Piment Brûlant (2002)
by L'Artisan Parfumeur

This one is odd, though I kind of like it. Spices, patchouli, and some sort of soapiness. They combine together along with this metallic note. The spice in this smells like either paprika or chili, along with pepper.

9th December, 2011.

This smells like a bowl of capsicums sitting in your kitchen ready for some knife action. Your dish will be well spiced, tasty and fiery. It doesn't smell like bell pepper to me, because there is a fiery, hot streak that runs throughout this fragrance. There is also a waxy smell, not unlike the pepper in the kitchen. Chili pepper.

Musk finally overtakes this illusion and adds a creamy texture. Possibly a dash of vanilla is also mixed in. This is not sweet, nor overwhelming. It is deceptively simple in it's purpose.

But, although I enjoyed this as a smell, I really don't want to smell of this on a regular basis. I appreciate it's design and goal, but it is reserved for the forays into Mexican cooking that I need alot of help with. Maybe with the tone set, my outcomes would be better.

21st October, 2011. (Last Edited: 22nd October, 2011.)

Clove, chocolate, and a spicy-vegetal note somewhere between sappy tomato stem and stinging red chilli – let's call it red bell pepper. Piment Brûlant is not shoddily put together, and it has an intriguingly spectral presence, but its quirky ingredients threaten both a head- and stomach ache and I'd recommend it as a curiosity only.

11th September, 2011.

Previous reviewers have mentioned bell peppers - let me go a step further and say that Piment Brulant is more like sticking your nose inside a raw jalapeño. Maybe not LITERALLY a jalapeño, but definitely a pepper with some heat to it. Piment Brulant is both intensely vegetal and unappealingly spicy-hot to my nose. Reading only the note lists will definitely send the wrong impression about what this fragrance is actually about - cinnamon, amber, vanilla, cloves, chocolate, are a few I can recall. Sounds like a gourmand right? Well, maybe if you're a serious chilihead, because any other notes at play here are completely smothered by the overpowering pepper.

All that said, I have to give some credit here - Piment Brulant is certainly unique and I admire the crafting of such a vivid pepper note, but that simply does not translate into a wearable fragrance for me.

1st May, 2011.

I wore this twice over the weekend...the first time, I was really turned off by the strong peppery notes in the beginning. I didn't pay much attention to it for awhile. But then I realized that the peppers had gotten sweeter and warmer. I never thought I would like the combination of vanilla, dark chocolate, and pimento...but I kinda do.

This is a very unique and musky gourmand that may not appeal to everyone, so make sure to sample it first. It lasted all day and got more delicious & wearable as the day progressed.

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27th March, 2011.

When I cook thai food I use a lot of thai red chilies. Piment Brûlant smells exactly the way my hands do after chopping and cleaning those chilies. It's not unpleasant, but for me the association with food is too strong for me to want to wear it.

5th March, 2011.