Fève Tonka de Canaima
Fève Tonka de Canaima opens with violet — slightly powdery, slightly green — before the tonka takes over and reorganizes everything around itself.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Sweet85
- Vanilla60
- Balsamic55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readFève Tonka de Canaima opens with violet — slightly powdery, slightly green — before the tonka takes over and reorganizes everything around itself. There is no real top accord; the perfume gets to its subject quickly and stays there.
The heart pairs tonka with a faceted patchouli and a soft rose, and the rose works less as a floral than as a way to keep the tonka's hay-and-almond sweetness from collapsing into pure dessert. By the dry-down, sandalwood and labdanum smooth the base into a creamy resinous warmth, with vanilla rounding the edges. The whole arc is short and concentric — one idea, deepened.
It reads cozy rather than seductive, better in cool weather, and disarms expectations of complexity by being deliberately simple.
Scent twins
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