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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
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.
Burberry Burberry Brit For Women EDT
Burberry
Burberry Brit For Women EDT
Mahogany
Tonka Bean
Amber
Vanilla
Top notes of green almond blend with pear and frosted lime quickly fade into the heady rush of sugared almonds and white peonies in full bloom. The bright florals and sweet vanilla base allow Burberry Brit to become a floral-gourmand hybrid scent that is as delicate as it is delicious.
Carner Barcelona Tardes
Carner Barcelona
Tardes
Tonka Bean
Brazilian Rosewood
Cedarwood
Celery
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.

Tardes blends floral and wood notes in this scented tribute to a late summer afternoon. Top notes of Egyptian geranium and Bulgarian rose mix with almond, plum and freshly cut rosewood and cedarwood to create this enveloping scent.
Scentbird Select
+10.00
Chris Collins African Rooibos
Chris Collins
African Rooibos
Tonka Bean
Orris Butter
Rooibos Tea Accord
Black Pepper
A warm wind carries the scent of rooibos leaves and cedar off the South African mountains. Spicy black pepper and warm cardamom speak to a multidimensional personality, while bright bergamot brings life to the blend. It’s a scent with effortless charisma that feels like being comfortable in your skin. Lively, Poetic, Earthy. Eau de Parfum.
COMMODITY Gold Expressive
COMMODITY
Gold Expressive
Tonka Bean
Benzoin
Vanilla
Sandalwood
Rich enough to bathe in, this decadent fragrance is an intoxicating journey to one’s innermost desires, thoughts and impulses. Its warm gourmand scent is a luxurious blend of molten amber, balsamic benzoin and sweet vanilla.
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.
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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Confessions Of A Rebel Let's Be Real
Confessions Of A Rebel
Let's Be Real
Tonka Bean
Tuberose
Jasmine
Vanilla
Not unlike your own authentic spirit, this scent opens with a lively bouquet of orange zest, lavender, orange blossom, and as the scent warms to your skin, the big, bold floral heart takes the spotlight with jasmine, tuberose, and tonka bean commanding attention. Vanilla bean, crystallized musk, and cashmere woods work in tandem to ground the audacious, in-your-face blend.
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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
DS & Durga Debaser
DS & Durga
Debaser
Tonka Bean
Fig
Bergamot
Blond Woods
Music is essential to life. I was born in a house of blues—dad’s from Chicago. At 9 I went to camp on an island. Cool older punk kids showed me the Misfits and the Pixies. (One of those kids was actually comedian Rob Delaney). That summer was ruled by Doolittle. The provocative lyrics. The cackle of Frank Black. I absorbed it in the summer heat. August humidity. Young romance. Our Debaser scent is hot, humid, sexy. Green stems, deep purple fig, soft blond woods, a wet white ethereal musk, and the coumarin-vanillic note of tonka bean. -D.S.
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.
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.