The Coffee Aroma in Perfumery

There are several ways perfumers look at coffee. It could be the theme (or part of their perfume story). The perfume could be about walking in a café district, or about having coffee with nomads in the desert etc. In this case it’s important to recreate that particular brew and atmosphere and perfumers use natural materials that might remind you of roasted coffee (Peru balsam, tonka beans, modern complex accords etc.).

However, sometimes perfumers use natural coffee as a material/note purely for its aromatic value (soft woody with a bit of a smoky touch) but the story doesn’t have to be about coffee at all.

This edit and the corresponding sample pack look at various coffee scenarios: coffee as the main theme, a coffee note as a building block in some unrelated concept and there will be natural coffee extracts and complex blends (that actually often smell more realistic than the natural extracts of coffee beans).