A tool for everyone, specialists or beginners

  • You are learning about or working in coffee, a barista or a coffee roaster, and you need a tool to help you exercise your sense of smell on a regular basis and improve your olfactory memory.
  • You are a Sunday coffee lover or a long-standing coffee enthusiast who is looking for a method to become a better taster, able to describe a specialty coffee accurately.
  • You are intimidated or put off by the elitist, coded vocabulary of coffee connoisseurs and are looking for a more entertaining and sensory educational approach.
  • You want to find a gift for a coffee geek who has everything and that is more original than a packet of gourmet coffee or espresso cups.
  • You love drinking coffee, but you ‘don’t understand a thing about it’. You wish there was a simple way of learning how to train your nose and better identify your taste so you can be a more discerning buyer.

Do any of these descriptions fit? Then a Le Nez du Café aroma kit is the perfect choice!

As professional tools or for games with friends, the aroma kits have something for everyone: tasters, coffee professionals and amateurs alike.

Train your sense of smell

Playing a major role in taste, the sense of smell is essential in discerning flavours.

Yet it is difficult to identify the aromatic notes emanating from your cup of coffee. Have you ever experienced the feeling of knowing but not recognising a smell? Nothing could be more normal! In the same way that we learn to read, write and count, smelling requires training.

The benchmark for coffee professionals since 1996, and completely updated in 2025, Le Nez du Café is required to obtain the Q Grader qualification, as well as the ‘Flavours and Aromas’ module of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), which have now been merged.

While Le Nez du Café is a work tool highly reputed by professionals, it can also be used as a game accessible to anyone. In just a few weeks, you’ll be able to distinguish, name and remember aromas.

You may ask: ‘What use is that?’

Evaluate and describe

First of all, recognising the aromas in coffee enriches your tasting vocabulary. Putting your impressions into words increases the pleasure of drinking coffee and allows you to share your experiences with others.

Second, a coffee’s flavours are among the most valuable indicators of its potential. Without them, the overall quality of a coffee would be flat, featureless and bland. Over the last two decades, the regional distinctions between species, cultivars and processing methods have blurred, opening up a new era of exploration for professionals and lovers of specialty coffee, and a world of possibilities to be captivated by coffee.

If you’re a coffee professional, improving your ability to identify and recognise aromas will help you in your work. Like your brain, your nose can be considered as a muscle that needs regular exercise. Continuously developing your olfactory skills when evaluating coffee will also boost your confidence and put you in a better position to choose and describe your products, devise blends and formulations, and anticipate customers’ needs.

Speak a common language

To navigate the complex and diverse world of coffee, it is essential to speak a common language based on objective terms. The aroma vials in Le Nez du Café offer the vocabulary for a shared global language about coffee, a necessity for an industry that today spans every continent.

Most coffee is bought and sold several times before it reaches the consumer. With each transaction there is a discussion about its value, which depends in part on its quality. The ability to describe a coffee’s aromas is an important step in the procurement process and can make the difference between profit and loss, success and failure.