It is uncommon to pair black pepper with powder in perfumery. This makes sense. A soft cushion to pepper's delicate bite and burn would smother its airy, mineral, wood bark nuances. Gucci's Love At Your Darkest takes on the challenge, replacing the love lost in its powder base with a rubbery incense and cedar accord that provides a matte, nutty link between pepper's rosy-floral inflection and ac...