Tonka Imperiale
The opening bursts with rosemary's bracing greenness, cut by a warm almond sweetness and a brief citrus flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Almond
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Jasmine
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bursts with rosemary's bracing greenness, cut by a warm almond sweetness and a brief citrus flash. It feels almost medicinal at first—sharp, clean, unfussy—before the heart arrives with its dense core of tonka bean. This is tonka in its richest register: vanilla-adjacent but deeper, with a suggestion of bitter almond and hay.
Tobacco and jasmine thread through the middle, the former adding a leathery dryness, the latter a subtle floralcy that keeps the composition from turning too gourmand. Incense and frankincense smoke quietly in the base, grounding the sweetness with resinous depth.
The result is a tonka fragrance that refuses to be dessert. It sits somewhere between a gentleman's study and an apothecary cabinet—warm, contemplative, with just enough spice to remind you it's there. Best suited to cooler weather and those who prefer their sweetness tempered by smoke.
Scent twins
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