👃📚☕ Le Nez du Café — 60 Aromas (2025 Edition, CQI updated)
Train your nose, upgrade your palate, and finally put words to what you taste.
Le Nez du Café 60 Aromas is the modern benchmark sensory kit for specialty coffee—used by professionals worldwide since 1996 and fully updated in 2025 in partnership with the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). It’s designed to build a shared vocabulary for coffee aroma, improve consistency in cupping, and sharpen your olfactory memory—solo or in groups.
This is not a “fun gimmick.” It’s a serious training tool that makes you taste (and describe) coffee better, faster.
What’s included
🧪 60 high-quality aroma vials
Realistic, long-lasting aromas in three compact transport boxes.
🗂️ 60 fact sheets
Each aroma includes a large-format sheet linking the scent to:
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olfactory aspects
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chemical composition
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how it appears in coffees around the world
📖 Illustrated book (96 pages)
Explains why aroma matters in coffee quality assessment, updated with modern knowledge on:
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coffee genetics
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post-harvest processing
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roasting impact
🎯 Instruction leaflet with exercises & games
Practical drills you can do alone or with friends/colleagues to train recognition and recall.
The 9 aromatic families (60 aromas)
Floral / Fruity: honey, black tea, rose, jasmine, raspberry, blueberry, blackcurrant, strawberry, raisin, prune, cherry, pineapple, mango, melon, banana, apple, peach, orange, lemon, lime
Sour/Fermented / Green/Vegetative / Other: butyric acid, winey, coffee pulp, pea pod, fresh grass, cucumber, green (bell) pepper, hay-like, thyme, pine, cedar, potato, cardboard, woody, mouldy/damp, musty/earthy, leather, medicinal, tar
Roasted / Spices / Nutty-Cocoa / Sweet: rubber, tobacco, smoky, butter, toast, malt, pepper, star anise, nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, peanut, hazelnut, almond, walnut, dark chocolate, chocolate, brown sugar, maple syrup, caramelised, vanilla
👃 Why we recommend it at WB.coffee
At WB.coffee / Amsterdam Coffee Lab we’re obsessed with one thing: turning “I like it” into “I understand it.”
Le Nez du Café helps you:
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build a stronger sensory memory (so tasting notes become consistent, not random)
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improve cupping confidence—especially when coffees are subtle
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communicate better with customers, teammates, and suppliers
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level up your brewing and roasting decisions because aroma becomes clearer
It’s one of the fastest ways to become a better taster—whether you’re a home coffee lover or a working barista.
Practice guide (simple & effective)
CoffeeNose tip 👃: Keep it short and repeatable.
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Pick 3 aromas per session
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Smell each for 5–10 seconds
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Say the descriptor out loud (anchor it)
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Compare in a coffee (cupping or brew)
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Repeat 2–3x per week
Consistency beats intensity.
Perfect to combine with
☕ WB.coffee coffees (to practice “in the cup”)
🎓 Workshops & tastings at Amsterdam Coffee Lab (Weesp)
We teach sensory skills, aroma recognition, and coffee description at Amsterdam Coffee Lab, guided by Wouter Brunia (the CoffeeNose 👃). Try it live in Weesp.
Bring your nose and we’ll put it to work:
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sensory-focused cuppings
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Coffee Omakase tasting experiences
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SCA & CQI Sensory Skills professional courses
👃 Why the CoffeeNose recommends it
At WB.coffee / Amsterdam Coffee Lab, we use aroma training to turn “I like it” into “I can describe it—and repeat it.”
This is why this kit stays our most universal reference:
- 🌍 Globally shared language: trained coffee professionals from Korea to Kenya will recognize “butter” from Le Nez
- 🎯 The fastest way to build olfactory memory: you’ll improve in weeks with short, repeatable practice
- 🧠 Better cupping and better dialing-in: when you can name aromas, you can diagnose extraction and roast effects more accurately
- 🏆 Industry benchmark: Le Nez aromas are widely used in professional sensory training and commonly appear in SCA/CQI-related learning environments and official exams.
WB.coffee freshness promise (important)
At WB.coffee we keep limited stock of aroma kits to protect freshness.
You don’t want a kit that has been sitting in a platform warehouse for a year just to “save” a few bucks. So sometimes you might have to wait a bit before we ship your order.
We’ve specialized in coffee education materials since 2018, and we carry one of the largest assortments of fresh sensory aroma kits for coffee training in the world.
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