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 10 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.
- Tonka85
- Incense50
- Tobacco40
- Cedar35
- Rosemary35
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.
