Perfumes with Coffee

Coffee smells roasted, bitter, warm and slightly sweet, recalling freshly ground beans and steam rising from a morning cup, with a character that is both gourmand and woody. It comes from roasted coffee beans, usually processed by CO2 extraction for perfumery.

The natural extract is often reinforced with synthetic molecules to improve its longevity. Coffee mostly sits in the heart of a fragrance, though it can also be noticed in the opening. It pairs well with vanilla, caramel, tonka bean, cardamom, patchouli, tobacco, white flowers and musk, and it is a favourite in warm gourmand compositions.

Coffee appears in 2,369 perfumes in the Fisfis catalogue and is used mostly as a heart note.