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Coffee tree (Coffea arabica or Coffea canephora/robusta) in perfumery references the plant itself — bark, leaves, green wood — rather than the roasted beans. The distinction is important: roasted coffee's scent (furfurylthiol, guaiacol, pyrazines) is absent from the living tree.

The living coffee plant has a green, slightly earthy, humid-tropical character. The leaves are glossy and faintly aromatic when crushed — green, slightly bitter, with traces of caffeine-like bitterness. The white flowers (Coffea arabica) are jasmine-scented, with linalool as the dominant volatile.

Coffea arabica is native to the highland forests of Ethiopia and South Sudan. The plant grows as an understory tree, preferring shade and altitude (800-2,200 meters). The famous terroir differences between coffee origins (Ethiopian, Colombian, Kenyan) are as relevant to coffee's aromatic profile as they are to its flavor.

In perfumery, coffee tree provides a green, tropical-woody context for coffee compositions — the plantation environment rather than the cup.

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