Coffee

What it is

Roasted coffee absolute, and the pyrazines that make the roast smell roasted. Real coffee absolute is dark, bitter and nothing like a latte.

What it smells like

Roasted and bittersweet, like a fresh espresso rather than a coffee shop. It is almost always sweetened in a fragrance, since the raw material on its own reads as burnt rubber to most people.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

78 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Yves Saint Laurent (8), Montale (4), Valentino (3), Initio Parfums Prives (2), Kilian (2), Mugler (2).