharpening the opening.

Moth Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — Dust, honey and smoke: wearers describe an old wardrobe opened after years, powdery flowers and burnt honey, once a loud spice-cabinet opening has passed, which some read as medicinal or metallic.

Narcisse Noir (2021) Parfum

Caron — Less animalic than older Narcisse Noir, wearers who compare the two often find: dry orange blossom and jonquil, a green, waxy narcissus, and sandalwood and vetiver beneath..

No. 02 L'Air du Désert Marocain

Tauer Perfumes — Heat held in stone is how many owners put it: coriander and cumin over rock rose, cedar and vetiver, drying to incense-like smoke and mineral dust.

Obsession for Men Eau de Toilette

Calvin Klein — In one reviewer's telling, this is what a stepdad sprays on a dozen times after pickup basketball instead of showering; in another's, the 1980s powerhouse that filled nightclub dance floors.

Obsession for Women Eau de Parfum

Calvin Klein — Warm spice, amber and musk, sometimes with a powdery or incense-like haze: the spicy amber its long-time owners still reach for.

Ombré Leather Eau de Parfum

Tom Ford — Dry leather with flashes of floral and cardamom.

Oscar Eau de Toilette

Oscar de la Renta — A classic floral with a barbershop streak: clove and lavender run through it, soapy, faintly smoky and sweet.

Oud for Greatness Eau de Parfum

Initio Parfums Privés — Very strong early projection and long persistence are what many reviewers report from this saffron-and-lavender oud, smooth and sweet, though some accounts describe weaker wear..

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