Black pepper, the king of spices, highly prestigious since ancient Greece, has been used as currency and presented to the gods as a sacred offering. It offers a distinct warm and bracing aroma; a pungent bite melding with resins found in its seeds and a musty odor from its oils. Synonymous for eternal quality and luxury, and praised as early as the third century BC, cashmere has a smooth indulgent feel and a deep woody scent. Lemonwood, a native evergreen Maori tree also known as tarata, is a precious source of a unique, highly fragrant scent. Its glossy yellow-green leaves emit a sparkly, refreshing and earthy hint of lemon note.