Black Pepper Essential Oil

Natural

Black Pepper Essential Oil

Delivers a warm, peppery spiciness with fresh terpenic top notes and a woody-balsamic drydown that captures the essence of freshly cracked black peppercorns.

NaturalTopCAS: 8006-82-4

Odor Strength

Medium

Odor Type

Spicy

Functional Profile

How perfumers typically use Black Pepper Essential Oil in their compositions.

Accent

15 formulas

0.0%1.8%10.0%

Enhance

5 formulas

3.1%3.1%3.1%

Build

3 formulas

1.5%8.2%12.0%

Common Formula Contexts

Fragrance styles and categories where Black Pepper Essential Oil appears most often.

Fresh Citrus

9 formulas

0.0%2.3%12.0%

Oriental Amber

3 formulas

1.5%2.2%3.1%

Floral Bouquet

2 formulas

0.0%2.0%4.0%

Complex Composition

2 formulas

0.6%5.3%10.0%

Woody Aromatic

2 formulas

0.3%5.7%11.1%

TGSC Descriptions

Mosciano, Gerard P&F 19, No. 1, 27, (1994): Peppery, warm, terpy, woody, pungent

Luebke, William tgsc, (1991): Warm spicy terpenic herbal peppery woody

Other Descriptions

Black Pepper Eo

Moellhausen: Woody, balsamic, spicy

Black Pepper, Rectified

Pell Wall Perfumes: Spicy-pepper, fresh, dry-woody, warm
Produced from the fruits of piper nigrum and then rectified to reduce the terpene content and colouring especially for use in fragrances. using the rectified oil avoids solubility problems in ethanol that are common with the crude oil.