About Five Senses Coffee
Five Senses Coffee is a Perth-based specialty roaster with a national presence across Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland. Its most distinctive initiative is the revival of the Tiga Raja Mill in northern Sumatra through a long-term shared-ownership model — an unusually direct form of origin investment for an Australian roaster. The company also operates the Five Senses Barista Academy across five states.



About
Five Senses Coffee is a Perth-based specialty roaster with a national footprint spanning Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland. The company's most distinctive ongoing project is the revival of the Tiga Raja Mill in northern Sumatra, pursued through long-term partnerships and a shared-ownership model — an unusually direct form of origin investment for an Australian roaster.
Founding details are not publicly documented on the company's current web presence, but Five Senses has grown well beyond a single-city operation. Its training arm, the Five Senses Barista Academy, runs structured barista courses across all five states where it operates, with instructors holding competitive barista credentials. The company serves both retail consumers and a wholesale café network, framing that dual-channel model as central to how it reaches coffee drinkers across Australia.
The retail range includes a small lineup of house blends — Dark Horse, Crompton Road, and Hi Fidelity — alongside a decaf called Wallflower. The Tiga Raja Mill initiative suggests a sourcing posture oriented toward direct relationships at origin rather than spot-market procurement, though specific roast profiles and processing details are not publicly detailed. The company's stated purpose, 'Impact People Positively,' is applied as a through-line from origin communities to wholesale café partners.
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No award citations or independent press coverage are available in the current source material, so specific recognition cannot be reported here. The company's barista academy instructors are noted on its own site as competition award holders, but no named titles or years are documented in available materials.
In Perth, Five Senses operates La Veen Coffee & Kitchen, a café occupying a heritage-listed building at the corner of King and Wellington Streets in the CBD. The space features exposed brickwork and large windows. For those outside Perth, Five Senses sells directly through its online shop (fivesenses.com.au), where blends are priced at AUD $19 per 250g and the Wallflower Decaf at AUD $21. Wholesale inquiries are handled separately through a dedicated portal.
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