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Blackpepper Comme des Garçons 2016

7.6 / 10 332 Ratings

A popular perfume by Comme des Garçons for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is spicy-woody. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Smoky

Synthetic

Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Madagascar pepper

Akigalawood®

Cedarwood

Musk

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Antoine Maisondieu

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Ratings

Scent

7.6332 Ratings

Longevity

7.2282 Ratings

Sillage

6.9284 Ratings

Bottle

7.8276 Ratings

Value for money

7.4133 Ratings

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Reviews

24 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/02/2022

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

BobbyGee
230 Reviews

BobbyGee

Helpful Review 1

Comme des Garçons / Blackpepper

Do you like the sharp, dry and peppery scent? And you like the smell of dry wood, conifers (cedar) lined with patchouli? Then mix it all together, add some oud and add a handful of pepper, whatever ... don't regret it, give it 2 handfuls ... stir and let it shake.
Then squeeze, pour the extract into a bottle and pour the spirit into it.
Before closing, you can also cast a spell ... such as "let it turn your nose when you spray it". Necessarily over the left shoulder. Set aside in a dark cellar, it is very important that it is very cold.
And so after half a year, when you take out a dark, beautiful bottle and in silence you spray this magic elixir - you will hear a loud "bless you" from the next room ... unless someone familiar and close throws you - "fortunately that you ... no crashed ".
A great smell, it is worth having and trying. I have and will have in my ... my basement ;-)

05/23/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

3

Wish that black pepper note lasted....

A few things bug me about Blackpepper – it stresses out my Spellcheck, it has zero longevity, and it references its big brother Black a little too openly – and yet, one whiff of that perfectly-rendered black pepper note in the opening sequence and I am ready to forgive it anything.

It’s a show that lasts barely 20 minutes, but in that time, you get hit with all the most exciting facets of black pepper, ranging from that weird lemon peel screech at the top, the pungent oiliness, the dusty engine oil aspect, and the sappy licorice note underpinning everything. It’s also bone dry, in that elegantly sooty way of Black, which makes it a perfect spice fragrance with which to fight damp undershirt syndrome on a humid night. Just spray, spray, and re-spray to keep the oily black pepper exploding over and over again.

05/05/2025

7.5Scent 8Longevity 4Sillage

Ursaw
171 Reviews

Ursaw

3

Fragrant wood ashes

Smoky dry pepper. Ashes from the fire. Sweet woods. Something else vaguely nostalgic and expensive. Like a fully wooden room at a rich household with an open fireplace in the middle. Questionable design choice, but you have to admit that it smells like heaven in there.

A fun scent, nonchalant and full of quiet confidence. Soft sillage with a strong presence. Created a smoky aura in my immediate vicinity that lasted around ~3 hours. Settled on skin afterwards.

The last remnants of smoke dissipated over the next ~2 hours, leaving me with just the soft pliable woods and a gentle musky sweetness. Those clung to my skin way into the night. A quiet kind of luxury. Great for colder parts of the year, but could also easily fit right into a campfire outing on chilly summer night.

Not a scent I would wear often, but one I'm happy to own.

08/08/2016

7Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

loewenherz
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loewenherz

Top Review 15

Beyond the Top Note...

Something that I really dislike is being approached unsolicited in public - no matter the reason, for what, or against what. I sometimes react irritably when someone steps in my way and holds out something to try, read, or sign. Accordingly, the situation was rather unfavorable for the salesperson I ran into on Saturday afternoon at Selfridges.

But first of all, he couldn't know that, and secondly, I was in an extraordinarily good mood due to a long-awaited purchase I had just made, and therefore, contrary to my usual inclination, if not enthusiastic, at least willing to half-heartedly return his smile and try Comme des Garçons' Blackpepper, which he held out to me so invitingly.

Comme des Garçons' perfumes and I - it's a bit complicated. Most of their scents develop something synthetic at the latest from the heart note, which sometimes fits quite well with the respective fragrance theme, but due to its repetitive pattern, it begins to bore by the third time at the latest. And I usually find pepper in perfumes to be exhausting - sometimes interestingly done, but never really convincing.

The pepper that gives Blackpepper its name in the top note is indeed astonishing. It is exactly the accord of freshly ground black pepper, as it comes from those arm-length, somewhat silly mills that the long-aproned waiters use to theatrically go from table to table at Italian restaurants, twisting the mechanism twice as if offering jewels. And I thought: yes, exactly, pepper, yuck - I don't want that in a perfume.

However, after two and a half minutes, the pepper is gone. What follows is not the Comme des Garçons-immanent postmodern artificial plastic note, but beyond the initially biting darkness, Blackpepper develops into a warm, gentle, exceedingly well-shaped wood scent and a soft whisperer with a caressing, soft skin sweetness that one would not expect at first sniff.

Conclusion: the introductory pepper note is fascinating, but since I don't like pepper, it's only academically interesting to me. Beyond that, however, a surprisingly beautiful scent - and also quite new in the UK, by the way. They didn't have it at Liberty and Harrods yet.

01/27/2017

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Walden
1 Review

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Walden

Top Review 11

Transparent yet Polarizing

I would like to now put my overall first comment about "Comme des Garcons Blackpepper" into writing.
The decision to do so came quite spontaneously but for good reason. For several weeks, I had been plagued by a deep-seated cold that was accompanied by a certain olfactory blindness. The cold has since resolved, after which I decided to test one or two fragrance samples again. The Comme des Garcons line is now well known to me. The philosophy of the house is also familiar to me. It can be summarized in a few words. CDG attempts to create a new fragrance experience with synthetic compositions that has not existed in this form before and cannot be produced from natural ingredients. In my opinion, the perfumer Geza Schön summarizes the whole concept from his perspective as follows... "Only artificially produced raw materials can provide a new fragrance experience. For if the perfect scent were made from natural raw materials, he believes, it would have been found long ago."
So, before I sprayed the fragrance on my left wrist, I was somewhat biased. My expectations were oriented towards CDG 2 or Amazingreen, which in my opinion both equally sketch fragrances of a postmodern society. Anyway...

The fragrance:
It begins, as the name suggests, peppery, although I would categorize this type of pepper somewhere between black and green pepper. Especially in the first 10 seconds, I had the impression that it was exclusively black pepper, although this impression faded within the next minute as the pepper note came across much softer. After about 5 minutes, woody notes gradually joined in. My first impression suggested birch notes and violet notes, which are of course not present in the fragrance but seem to me to be very oriented towards these notes. This feeling is probably attributable to the Akigalawood, which I was not familiar with until now, but which can also convey sweet accords. Additionally, the tonka bean and the musk accord come in very transparently and clearly, rounding off the entire story nicely. Since this is a linear fragrance, the composition remains largely unchanged. While wearing it, I did not have the impression, as is widely believed, that one is floating in a cloud of pepper. In my opinion, Blackpepper embraced me and definitely reminded me of a gloomy autumn morning. The sunrise, accompanied by seemingly impenetrable fog, ultimately gives way to the overpowering light.

Sillage:
I and the people around me can perceive the fragrance well. It does not fill the entire room, but it is noticeable, as the Madagascar pepper and tonka bean combination is quite rare in a linear fragrance, and the wearer stands out due to the somewhat synthetic "bitter" notes.

Longevity:
I can still perceive this fragrance well after 6 hours, which is why I assess the sillage as good compared to other CDG fragrances (excluding the EDP).

Overall Impression:
It must be taken into account that "pepper fragrances" are certainly hitting the zeitgeist right now and probably come across particularly well to a large number of people. However, I would not classify CDG Blackpepper as a trend fragrance, but rather as a scent that takes up a theme and attempts to transcend it. It is by no means a "silent companion" that has nothing to say to itself or the people around it. Due to the transparency of the ingredients and the clearly conveyed theme, I consider this fragrance to be an incredibly well-executed composition from the house of CDG.

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