Parfums Café
French coffee-inspired everyday elegance.
Parfums Café is a French fragrance brand founded in 1978 under Création Beauté International, built around the novel concept of coffee as a primary aromatic material in mainstream perfumery. The house predates the modern gourmand category by more than a decade, exploring roasted, warm, and spiced compositions at a time when the fragrance market was dominated by green florals and chypres. Key releases include Café, Café Espresso, and seasonal flankers that elaborate on the central coffee accord, layering cinnamon, vanilla, amber, and dried fruit around a consistent caffeinated core. Perfumers Jean-Jacques Diener and Thomas Fontaine have contributed to the catalog. Pricing positions Parfums Café firmly in accessible territory, making it a nostalgic reference point for French consumers who encountered the brand in department stores and pharmacies across the 1980s and 1990s. The coffee-perfume category Parfums Café helped pioneer now spans niche and mass markets alike.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
