Tonka
Ginger and a green fig leaf cut against lemon at the opening, an unexpected first impression for a perfume named after a base material — bright, slightly bitter, and decidedly not yet sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Fig Leaf
- Lemon
- Almond
- Cedar
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and a green fig leaf cut against lemon at the opening, an unexpected first impression for a perfume named after a base material — bright, slightly bitter, and decidedly not yet sweet.
The heart slides into almond and a clean cedar; the almond is bitter-skin rather than marzipan, and the cedar keeps the composition vertical instead of melting it.
In the dry-down, tonka bean does what its name promises — hay-soft, lightly coumarin-sweet, vanilla-adjacent without being vanilla — wrapped in a creamy sandalwood. The arc lands warm and quiet rather than loud-gourmand. It works year-round and reads more sweater than dessert.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
