Coffee Tree

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Humid green wood and dark leaves, with roast only as a shadow

Scent Profile

Coffee Tree smells of the tree, not the bean: green and woody with a humid, faintly earthy cast, close to damp leaves and dark wood. A dry wood sits close behind the green, holding the note together. Only a faint ghost of roasted coffee shows through underneath, more a memory of the bean than the bean itself. A touch of jasmine-like white flower drifts through the leaves, faint and easy to miss.

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Origin

The note is the coffee plant, Coffea arabica or Coffea canephora: the bark, leaves and green wood rather than the beans. The name is ambiguous. 'Coffee tree' is also the common name of Gymnocladus dioicus, the Kentucky coffeetree, an unrelated legume named only because settlers roasted its seeds as a coffee substitute. This note takes Coffea for two reasons. Fragrantica files this note under Woods and mosses and separately publishes Coffee and Coffee Blossom from the same plant, which makes a third Coffea term coherent. And The Wood Database records the Kentucky coffeetree's wood as having no characteristic odour, which gives a perfumer nothing to name a note after. No extract of either tree is sold, so the note is a composed one either way.

Usage in Perfumery

Fragrantica counts 4 perfumes and files the term under Woods and mosses. Parfumo does not carry it. The note is the plantation and the standing plant, used where coffee itself would bring the roast and the gourmand weight that this note is meant to avoid.