Description
As a result of numerous trips taken by the founders and Creators, Sylvie Ganter and Christophe Cervasel, to Asia and Middle East, they have created five new Colognes Absolue, all of which are a part of Atelier Cologne newest collection, Collection Orient inspired by the region’s natural beauty, people and customs, and particularly the most precious raw materials. The beauty and refinement of these carefully selected raw materials illustrate treasured emotions and powerful memories, source of inspiration for the creators.
Atelier Cologne’s iconic flacon has been reinvented for Collection Orient. The glass is colored white reflecting modernity and purity. The golden caps pay tribute to the preciousness of the ingredients carefully selected to create each Cologne Absolue.
Poivre Electrique is built around chords of pepper – black bitter pepper and flirtatious, vibrant pink pepper, followed by an oriental union of resins, precious wood, incense and Turkish rose. Vibrant pepper is framed with bitter and optimistic zests of bitter orange.
Fragrances of the collection ATELIER COLOGNE COLLECTION ORIENT are available as 30, 100 and 200ml Cologne Absolue (20% vol), as well as in gift sets. Flacons of 30ml are ‘dressed’ in leather case.
Poivre Electrique was launched in 2016.
Sergei999 – :
As I’m sitting here with poivre electrique a thought came to mind: Did atelier Cologne change management? A few Google clicks later I saw that yes, yes it did. It was bought by loreal in 2016.
Atelier was previously a preferred house of mine. But as I’m reflecting on this scent I keep getting images of French wine served in Dixie cups. What happened here?
This is really falling flat for me.
erurlertyn – :
GORGEOUS SCENT! Delivers what it markets. Not very often that you can leave it at just that – simple!
Almost a carbon copy of Comme Des Garcons Blackpepper which I personally prefer as it has a deeper earthier scent thanks to the patchouli and wood and lasts longer.
This scent is cleaner and brighter, maybe more for summer and Blackpepper for winter?
Another of many wins for me from the house of Atelier.
vum189bedyWelty – :
The perfect peppery layering scent!!!
This is exactly what I was hoping it would be! Very peppery, but as a whole, this scent reminds me of natural patchouli oil. To me, this does not smell like pepper straight from the pepper mill, while I have smelled other scents that do. The pepper in Club De Nuit Man (not Intense), YSL L’Homme, or especially Ferragamo F Black, for instance, smells more like true black pepper oil than this. I even brought out my pepper mill to compare, and to me, there’s a strong difference. This is more green and herbaceous. More vibrant! More alive! And less abrasive. Hachew! 🙂
This is clean, spicy, and manly, without being overbearing or loaded with citrus or woods. The bitter orange and cedar do however work together to keep this scent from being too one dimensional.
If I had to list a fault, it would have to be the longevity. It has moderate projection for only about 2 hours and total longevity of 4-6 depending on how much I’m sweating. Also, I guess I’d say it’s rather linear, but it does become a slightly more leathery pepper in the dry down.
All said, I like this most because it layers so well! Layers well with: Lalique Encre Noir, Gucci Guilty Absolute, and Dior Sauvage EDP. Also layers well with citrus scents and fruit-chouli scents.
Give this a try if you have a chance and find it for an appropriate price!
Valera1947 – :
WOW! This is just amazing! Stongly recomend letting it settle for about 20 minutes before you go anywhere.
There is a store in every mall that sells scented candles and soaps, dried flowers, sandlwood, cedar, and drift wood products, seasonal items figurines, etc,.
The ones that have very high priced items, has a very unique smell. And it reminds me of this fragrance.
Their are very FEW fragrance i will spend the FB money on, most are small decants.
This will definately be a FB purchase. I’ve only done that with two others Creed-M.I. and Tiziana Terenzi- Orion.
projection- strong to close within a few hours
longevity- 6-8hrs?
silliage-? never gauged it, but i get a ton of compliments and headturns.
absosileaks – :
I don’t own this fragrance but I tried it today in a store with three generous spritzes on my inner forearm.
It opens with lots of spice and pepper and some ctirus and seemed quite powdery and musky – not particularly to my taste but quite interesting. Dries down to a much woodier scent after a few hours with sandalwood and cedar warming up. The dry down is far more pleasant.
It’s been around 7 hours since I first sprayed it and I’ve since showered and I can still smell it on my arm quite strongly. Would suit a older gent, perhaps over 35 and would be pretty versatile.
Performance
Good longevity: 8/10
Moderate sillage: 7/10
The scent: Very spicy and peppery at first and reminded me of something else – perhaps a room freshener – not my kind of thing but calms down into a nice woody fragrance. 6/10
Overall: A little imbalanced – perhaps a scent of two halves.
7/10
ooy065Bessinepome – :
Instantly on my want list. Atelier improves upon Comme Des Garcon’s singular focus in Black Pepper by layering multiple types of the spice over each other. The robust base notes make for a fuller and longer, but still thoroughly “peppery” experience. YES!
limpopo – :
Smells like authentic black pepper, like if you’d smell it out of the dredger – I don’t know why anyone would want to smell like this. Really unpleasant and overpowering if you smell it up close, just like if you smelled it out of the dredger.
If you get passed that black pepper then you can smell the sandalwood x rose x resin combo, which is great. But again, you have to like the black pepper smell to like this fragrance since the pepper note is overpowering.
I’m not sure if I can respect it for what it is… It’s really a dislike for me.
antoxa2701 – :
Well, out of my large sample collection from Atelier, I’m starting to increase the number of hits over misses. I had inadvertently catalogued this in my Atelier Floral category (for organizing the exhaustive sampling), and blindly tried (so as not to agonize over WHICH SOTD). Whoa. Really like!
I’m not a floral person, and prefer incense, resins, spice, so while I thought I was up for a floral, I was delighted when this hit. It’s a sheer, more spicy, very dry and acrid type of incense. There might be some Super Ie in this, but it rarely bothers me. While the first ten minutes are awesome for those of us who like this genre, it gentles quickly, and the drydown is lovely and a bit more sweet (the pimento and sandalwood come to the fore). Unfortunately the silage sits close, so you may need to layer as well as spritz on clothing and hair.
This is unisex, perhaps skewing a bit masculine (I think this would be soooo sexy on a man), but I like it for myself and women who eschew “the berries and fruit basket” should try this. Sexy on a man, exotique and mysterious on a woman, a little something different.
boss10 – :
This Perfume has got fantastic scent..
woody and spicy then fresh spicy(mysterious).
I smell black pepper,pink pepper and Pimento with Cedar the most..it followed by an oriental union of resins.
it’s worm but Not a heavy scent..it’s Romantic
It is a good perfume for fall/winter.
The longevity is medium.
The projection is medium.
it’s a inoffensive scent..Bitter Orange and pink pepper
ahim09 – :
Poivre Electrique is my second try of the 2016 Collection Orient from Atelier Cologne and like Tobacco Nuit, it certainly does not disappoint, offering a heavy dose of the eponymous pepper note that dominates the fragrance from its green opening to woody dry down. The pepper component itself as actually a variety of black and pink pepper, so it’s thorough in both brighter and darker peppers, and these all dominate the opening which for me is very green, despite the absence of other green notes in the opening. It dries down into a mix of incense, sandalwood, and cedar (I don’t get myrrh or rose specifically), so a very safe, pleasant dry down.
It’s overall not as intriguing a fragrance as Tobacco Nuit–I love pepper fragrances in general, but Poivre Electrique smells pleasant but just not exceptional, particularly for the price points ($250 for 100ml and $325 for 200ml, same for the whole collection). One could argue that this exceeds some other pepper fragrances (i.e. Amouage Honour Man) in refinement but its pricing is, at least for now, a little prohibitive for the market.
Also, it’s not as strong of a performer as Tobacco Nuit–I’ll have to see how the rest of the Collection Orient performs, but I imagine most will land somewhere between the two. Poivre Electrique doesn’t project a ton, but the longevity seems fine. Certainly a cold-weather-leaning fragrance, but innocuous enough to wear year-round, it’s surely a versatile enough addition to merit some higher cost, but just not the retail of the Collection Orient.
Still, a nice pepper fragrance that I would love to wear if price were not an impediment.
7 out of 10
miron_78 – :
At the beginning is very vegetable and the earth . Afterwards reminds sweet spice scent , reminds to me le Feu Issey Miyake :), nice !
evgenix2011 – :
A nice peppery/woody/resinous offering from Atelier. It’s a shame that it suffers from the lack of projection and it feels as it’s barely on your skin. I will say that all 9 notes are detectable although the scent is a bit linear. The light citrus blends well with the resinous notes but it’s lacking that “oomph” factor to put it over the top. All in all I would rate it as a 3.7/5. Basically meaning that it’s highly likeable but not loveable and it’s a bit more masculine than feminine so the ladies will not feel this one as much as the guys.
pipppa – :
Smells like not so freshly ground black pepper. Full stop. Plus side: does not make you sneeze.
C’est tout.
MopozoFF – :
Very very realistic black pepper smell, which is solid and doesn’t change over the time. I wonder who would want to wear this…. I hope Atelier Cologne will not continue the trend and start creating perfumes smelling realistically a kimchi, or a potato.
Al8550Pr – :
this is one of the first scents i have tried from ateliers new orient collection and i can already tell you that they aren’t up to their old MO
folks they have broken the mold!
Poivre Electrique (Electric Pepper) opens with yes you guessed it a really strong peppery accord which gets really heady with just two sprays so make sure you dont go to hard on the trigger or else it may clear a room
id say this is a great scent to wear during the winter/fall season since its bound to warm up your olfactive senses but where the magic really happens for me is in the dry down as the pepper tones down and the nicely blended woodsy/earthy accords slowly take over
the main downside to this scent is the longevity and projection since i find it to be moderate at best and only for that reason this will be a pass
on to the next
ps make sure your a little on the daring side or have a well trained nose for scents to truly appreciate this since its not made for mass appeal
knyaz-vika – :
Initial impression of this is a peppery Armani Prive Bois Encens with a little more warmth. The incense is very prominent and I can’t really distinguish any rose or floral element in this. It almost strikes me as a more upscale Mauboussin M Generation (similar incense note) that thankfully doesn’t turn into pickle juice on my skin.
I’m only wearing a small amount on my wrist, so I can’t comment accurately on performance, but typical of Atelier it seems to have restrained projection. Solid scent and a good effort but also doesn’t set itself apart from the afformentioned competitors.
vadimjke – :
Black pepper and suede. Seasoned gloves?