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Tonka Bean

Tonka beans are tiny, shriveled, black seeds from the Tonka tree found in Central and South America. Their slightly sweet, vanillic, and smoky hay scent adds a spicy, gourmand edge to a fragrance. Tonka beans work best in spicy and sweet scents featuring similar notes: clove, vanilla, heliotrope, bitter almonds, labdanum, cinnamon, etc. Their vanilla and hay-like scent is ideal for fall or winter, but usually blends well enough to wear any time you need a little sweet, warm spice to liven up the citrus or wood notes in a fragrance.
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Fragrances that use Tonka Bean
Atelier Materi Cacao Porcelana
Atelier Materi
Cacao Porcelana
White Cacao
Light Tobacco
Rum
Tonka Bean
A rare variety, this white cocoa grows in the heart of the oldest plantations, in Piura, north-west Peru. Extracted by hand from the pods, the beans are fermented before being sun-dried and roasted. In order to capture the most beautiful facets of this white cocoa, the perfumer collaborated with a French Maître Chocolatier to obtain the perfect roasting, thus revealing sensual nutty and milky notes, with Tonka bean undertone. After a sweet rum opening, the perfumer Marie Hugentobler unveils the addictive bitterness of the cocoa, comforted by powdery and woody notes. A dry down of light tobacco, patchouli and sandalwood follows, giving CACAO PORCELANA its sensual and unique signature.
Atelier Materi Santal Blond
Atelier Materi
Santal Blond
Tonka Bean
Bergamot
Sandalwood
Cardamom
Sacred tree, sandalwood is a peculiar exotic wood. Once distilled, powerful velvety, creamy notes with smoky undertones are unleashed. In SANTAL BLOND, the perfumer Lucas Sieuzac selects an exceptional natural sandalwood from Australia and chooses to reveal its luminous facets. After a fresh and spicy opening carried by the cardamom, the perfumer pairs the sandalwood with rich floral jasmine notes and warm Tonka bean accents.
Moodeaux PunkStar
Moodeaux
PunkStar
Tonka Bean
Honeysuckle
Apple
Blackcurrant
It's 3AM after the after party. There's no need for sleep when the snap of the snare and beat of the bass energize your spirit. Yet again, from sunset until dawn, you rock on and on and on... I’m daring, unapologetically outspoken and against status quos. A free spirit, who chooses to rock my own world rather than settle quietly in anyone else's. A Punk, rewriting the narrative and kicking dirt on outside validation. A Star, living famously for simply being me versus everything people claim I should be. I'm rich and juicy, saffron-tinged and peppery. Incense smoldered, wrapped in black leather. Loud like the music I love.
Nanette Lepore Ooh la la Lepore
Nanette Lepore
Ooh la la Lepore
Tonka Bean
Champagne Bubbles
Parisian Peony
Pear Sorbet
Indulge in the intoxicating allure of Ooh La La Lepore, a fragrance that captures the essence of romance in every spritz. With its delicate blend of Champagne Bubbles and Pear Sorbet, mingled with the soft embrace of Cashmere Woods and Tonka Bean, this scent whispers of passionate nights and stolen glances. Surrender to Ooh La La Lepore and let love bloom with every breath.
Floral Street Sweet Almond Blossom
Floral Street
Sweet Almond Blossom
Tonka Bean
Apple Blossom
Pink Pomelo
Vanilla Accord
“a fruity, floral, gourmand fragrance for the enchanting, ethereal, sensuous and hypnotic” A blue sky natural high, all year round. A daydreamer's fantasy. The Floral Street x Van Gogh Museum collaboration brings the worlds of fine fragrance and fine art together to celebrate the timeless beauty of nature in an entirely new way. "If one truly loves nature, one finds beauty everywhere." —Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, 30th April 1874 Mouth-watering natural pomelo and juicy passionfruit float over clouds of delicate apple blossom. Creamy vanilla, sandalwood, and nutty tonka bean are beautifully balanced with explosions of other-worldly crisp green matcha tea.
COMMODITY Milk+ Bold
COMMODITY
Milk+ Bold
Tonka Bean
Amber
Skin Musk
Cashmere Wood
Milk's warm notes of Skin Musk, Tonka Bean & Mahogany Wood emblazoned with the unexpected smoky depth of Firewood and Amber. A smoky, sweet, and inviting scent to be worn with confidence.
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DECK OF SCARLET Solar Aura
DECK OF SCARLET
Solar Aura
Tonka Bean
Blood Orange
Solar Musk
Ylang-Ylang
It’s that “I’m on holiday” feeling, bottled. The sun is high, the vibes are higher, and the cool, refreshing breeze laps at your golden, glistening skin as lo-fi beats fill the air. Lush tropical flowers like jasmine, ylang ylang, and tiare mingle with bold citrus notes like blood orange, bergamot, and mandarin. Tonka bean and solar musk create skin-to-skin contact vibes, while whipped vanilla adds the slightest touch of sweetness. Hazy days blend into heated, sensual nights, and you’re on your own carefree agenda. That solar power hits differently when the DJ is playing your song, and you’ve only got the pursuit of sun and good vibes on the mind.
Scentbird Select
+$10.00
Room 1015 Cherry Punk Extrait de Parfum
Room 1015
Cherry Punk Extrait de Parfum
Cherry
Tonka Bean
Violet
Saffron
Discover the intensified, concentrated allure of Cherry Punk. 430 King’s Road, London, the Vivienne Westwood's store called SEX, this is where it all begins. Cool kids with bleached hair swapping rare vinyl records. Distressed denim, hand-painted leather, latex, tartans, prints that would make your parents blush and lock you in the house for the whole summer… Did Punk invent fashion or fashion invented Punk? From underground clubs to the national TV, Punk always had its own style, its own press (fanzines), its own movies, its own poetry...So we figured it should have its own fragrance. Loud like the rehearsal in the room without sound isolation. Powerful like youth riot but still sweet and romantic - the idealism of adolescence wrapped in a heavy leather jacket.
Carner Barcelona Cuirs
Carner Barcelona
Cuirs
Tonka Bean
Labdanum
Cedarwood
Guaiac Wood
In 2010, Sara Carner infused her heritage of artisan craftsmanship with a passion for fine perfumery to create Carner Barcelona: a collection of modern, lifestyle fragrances inspired by the dynamic spirit of Barcelona.

Cuirs take the spiciness of saffro and mingles it with the warmth of sandalwood, cedarwood and oud wood. Earthy notes of dry amber mix with a leather acccord to deliver a beguiling smoky scent.
Acqua di Parma Zafferano
Acqua di Parma
Zafferano
Tonka Bean
Saffron
Bergamot
Jasmine Sambac
In Acqua di Parma's Zafferano, the warm and dry notes of saffron are distilled and combined with luminous notes of Italian golden fruits, like gilded sparks dancing with the intense spicy notes to create an unexpected and vibrant sensation. Italianity meets the ingredient’s origin land, the Middle East in Venice, the historical European gateway along the ancient spice route that represents a metaphorical intersection between East and West, embodying charm and mystery, richness, and dissimulation. The essence of an intimate, never ostentatious luxury that can only be fully appreciated and understood by those who know their history.
COMMODITY Milk Expressive
COMMODITY
Milk Expressive
Tonka Bean
Mahogany
Milk
Skin Musk
Seeking comfort in the familiar, this creamy and calming scent offers the perfect start to the day. Cold Milk adds a cooling element to an otherwise rich and warm fragrance of Marshmallow, Mahogany, and Tonka Bean.
Scentbird Select
+$15.00
Ex Nihilo Vesper Glitz
Ex Nihilo
Vesper Glitz
Tonka Bean
Cedarwood
Jasmine
Vanilla
VESPER GLITZ celebrates with radiance the airiness of an impertinent night out in Paris. The return of the exhaled Parisian after dark where souls freely melt and flourish in a flaming chaos of chimeric colors. The beauty of a nocturnal sillage in which floral notes of Jasmine and Mimosa embrace intoxicating emanations of ambery notes.