piquant

adjective4

1. •
   Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.

   • Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup. — 2000
2. •
   Producing a burning sensation due to the presence of chilies or similar spices; spicy, hot.
3. •
   Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming.

   • Their husbands […] leave home to seek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to use a significant French word, piquant society […] — 1791
4. •
   (no longer used) Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe.