hottest smelling pepper?

December 18, 2011 8:24 AM PST · Flag · 2 answers

Howard Eitzen

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Well well well I am glad you asked because I happen to LOVE spicy (and I mean SPIIIICYYYYY) peppers and I believe the hottest pepper in the world right now is the Naga Viper pepper. It has a rating of like 1.3 million Scoville Heat Units (or SHU's...the way they rate spiciness) and it is a whopper of a pepper. To make a comparison, a jalapeno pepper measures between 2,500 and 8,000 SHU's. Dang.

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1 points posted by Philip Holiday

I would agree. It never dawned on me to compare which one smells hotter but the Naga Viper is the hottest pepper in the world so I imagine it would also be one of the hottest smelling.