Note

Coffee

Coffee smells roasted and bitter, with toasted beans, warm nuttiness, and sometimes chocolate-like sweetness. It enriches the heart and base and pairs with vanilla, caramel, spices, and woods.

In 185 perfumes. Usually found in the heart.

Opening
40%
Heart
46%
Drydown
14%
Coffee, fresh roasted
Coffee, fresh roasted. Photo by BenFrantzDale, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Most popular with coffee

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to coffee more often than chance would predict.

How it reads

Sweet and woody above all. Reaches for coffee, gourmand and vanilla far more often than the catalogue as a whole.

  • sweet
  • woody
  • vanilla
  • coffee
  • gourmand
  • citrus
  • balsamic
  • warm spicy